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Originally posted by ebay email:
As part of the year-end spending bill, Congress is considering including legislation that could unfairly impose burdensome compliance requirements on small businesses and entrepreneurs like you. We encourage you to learn more and prevent this from happening.

The Marketplace Fairness Act (MFA) and its companion, the Remote Transactions Parity Act (RTPA), would require small online retailers to adhere to tax laws in more than 9,600 tax jurisdictions. This could subject small businesses, like yours, to audits and enforcement by faraway state tax enforcement agencies. These requirements would impact the competitiveness of small businesses by holding them to the same tax burden standard as large retail businesses that have facilities across the country and teams of lawyers and accountants.

If you agree that Congress should not pass this harmful legislation as part of the year-end spending bill, we urge you to send a letter to your member of Congress. Please take a moment to fill out this form and the letter will be created for you. Thank you for your time, especially during this busy holiday selling season. Know that your involvement in this issue will make a difference.

Sincerely,

The eBay Government Relations Team

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The form that they had to fill out said this:

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Originally posted by ebay letter:

Subject:
Keep Internet Sales Tax Measures Out of the Omnibus Spending Bill

Dear [SENATOR or REPRESENTATIVE],
I am asking you to oppose any efforts to include the Marketplace Fairness Act or the Remote Transactions Parity Act in the year-end omnibus spending bill. This legislation is unrelated to federal government spending and would only serve to stifle business growth and hurt consumers.

If these bills are passed into law, they will:

- Require small business owners to collect and remit sales tax to every remote taxing jurisdiction across the country, regardless of physical location. With over 9,600 tax jurisdictions across the country – which all have their own unique rates and rules – this will be a crippling compliance burden for small businesses.

- Give remote states across the country new authority to subject businesses with no in-state presence to audits - a highly expensive, time-consuming, and distracting process that could prevent many small businesses from growing and continuing to help their local economy.

- Discourage the use of technology for small businesses looking to grow. The Remote Transactions Parity Act would hold small Internet-enabled retailers to new and higher tax standards, relative to brick and mortar stores that are responsible for only one tax jurisdiction.

Additionally, the Remote Transactions Parity Act actually disqualifies any small business using an online marketplace from the already weak small seller exemption in the bill. This is discriminatory and will discourage small businesses from using online marketplaces that allow them to grow by reaching new markets and new customers.

Sincerely,
YOUR NAME

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Figured it would be worth sharing for those that see this email and to see if anyone else has more insight about this. Also a lot of people who once sold on this site probably sell on TCG, how will this affect those that sell through these mediums? Know many will say that a lot of those sellers are too small to go after, but how far could this go down to?

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Jesse

https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/senate-bill/698

Unless I'm reading this wrong, it applies only to people who gross over $1 million.