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Originally Posted by torana68
What about second hand? From what I can see EBay is applying the new tax to new or used items?
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It is all very confusing. I think the legislation treats eBay as being what it refers to as an Electronic Distribution Platform (EDP) and therefore being the effective seller of the goods. Because eBay makes sales of over $75k per year it has to register for and charge GST. Any second hand goods are being sold in the normal course of eBays business and so they are subject to GST in the same way as new goods. If I buy something under $1000 from overseas I will be interested to see if the GST is charged as one transaction on the total cost including postage. I suppose it could be argued that eBay is simply a mechanism for bringing buyers and sellers together and so the person listing the item is actually the seller, but as far as I can see that is not the way the legislation has been written. Obviously a fudge because different rules apply to items bought under the hammer at auction.