etsy collects sales tax from your buyer,you are not involved,it wll remit the sales tax to the state where your buyer resides
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Originally Posted by leeuwtje As I can see you are from the USA. Are you able to order on aliexpress without tax? |
I do not buy from Aliexpress,someone may come along and tell you.
Buyer pays sales tax,not the seller,I doubt a Chinese seller based in China will collect US or UK sales tax and remit to USA or UK.
wHAT UK and USA do is collect customs duty when the goods arrive from overseas
address in the note.??!!!
Once a seller lost $42K shipping to an address in the comment section of Paypal payment notice.
The buyer has no shipping address on file with Paypal as the account is used to buy digital items,so he included a physical addr in the comment section.
Then he filed INR and won,why?his confirmed address is blank blank blank blank
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Originally Posted by DENDEN76 you can order on aliexpress and use an address for a sales tax free state and just tell the seller to ship to your address in the note. Aliexpress the platform collects taxes not the sellers |
I cant think of any Tax free state in USA,they all need sales tax revenue to run the state.
Texas has no state income tax,but it does collect sales tax.
OP 's problem is that he is dropshipping or rather retail arbitrage,taking Etsy customer money and buy from another retailer (ALI EXPRESS) and ask the ALI seller to ship to his Etsy customer in US or UK.
So by giving Ali seller his US/UK buyer address,Aliexpress will collect sales tax for UK.USA ,OP does not want Ali to do so.
In order to avoid paying sales tax,he would have to get a reseller certificate and show to Aliexpress that he is reselling the goods so do not collect sales tax,but the item would be shipped to him,not to his Etsy buyer.
OR he would have to open an Ali account in the name of each of his UK,USA buyer with reseller certificate to avoid paying sales tax??????????
Like the others said,OP may as well add the sales tax to his asking price to cover such cost.
Or better,buy a whole bunch of these goods from ALI using his own reseller certificate and then he will be shipping these goods himself.
It is just a matter of time Etsy will follow Ebay and ban retail arbitrage
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Originally Posted by DENDEN76 you can order on aliexpress and use an address for a sales tax free state and just tell the seller to ship to your address in the note. Aliexpress the platform collects taxes not the sellers |
then if OP said I did not get the item,Ali seller cant provide tracking to HIS address.
OP wants to save money,first he does not want to own the merchandise,now he does not want to pay sales tax,he does not want to pack and ship,he wants the poor Ali seller does all the work