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Taxes on sale of an item
Why are taxes added to the item that I sold? Never happened before.
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Why are taxes added to the item that I sold? Never happened before.
mr_lincoln
Mentor8 months agoHi @jb4640
You have 32 Feedbacks in the last month and your account dates back to 1997. Sales tax has been added to purchases for quite sometime. Only 5 sates have no sales tax. Your state, South Carolina, has a 6% sales tax and for online purchases, regardless of the venue, you are charged the sales tax.
Sorry you have missed that for all these years ...
jb4640
OP8 months agoHello,
I live in North Carolina and the buyer lives in New York. Neither of us have had to pay sales tax on silver transactions. The first reply may be on to something concerning the category that it was listed in…don’t know. The buyer is requesting, per eBay customer service, for a refund of the sales tax.
Thanks for the reply!
Mike
mr_lincoln
Mentor8 months ago@jb4640
Ahhhh, NEW information, in the future include all the details up front please. If an item is normally NOT taxable but is listed in the wrong category then yes, sales tax can happen. If you want to refund the Buyer the sales tax you can work that out with the Buyer, eBay is not involved.
monroe67
Mentor8 months agoThat's kind of a broad and vague question.
As very general answers,
1. eBay is required to collect sales tax on taxable things sold and delivered to 45 of the 50 United States.
Five states do not impose sales taxes at all: Alaska, Delaware, Montana, New Hampshire, and Oregon.
2. The sales tax percentage that eBay collects is the sales tax percentage in effect in the zip code of the delivery address.
Sales taxes are paid by buyers.
Then I took a look at your recent sold items: four pieces of collectible silver. So, is your question actually about sales taxation on items that "shouldn't" be taxed, such as collectible coins, bullion, etc.?
The usual answer is that the items may have been listed in an eBay category that is not sales-tax-exempt,
meaning they may have been listed in a sales-taxable category.
Your buyers may have to contact their own states' taxation authority to request refunds of those sales taxes.