Ebay really needs to get their sales tax collection fixed.
amwldcoin
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Looks like I'm going to lose another sale. Buyer is in Iowa and is being charged tax. It's not a cheap coin so it does make a difference. The wait time for a call on this is the longest I have ever seen from ebay. Usually I get called in less than a minute...saying 30 minutes. I guess we need to just keep bugging the crap out of ebay!
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bad data.
The sales tax sucks hard!
My rant😊
Hang in there they fixed Illinois.
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I had posted something but when I double-checked the data, the first link was incorrect.
In Arizona, causal sales between individuals and, who (not businesses) have occasional sales or are reselling an item are not subject to sales taxes yet Ebay refuses to do their due diligence and research the laws correctly.
To be clear in Arizona according to Arizona publication 610and 610A
Publication 610A - Arizona Use Tax for Individual Consumbers
Are casual sales taxable?
Casual sales between individuals are not subject to the use
tax. Items purchased for use in Arizona from persons who
make isolated or occasional sales and who are not engaged
in the business of selling tangible personal property at
retail are not subject to use tax.
Exemptions
The use tax does not apply to the storage, use or consumption
in Arizona of the following:
2. Tangible personal property on which the Arizona
transaction privilege tax has already been paid.
**3. Items purchased from a person not engaged in the
business of selling tangible personal property (casual
sale).*
an individual who was a nonresident at the time the
property was purchased for his own storage, use or
consumption if the first actual use or consumption of
the property was outside the state, unless such property
is used in conducting a business in Arizona.
**
**11. Tangible personal property not exceeding $200 in any
one month purchased by an individual at retail outside
the continental limits of the United States for personal
use and enjoyment.
I think Ebay should be held personally accountable for collecting illegal taxes. Ebay refused to do their due diligence and research the exemptions before collecting taxes.
How many other states have exemptions like the one Arizona has that ebay is ignoring.
And the one thing I cant find on the AZ department of revenue is how to recoup taxes illegally taken as with ebay.
I know amazon collects sales taxes I wonder if they were able to get the exemptions right for Arizona. If so, ebay really needs to be held accountable.
Arizona has at least 50++ exemptions to the tax rule with one of them being the following:
Taken from the AZDOR website:
Exemption #57: Cash equivalents, precious metal bullion and monetized bullion purchased by the ultimate consumer, but coins or other forms of money for manufacture into jewelry or works of art are subject to tax, and tangible personal property that is purchased through the redemption of any cash equivalent by the holder as a means of payment for goods that are subject to tax under this article is subject to tax.
(c) "Precious metal bullion" means precious metal, including gold, silver, platinum, rhodium and palladium, that has been smelted or refined so that its value depends on its contents and not on its form.
Example where tax should not be collected:
Question: I purchased a used set of golf clubs over the internet from an individual in Connecticut. The seller shipped them to my home and did not charge me any tax. The individual is not in the retail business. Should I report these purchases?
Answer: No. Items purchased for use in Arizona from individuals making isolated or occasional sales, and who are not engaged in the business of selling tangible personal property at retail, are not subject to use tax.