Sales VAT taxes United States (VAT) collected by eBay US | Questions and answers among users

vintage-italy1 · 2025-10-06T08:25:12.886000Z

Good morning, I would like to make this report.When an American customer buys, they pay sales tax (for example in the state of Washington 8.8%), but with the new customs rules they will also pay duties upon delivery. At that point they will have to request a refund of the VAT paid on ebay.com so they don't pay it twice; unfortunately, all of this clearly complicates sales to the US. My shipments are DDU (delivery duty unpaid), since the de minimis threshold has been removed in the United States, everyone must always pay the duties upon delivery. When a buyer selects an item to purchase, the additional tax is already calculated for them; moreover, they know they will also have to pay the duties upon delivery, but they cannot know that they can then request a refund, so they often give up the purchase because of the excessive costs that arise.Besides, we sellers also pay ebay fees on the tax paid by the buyer, but if that is then refunded, it would be right for ebay to also refund the seller for the proportionate fees paid.For these reasons it seems honest and fair to me that buyers are not charged taxes by Ebay at the time of purchase, since they will have to pay them anyway upon delivery; doing so would clearly simplify things as well as reduce costs for buyers, which could reduce the heavy drop in sales to the US that has clearly occurred following the introduction of the new duties and the increase in shipping costs. Has anyone else encountered this problem?

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