Question about taxes

[flipistics]

Your buyers are being charged taxes because the government mandated it for all online marketplaces that handle payments (and the ones that don't currently like Marketplace will probably be forced to sooner rather than later). It's been this way in most other countries for a few years now. Our government was just a little slower to implement it. It would be illegal for eBay to NOT charge it.

People selling under 30K can still sign up to collect and remit taxes. You are legally required to register if you sell over 30K, but there are advantages to doing so before that time. You could register and legally be required to collect taxes even on a single $1 sale a year.

eBay DOES NOT pocket the tax money. That is illegal. Very, very illegal. Big companies are audited almost continuously. They would not get away with doing that.

You can see the collected tax in one of your seller downloadable reports (I can't remember which one). I don't THINK you need the information for anything though unless it's to verify eBay fees or something (or are just curious).

[msau4301]

If you were selling privately from your own website you could do things differently but it is eBay charging the taxes across the board (as flipistics has explained after government mandated it) and think about their total sales numbers which would be massive! Although our buyers may choose to buy from you or me or any of us individually it is from eBay's site here. If someone buys something from you and a friend asked where they got it they would say I got it on eBay.

[reallynicestamps]

Since sellers under $30k/year leagally are not supposed to collect and provide taxes,

While sellers who do not sell $30K annually are not REQUIRED to collect and remit taxes, they are certainly allowed to do so.

For example, a new business would register, even though they had no prior income, in the hope that by the end of the year (or preferably the month!) they would meet the minimum.

And as others have said, you are not being charged a fee on taxes collected, you are being charged a fee for processing the customer's payment, which includes taxes that go from the buyer, through your selling account, to eBay and to the applicable government.

Some find it easier to think of the fee as a service charge for knowing which taxes are to be paid and how much that tax should be.  Do you know how much sales tax is in Oregon? In Idaho? In Norway? In Nunavut?

[joels-retrocade]

The government shaking down lemonaid stands to squeeze every penny out us as possible.  Pathetic

[brettjet38]

...no the Goverment collecting $$$ to pay for your FREE

Social Assistance, the Canada Child Tax Benefit, Old Age Security and the Guaranteed Income Supplement, Employment Insurance, the Canada and Quebec Pension Plan, Workers' Compensation, public education, medicare, social housing and social services.

You do get this stuff...

That is what TAX is for...

[recped]

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@joels-retrocade wrote:

The government shaking down lemonaid stands to squeeze every penny out us as possible.  Pathetic

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You seriously think eBay is equivalent to a lemonade stand?

[brettjet38]

@recped he means his own business model 

[rocketscollectibles]

...no the Goverment collecting $$$ to pay for your FREE

Also pay all the deputees salaries and the filet mignon they eat everydays

[joels-retrocade]

Lol Har Har

[fh991586]

You still don't understand that using eBay means you are not selling yourself your own stuff from your own backyard?

You are using a company to sell your stuff, hence the taxation process.  Is that simple enough for you for explanation?

Buyers are paying taxes because YOU decided to use eBay instead of selling only by yourself.

[rocketscollectibles]

You are very randomly hostile

[brettjet38]

@joels-retrocade you do realize that your "potential" Buyers can see your unprofessional posts and childish behaviour...

[joels-retrocade]

Coming from a dude that sells buttons lol.  Keep at it buddy maybe you'll make a profit after you've sold a thousand of them.  Nobody looks at these board besides sellers and buyers that I don't want.  That's fine with me; they can buy somewhere else.  

[fh991586]

If understanding basic taxation and pointing out that you continue to rant for nothing here is hostililty, then so be it.

[brettjet38]

My Seller fees are only 15.4% of my total sales so far this year...

Over 95% of my sales are Collectables, and the buttons are less than 2% but they are still very profitable, as are Neolithic Arrow points and Tools, but then again you only looked at the stuff that "suits" your talking points instead of the whole picture...

[rocketscollectibles]

This is the community boards, community boards are there to find help and open discussions. I asked legit questions. If you think some questions or threads are not legit, this is your thing. You're not forced to post, you can pass. I guess not everyone has a superior knowledge as you have. If you don't understand basics about community boards, don't post, no one needs your hostility, thanks

This is getting so cringe and out of control in here recently. Threads always gets polluted. Community boards used to be a friendly and enjoyable place to post, this is not the case anymore. Some users should get kick out

[fh991586]

Many here have taken the time to explain the taxation situation in length, but some people just don't want to hear it because they feel and act as libertarians.  That's also the community, I guess...
If I say 2+2=4, but some people say it's 5 and push their agenda over and over, I'm not the one causing trouble here.

[kh-phdan]

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Thanks to everyone for participating.