Comments on: Selling stuff online? Here comes the IRS

If the tax agency gets its way, it could start demanding personal info on people who sell via Amazon and eBay.
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[jkarhu24]

Not true

Not everybody pays taxes. Just those stupid enough to get a drivers license, social security card, and rat race job.

[Phillep_H]

LOL

Use the second one.

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[jkarhu24]

Rant

Didn't you see the movie, Team America: World Police? We're America. We the money, we have the power. We rule the world because we say so. Besides, people don't know what's best for themselves. Representative government? Schlepresentative government.

Twenty five percent of the population is inbred, Evangelical Christians. In the name of Jesus, we command the world to bow down to our agenda regarding discriminatory taxation and wasteful spending. Pass the collections plate, pass the 1040's, kill the brown people, and everybody say hallelujah!

[jkarhu24]

ehh.

Ahem... many wealthy people with investment portfolios aren't spending like crazy. Otherwise, they'd be poor.

[PatrynXX]

Enforcing already confusing tax code.

Over the years I've gotten mixed answers on whether your supposed to pay taxes for auctions. Until some story in January, I thought either ebay or the buyer paid the taxes. I've been selling my textbooks and other stuff since 1998 or so. If anyone is at fault it's the auction sites for not informing it's sellers of the tax code. And find it even more confusion that at least until sometime last year , most purchases online are legally not taxed. Some states outside of actual federal law are taxing online sales now. Hence it's still confusing and even if Iowa say taxes online sales, Best Buy might charge sales tax, but many other sites don't.

The entire tax code needs to be re written, it sounds like something the Bush admin would be looking at and I'm kinda disappointed that democrats would as well.

This whole situation would have the potential to be far more problematic for most americans than the RIAA and file sharing. I assume actual buisinesses know how to sell, but normal Americans probably have no idea. Which would include me. And to be nice to others I've sold stuff for others and paid them what I made off that, but then I'd be liable for selling others stuff.

[edfdfrfrsd]

Taxing EbaY

well said!

[spazzoid9000]

Here comes the IRS?

They've been trying to find a way to finagle their way into eBayer's pockets for years.

Blame this most recent incursion on little boy Bush and his Iraq war delusions. If the government would listen to the people and stop this nonsense, there would be no need for the IRS to continue their witchhunt for more money from the common man.

But as usual, when it involves the U.S. government, everything is screwed up. Nothing new there.

Socialism is looking better every day...

[jamb16405]

After what Washington did to us with all this financial mess, they have a nerve to come after us to pay taxes.