COMC and sales tax

[bmattioli]

Sales tax across the board on E-Bay is inevitable. I have been paying more recently from buyers forced to add the tax. All sellers will at some point, get used to it..

[Yastrzemski Sports]

I do own a business and was sent a message by eBay to fill out a resale certificate to stop sales tax from being charged sales tax. If you operate a business on any level you should submit a resale cert to them. By law, COMC should be following suit so business owners aren’t double taxed.

[Michael B]

If they collected sales tax they would be breaking the law for those who live in sales tax exempt states or have their packages delivered to those states. It may have changed for several of the states, but from what I recall Delaware, New Hampshire, Montana, Alaska and Oregon have no sales tax. I am still pretty sure about DE and NH, not sure if the others are still that way. Also, if a state has not passed an internet sales tax law, that would also be questionable.

[swarmee]

COMC is not doing it across the board; only for states that have passed use tax collection on the internet after the Supreme Court decision. Florida is not one of those states.
And eBay already implements it as well, for the same states.

https://blog.comc.com/2019/03/30/int...ation-changes/

[Peter_Spaeth]

Originally Posted by swarmee

COMC is not doing it across the board; only for states that have passed use tax collection on the internet after the Supreme Court decision. Florida is not one of those states.
And eBay already implements it as well, for the same states.

https://blog.comc.com/2019/03/30/int...ation-changes/

So how did COMC know where I was from, to add the tax to my Paypal invoice before I even paid it? I guess the information is automatically conveyed somehow? I don't recall giving them address information when I signed up but maybe I did.

[ajjohnsonsoxfan]

Originally Posted by Peter_Spaeth

So how did COMC know where I was from, to add the tax to my Paypal invoice before I even paid it? I guess the information is automatically conveyed somehow? I don't recall giving them address information when I signed up but maybe I did.

It's based on the shipping address

[bobbyw8469]

Heritage Auctions has already started the tax thing. Needless to say, I have not won much, if anything at all since it was implemented. The high shipping charge as well as the premium (which I don't mind), added with the extra 8% or so sales tax just forced me to pay a premium every time I bid on one of their auctions. No thanks.