Help, buyer underpaid via echeck

[paranoid_android_27]

Help, I sold an item.  The buyer paid via e-check, but only the item price and shipping cost.  He did not include tax.  How do I proceed, I can't afford to eat the tax that I paid for the item.  I included the tax in the calculation for the item when I accepted the offer. 

Please help!

[janet9988]

Buyers only need to pay what was shown to them at checkout.

Maybe the buyer did not have to pay sales tax. Sales tax is not your money.

[dtexley3]

Where does the buyer live?  Sales Tax is based on the BUYER's delivery address. So if they live in a state with no Sales Tax then none is owed, by you OR them.

[pburn]

• Where was the buyer located that allowed him/her to pay by echeck?
• eBay checkout calculates the total the buyer should pay. How did this buyer pay less than that? 
• What tax did YOU pay for the item?
• What tax  did YOU calculate when you accepted the offer?

Sellers don't calculate tax. eBay includes tax in the checkout total. I think some clarification is required in order to get a reasonable answer to your problem.

Is this some kind of overseas transaction?

[fjbet13]

I think the tax goes to eBay who submits it to the state.

[pjcdn2005]

 You shouldn't take tax into account at all when you are looking at an offer or pricing your item as you don't get the tax...the state that the buyer lives in gets it.   The only time the seller would receive the tax is if the buyer was not in a state that requires ebay to collect tax AND if you were registered to collect tax in the buyers state.

If you saw the tax on the invoice but don't see it now...ebay has already taken it and will submit it to the correct state.