I sell books and the only tax on books is the 5% GST. Ebay should not charge 13% on books sold in On

[femmefan1946 · Accepted solution]

Who is charging you tax?

The seller sets up his tax levels BUT only if he is registered to collect and remit taxes.

GST /HST/PST/QST should only be charged when the buyer is in the same jurisdiction as the seller. That is GST should be charged to our Canadian buyers, but not to foreign buyers. HST/PST/QST  are only charged to buyers in the same province.

Or are you importing your stock from a seller who uses the GSP?

The GSP is not set up for commercial (B2B) use.

Or does this have something to do with eBay's reluctant agreement to stop ducking GST on our fees but still managing not to pay the back taxes owed but not collected?

[cumos55 · Accepted solution]

eBay .....does not .....charge a tax on the item sold by each seller.

eBay charges the tax on the ............fees ...........collected by eBay. So... for Ontario the tax is 13 % on the fees collected by eBay which includes ........................

................. the sum of final value fees, insertion fees and store subscription

eBay has nothing to do with the percentage of tax applied to each sale by a Canadian seller.

There is no link between the sale of a book, and the tax on fees charged by eBay, and that is why the tax, that is HST on fees... that is ...........all .....fees ...... is 13 % for the sellers of books in Ontario