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ilcollezionistadivideogames · 2025-02-19T15:21:30.219000Z

Hello everyone. I’m a collector, and a very active one too; first and foremost I collect videogames and Masters of the Universe, but also vintage toys and action figures. Obviously, like all collectors, I buy and sell all the time. I’m not really clear on the system of the so-called fines from the tax agency if you exceed the thresholds of 2,000 euros in sales and 30 transactions. If, on the total of my sales, I make a loss or even just break even (my income, gross revenue, therefore it doesn’t actually give me a real profit, income net of costs). If I sell 500 items in a year and make 10,000 euros from them, if for these items I paid 5 euros in shipping + the real value of the used items, which I must have bought as well, why on earth should the tax agency calculate taxes for me on the total including expenses? Taxes, at least when I studied accounting, were calculated on profits, not on expenses or losses. Let’s say that on 500 items I paid: 2,500 euros in shipping. Let’s say that I bought, long ago or recently, at 10 euros per item: 5,000 euros. Let’s say that I therefore made a profit of: 2,500 euros. I could even pay taxes on those 2,500 euros if that’s what the law says, but what I don’t understand is: what does the total earned from sales have to do with it? There are costs in there too, and plenty of them. What the hell kind of law is this, and what’s the point of all this? I’ve heard people saying: yeah, but you have to prove the value of the items, you have to prove the shipping costs. They’re items, it’s normal that they had a cost, that’s natural, just as it’s natural that if I shipped them I had a cost; what am I supposed to prove? The amount maybe (and I’ve kept the figures above on the low side) but you can’t be required to prove something that’s obvious. Please, also refrain from comments like: the tax agency doesn’t care. It matters to us as Italian citizens and it should matter to us in any discussion on this forum. I think that, for a hypothetical fine, there should be a massive appeal, all together.

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