Can't update API Listings due to tax settings issues

[mowandsnow]

We are using tax table, we are in Illinois only, now something on Ebay has changed, I guess no longer do we have to do our state taxes etc, but  now i cant update any listings via api, it errors the following 


 The selected tax rate is lower than the minimum allowed value, or greater than the maximum allowed value.<BR>The selected tax rate is lower than the minimum allowed value, or greater than the maximum allowed value.

[lacemaker3]

@mowandsnow 

eBay has been collecting sales tax for sales to Illinois since Jan 2020.

https://www.ebay.com/help/selling/fees-credits-invoices/taxes-import-charges?id=4121#section3

eBay is now collecting sales tax for all states in the USA that have a sales tax. The sales tax table is only to be used by sellers in a few US territories. Sellers in the USA proper don't need it. You need to stop using the sales tax table.

Try going to this page and make sure that all the tax rate percentages are blank, and all the sliders are off.

https://www.ebay.com/uas/sales-tax

[mowandsnow]

That page has changed, no longer has anything related to the USA, only certain outside countries. if you remove the <UseTaxTable> from the API, another error happens. This started on Monday, some 4 days ago. Ebay just recreated all our listings from their end, due to a code change a month ago. So its nothing on our end, we also havent updated the api version, so nothing should change period... other than forcing to a new api

[soh.maryl]

Are you referring to the state sales tax on purchases?

Doesn't eBay figure that out for you and collect the appropriate amount for the buyer's state and remit it to that state's treasury?

Am I misunderstanding your message?  

[lacemaker3]

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@mowandsnow wrote:

That page has changed, no longer has anything related to the USA, only certain outside countries. if you remove the <UseTaxTable> from the API, another error happens. This started on Monday, some 4 days ago. Ebay just recreated all our listings from their end, due to a code change a month ago. So its nothing on our end, we also havent updated the api version, so nothing should change period... other than forcing to a new api

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OK, then you might need to get rid of the obsolete tax table another way. Not everything has to (or can) be done in the API.

You have  not needed a tax table for more than five years, so this appears to be a result of old, outdated settings that you should have deleted or updated years ago.

FYI, the regions that are still listed in the eBay tax table are all US territories or protectorates. They are not foreign countries. They are part of the United States. They just have not passed marketplace facilitator tax laws.

[mowandsnow]

if i had to get rid of it, it wouldn't error for not being there, as for American protectorates or international, we only ship to continental US states, so nothing would apply to us, its all set as do not ship, maybe its because there is still taxonshipping entries, ill remove those and see what happens, probably erroring instead of ignoring

[soh.maryl]

As someone mentioned in a previous reply, eBay calculates and collects state sales taxes on eBay sales and then sends those funds to the treasury departments of the affected states.  This is true for about 46 states in the US and has been doing so for some years now.  Are you saying that state sales taxes for the State of Illinois are handled differently?

If you go to a site called TaxJar, you will see a map showing you what states collect state sales tax on shipping and which do not.  

[lacemaker3]

The tax table is only to be used by sellers who are residents in those regions, who are required to collect sales tax. So you would have used it only for Illinois sales tax before 2020, when you were required to collect it. You should have removed it years ago, when it was no longer needed.

Most sellers in the USA are not affected by this. I think you have something weird going on because you list with an API, which is not a very common method, and left redundant code in place after it was no longer needed.

[mowandsnow · Accepted solution]

The issue is nothing more than it should be ignoring something that its been ignoring for years, our listings are 20 years old in some cases... They are now enforcing a self manufactured business policy, (this was auto created on their end recently) and no longer ignoring the tax in shipping fields for this reason, probably an omission on their end... as for the tax table, they are ignoring the usetaxtable, the error was related to the tax in shipping field, because of the new enforced business policy id requirement...