This has been discussed here before, but I thought I'd give it a refresh for the sake of discussion and attention. eBay's selling fees includes the sales tax collected on your sale. I just sold a higher priced item and was surprised that they included the sales tax amount in their final fee collection.
eBay is essentially charging sellers for handling state tax collection. This is tax that is never given to or handled by the seller. It's a tax charged by eBay, then sent, by eBay, to the customer's state. The whole thing seems like a racket to skim off sales tax collection, just to make final selling fees appear lower.
Collecting state sales tax is a necessity for some state's infrastructure upkeep. Infrastructure that we all use, including eBay, to get customer's their stuff. It seems slimy to charge for this service, yet we'll blame the tax man instead of questioning eBay's fees. It all feels very sneaky and is deterring me from selling higher priced items on their platform.
Any thoughts or complaints out there?
