Ebay tax

[Stephen]

Does one get charged tax if seller is not in same state? Books are the item.

[Ken-Hawaii]

It depends on the state(s). I just got my first tax charge on a blade I received from California. Not sure if it's CA or HI doing the charge, but I had no choice in paying it if I wanted the blade. I think we'll see more of that.

[Ganko]

I believe the buyers state that receives the tax.

[PNSSHOGUN]

The tax is applied depending on the buyers state.

[Novak77]

The tax is applied depending on the buyers state.

 

 

^^^ I believe this is correct. ^^^ I live in California and I have been paying tax on everything from Ebay, whether it be from California or not.

[Stephen]

Probably my last eBay Buy

[Ken-Hawaii]

I just went back & calculated what the percentage of tax I paid, & it turned out to be Hawaii's rate, including the shipping cost.

[Brian]

Yeah, depends on the shipping destination. When I buy and send to my NY forwarder address, I get charged tax. When I choose Stephen's address or send to here in SA...no Tax.

[Stephen]

hummm wonder why i get taxed then?

[Wayben]

Looked through my records and it looks like the taxing started in Iowa on Nov 1st of last year.  Won't be long and it will be everywhere.

 

Brian - the tax in IA is probably less than NY.

 

Wayne

[Brian]

Yeah, been a long time since I sent anything there. The NY tax hurts, but they are good forwarders and get stuff here in 3 days. So I use them when I need stuff.
Like now...need some silly rubber band for a bandsaw that is like $20, and it will likely cost me another $50 to get it here. Crazy, but what are you gonna do when your postal service doesn't work.

[Blazeaglory]

It used to be only taxed from the state you're in but now i think eBay changed that because i get taxed no matter which state I buy from now which is annoying

[reeder]

It's not eBay, there was a new ruling/law/whatnot that allowed states to elect to collect sales tax on online sales from out of state sellers regardless whether or not they had a physical presence in that state.  IIRC this is from the decision on Wayfair v. S. Dakota.  I suppose you'll see PayPal (as well as other payment processers) automatically collecting the sales tax on transactions if they haven't started already.

[Blazeaglory]

It's not eBay, there was a new ruling/law/whatnot that allowed states to elect to collect sales tax on online sales from out of state sellers regardless whether or not they had a physical presence in that state. IIRC this is from the decision on Wayfair v. S. Dakota. I suppose you'll see PayPal (as well as other payment processers) automatically collecting the sales tax on transactions if they haven't started already.

Right.

[Krystian]

As far as I understand this new law you are safe If you make a payment with bank wire instead of Paypal. It is definitely worth a try.

[Wayben]

That probably works, keep the businesses out of it and then it's a private transaction.