03-07-2021 03:36 PM
I just read that starting in 2022, eBay will start reporting to the IRS all sales totaling in a year of over $600. It is in the new 2 trillion $$ spending bill. Currently, it is $20,000. Is that true? Not sure what that has to do with helping get rid of COVID, but maybe it does in some way. I'm sure someone will tell us.
10-04-2021 10:18 PM
I doubt anyone of them has the brains to be a lawyer.
10-04-2021 10:19 PM
Fully realize this is how our government works. They are willing to spend billions in hopes of collecting additional millions but they are used to operating in a negative return environment. A lot of this is a white elephant.
Personally I have no issues with the 1099 requirement since I have been reporting income regardless. There is what is referred to as a multiplier effect in economics that relates to tax revenue and taxes. That multiplier effect works in both directions and can have either a positive or a negative impact on tax revenues for the government.
The proposal to increase taxes on the rich and businesses is an attempt by the government to mask the true impact to the consumer. No business or corporation is going to simply absorb increased tax rates and take the cost out of their bottom line. They are simply going to adjust their prices to cover the increase and pass the cost to the consumer so in reality the proposed tax increases to corporations are in reality tax increases to the consumer not corporations. Not sure why people don't understand that.
10-04-2021 10:19 PM
More room here for us sellers that have been reporting to the IRS then. Level the playing field as I always say.
10-04-2021 10:34 PM
Actually your calculations are a bit off. For the $110 item you describe that is gross revenue. Out of that you take the COGS (what the seller paid for it), shipping cost, fees, packing materials, POV and a whole list of other potential expenses to get to the net income. Lets say the net is $30, this is what you pay taxes on and the % you are taxed depends on the bracket you fall into.
I believe a lot of ecommerce sites will loose a lot of casual sellers like yourself. I also believe a lot of sellers, at least those that have not been doing business cost analysis, will begin to see what their actual returns are from selling on eBay and they will either raise their prices to increase their profits or find other alternative ways to sell their items to avoid getting taxed to death. This plan may very well backfire on the politicians who are/were hoping to cover all these new expenses with increased tax revenue that may never materialize. In fact there is the potential for it to have an adverse impact on the tax revenues and for the amount collected to shrink.
It should be real interesting to see the eBay quarterly reports beginning with the first quarter of 2022 and the following couple of years.
10-04-2021 10:48 PM
Agreed, if I quit selling on eBay it will not be because of taxes which I report anyway it will be for other reasons. A lot of the new laws are starting to level the playing field with B&M stores as are rising costs for shipping, the potential for increased fee %'s (corporate tax increase), increased scamming especially in the chargebacks, decreased customer support (already headed downhill), etc.
Other than the government no business can operate in the red over the long run. Even the government will, at some point, reach a day of reckoning.
10-06-2021 07:56 PM
if you get a 1099 - report on federal, you had better report it on state.
10-12-2021 04:54 AM
So now I will pay more taxes than Elon Musk & Jeff Bezos combined.
10-13-2021 06:02 AM
$600.00 has always been the IRS reporting law, however depending upon what you sell, I suggest keeping your account seperate from your personal account, keeping every receipt (deductions, etc.)
10-13-2021 06:03 AM
Same here, a reseller of collectibles. Many of which I've had since childhood, 60 years ago. No way, I have the original receipts, at which moment, they didn't give receipts.
10-15-2021 04:46 PM
Exactly! I am selling many items I have collect my whole life, I am down sizing to ease the burdon
my kids would have upon my passing.
10-15-2021 05:24 PM
thats the only way for them (the Government ) to pay for their stupid 3.5 Trillion $ bockdock , tax us poor folk all they can.
10-29-2021 07:52 AM
Im done no way to make profit and it will mess up my income taxes from my full time job
10-29-2021 08:14 AM
@virtualauctionroom wrote:Im done no way to make profit and it will mess up my income taxes from my full time job
Such a strange thing to say. Reporting income on your taxes isn't half as messy as not doing so. My friend was audited and had to pay a bundle. That happened before any 1099ks were ever issued by ebay---around 2005 or 2006. Not receiving one meant nothing.
10-29-2021 09:13 AM - edited 10-29-2021 09:15 AM
@virtualauctionroom wrote:Im done no way to make profit and it will mess up my income taxes from my full time job
You sound like you're admitting to being a tax cheat. Do you know that people who report tax cheats get a reward amounting to 15% to 30% of the taxes owing? Hope you have no bitter ex-spouses, greedy in-laws, angry neighbors, co-workers with grudges.
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11-12-2021 08:32 AM
The IRS is the scum of the earth. Uneducated new government hires going over your taxes. Don't think that will go well for anybody. Like many here all we did was sell stuff we had purchased years ago or decades ago for our own use. We sell them for less than we paid. I'll be damned if I'm going to have to hire a CPA to sell my own stuff on ebay. I'll donate it first. The feds are out of control.