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Ebay Refunds Buyers Illegally Collected Sales Tax on Rare Currency in Georgia, But Not Sellers
Since mid July, Ebay has been illegally collecting sales tax on all rare currency in the US Paper Money category other than items listed in the small size note category for buyers in the state of Georgia. RARE COINS, CURRENCY, and BULLION have been exempt from sales tax in Georgia since the year 2000 via Georgia House Bill HB1210. I've had one customer in South Carolina tell me this has been happening as well...Everything I've read within South Carolina statutes says the same thing. I fought with Ebay for a few weeks when this was first implemented in July, but they did nothing to change it. Instead, Ebay is refunding the buyer the sales tax charged if the buyer calls Ebay and complains. They refunded me sales tax I paid on 2 items, and I entered my sales and use tax id to prevent having to deal with the issue any further. I have one customer in Georgia who has been issued a sales tax refund DOZENS OF TIMES for illegally being charged sales tax...he has called every time he has bought rare currency. Great...no harm no foul right? WRONG.....Sellers are being charged paypal fees on that sales tax illegally collected from the buyer, and EBAY ISN'T REIMBURSING THE SELLER for those fees. Thoughts?
kh-leslie
·3 years agoHi everyone,
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Thank you for understanding.
b_and_w_tackle
·3 years agoMore importantly is: eBay is fraudulently collecting tax, but not remitting it to the proper tax collecting agency. You can't remit a tax to a state that doesn't want it. Which becomes a felony committed by eBay. Report this tax collection to the Attorney General of the state concerned, Georgia in this case, with mounds of evidence. Copies from as many sales as you can print out, for example. It needs to be big enough for the AG office to take notice. You may know it is on every sale, but the AG's office won't unless you provide enough examples. If you get the incorrect collection of the tax corrected, you won't have to worry about paying the extra final value fee.
fab_finds4u
·3 years agoCan't you be helpful and help new posts, today's problems instead of dredging up crap from 2020?