Since when are casual sales between two private parties taxable???

[bonjourami]

Since most states enacted the Marketplace Facilitator laws this year, charging tax on internet purchases.Read a paper or listened to the news lately?

[tdumonde2014]

If it happened on ebay then there was a third party involved and it wasn't a casual sale.

[lacemaker3]

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@hipofomoco406 wrote:

Since when are casual sales between two private parties taxable???

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Ohio has had a sales tax since 1934, and a use tax since 1935 (which covers sales of taxable items if the tax was not collected at the time of sale), according to this pdf document from the Ohio State website:

https://www.tax.ohio.gov/portals/0/taxeducation/history/taxation%20in%20ohio_history.pdf

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1934 Faced with a severe budget crisis, the General Assembly enacts a 3% state sales tax
effective Jan. 1, 1935. A companion use tax is enacted a year later.

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You can get more information about what items are not taxable here. https://www.tax.ohio.gov/faq.aspx 

Casual sales are exempt (except for vehicle sales) but I don't see anything that defines what casual sales are. Please contact the Ohio Department of Taxation for further information.

Since eBay is required to collect sales tax on all items being shipped to Ohio, I believe that eBay sales are not considered to be casual sales by the State of Ohio.