The Platform Operators (Due Diligence and Reporting Requirements) Regulations 2023

These regulations make provision implementing the OECD (2020), Model Rules for Reporting by Platform Operators with respect to Sellers in the Sharing and Gig Economy, OECD, Paris and the OECD (2021), Model Reporting Rules for Digital Platforms: Optional Module for Sale of Goods, OECD, Paris (together the ‘model rules’). They impose obligations on certain persons who operate digital platforms (known as ‘reporting platform operators’). Reporting platform operators are required to carry out due diligence on users of their platform (known as ‘sellers’), to report information about the sellers to HMRC and to provide a copy of the information to the sellers themselves.