Ebay tax reporting drops from $20,000 to $600

[JustinD]

Originally Posted by Dandor

I used to sell items like old cell phones and other items I sold at a loss on eBay. Like a garage sale. I am not dealing with eBay anymore with the new rules. Proving I paid $200 for a $50 cell phone sale is impossible and with a 1099-k form the effort of dealing with taxes is not worth my time. Selling a few thousand dollars of items at a loss shouldn't involve me starting a business or calling the IRS and saying everything is itemized on a schedule D.

Bingo, Whenever one of these post goes up the antennas start wiggling on all the virtue signalers all at once and they start answering from a tiny perspective of card dealer and refusing to to think of the collector that has 35-40+ years of collection and no records because it was joy, not business or investment.

[Dandor]

Originally Posted by JustinD

Bingo, Whenever one of these post goes up the antennas start wiggling on all the virtue signalers all at once and they start answering from a tiny perspective of card dealer and refusing to to think of the collector that has 35-40+ years of collection and no records because it was joy, not business or investment.

This really just hurts individual states. Tax is collected on these sales in most states, eBay is taxed for profit, and most people that sell spend that money and pay sales tax again on another item. I get that there are people that skirted the rules, but this is just ridiculous at $600.

[Johnny630]

Any electronic payment whether friends and family or goods and services has to be reported as income if it was a sale of a card......has something changed here other than a form. I always report friends and family transactions through PayPal that were card related. Those funds get directly deposit into my checking account. Isn't that an electronic paper trail? Why would I not report this ?? Am I the dummy who shouldn't been reporting this?

[Dandor]

Originally Posted by Johnny630

Any electronic payment whether friends and family or goods and services has to be reported as income if it was a sale of a card......it's never changed. I always report friends and family transactions through paypal that were card related. Those funds get directly deposit the funds into my checking account. Why would I not report this ?? Am the dummy who shouldn't been reporting this?

Of course, this is what you are supposed to do. How did you do this though? Did you file a Schedule D or Schedule C with the IRS? If you did this as a "hobby" you probably did it wrong. There are absolutely no deductions for a hobby, even though people take them. If you bought a card for $500 and sold it for $400, you would need to pay taxes on the $400 even though you sold it at a loss. For people that don't believe me, just wait until 2023 and you get a 1099-K form. Good luck trying make any deductions with the hobby form.

[Johnny630]

Originally Posted by Dandor

Of course, this is what you are supposed to do. How did you do this though? Did you file a Schedule D or Schedule C with the IRS? If you did this as a "hobby" you probably did it wrong. There are absolutely no deductions for a hobby, even though people take them. If you bought a card for $500 and sold it for $400, you would need to pay taxes on the $400 even though you sold it at a loss. For people that don't believe me, just wait until 2023 and you get a 1099-K form. Good luck trying make any deductions with the hobby form.

I hire a tax professional. It's worth my piece of mind to hire one and pay him accordingly.

[Dandor]

Originally Posted by Johnny630

I hire a tax professional. I just pay I don't care, it's worth my piece of mind to hire one and pay him accordingly.

I know many "tax professionals" that tell people no 1099-K form, don't worry about it. Just because you hire a tax professional, it doesn't stop an audit from happening. From my experience there is a chance that your tax professional just swept this income under the rug and it is nowhere to be found in a Schedule D or Schedule C.

[Johnny630]

Originally Posted by Dandor

I know many "tax professionals" that tell people no 1099-K form, don't worry about it. Just because you hire a tax professional, it doesn't stop an audit from happening. From my experience there is a chance that your tax professional just swept this income under the rug and it is nowhere to be found in a Schedule D or Schedule C.

It didn't get swept under a rug, it's filed as a business.

[BobC]

Originally Posted by Dandor

I know many "tax professionals" that tell people no 1099-K form, don't worry about it. Just because you hire a tax professional, it doesn't stop an audit from happening. From my experience there is a chance that your tax professional just swept this income under the rug and it is nowhere to be found in a Schedule D or Schedule C.

If they do that (ignore and sweep a 1099-K form you did receive, under the rug) without discussing it with you and/or explaining why, you may need to start looking for a new tax professional.

On the other hand, if someone didn't get a 1099-K form, I'd need to know more info before criticizing a tax profession for telling them not to worry about it. For example, what if the tax professional was told by the taxpayer that they really didn't make any money on the cards they sold, or that they lost money. If that is the case, adding the info onto the return likely isn't going to result in any more tax due. But not putting it into the return could save them some tax prep fees. And since the preparer was told there was no 1099-K received, the government probably didn't get one either, and therefore wouldn't be be looking for it on the return. I can see a tax professional telling someone not to worry about not getting a 1099-K form in that case.

[BobC]

Originally Posted by Dandor

Of course, this is what you are supposed to do. How did you do this though? Did you file a Schedule D or Schedule C with the IRS? If you did this as a "hobby" you probably did it wrong. There are absolutely no deductions for a hobby, even though people take them. If you bought a card for $500 and sold it for $400, you would need to pay taxes on the $400 even though you sold it at a loss. For people that don't believe me, just wait until 2023 and you get a 1099-K form. Good luck trying make any deductions with the hobby form.

I don't even know where to start on this one, as there is much wrong, and I'm tired of typing and missing out on some Call of Duty MWII. Go back and read through my other posts in this thread, and/or do a search for other posts of mine in different threads talking about taxes and implications for people in our hobby. There are many, and they are often detailed and very long. But they are pretty much accurate and informative, at least until they change the laws again, which they are constantly doing.