Paying seller fees on taxes as a NH resident? Legal?

[thiccc]

This seems odd to me. I have never been affected by anything related to tax while conducting business in my state or online. Is it illegal to make me pay fees based on another states sales tax, when in conducting business online in my state of New Hampshire?

If so, eBay is the only place on earth doing this. I should be unaffected by all other states sales tax from what I understand.

[slippinjimmy]

eBay doesn't charge buyers from NH because as you obviously know there is no NH Sales Tax.

Your understanding is wrong, when you make a sale to another State you are responsible (via eBay) to collect Sales Tax and remit to that State, it's part of the buyers payment and thus eBay charges fees.

You toss out "illegal", can you direct me to the law that makes it illegal?

[stainlessenginecovers]

No. Perfectly Legal. 

You are NOT selling to people in just your state, so you will pay FEES on the TOTAL of the sale (item + shipping+ tax paid). 

Not any different than a Brick & Mortar store that paid on the TOTAL price of the sale at the register. 

[ten_o_nine]

It seems, but it's reality and legal.

[thiccc]

Shouldn’t I be unaffected by taxes? Making me

pay a fee based on another states sales tax is like indirectly taxing me. 

[aqeeqsouq]

@thiccc 

Ebay doing that for a long time, i don't recall exactly when they start doing that.

[thiccc]

By making me pay a fee based on another states sales tax is basically indirectly taxing me.

I should pay fees based on everything except tax, since as a NH resident I am exempt from all taxes except federal.

[stainlessenginecovers]

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@thiccc wrote:

Shouldn’t I be unaffected by taxes? Making me

pay a fee based on another states sales tax is like indirectly taxing me. 

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Has NOTHING to do with where YOU live; has to do with taxes required to be paid by the person that lives in another state. 

[thiccc]

I get that, I guess I just don’t understand why my bottom line is being affected by someone else’s taxes. 

only on eBay! Haha

the only place on earth where I am affected by other states taxes 😂

[stainlessenginecovers]

It's not looked at that way. Has nothing to do where you live. If you want to sell to others in other states, those buyers have to pay tax (The US Supreme Court 2018) and eBay has decided that you will pay FEES based on the TOTAL of the sale (not any different than B&M Stores have done for decades)

[pburn]

Corporations do not have  taxing authority. That privilege is reserved for government entities. eBay is not taxing you for anything--they are assessing a fee for selling on their site, which you agreed to when you chose to sell on this platform.

[annadryl]

This "only place on earth" idea is way off. Whenever a place takes a payment, a business, a grocery store, online, they usually pay a processing fee on the total sale. I live in Oregon (no sales tax) but most of my buyers don't and I accept my fees. It's worked into my price so the buyers pay it.

No social injustice, nothing to cry about. Add it into your prices.

[krazzykats]

I'm in Oregon, same thing and it's been that way for a while now.  I was told it was to level the field. 

Now everyone pays based on the buyer's location.  I pay, you pay, we all pay.

[wattadeal]

I believe, and correct me if I am wrong, that back when Paypal collected tax and remitted to the seller, that you paid a fee on the whole transaction total as well. Nobody seemed to complain at that time....

[chapeau-noir]

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@wattadeal wrote:

I believe, and correct me if I am wrong, that back when Paypal collected tax and remitted to the seller, that you paid a fee on the whole transaction total as well. Nobody seemed to complain at that time....

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I strongly suspect that was because Paypal fees were not included in eBay's fees, so few looked at them.  Suddenly, now that everything is shown as a line item up front, we have this repetitive outrage.  Honestly, I wish people would do the slightest bit of research before yelling that this must ILLEGAL!!!