I am looking for some help regarding GST that was deducted from our Canadian Ebay seller account, as well as any and all other GST that may have been taken.
We pay GST on our fees. It's a Goods and Services Tax and those fees are for eBay's service.
Ebay pays GST collected to the Canadian Revenue Agency on the business' behalf. But what happens if the business does not have a GST number?
This is a different question.
That GST is paid by our buyers. Not by us sellers.
EBay pays the GST collected to Revenue Canada and to the appropriate provincial and territorial revenue agencies.
The seller is not involved in any way. The seller is not collecting the tax, eBay is because they are selling over $30K a year, and probably over $30K an hour. That's how these new "Internet Sales Taxes" were set up by Parliament (and the US Supreme Court, plus dozens of other nations.)
But eBay does charge us FVF on these taxes which are collected from our buyers when they are invoiced .
That's one reason we are shown the taxes collected, so we know what the FVF charge was for.
And, before you ask, it has been Standard Practice in the financial field at least since we got our first merchant credit card account back in the early 80s. It's annoying but it's legal. It might help to consider that part of the fee as a service charge for dealing with 14 Canadian tax divisions, plus those of the UK, EU, Australia, and the 50+ in the USA. Did you know that New York City has it's own sales tax and if we sell to a customer in Manhattan, we pay FVF on that tax too?
This contradicts the information that the representative relayed to us earlier this evening.
The phone reps work for a sub-contractor in Utah and not for eBay. They are poorly trained.
Many have trouble with concepts like "Canada is a sovereign nation." or "Our head of state is Charles III, not Joe Biden." or "The IRS has no power here."
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