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Sales tax charged on buyers non-taxable items
My buyer lives in Texas and was charged sales tax on numismatic coins/bullion which are tax free in Texas.
Coins were properly listed in the Collectibles & Art >Coins category. It seems to me that coins should not be a sub-category of Collectibles and Art, but it's own category with it's own sub-categories. Anybody have an answer or solution to this problem?
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tenbigdogs
Mentor2 years agoHi @beazley6462 Didn't coins used to be their own category? Apparently not anymore. According to the current list of eBay categories, as you pointed out, coins are a subcategory of Collectibles & Art. There is no answer except to say it's challenging to figure eBay's logic sometimes. Good luck!
List of eBay categories:
https://www.ebay.com/n/all-categories#collectibles-and-art
rock.star
·2 years agoTo ebay Collectable &Art is a taxable category.
The non taxable category is Currency &Coins.
beazley6462
OP2 years agoThank you. I know that normally that is the way things are. I spot checked several listings from other sellers as well as my own and unfortunately, Currency and Coins have been placed as a sub-category to Collectibles and Art by Ebay. They don't seem too anxious to do anything about it either. One buyer had to wait around 3 weeks to get reimbursed for taxes that never should have been charged..
rock.star
·2 years agoCurrency & Coins is its own category .
gosimus
Mentor2 years ago@beazley6462
< Coins were properly listed in the Collectibles & Art >Coins category >
Maybe that's the wrong subcategory. I figure that JMBullion and Apmex should know what they're doing so I checked their listings. Each one I checked was in the subcategory Collectibles & Art > ••• > Bullion > Gold > Coins.