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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/.
I’m not a big fan of TaxJar’s services, but they have a great article about New York Marketplace Facilitator Tax here: https://support.taxjar.com/article/713-new-york-sales-tax-filing-update-may-2019
In response to the writer who was charged NY sales tax on an item from Germany. The answer is “YES.” I’ve had long phone calls with our NY Sales Tax people. The NY laws are written so that ANYTHING from ANYWHERE brought into the state of NY must have sales tax paid on it.
Last year I rec’d a bill for $1275 for some product I imported fro Mexico 4 years ago. My friend was charged $270 sales tax on two sweatshirts she purchased from eBay for a total of $18.99 about the same length of time ago. The tax board went to the customs logs & picked out everything purchased by NY residents from outside of the State & then charged penalties & interest.
This is not heresay–I lived through this & felt the pain. Talked to my tax pro about it & he just said: “They’re brutal–just pay the bill.”