@countessalmirena wrote:Chameleon, it's this terrible condition of mine... sesquipedalianism. It is agony for me when I'm to write something with a strict word limit.
Countess! Have you been hacked????? A one line comment? What's wrong? Have you not had your morning go go juice yet?
I think the term 'health check' has about the same meaning as when I go to a doctor. I've never found a doctor that has actually given me advice that helps me, but I've healed plenty of things myself from doing my own research. The last time I asked a doctor to test my blood pressure I was asked "Why, is there something wrong?" 
@ chameleon, they can't hide from the ATO by not having a store. Ebay declares the totals for non-stores as well. I'd imagine a few people have had some nasty shocks over the years.
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@brerrabbit585 wrote:I think the term 'health check' has about the same meaning as when I go to a doctor. I've never found a doctor that has actually given me advice that helps me, but I've healed plenty of things myself from doing my own research. The last time I asked a doctor to test my blood pressure I was asked "Why, is there something wrong?"
@ chameleon, they can't hide from the ATO by not having a store. Ebay declares the totals for non-stores as well. I'd imagine a few people have had some nasty shocks over the years.
I am aware of that and also the fact that ebay include multiple connected id's run by the same person. I was thinking more along the lines of a seller who may consider their turnover marginal and '' just a hobby ". I probably shouldnt go into details here ( just encourages them ) but whether they have a store or not could have an impact on whether the ATO regards some-one as a hobby seller or micro business.
Any business with 600 clothing listings in multiple sizes, store or not is unlikely to be just cleaning out their own clothes and so is running a business. They are liable to lodge their income on a tax return and with Centrelink if applicable. I have a store with only 250 listings and relatively modest sales, but that one reports to the ATO same as the bigger stores.
I can well remember last time the ATO reduced the threshold for ebay to report sellers with $10,000 or more turnover. There was a mad scramble and numerous threads on the forums about how to find sales figures, how to report to the ATO etc. Trouble was the ATO made it retrospective.
It might pay to keep in mind that the ATO have lowered the threshold for mandatory reporting several times. Originally it was $70,000 and is now $10,000. With modern computer data matching services I suspect in time the ATO & Centrelink may require every sellers sales data, regardless of the amount.
I got a bit of a suprise when I did my tax a few weeks ago. My accountant made sure to declare a figure of $3.00 interest from a very small bank account, as she mentioned the ATO computers are now data matching even those small figures with tax returns. So sellers who turn over several thousand dollars per year on ebay may get a shock when the ATO next requests a meeting with ebay management.
