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I just wanted to vent over news that I just found out about today, via my email:
I appreciate how they let me know with lots of advance notice. I get the email on the day that the law takes effect.
Then, I researched the California laws on this site:
There, I read,
"Generally the minimum number of sales to require the holding of a seller's permit by a person not otherwise engaged in a selling activity is three within any 12 month period."
As shown here:
So, if you make more than 3 sales a year for anything and are not a charitable organization, religious entity, etc., EBay will automatically charge your customers sales tax, and (I think I also read) report your income to the gov't! It apparently doesn't matter how little the sale is.
OMG!! It's bad enough they made crappy Chinese stuff more expensive (Federal), now many states want to make money off of your sale, even if It's for a used pair of cheap pants.
I will do some more research to confirm my accusations, but between the cost of shipping within our own country, and this newly put in sales tax law, I won't be able to afford to buy used stuff (maybe a good thing since i bought too much used machinist stuff ;-) ), and now have to worry about eBay AND PayPal reporting my sales (which is like 6 a year - but not any more in case the gov't reads this) to the gov't?
It's crap like this that made me go cold turkey on Facebook. I don't want them coming after me for having a few garage toys, ya never know!
And, since PayPal is working with eBay, I don't feel safe even selling on this site if paid via PayPal, grrrr!
Thank you for putting up with my rant.
Susan
I appreciate how they let me know with lots of advance notice. I get the email on the day that the law takes effect.
Then, I researched the California laws on this site:
There, I read,
"Generally the minimum number of sales to require the holding of a seller's permit by a person not otherwise engaged in a selling activity is three within any 12 month period."
As shown here:
So, if you make more than 3 sales a year for anything and are not a charitable organization, religious entity, etc., EBay will automatically charge your customers sales tax, and (I think I also read) report your income to the gov't! It apparently doesn't matter how little the sale is.
OMG!! It's bad enough they made crappy Chinese stuff more expensive (Federal), now many states want to make money off of your sale, even if It's for a used pair of cheap pants.
I will do some more research to confirm my accusations, but between the cost of shipping within our own country, and this newly put in sales tax law, I won't be able to afford to buy used stuff (maybe a good thing since i bought too much used machinist stuff ;-) ), and now have to worry about eBay AND PayPal reporting my sales (which is like 6 a year - but not any more in case the gov't reads this) to the gov't?
It's crap like this that made me go cold turkey on Facebook. I don't want them coming after me for having a few garage toys, ya never know!
And, since PayPal is working with eBay, I don't feel safe even selling on this site if paid via PayPal, grrrr!
Thank you for putting up with my rant.
Susan