Ebay Sales Tax

[ari.maybes]

Just a response to the old long winded thread about ebay sales tax, where everyone just happened to ignore the elephant in the room, or clearly failed to see it. 

We must now pay ebay sales tax and any other **bleep** tax simply because states are not making enough money. Now the key, why are they not making enough money? Because corporation taxes are at am all time low, next to nothing. They dont pay jack **bleep**, they used to pay alot, and there also used to be a strong middle class, but thanks to their money and lobbyists, they had the tax reduced to almost nothing. Who must make up the loss? YOU. Welcome to america, the land run by the rich, owned by the rich, you just pretend to live here.

[ajs_coins_and_alchemy]

Didn't realize there was an "EBay sales tax"... does that mean I pay a "McDonalds" sales tax too? How about a "Home Depot" sales tax or a "WalMart Sales Tax"?.

Thank god there isn't an Amazon sales tax.....woah wait what!?!?!?!?!?!

[marnotom!]

Long before “internet sales tax” came along, purchasers of items located outside of their state were generally expected to pay Use Tax to their home state’s treasury.  Unfortunately, the mechanisms the states had to collect Use Tax were weak and relied on the buyer taking the initiative to pay them.  Most buyers purchasing items from out of state did not pay the Use Taxes due on them, either out of ignorance or something else. 

This is the main reason why states wanted—and were granted—the power to levy sales taxes on internet purchases.  While I don’t disagree that there are bigger players who pay disproportionately smaller amounts to state treasuries for various reasons, the fact is that for decades, the little guys were also getting away with not paying what was required of them.

[kalyoth]

So very happy your grasp of tax law will save us all in this day & time.

Your complete disregard for corporate agreements to collect & remit sales tax for the states, years ago in agreement to avoid actual legislative efforts to enforce it mandatory, combined with complete misunderstand of what a sales & use tax actually is "if you buy it, your responsible for it" makes me truly believe the national debt for the US will shrink in the coming decade. Please keep up the fine work.

[m60driver]

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@ari.maybes wrote:

Just a response to the old long winded thread about ebay sales tax, where everyone just happened to ignore the elephant in the room, or clearly failed to see it. 

 Welcome to america, the land run by the rich, owned by the rich, you just pretend to live here.

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Yes, Americans have been fed the Really Big Lie, since Reagan, that money trickles down where in unregulated cowboy capitalism capital always percolates relentlessly upwards.  And now they have conned the people that socialism is a bad word.  Socialism was at the heart of FDR's New Deal and it is to that bygone era of the New Deal that many Americans wish to return to in order to "make America Great Again".  Well  that ain't going to happen as long as they reject socialism and continue to embrare tax cuts to the wealthy.

[fern*wood]

In addition to the unfairness of the rich not paying, I feel churches that do not practice a separation between church/state should also be required to pay.

[kensgiftshop]

There is no Ebay sale tax.

There is sales tax that Ebay has to collect for different states.

You pay sales tax when you shop at a B&M store don't you?

Why shouldn't you pay the same sales tax when you shop on line?

[soh.maryl]

There's an "eBay sales tax"?

[maxine*j]

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@marnotom! wrote:

...   While I don’t disagree that there are bigger players who pay disproportionately smaller amounts to state treasuries for various reasons, the fact is that for decades, the little guys were also getting away with not paying what was required of them.

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Agreed.

And this was to the detriment of little guys who owned brick-and-mortar stores who lost a lot of business because people were buying on-line with an immediate 5% to 10% "discount" because they could avoid paying sales tax on their purchases.  And it was to the detriment of little guys who sold on-line but collected and remitted sales tax.

Every state was seeing a higher demand for services, while its sales tax revenue was shrinking.  In 2019, Pennsylvania, the state I live in, started collecting sales tax at the beginning of the fiscal year in July.   The estimate was that they'd see about $50.5 million in tax revenue a year.   But by the end of March, they'd already collected $151.4 million.   So they changed the projection to $200 million a year and, in fact, have done even better than that.

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[maxine*j]

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@fern*wood wrote:

In addition to the unfairness of the rich not paying, I feel churches that do not practice a separation between church/state should also be required to pay.

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Amen!    Along with a lot of so-called "non-profits" that do very little in the real world except provide large paychecks for their organizers and officers.

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[kalyoth]

Theoretically in their filings, if a nonprofit spends more that x% of its annual income on operations or salary vs. its non-profit, its supposed to lose that status.