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EU-wideChecked 6 August 2026

DAC7: when a platform reports your venue to the tax authority

If you sell through a booking or delivery platform, it may already be reporting your earnings. Here is what gets sent and why the number can look wrong.

In short

Council Directive (EU) 2021/514 has required digital platforms to collect and report seller data since January 2023, covering personal services, sale of goods and rental of immovable property. A platform selling your tickets, taking your bookings with payment, or delivering your food will report your identity and gross earnings to a tax authority, which then shares it across the EU. Reserving a table at no charge is not itself a reportable transaction; taking money for you generally is.

What the platform sends

The reportable set is your identifying details, including tax identification number and, for an entity, the business registration number, together with the total consideration paid or credited in each quarter and the fees, commissions or taxes the platform withheld.

Note "gross". The figure reported is what the guest paid, before the platform took its cut. Your books show the net you received. The two numbers are supposed to differ, and the difference is exactly the fees the platform also reports.

Why it may not concern you at all

DAC7 bites on platforms facilitating a relevant activity for consideration. A reservation platform that simply passes a table booking to you, taking no payment, is not obviously facilitating a paid transaction between you and the guest.

Where it does apply cleanly is ticketing, prepaid experiences, delivery marketplaces and short-term accommodation. If a platform holds the guest’s money before you see it, assume you are in scope.

The platform must also apply due diligence and can freeze payouts or close accounts for sellers who do not supply the required details, which is the usual reason a venue suddenly gets asked for its tax number.

What to do about it

Give accurate details when asked. A mismatch between what the platform reports and what your return declares is precisely what the exchange of information is designed to surface.

Reconcile gross to net once a quarter rather than at year end. Platforms report quarterly, and the reconciliation is much easier while you can still remember what a payout related to.

Ask any platform you sell through, in writing, whether it treats you as a reportable seller and what it has filed. You are entitled to know what has been reported about you.

Where Served fits

Served is not a marketplace and does not stand between you and your guests’ money: card payments for deposits and tickets go to your own Stripe account. Served does not take a commission on covers, so there is no platform cut to reconcile.

Sources

Sources last read 6 August 2026.

This is not legal, tax or accounting advice. Served is a software company, and this page describes rules we have read in the sources listed above on the date shown. Rules change, they apply differently depending on your venue’s circumstances, and only a qualified adviser in your country can tell you what yours mean for you. Check anything here before you act on it.