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bucolic_frolic

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4. Good idea, but hey not only charge when you buy stamps or collectible stamps

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Mon Jun 24, 2024, 09:10 AM

Jun 2024

PA makes them collect sales tax on the postage you pay to ship packages to you. So on taxable merchandise, you pay tax on postage. On non-taxable merchandise - food, clothing - you do not pay tax on postage. There's enough there for lawyers to work on.

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Credit card 'swipe fees' could decrease under new Pa. bill, but banks hate the idea [View all] FakeNoose Jun 2024 OP

On eBay the PA state charges sales tax on USPS postage. Yup. A tax on stamps. bucolic_frolic Jun 2024 #1

That's crazy FakeNoose Jun 2024 #2

Good idea, but hey not only charge when you buy stamps or collectible stamps bucolic_frolic Jun 2024 #4

to me, this is a well-intentioned idea, but it doesn't actually make much sense and won't work as intended. unblock Jun 2024 #3

This is the banks' argument - the system already works, why mess it up? FakeNoose Jun 2024 #6

yeah, and some merchants (usually smaller businesses and certainly not all) offer a discount for cash because of this unblock Jun 2024 #7

Where we live in eastern PA, many merchants prefer or only take cash and those that take cards charge an extra 3%. dutch777 Jun 2024 #5

Banks are making a bundle on swipe fees, that's what pays for those "give-back" programs FakeNoose Jun 2024 #8