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Posted By: Dave Grimes

Just found this at the same Ebay site

"Internet Auction Tax Reporting

The Internal Revenue Service is considering a proposal to force “Internet auction sites” (including eBay) to collect “sales” information on their users and report it to the IRS. As currently crafted, the proposal would only apply to online auction sites and not apply to the myriad other small business-enabling enterprises, on or off the Internet.

eBay believes everyone should pay the taxes they owe, and we do more than any Internet commerce site to educate small businesses on their tax obligations. But we believe that any IRS proposal to target under-reported income should apply to either ALL online and offline commercial intermediaries or ALL Internet commerce – not merely online auction sites.
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