Ecommerce Industry News
Congress has 43 days to act to protect casual online sellers and microbusinesses from “unfair tax and privacy burdens,” according to a coalition of online marketplaces. The countdown clock appears on 1099kfairness.org, the website of […]
Ecommerce platform Shopify launched a tool to help merchants manage their sales-tax collection obligations – and the company said it was just the beginning. Its long-term goal is to build a complete end-to-end sales-tax solution […]
In what seemed like a routine email titled, “View updates to your PayPal account,” PayPal informed an online seller he had passed the threshold for reporting payments to the IRS, notifying him that according to […]
California’s Attorney General filed a lawsuit in Superior Court in San Francisco against Amazon on September 14 alleging it stifled competition and caused increased prices through “anticompetitive contracting practices.” The timing of the filing coincided […]
What do you do if you fear IRS scrutiny for selling items you inherited? Tax guru and small-business expert Barbara Weltman, founder of Big Ideas for Small Business, Inc., delved into this issue for those […]
A court ruled in favor of Amazon sellers on Friday concerning a dispute over their obligation to pay Pennsylvania state sales tax simply because they used Amazon’s FBA fulfillment service, resulting in some of their […]
eBay has been trying to change the rules around IRS Form 1099-K, which changed for tax-year 2022. This week it turned to YouTube to explain the issue through the account belonging to eBay Main Street, […]
eBay launched a new “Tax Information Center for eBay Sellers” as new tax rules that impact sellers’ 2022 revenue are in place. eBay said it partnered with TaxAct, a do-it-yourself tax-preparation service, “to help untangle […]
The IRS published a new tax tip in its email newsletter it sent to small businesses on July 22, 2022. The crux of the tip: if your hobby earns income, you must report it on […]
Online shoppers in Colorado will pay a new fee for their purchases beginning July 1, 2022. But similar to state sales-tax laws, the Colorado Retail Delivery fee will require retailers and marketplaces to collect it, […]