@ricarmic wrote:
Unfortunately though what happens is the company sets aside so much $$ each year for "fixing" software applications and "development" of software applications.
The development piece is the piece we hope implements changes that benefit us or the buyers. It can also include "fixes" that take a lot of $$$ to implement and can be prioritized/deferred.
When some unavoidable ie prioritized large "problem" like implementing the IST comes in, it will pull $$$ away from the development side, so stuff they wanted to do gets diverted.
I think it is a bigger problem for them than most situations because I think the states have a lot of different rules from each other, it is almost like up to 50 different "countries" implementing it....
What you are saying may well have merit.
If this were my business, I would be charging the expenses of the tax collection
against the income generated from the taxes collected.
I would NOT be charging that expense against other revenue
that would "pull $$$ away from the development side" .
I would not be charging those expenses against the fees collected from the sellers
or from their so called "development fund budget".
The income from fees collected from sellers or general revenue would not have to be touched to cover the cost for this tax collection part of their operation.
I am sure that eBay and the States should be able to handle the expenses of tax
collection out of the tax money income leaving everyone with a tidy profit.
MY net worth is not even a drop in the bucket of eBay’s net worth
or any American State’s net worth and yet eBay, with the collusion of PayPal
and the States, all of whom benefit, did not hesitate to download the expense
of PayPal fees for this tax collection onto the backs of all sellers.
Even onto the backs of foreign buyers living in foreign countries who by law
are not required to pay tax to any US state especially since they are buying
from me, a Canadian. I am actually surprised that you seem to be defending
eBay and the USA states.
As mentioned before, there should be a workaround for foreign buyers
to reclaim the tax money that has been unjustly collected from them
just because they happen to use a freight forwarder in the USA.
Those buyers are being taken advantage of and I, as a seller,
am the one who has to take any "flack' from them about those
tax charges that are not in my control.
Sure,we are thankful that eBay has been available as a venue for us to use.
We have always faithfully paid the required fees. The income generated
each year from eBay fees is in the tens of billions. (This information is readily
available on the internet). eBay should be grateful that so many people
would be willing to use their platform for selling.
Where would they be without these sellers and of course the buyers?
