gnappi
Well-known member
Ebay sellers (mostly in Cali) have been automatically "collecting" sales taxes to items shipped out of state to other states that do not have a reciprocal sales tax collecting agreement with neighboring states. Several months back I complained to Ebay that Cali vendors were unfairly competing with honest sellers by adding that tales tax to their revenue.
Ebay must have lowered the boom on those sellers because now if the seller has their location listed as California I NEVER get sales tax added to my items being shipped to Florida at checkout.
However, some have found a "loophole" by "claiming" that they ship from "multiple locations" in the U.S. or "Ships from the U.S" which legally if they actually did have operations (like warehouses) in states that neighbor your state they can collect tax for your state.
So when I get sales tax added to my cart from these vendors before I pay, I ask them SPECIFICALLY which state(s) they ship from and I NEVER get a reply. So the scam goes on. So I go to another vendor with a close slightly higher listed price (which without sales tax added may be lower) that is listed in a State that I KNOW does not collect tax from Florida and buy from them. I just put it in my shopping basket and do NOT "buy it now". This way you can see if the seller is treating you and other sellers fairly.
Now all of this may be made moot at some point if the feds step in and make sales tax collection for EVERY state mandatory, but sellers may resist this, imagine keeping track of sales tax tables from every diddly squat local taxing authority?
Ebay must have lowered the boom on those sellers because now if the seller has their location listed as California I NEVER get sales tax added to my items being shipped to Florida at checkout.
However, some have found a "loophole" by "claiming" that they ship from "multiple locations" in the U.S. or "Ships from the U.S" which legally if they actually did have operations (like warehouses) in states that neighbor your state they can collect tax for your state.
So when I get sales tax added to my cart from these vendors before I pay, I ask them SPECIFICALLY which state(s) they ship from and I NEVER get a reply. So the scam goes on. So I go to another vendor with a close slightly higher listed price (which without sales tax added may be lower) that is listed in a State that I KNOW does not collect tax from Florida and buy from them. I just put it in my shopping basket and do NOT "buy it now". This way you can see if the seller is treating you and other sellers fairly.
Now all of this may be made moot at some point if the feds step in and make sales tax collection for EVERY state mandatory, but sellers may resist this, imagine keeping track of sales tax tables from every diddly squat local taxing authority?