19 July 2026

The EU Wants to Raise the DAC7 Reporting Threshold to €3,000

If you sell on Vinted, Etsy, eBay or similar platforms, you’ve probably gotten used to the €2,000-or-30-sales number as the point where your data gets reported to your tax authority. That number might be about to change. On 24 June 2026, the European Commission put forward a proposal to raise the DAC7 reporting threshold from €2,000 to €3,000 per year. It’s real, it’s on the table — and it is not law yet.

What’s actually confirmed

The headline is the same: the Commission proposed raising the revenue threshold to €3,000. But the Commission’s own Explanatory Memorandum for the proposal, COM(2026) 308 final, spells out two more things that weren’t clear when this was first announced. First, the 30-transaction count isn’t just staying put alongside the new euro figure — it’s being removed entirely for sales of goods. Second, the proposal targets 1 January 2028 as the intended start date. Neither of those is a guess; they’re both stated directly in the Commission’s own explanatory text published alongside the proposal on 24 June 2026.

What’s still not nailed down: whether council and parliament amend any of this on the way through, and whether every member state ends up implementing it identically and on schedule. Proposals like this go through the normal EU legislative process, which means real room for the text — or the date — to shift before it’s actually law.

We’re not going to pretend otherwise. This article exists to tell you what’s known, not to get ahead of the process.

Why it’s happening

The short version, going by how these threshold discussions usually play out: €2,000 was set with DAC7’s original 2021 directive, and platform selling has grown a lot since then. A single big decluttering push — selling off a wardrobe, clearing out a garage — can bump an entirely casual seller over €2,000 without them doing anything that looks like running a business. Dropping the sales-count leg entirely removes one of the most common ways that happens by accident: a large batch of low-value items no longer trips anything on its own, only the euro total does.

What it would actually change for you

If it passes as proposed and takes effect on schedule: casual sellers doing a big one-off clear-out have more room before their platform has to report them, on both counts — a higher euro line, and no separate item-count trigger for goods to worry about. It does not change whether selling your own used items is taxable — that was already generally “no” in most cases, reporting threshold or not. Raising the threshold and dropping the sales count doesn’t create a new tax break; it just moves (and simplifies) the point where your data gets shared automatically.

If you’re a structural reseller — buying or making things specifically to sell — this proposal doesn’t really affect your situation either. The question of whether you’re trading was never about the DAC7 number in the first place.

What we’re doing about it

Nothing yet, deliberately. We’re not updating our DAC7 checker or country pages to use €3,000 or drop the sales-count check until this is actually confirmed as law — publishing an unconfirmed figure as fact is exactly the kind of thing we try not to do on this site. We have logged the Commission’s own source document in our public verification log so the sourcing trail is public even before anything changes on the calculators. The moment it’s confirmed as law, we’ll update the checker and every country page that references the threshold.

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General information only, not tax advice. This proposal was not yet law as of this article’s publish date — check the calculator and checker for the current confirmed threshold. Source: European Commission, Explanatory Memorandum, COM(2026) 308 final (Brussels, 24.6.2026).

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