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Unfortunately, the state taxing authorities don't hold eBay responsible.  
Only the sellers.  Texas charges Sales Tax on shipping between Texas sellers 
and Texas buyers.  For almost two years, eBay had a bug in their software 
which caused their Checkout not to charge it.  So we had to remit tax on two 
years worth of shipping which we had not been able to collect.  I reported 
the problem to eBay several times and always got a "yeah, we know - we'll 
eventually fix it" response.  I called the Comptroller's office in Austin and 
got "they aren't the seller, so we can't do anything".

As far as eBay goes, they already collect their final value fee on 
shipping.  They first tried to talk sellers into offering "free shipping" but raise 
the price of the item to cover (so they could collect a fee on it).  When 
that didn't work, they announced that they were going to start collecting FVF 
on shipping anyway.  Greedy Socialist bastards.  Sorry.  That's triple 
redundancy.

In a message dated 08/20/2011 20:04:10 PM Central Daylight Time, 
jfor at quikus.com writes: 
> I can see two groups pushing for this:
> 
> Local retailers who are losing business to on-line shoppers. They don't
> care how much it costs the end user, as long as they get the business.
> 
> Ever greedy state politicians who never have enough money to buy their
> offices.
> 
> If this goes much further, I can see eBay starting to collect sales tax
> too. And probably on shipping as well.
> 
> -John
> 
> ===================
> 
> 
> >Nope.....
> >I've never paid more than $8 for shipping from them Priority
> >mail....cheaper
> >than FedEx as well.
> >However....they have started charging sales tax in the amount of the 
> state
> >where the order was placed.
> >I called Mouser recently and asked about this and they said a lot of
> >states
> >are forcing this issue....it started this year I think.
> >There is some info in the internet about it...
> >http://www.newrules.org/retail/rules/internet-sales-tax-fairness

Robert & Susan Downs - Houston
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