Curious.. is this considered an income?

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so say someone was buying and selling stuff at a rapid rate? They go to car boots, flea markets, auctions and buy off Facebook etc and buy some old or faulty items and spend some time doing them alongside their normal job (although signed off their official job at the minute for various reasons) and selling them via Facebook or eBay. Does it count as an income? If they are selling items for often hundreds, even sometimes in the thousands? I’m not sure how much profit is made, some items are probably found to be unfixable but other items can be fixed and sold on at a decent price.

this is not or dh but someone we know! Just genuinely curious really!

I am all for people making money where they can in the current climate but concerned about what kind of issues making money like this can cause?

their garden is like a bloody scrap yard!

Fair play, but am always fascinated when people ask these questions about someone else - why would it matter to you if your neighbour did their tax return wrong?

Maybe I'm just weird 😅

Oh yeah I have no interest in my neighbours/friends/relatives tax situations but if my children’s father wasn’t paying maintenance I’d probably be more interested.

I'm confused that you think they shouldn't be doing it. Why not? Unless they are making 100s of thousands and should be paying tax, there's nothing wrong with it. In fact it's probably very good for the environment if he's recycling junk. Lots of people have side hustles to earn a bit more money. You should mind your own business

Why don't you mind your own business

This is a good point I hadn't considered!

Yes it is, my brother has to complete a tax return for what he makes on ebay

Yes of course it is. I do something similar as a full time job, all declared and legal. I wonder if my neighbours are curtain twitching too.

he probably should check his deeds or tenancy. A lot have restrictions or covenants against operating a business from the home.
or, if it’s a bother you can get a copy of deeds for small price form land registry and check yourself to write a letter to order him to desist.
just saying 🤷🏼‍♀️

It’s not a neighbour!

Thanks all. Late reply. Basically this is not a neighbour. I’m not ‘curtain twitching’. It’s a man who pays very little for their child and hardly sees them either, despite that they have bragged about a promotion in their usual job and does this on the side. That’s all.

Because they are working their usual Monday-Friday job and then doing this during evenings and weekends they are ‘too busy’ for their child.

I am not going to dob them in. I couldn’t care less that they are doing this. More so that their main priority is making as much money as poss and their child sees very little money or time from this ‘parent’!