Ny us a sh*thole from hell and taxes its taxes with additional taxes and tries every slimeball move to tax everyone they can.
They are NOT a good example of anything other than how to NOT do things properly unless the goal is to screw over everyone they possibly can.
Hell case in point look at their asinine attempt to tax people that dont even live in NY if they do any work for any company in NY even if the person never steps foot into the state.
In one case they tried to claim that a worker that wasnt even in the same country was subject to their state income taxes!!! (Thay got told to shove that obviously)
And dont even start on the disaster of NYC.... its beyon an epic fail.
As for ebay and taxes they are beyond a disaster for taxes... look no further than their global shipping scam.. where they knowingly try to force taxes on items that are not taxable and they have been informed of such repeatedly..
Their response is the usual you can apply for a refund after etc etc and even if you do get that it takes an avg if 6 months plus.. ebay POCKETS that $$$ in the meanwhile and does NOT remit it to the gov.. that's been confirmed already since they tried to charge taxes for an item coming to Canada that was tax exempt... inwent through that headache and they only finally issued the refund (wo interest btw) once I sent them a letter threatening legal action and having ebay canada held liable for ebay.coms tax fraud. The CRA would love to fine the hell out of them.... and then suddenly it was "ohh were sorry it was a mistake.. heres your refund"
meanwhile in addition the costs charged for their global shipping are a massive ripoff...
One friend idioticslly paid for that and due to Ebay's infinite stupidity the item he bought for under $20 cost over $80 in shipping and "customs clearance" fee note under $20 items imported into canuckistan are NOT taxable... and they also dont want to tell you that you can self clear higher value items very easily with just one simple form.. takes under a min to fill in yet they want $50+ for that "service" which they then try to tax as well!
Yeah there are no doubt number crunchers working somewhere that figured out exactly how much they gouge and profit from such,, not on an individual item per se but en mass.. and they have gotten consistiently worse over the years...
