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sapphyres-designer-jewellery · ‎11-13-2025

There was a big argument in the forum about when CRA reporting starts... accountants were telling people it starts in 2025 (sales from Jan 1 2025 and onward, and it would be reported in January next year). Other people said 2024.

I'm settling this argument...

The reporting started January 1, 2024, in 2025 (like today) all my 2024 sales were reported to the CRA.

So if you didn't declare your 2024 earnings and you have this report, CRA is going to find out. The report says how many transactions and a breakdown by quarter. I don't want to share my sales information, but if you qualify for this report you should find it in your eBay.

C.

dinomitesales · ‎11-13-2025

I just got that email as well.

Thank you eBay for supplying me with my 2024 sales report on... checks calendar... November 13th, 2025 lol.

Hopefully they're able to get the 2025 one to us much earlier in 2026 so it's actually of some utility in helping us file taxes?

sapphyres-designer-jewellery · ‎11-13-2025

@dinomitesales wrote:
I just got that email as well.
Thank you eBay for supplying me with my 2024 sales report on... checks calendar... November 13th, 2025 lol.

Hopefully they're able to get the 2025 one to us much earlier in 2026 so it's actually of some utility in helping us file taxes?

I checked what I reported, I reported $800 more than eBay thinks I sold, and I don't know why that would be because I use eBay's exchange rate and all the information from each transaction. But the good news is if I reported over, they're not going to demand a reaudit based on this information.

I found out because I went tonight to see my balance in Payments and saw a blue banner at the top. Didn't see an email, but maybe it didn't arrive yet.

C.

msau4301 · ‎11-13-2025

Yes, I got mine as well. As dinomitesales says a little late to be sending a report for 2024!

They've never asked me for my SIN which is interesting, I know a lot of people were talking about that earlier in the year.

I compared this newly sent report to my 2024 Sales Report generated in Seller Hub and this one is less, not sure why.

dinomitesales · ‎11-13-2025

@msau4301 wrote:
They've never asked me for my SIN which is interesting, I know a lot of people were talking about that earlier in the year.

Is it possible you provided it way back when they switched everyone over to Managed Payments? You might have given it to them so long ago that you forgot about it lol.

If you download your report it shows the last four digits of your Tax Identifier Number in the upper left - so if it shows your SIN there then they got it from you somehow lol.

ricarmic · ‎11-13-2025

Yep I got the email as well, at one time I did keep track of sales by "venue" but I don't anymore and I'm too lazy to add up the bits to figure it out. Their total looks about right to what % I'd expect eBay to represent.

I've been one of those OCD folks who's reported their income since I was 16 years old (I had to wait until I was old enough to fill out an income tax form 😀) so no worries from it that way.

dinomitesales · ‎11-13-2025

It seems like it would be very difficult to get any numbers we might be keeping on a sale-by-sale basis to add up to the totals in the report, although when all is said and done the final amounts that the CRA cares about should be fairly close.

For example, a few quirks I've noted in perusing this report (there are probably many more):

eBay is including the sales tax collected from the buyer in what is essentially the "gross revenue" of the sale. Perhaps this is common knowledge to others, but I figured since we were never actually given those funds it wasn't necessary to include them in revenue.
The line item of "Total Taxes" is the sum of the taxes paid by the buyer to eBay PLUS the taxes we pay to eBay on fees/store subscriptions/shipping labels. One would think those should be broken down into two separate categories, considering the latter is an ITC for those that have a GST/HST account with CRA.
The "Refunds" line item doesn't include refunds given as a result of order cancellation.
Despite eBay specifically mentioning "taxes paid on shipping labels", there is still no breakdown on the detailed CSV file that would indicate how much of the shipping label cost was for taxes (although this doesn't surprise me, we've been asking for this for years and eBay seemingly can't figure out how to do it lol).

Might need to make some modications to my spreadsheet for next tax season.

sapphyres-designer-jewellery · ‎11-13-2025

@ricarmic wrote:
Yep I got the email as well, at one time I did keep track of sales by "venue" but I don't anymore and I'm too lazy to add up the bits to figure it out. Their total looks about right to what % I'd expect eBay to represent.

I've been one of those OCD folks who's reported their income since I was 16 years old (I had to wait until I was old enough to fill out an income tax form 😀) so no worries from it that way.

I started selling on eBay in 2012 (in a more serious way, prior to that it was just occasional sales). I was doing around $200-300 a month and not declaring it, and then the shop where I work got a big collection they wanted me to sell. I started reporting because I figured it would eventually catch up with me and I didn't want to owe lots of tax (that's probably the least of my worries). Found out when you report income you can deduct all sorts of things, so in the end I don't pay that much tax on my income.

C.

sapphyres-designer-jewellery · ‎11-13-2025

@dinomitesales wrote:
It seems like it would be very difficult to get any numbers we might be keeping on a sale-by-sale basis to add up to the totals in the report, although when all is said and done the final amounts that the CRA cares about should be fairly close.

For example, a few quirks I've noted in perusing this report (there are probably many more):
eBay is including the sales tax collected from the buyer in what is essentially the "gross revenue" of the sale. Perhaps this is common knowledge to others, but I figured since we were never actually given those funds it wasn't necessary to include them in revenue.
The line item of "Total Taxes" is the sum of the taxes paid by the buyer to eBay PLUS the taxes we pay to eBay on fees/store subscriptions/shipping labels. One would think those should be broken down into two separate categories, considering the latter is an ITC for those that have a GST/HST account with CRA.
The "Refunds" line item doesn't include refunds given as a result of order cancellation.
Despite eBay specifically mentioning "taxes paid on shipping labels", there is still no breakdown on the detailed CSV file that would indicate how much of the shipping label cost was for taxes (although this doesn't surprise me, we've been asking for this for years and eBay seemingly can't figure out how to do it lol).
Might need to make some modications to my spreadsheet for next tax season.

Commenting on the sales tax, I've been including that because the copy of the sales order I have for each sale includes that, so I wanted my totals to match, but I deduct all eBay collected tax as an administrative expense since we don't get that, eBay takes it, but it's still part of the gross sale.

There's a few thousand a year in deductions for administrative expenses, and CRA doesn't seem to mind or ask me for a breakdown on what that means. I spend a lot on shipping, so it's apparent it's a business and not a hobby that's being declared to lower my taxes payable.

C.

flipistics · ‎11-13-2025

@dinomitesales wrote:
It seems like it would be very difficult to get any numbers we might be keeping on a sale-by-sale basis to add up to the totals in the report, although when all is said and done the final amounts that the CRA cares about should be fairly close.

For example, a few quirks I've noted in perusing this report (there are probably many more):
eBay is including the sales tax collected from the buyer in what is essentially the "gross revenue" of the sale. Perhaps this is common knowledge to others, but I figured since we were never actually given those funds it wasn't necessary to include them in revenue.
The line item of "Total Taxes" is the sum of the taxes paid by the buyer to eBay PLUS the taxes we pay to eBay on fees/store subscriptions/shipping labels. One would think those should be broken down into two separate categories, considering the latter is an ITC for those that have a GST/HST account with CRA.
The "Refunds" line item doesn't include refunds given as a result of order cancellation.
Despite eBay specifically mentioning "taxes paid on shipping labels", there is still no breakdown on the detailed CSV file that would indicate how much of the shipping label cost was for taxes (although this doesn't surprise me, we've been asking for this for years and eBay seemingly can't figure out how to do it lol).
Might need to make some modications to my spreadsheet for next tax season.

Maybe I'm missing something. Total fees and transactions appear to be correct. The total transaction amount does NOT appear to include tax that eBay collects on our behalf. The total taxes, however, includes the tax the buyer paid.

The number of transactions and transaction amount basically match my records that I keep separately which DO NOT include the tax the buyer paid since we don't have anything to do with that. If I'm right, that would mean that eBay's consideration amounts are actually wrong, and not by a little bit. Can anyone confirm with their own records?

dinomitesales · ‎11-13-2025

@sapphyres-designer-jewellery wrote:
Commenting on the sales tax, I've been including that because the copy of the sales order I have for each sale includes that, so I wanted my totals to match, but I deduct all eBay collected tax as an administrative expense since we don't get that, eBay takes it, but it's still part of the gross sale.

Yes, I think I'll do it this way starting next year. Doesn't make any difference to my final reported profit, but might be more clear to the CRA if they're trying to match my numbers to the ones on the eBay report (if they even care that is; my sales are practically insignifcant in the grand scheme of things).

dinomitesales · ‎11-13-2025

@flipistics wrote:
Maybe I'm missing something. Total fees and transactions appear to be correct. The total transaction amount does NOT appear to include tax that eBay collects on our behalf. The total taxes, however, includes the tax the buyer paid.

The number of transactions and transaction amount basically match my records that I keep separately which DO NOT include the tax the buyer paid since we don't have anything to do with that. If I'm right, that would mean that eBay's consideration amounts are actually wrong, and not by a little bit. Can anyone confirm with their own records?

This is what I thought at the beginning as well. But then they have "Total Taxes" as a separate line item that is deducted from the "Total Transaction Amount" so I don't know what to believe here.

But you're correct that if the "Total Transaction Amount" line item does include the sales tax paid by the buyer, then mine is also off by a lot more than it should be based on my spreadsheet calculations. I don't know how else to read that report because they're clearly deducting the tax to reach the "Consideration" amount, so you'd think the tax amount would need to be included in one of the line items above it.

flipistics · ‎11-13-2025

@dinomitesales wrote:
Yes, I think I'll do it this way starting next year. Doesn't make any difference to my final reported profit, but might be more clear to the CRA if they're trying to match my numbers to the ones on the eBay report (if they even care that is; my sales are practically insignifcant in the grand scheme of things).

Does it even matter? If I'm reading the sheet right, they only report quarterly the number of transactions, total fees, total taxes, and total consideration. It doesn't APPEAR that they submit the total transaction amount.

visual-sound · ‎11-13-2025

I got one as well and I could care less. I won't be declaring any of my EBay sales as income. Let the CRA come after me if they wish. I sell on EBay as a hobby and not as a business. If anything, all the report does is confirm that, for me, EBay is not a money making proposition.

flipistics · ‎11-13-2025

@dinomitesales wrote:
@flipistics wrote:
Maybe I'm missing something. Total fees and transactions appear to be correct. The total transaction amount does NOT appear to include tax that eBay collects on our behalf. The total taxes, however, includes the tax the buyer paid.

The number of transactions and transaction amount basically match my records that I keep separately which DO NOT include the tax the buyer paid since we don't have anything to do with that. If I'm right, that would mean that eBay's consideration amounts are actually wrong, and not by a little bit. Can anyone confirm with their own records?
This is what I thought at the beginning as well. But then they have "Total Taxes" as a separate line item that is deducted from the "Total Transaction Amount" so I don't know what to believe here.

But you're correct that if the "Total Transaction Amount" line item does include the sales tax paid by the buyer, then mine is also off by a lot more than it should be based on my spreadsheet calculations. I don't know how else to read that report because they're clearly deducting the tax to reach the "Consideration" amount, so you'd think the tax amount would need to be included in one of the line items above it.

devon@ebay Can you find out about this for us? It's kind of important...

Also, if eBay has a breakdown on tax paid on shipping labels, which the report indicates that there is, that should be made available to us as well so we can claim it.

byto253 · ‎11-13-2025

The report is a mess. It combines seller paid tax and ebay collected tax - tax I pay as a purchaser of services and taxes my customers pay on goods they buy from me. Sure they both have "tax" in the name but they are not the same. It makes your head spin, accountants can just shake their heads. If you want a detailed breakdown, download the CSV spreadsheet file.

Seller paid tax: This includes taxes applied on transactional and non-transactional fees and shipping labels.
eBay collected tax: This is the tax eBay collects from buyers for the sale. Based on your buyers location, this can be VAT/GST/HST/QST/PST/IST.

dinomitesales · ‎11-13-2025

To complicate matters, if you navigate to the "Your guide to the 2024 Digital Sales Report" page, it clearly states:

"The total transaction amount equals the full amount you receive for your sales transactions, including any buyer-paid shipping costs and tax that you collect for the sale."

regs43 · ‎11-13-2025

A Quick glance at this report its a mess

Takeaways

Seller Paid Tax is the tax for the fees you paid on each transaction. so for one sale line it says my fees are $4.82 and I am HST 13% and the amount paid is 0.63 which checks out. For that transaction I didnt buy a shipping label so I dont think there is any tax reported for the shipping labels, i believe ebays hiding that still so they can claim all that for their own ITC?

my sale for that above $4.82 in fees, the gross transaction is only the shipping and purchase price which was 29.99 + 6.00 for the 35.99 shown for gross transaction. The tax was never sent to me or included in the gross transaction on this report (I also didnt report it as somethng I collected as I never saw it?). They can audit me again if they like lol

I might just keep using the detailed report for the year i download, as it seems more accurate and I know where to get the info and what I am working with.

fergua3 · ‎11-13-2025

i got the email as well. I was under the $2800 but over the 30 transactions. Ebay has never asked me for my SIN and i have definitely never given it to them. Surprising.

And what's up with being 11 months late? They had all that info by Dec 31, 2024 and it took them 10 months and 13 days to compile it and remit it? Maybe they were fighting in court to not have to submit the info?

flipistics · ‎11-13-2025

@dinomitesales wrote:
To complicate matters, if you navigate to the "Your guide to the 2024 Digital Sales Report" page, it clearly states:

"The total transaction amount equals the full amount you receive for your sales transactions, including any buyer-paid shipping costs and tax that you collect for the sale."

Right, that YOU collect, not that eBay collects. I assume that's for people who have tax obligations in other areas that eBay doesn't collect tax for. It looks (to me) like someone in eBay's tax department also got confused by it. I could be wrong, but I don't think so.