mam98031 • Volunteer Community Member • Buyer/Seller since 1999
@doc-holmes wrote:
@oregonactionfiguresllc wrote:Ebay will do whatever they can, in any scenario, to take a bigger slice of the pie away from the Seller.
It's absolutely repulsive.
Repulsive...capitalism. Whatever.
Well then the sellers would fall into that definition too as we are all here to make a profit. Not sure why some see Ebay making a profit is bad and seller it is great.
"...charging a percentage on sales tax is not proper on any level and has legal ramifications" What law? Many have said this over the last 3 years, yet no one has been able to tell us which law is being broken. Money Processing fees have been charged on sales tax for decades. All credit cards do it as well as all money processor like PayPal and Ebay.
Loosing money on shipping is a choice. One that most sellers don't make as it is totally unnecessary.
Sales tax has NEVER been about the state in which the Seller or business is in but about the state the item is being delivered to. If that is in your state, then your buyer would owe sales tax to your state. But if it was delivered to Texas, the sales taxes are due to the state of Texas.
It appears you don't understand how sales tax actually works and is calculated. It is very easy. Sales tax is due to the State in which the item is delivered to. It is NOT any more complicated than that.
The desire to make a profit is not now nor has it every been "greed". Every seller is here to make a profit as is Ebay here to make a profit. It is how we all survive and how capitalism works.
I understood what you said. It is unlikely that States will be willing to make changes you suggest. They would be losing money, there has to be an upside for a change.
Average sales tax is about 8 or 8.5%. Very few if jurisdictions would have a 12% rate.
State Base Rate Local Range
| Alabama | 0%–7% | 0%-7% | 4%-11% |
| Alaska | 0% | 0%–7.5% | 0%–7.5% |
| Arizona | 5.60% | 0%–5.6% | 5.6%–11.2% |
| Arkansas | 6.50% | 0%–5% | 6.5%–11.5% |
| California | 6.00% | 0.15%–3% | 7.25%–10.25% |
| Colorado | 2.90% | 0%–8.3% | 2.9%–11.2% |
| Connecticut | 6.35% | N/A | 6.35% |
| Delaware | 0% | N/A | 0%–0% |
| Florida | 6% | 0%–2% | 6%–8% |
| Georgia | 4% | 0%–5% | 4%–9% |
| Hawaii | 4% | 0%–0.5% | 4%–4.5% |
| Idaho | 6% | 0%–3% | 6%–9% |
| Illinois | 6.25% | 0%–4.75% | 6.25%–11% |
| Indiana | 7% | N/A | 7% |
| Iowa | 6% | 0%–2% | 6%–8% |
| Kansas | 6.50% | 0%–4.1% | 6.5%–10.6% |
| Kentucky | 6% | N/A | 6% |
| Louisiana | 4.45% | 0%–7% | 4.45%–11.45% |
| Maine | 5.50% | N/A | 5.50% |
| Maryland | 6% | 0% | 6% |
| Massachusetts | 5.60% | N/A | 6.25% |
| Michigan | 6% | 6% | N/A |
| Minnesota | 6.88% | 0%–1.5% | 6.875%–8.375% |
| Mississippi | 7% | 0%–1% | 7%–8% |
| Missouri | 4.23% | 0%–5.875% | 4.225%–10.1% |
| Montana | 0% | N/A | N/A |
| Nebraska | 5.50% | 0%–2% | 5.5%–7.5% |
| Nevada | 4.60% | 0%–3.665% | 4.6%–8.265% |
| New Hampshire | 0% | N/A | N/A |
| New Jersey | 6.63% | N/A | N/A |
| New Mexico | 5.13% | 0%–3.9375% | 5.125%–9.0625% |
| New York | 4% | 0%–4.875% | 4%–8.875% |
| North Carolina | 4.75% | 0%–2.75% | 4.75%–7.5% |
| North Dakota | 5% | 0%–3.5% | 5%–8.5% |
| Ohio | 5.75% | 0%–2.25% | 5.75%–8% |
| Oklahoma | 4.50% | 0%–7% | 4.5%–11.5% |
| Oregon | 0% | N/A | 0% |
| Pennsylvania | 6% | 0%–2.0% | 6.0%–8.0% |
| Rhode Island | 7% | N/A | 7% |
| South Carolina | 6% | 0%–3% | 6%–9% |
| South Dakota | 4.50% | 0%–2% | 4.5%–6.5% |
| Tennessee | 7% | 0%–3% | 7%–10% |
| Texas | 6.25% | 0.125%–2% | 6.375%–8.25% |
| Utah | 4.70% | 0%–4% | 4.7%–8.7% |
| Vermont | 6% | 0%–1% | 6%–7% |
| Virginia | 4.30% | 0%–2.7% | 4.3%–7% |
| Washington | 6.50% | 0%–3.9% | 6.5%–10.4% |
| West Virginia | 6% | 0%–1% | 6%–7% |
| Wisconsin | 5% | 0%–0.6% | 5%–5.6% |
| Wyoming | 4% | 0%–2% | 4%–6% |
