Ecommerce Industry News
eBay and Etsy sent sellers to Washington, DC to lobby lawmakers on issues important to the marketplaces and their sellers, including postal issues, benefits, trade, net neutrality – and of course, online sales tax. Former […]
eBay CEO Devin Wenig tweeted today his views on the burden of online sales tax and tariffs on small businesses: “26 states have recently imposed significant internet sales taxes (with more to come), and consumers […]
This article from Internet Retailer caught our eye, “Online sales tax laws are generating far more revenue than expected.” It shows the Herculean task of keeping up with the ever-changing requirements imposed by states on […]
eBay informed sellers it would begin collecting sales tax from buyers on behalf of more states. In addition, it announced it has also added a buyer exemption system for tax-exempt buyers – for example, charitable […]
eBay said Friday it was working to comply with new sales tax laws popping up around the country. Although it said Congress was working on a bill, eBay was not hopeful of passage of federal […]
Poshmark is telling sellers not to worry about sale tax compliance as it takes over the burden of collecting tax on all applicable transactions, a radical approach and the first marketplace to do so. Poshmark, […]
Buyers who are exempt from paying state sales tax can now purchase items on eBay without being incorrectly charged tax. Word of this development comes not from an eBay announcement, but from a reader who […]
eBay began collecting sales tax from buyers located in certain states but has no way to accommodate buyers who are exempt from paying sales tax on their purchases – a problem that as we noted, […]
A reader forwarded us an Advisory Opinion from the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance on an issue of sales tax collection. The operator of an online marketplace for asked the state about […]
There is a lot to process in the first eBay Seller Update of 2019, and the company also revealed some hints of what is to come later this year. eBay announced the update on February […]