The Retail Industry Leaders Association (RILA) issued the following statement from RILA Chairman and AutoZone Chairman, President and CEO Bill Rhodes regarding a meeting between retailers and President Donald Trump. “Today, we had a positive and productive conversation with President Read more
Etsy moderator Alexandra published the following post on the Etsy discussion board: We know that filing your taxes can certainly be complicated when you run your own business! So, this Thursday, January 12th, from 2:00 – 4:00 p.m. EST, we’ll Read more
In a new post titled “VAT compliance for overseas sellers,” eBay UK vowed to suspend those the government’s tax agency reports as evading VAT tax: Earlier this year, the UK government announced new measures to tackle the non-payment of VAT Read more
This week US Representative Eric Swalwell (CA-15) held a roundtable meeting with a group of eBay sellers at eWaste Direct in Livermore, California. In attendance were the owners of eWaste Direct, Angie and Joe Nelson, as well as eBay sellers Read more
Amazon is in trouble again for shipping dangerous goods, this time in the UK, and there’s a lesson there for all sellers, even if they aren’t shipping lithium batteries. Amazon was fined this month 65,000 pounds for breaching dangerous goods Read more
The FDA is cracking down on those who sell vaping-related products to minors, including online sellers. It began enforcing new federal regulations that make it illegal nationwide to sell e-cigarettes, cigars, hookah tobacco, and other newly regulated tobacco products to Read more
A court decision that required Yelp to remove negative reviews posted about an attorney could eventually reach a resolution in California. Many big name online players spoke out in favor of Yelp as they perceive the court decision to run Read more
US Representative and House Judiciary Committee Chairman Robert Goodlatte, R-Va., is muddying the water with a completely new approach to the online sales tax issue. Last week, he released draft online sales tax legislation called the Online Sales Simplification Act Read more
eBay warned sellers that Congress could pass online sales tax legislation once it returns from summer recess. The company’s government relations team keeps interested users – many of them small businesses – informed of regulatory issues through its eBay Main Read more
More states are finding creative ways to put the burden of collecting sales tax on out-of-state merchants, thanks in part to Supreme Court Justice Kennedy (see more in this Law.com article about what’s happening and why). A new bill was introduced this Read more
