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Originally Posted by hcv123
Sales tax is "collected" for the benefit of the taxing authority, not "charged" like a fee. Where did you see that they were going to do this?
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Ebay will be "collecting" the sales tax for you, and then charging an 11.5% vig for the privilege of doing that for you.
Paypal charges 2.9% for the processing fee of collecting the Sales Tax right now.
Ebay has figured out a way to wrap the sales tax into the "Total Sale" (Price of item, Price of shipping, Price of Sales Tax), called it "simplifying the process", and charging a flat fee for everything, all inclusive.
It was bad enough when Ebay started charging us a final value fee on the shipping, when Paypal was the one doing the actual payment processing.
This is just an insult, and I doubt there's any other E-Commerce platform that figured out how to make such a windfall on Sales Tax, since the Supreme Court ruled on expanding on-line Sales Tax collection.