The government kicked off the 2025 tax return process on April 10. But what about income earned from selling goods on eBay, Vinted, leboncoin, or other peer-to-peer sales platforms? Let's take stock together of what you need to know.
As you may know, the government has officially opened the income tax return campaign since Thursday, April 10, 2025. It is therefore time to do the math for millions of French people. Depending on your department of residence, you will have from May 22, 11:59 p.m. to June 5, 11:59 p.m. to file your declaration online.
In this period of inflation, more and more users have chosen to turn to peer-to-peer sales platforms like eBay, Vinted, or leboncoin to make ends meet.
But precisely, are the amounts obtained through these transactions taxed? Do they have to be declared? These are all questions that Vinted aficionados and others may be asking themselves. In this article, we'll take stock of what you absolutely need to know.
Should I declare my income earned on Vinted, eBay, or leboncoin?
Let's not beat around the bush. As specified on the impots.gouv.fr website, all purchase-resale transactions, services, or furnished rentals for remuneration (including occasional ones) are likely to be subject to reporting obligations to the tax authorities.
However, the case of Vinted, eBay, and peer-to-peer sales platforms is special. Indeed, these services must comply with the European DAC7 directive since January 2023. Specifically, this provision requires platforms to provide the tax authorities with a detailed report of the transactions carried out by each user.
Please note that your data will not be systematically communicated. This is because the platforms are exempt from reporting. To benefit from it, your activity must not exceed certain thresholds:
- your revenue over the year must be less than or equal to €2,000
Or
- the number of transactions made must be less than 30
Your data provided by the platforms
As Vinted explains on its website, if you have exceeded one of these thresholds, you will need to complete a DAC7 report. This official document will be pre-filled by the platform with information from your account (in the case of private sellers):
- first and last name
- main address
- state of residence
- date of birth
- reference tax number
- individual VAT identification number (if available)
- total amount paid to the seller per quarter
- total number of transactions
- total amount of fees, commissions or taxes withheld by the platform
- bank account number
- name on the bank account
To ensure that the data is accurate, Vinted also sends sellers a detailed summary of the transactions carried out over the past year by email every year.
Are my sales on Vinted, eBay, or leboncoin taxable?
If you occasionally sell personal property that you no longer wish to keep, the income generated is not taxable. That's the good news. However, there are two exceptions to the rule. You will become taxable from the moment:
- your sales generated capital gains (in other words, the sale price was higher than the purchase price)
- the sale price is higher than 5,000 euros
To be precise, furniture (i.e. furniture intended for the use and decoration of apartments such as beds, tables, clocks, etc.), household appliances and automobiles are exempt.
Regarding items with a sale price higher than €5,000, sellers are subject to the capital gains tax regime on the sale of movable property at a rate of 19%. You will then have to pay the capital gains tax in the month following the sale via form no. 2048-M. But be careful, if you also made a capital gain on the sale of this item, the flat rate rises to 36.2% (19% capital gains tax and 17.2% social security contributions).
A brief example of capital gains tax
Let's take an example: you sell a luxury bag on Le Boncoin for €6,500 in January 2022. Let's say you bought this bag five years earlier for €5,500. So you make a capital gain of €1,000. So far, nothing complicated.
In this situation, the capital gain made is taxable as mentioned above. Before knowing how much you will have to pay, you should know that a 5% tax reduction per year of ownership of the item applies from the 3rd year. In this specific case, you have owned the bag for 5 years at the time of sale. As a result, the tax reduction increases to 10% (5% over the last two years). By extension, your taxable capital gain is now only €900 instead of €1,000.
You then simply apply the flat rate to your capital gain to obtain the amount to be paid to the tax authorities. In this case: 900 X 36.2%. That's about 326 euros.
The case of precious objects
It is important to mention other special cases that will require the payment of a tax. This is particularly the case for sales of precious objects such as:
- precious metals (objects in their raw or partially worked state composed of gold, platinum or silver, but also old coins)
- jewelry, luxury watches or diamonds
- art and antique objects (engravings, paintings and pictures, signed art photography, furniture over 100 years old, etc.)
- collectibles (this attribute is determined according to the age, rarity or historical interest of the object after examination by a tax judge)
In these specific cases, sellers will have to pay the flat-rate tax on precious objects (TFOP) within one month of the sale. To do this, you will need to complete form no. 2091. Note that under certain conditions, users can opt for the capital gains tax regime on the sale of movable property.
Source: Impots.gouv.fr
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