eBay

pokemon.store · ‎09-30-2020

Anyone know when ebay.ca started collecting Canadian Sales tax on items listed on eBay.COM, but purchased through ebay.CA? It seems to be sometime in 2020, as I only noticed it in the past 3 months (example below). I don't think eBay.ca checkouts collected Canadian sales tax for you in 2019 if your items where listed on .com. If someone know that date this began it would be greatly appreciated.

ebay COM listing sold via CA_ Canadian tax example.png

pjcdn2005 · ‎09-30-2020

The only time Canadian tax is charged by eBay on either site is if the seller has set up their listings to charge tax. I don’t see any .com listings on this ID so this must be on another ID but you should check your settings.

As an FYI. If you are registered to collect gst your listings should be set up on on both .com and .ca to charge Canadians tax unless you are absorbing the tax. The site you list on isn’t what determines whether tax is collected, it is based on the ‘ship to’ location.

femmefan1946 · ‎09-30-2020

If you are not registered to remit Canadian sales taxes do NOT enable their collection.

Revenue gets upset about that.

Generally you do not have to register until your gross is $30,000 annually.

Check your listings (use Revise to see what eBay is working with) to be sure you are not collecting taxes without being able to remit them to the appropriate governments.

nuvistors · ‎10-03-2020

It is illegal to collect tax without being registered.
Also a seller must supply his HST registration number to a buyer when the buyer pays tax. The number should appeasr on your invoice.

pokemon.store · ‎10-05-2020

My question is ABOUT eBay's change and NOT regarding the specifics of sales tax regulations. I am registered and have a HST/GST number so that is not the issue.

pjcdn2005 · ‎10-05-2020

I'm not aware of any change. If you are registered to collect tax from Canadians it should be collected regardless of which site the item was listed on and it has been possible to set it up to do that for as long as I can remember. But it has always been the seller that sets it up..not ebay.

When you set up your taxes on .ca that is carried over to .com if you check off 'add applicable sales tax' in customize. I suppose that it is possible that ebay now checks off that option for you on .com if you already have taxes set up on .ca and it is checked off there but I haven't heard anything about them doing that.