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<p>[QUOTE="myownprivy, post: 3712478, member: 84588"]This is a tricky situation. (Great link you provided to the Sales Tax Institute, by the way).</p><p><br /></p><p>On the one hand, it is a completely fair situation in my opinion when we are talking about an established retailer like an Amazon or Target or a brick and mortar business that sells as a third party seller on these websites. If you have to pay sales tax when you walk into their physical stores, then you should also have to pay sales tax when you buy from them online. That seems FAIR. And the internet should not serve as a way to evade tax responsibility. If it does, it will place physical stores at a disadvantage and people will do more and more shopping online, and thus hasten the demise of brick and mortar. </p><p><br /></p><p>HOWEVER, having said that, if I, as an individual, not a business, want to sell someone online, should I be required to collect sales tax (or have ebay collect sales tax on my behalf). That doesn't seem fair. It doesn't seem fair because when I sell on ebay I am selling to what amounts to a basically larger version of a garage sale or national craigslist. So, when Amazon Marketplace or Ebay collect sales tax on my sales, they are treating me as a business and harming me and my occasional sales as an individual.</p><p><br /></p><p>My understanding is that ebay will not force me to collect sales tax unless I am a business in my state. However, I believe Amazon imposes tax on all Marketplace sellers, can someone who sells there verify? As a buyer I know I have to pay sales tax on all Amazon Marketplace purchases. It seems like only a matter of time before ebay will collect sales tax on all ebay sales.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="myownprivy, post: 3712478, member: 84588"]This is a tricky situation. (Great link you provided to the Sales Tax Institute, by the way). On the one hand, it is a completely fair situation in my opinion when we are talking about an established retailer like an Amazon or Target or a brick and mortar business that sells as a third party seller on these websites. If you have to pay sales tax when you walk into their physical stores, then you should also have to pay sales tax when you buy from them online. That seems FAIR. And the internet should not serve as a way to evade tax responsibility. If it does, it will place physical stores at a disadvantage and people will do more and more shopping online, and thus hasten the demise of brick and mortar. HOWEVER, having said that, if I, as an individual, not a business, want to sell someone online, should I be required to collect sales tax (or have ebay collect sales tax on my behalf). That doesn't seem fair. It doesn't seem fair because when I sell on ebay I am selling to what amounts to a basically larger version of a garage sale or national craigslist. So, when Amazon Marketplace or Ebay collect sales tax on my sales, they are treating me as a business and harming me and my occasional sales as an individual. My understanding is that ebay will not force me to collect sales tax unless I am a business in my state. However, I believe Amazon imposes tax on all Marketplace sellers, can someone who sells there verify? As a buyer I know I have to pay sales tax on all Amazon Marketplace purchases. It seems like only a matter of time before ebay will collect sales tax on all ebay sales.[/QUOTE]
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