Tax

[mdeez5000]

Strongly disagree with another power move on eBay’s behalf. Selling pre-owned items that were taxed once, twice when we purchased and now a third time. Losing PayPal as the main payment method and organization tool was horrible. Losing sales to eBay’s Unfair And inconsistent EAG program was another blow to my account.. I pray for a new platform to fairly sell pre-lives items

[mrdutch1001]

Please read and understand this taxation process is NOT "another power move on eBay’s behalf ".

This new Canadian tax process is NOT eBay's doing; this is Canadian LAW! and it isn't just for eBay; this encompasses other selling sites as well..

this is taxation on transactions of online sales, and it is the buyers that are paying the sales tax. It does not matter where the seller is located- the taxation is based on the buyer's location.

It is the BUYER that pays the sales tax according to the %age sales tax of their province. Sellers under the $30,000 threshold need do NOTHING! It is the selling site that is collecting those taxes on behalf of sellers and remitting them as required. BUYERS pay the sales tax on the sales transaction.Sellers will pay their fees on the TOTAL transaction.

This Canadian taxation process is really no different than the "internet taxation" as applied in the USA by 45 state gov'ts, whereby buyers pay that USA "internet sales tax" based on their state's sales tax % and sellers pay their fees on the TOTAL transaction, which includes paying fees on the applied taxes. The Canadian taxation process is also applied to the TOTAL transaction, whereby the taxes are paid by the buyer, but the seller will pay the fees on the TOTAL transaction which includes paying the applicable fees on the new taxation process...

[brettjet38]

...used items are taxed every time they are sold until they end up in the tip! It has always been like that when you buy at a used item store you pay taxes on your purchase, when you buy a used car the same thing. 

This has nothing to do with eBay, it's the politicians you voted into power who gave you this "wake-up" call!

Go thank them...

[brettjet38]

...they don't get it!

[mrdutch1001]

and oh how we know it!...same thing over and over again...thread after thread by sellers who totally misunderstand and/or simply don't read and jump to conclusions, blame eBay,etc.

[femmefan1946]

Sally Ann doesn't know that.

[busybeas_books]

No tax on the book, only on the other item. $6.93-.69=6.24

7% tax on 6.24 = .43.6, rounded up to .44

Thift stores, Salvation Army, Value Village etc, use a code in their item desctiptions to differentiate tax rates, a 5 or 7 in the SA one above. I've bought things at VV ( here in Nova Scotia, 15% HST) that were mis-labeled, non-book items tagged as a book, (taxed at 5% GST only), or a book tagged as a 'collectible', getting the full 15% tax.

[femmefan1946]

The point is that all these items are used and taxed.

There is still sales tax on used items.

There are some products that, new or used, are not taxed. In BC children's shoes is one such category where there is no provincial sales tax.

[pjcdn2005]

I don't see gst on that receipt.

[marnotom!]

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@pjcdn2005 wrote:

I don't see gst on that receipt.

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Sales of used or donated goods by registered charities are GST-exempt.  They're not PST-exempt in British Columbia.

You probably noticed that there's still a GST-registration number on the receipt, though.