19 July 2026

Do You Pay Tax on Vinted Sales in the Netherlands?

Somewhere around late 2024, a lot of Dutch Vinted sellers got the same unpleasant surprise: an email or notice mentioning that their sales data had been shared with the Belastingdienst. No warning beforehand, nothing they’d done wrong, just a new EU rule called DAC7 quietly kicking in. If you’ve sold a reasonable amount on Vinted this year, it’s worth understanding what that actually means for you, because the honest answer is: usually, not much.

The short version

Cross 30 sales or €2,000 in revenue on Vinted within a calendar year, and Vinted is legally required to report your sales activity to the Belastingdienst. That’s it — no judgment call, no manual review, it just happens automatically once you cross the line. The part that trips people up is assuming this reporting is the tax bill. It isn’t. It’s just data. What happens next depends entirely on what you were actually selling.

Selling your own stuff? You’re almost certainly fine

If you’re selling clothes you bought for yourself, books you’ve read, furniture you’re upgrading away from — things that were genuinely yours, bought with money you’d already been taxed on — that’s not a taxable activity in the Netherlands. It doesn’t matter if you crossed the DAC7 threshold or not. You’re not required to report this income, and the Belastingdienst having a record of your Vinted sales doesn’t change that. Getting reported and owing tax are separate questions, and for the vast majority of people doing a genuine wardrobe clear-out, only the first one applies to them.

Where it actually gets complicated

The picture changes if you’re buying things specifically to resell, or making items to sell regularly. At that point you’re arguably running a small business (ondernemerschap), and the usual rules kick in: income tax on the profit, potentially BTW registration depending on volume, the works. This isn’t really a DAC7 question at all — it’s the same rule that’s always existed for anyone trading goods for profit. DAC7 just means the Belastingdienst now has an easier time seeing when someone’s activity looks more like trading than personal selling.

The practical test tends to come down to pattern and intent. A single big clear-out that happens to cross 30 items in one year looks nothing like someone who’s consistently buying stock and flipping it for profit month after month, even if both technically triggered the same DAC7 report.

One thing worth knowing about the threshold

It’s tracked per platform, per calendar year — not combined across everywhere you sell. Selling on Vinted and Marktplaats and eBay means each one gets tracked separately. You could be well under the threshold on each platform individually while moving a genuinely large volume of stuff in total, and nothing would trigger a report on any of them.

Check where you actually stand

Rather than worrying in the abstract, run your real sales count and revenue for this year through our DAC7 checker — it tells you straight away whether you’re near the threshold, and walks through the reported-vs-taxable distinction for your specific situation. If you’re also trying to figure out what you actually profited on those sales after item cost, packaging and shipping, the Vinted margin calculator does that math too.

General information only, not tax advice. Whether a specific activity counts as taxable depends on your personal circumstances — when in doubt, talk to a boekhouder or the Belastingdienst directly. Sourced and dated in our public verification log.

Want your own numbers? Try the free Vinted margin calculator — it includes the seller costs you enter.