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eBay Bookkeeping Template
Twelve months of eBay payouts turned into a profit and loss account and four VAT quarters, on nine figures of typing a month.
Because the deposit is not the turnover, and the VAT threshold is measured on the number you never see.
Who this workbook is for
Profitable sellers who still have weeks where the money looks wrong, and cannot see why.
Every month starts from what the buyers paid
Item value, refunds, net order value, VAT, turnover excluding VAT, then the costs. The fee load appears as a percentage of turnover rather than disappearing into a deduction you never saw.
Four quarters, worked out for you
Output tax less the input tax on eBay’s fees, quarter by quarter. Not a VAT return and it will not file itself, but it will tell you what is coming, which is the part that catches people.
The threshold is rolling
The £90,000 test runs on any twelve consecutive months, not your accounting year. The sheet shows where a fixed twelve puts you and says plainly that it is an indicator rather than the test.
