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TnDem

(1,390 posts)
7. Uh, no
Sat Jul 26, 2025, 09:48 PM
Jul 26

We are talking about a small time Ebay seller that was being squeezed, squeezed and squeezed more and now is back to where it should have been...Chinese sellers exploit our tax system AND our postal service.

You do realize that some huge seller in China sells a $8 watch SHIPPIN INCLUDED, that the USPS is responsible for picking up the tab at Long Beach to deliver it to Hoboken??... In other words, HUGE sellers in China are exploiting Ebay, the USPS and the US tax system, all the while, (before this passed), tiny sellers in this country were being targeted. I can't even mail you a box of tissue paper from Tennessee to Georgia for the amount that foreign Ebay sellers are getting for their entire product SHIPPED from China...It's shameful.

All of this stuff of: "off the books income", and "human trafficking", "extortion", "money laundering" and "illicit black market activity" are massive strawmen that don't apply to someone that sells $2000 dollars worth of their old trinkets on Ebay in a years time.

The people that this particular change has helped are small, low income tiny Ebay sellers and tip employees....The very people we need to vote for us.

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I'm not sure if I agree this is 'a good thing' stopdiggin Jul 26 #1
OK TnDem Jul 26 #2
OK. As I said - arguments ... stopdiggin Jul 26 #6
Uh, no TnDem Jul 26 #7
YOU may be talking about 'small time Ebay seller' - I was fairly specific, in each of my posts, stopdiggin Jul 27 #8
it depends on... TnDem Jul 27 #9
100% agree with you. Taxes disproportionately affecting low income earners need to go. harumph Jul 27 #14
the answer (from here) is, 'Yes'. I do think that income (if it exceeds a certain 'casual' amount) stopdiggin Jul 27 #15
If not taxed, then why report? TnDem Jul 27 #16
the answer is right there stopdiggin Jul 27 #17
So, an "occasional" sale? TnDem Jul 27 #18
if the 'occasional' sale - is netting greater than 20 thousand a year .... stopdiggin Jul 27 #19
Confer your arguements to the billionaires with fleets of lawyers TnDem Jul 27 #20
NO! Because I do not buy into the premise stopdiggin Jul 27 #21
Depends on what the law says to do TnDem Jul 27 #24
Word had it was going to be $600 but so glad it's back to $20k vapor2 Jul 26 #3
I've always thought taxes on used items was bs Polybius Jul 26 #5
Great news Polybius Jul 26 #4
people conflate income reporting with actually paying taxes on that income. uncle ray Jul 27 #10
What other vendors? TnDem Jul 27 #11
that answer is in the link you posted. uncle ray Jul 27 #12
Your opinion of what's reasonable TnDem Jul 27 #13
"Something good"? GenThePerservering Jul 27 #22
True, but TnDem Jul 27 #23
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