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Ina Steiner is co-founder and Editor of EcommerceBytes and has been reporting on ecommerce since 1999. She's a widely cited authority on marketplace selling and is author of "Turn eBay Data Into Dollars" (McGraw-Hill 2006). Her blog was featured in the book, "Blogging Heroes" (Wiley 2008). She is a member of the Online News Association (Sep 2005 - present) and Investigative Reporters and Editors (Mar 2006 - present). Follow her on Twitter at @ecommercebytes and send news tips to ina@ecommercebytes.com. See disclosure at EcommerceBytes.com/disclosure/.

4 thoughts on “Etsy Among Sites Collecting Pennsylvania Sales Tax for Sellers”

  1. Completely illegal on etsy part. They have no right to collect tax on our items when we do not live in Penn or any of those states.

    If those states want taxes why don’t they contact businesses in other states where their citizens go shop? Why not 7/11 in ohio that a Penn person bought something from?

    Or Penn can go after their own sellers on their states for taxes on items shipped out of state

    Time to SUE etsy and any company breaking the law

  2. What happens to sellers with Washington State or Pennsylvania sales tax accounts or to wholesale buyers not required to pay sales tax on items purchased for resale? Washington State has a destination based sales tax by county or city and regional transit district overlays that don’t align at the ZIP code level. Is Etsy collecting the correct tax rate from each buyer?

    If eBay starts sales tax collections, I would not be surprised if substantive errors occur. Auditing will be a nightmare, and obtaining redress will be almost impossible.

  3. Wonder if Etsy has applied for tax certificates for Pennsylvania and Washington state?

    One has to be registered with the state in order to be able to collect tax on its behalf.

  4. Another problem is what if you are legally collecting tax for your home state? You have e every right to collect tax from consumers that purchase from you out of state..will the customer be taxed twice?

    More proof that states should require sellers in their home state to collect taxes from ALL transactions for their home state..not this backwards crap

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