Stolen GoodseBay is committed to ensuring a safe, open, and transparent site for people to sell goods and services around the world. We work tirelessly to prevent stolen goods from being sold through the eBay marketplace.
Internet "Broker" Tax ReportingThe Internal Revenue Service is considering a proposal that would require “brokers” to collect “gross proceeds” information on their users and report it to the IRS. As currently crafted, the proposal would only apply to brokers that effect the sale of personal property for individuals, which would not necessarily apply to the eBay marketplace. However, some IRS officials have proposed changing the definition of broker to apply to eBay.
eBay believes everyone should pay the taxes they owe, and we do more than any Internet commerce site to educate small businesses on their tax obligations. But we believe that any IRS proposal to target under-reported income should apply to either ALL online and offline commercial intermediaries or ALL Internet commerce – not merely online auction sites.
Streamlined Sales Tax ProjecteBay opposes raising taxes on the Internet or its uses, as well as any attempt to impose remote sales tax collection burdens on the smallest sellers who can least afford it. This is certainly not the time to impose a major new tax burden on Internet vendors working to implement successful new business models, nor is it wise macro-economic policy to impose what is effectively a tax increase on American consumers.
Net NeutralityeBay provides a global Internet marketplace. Together with PayPal and Skype, we are enabling ecommerce for small businesses everywhere. Because the success of our companies is completely dependent on the success of our community of users, including small businesses, we take public policy positions that are important to that community.
eBay supports Net Neutrality legislation that will prohibit Network Operators from replacing the robust open Internet with "Pay to Play" private networks that will force out and discriminate against content and service providers that refuse to pay new tolls.
Affordable Health InsuranceeBay is an enabler and a destination for small businesses. We work hard to keep the best interests of eBay's small business community in mind, and care passionately about policy decisions that impact their success.
eBay's “army of entrepreneurs“ faces the same challenges that impact all small business people, including access to quality and affordable private sector health insurance.
We believe that energizing a marketplace by giving more consumers access to more choices for individual health insurance spurs competition and innovation.
PrivacyeBay strives to keep the best interests of our vast and diverse community in mind. We work zealously to safeguard information about their purchases, sales, searches, and communications.
As international, federal and state policymakers wrestle with the difficult task of protecting online privacy, eBay serves as a leading resource on best practices to keep the online community safe.
Along with numerous other technologies and programs, eBay uses State of the Art encryption, secure socket layers (SSL), and firewall technology to protect our users' information.
Any privacy legislation must ensure a safe and secure online environment, by providing a uniform technology neutral federal solution requiring broad disclosure principles for all online and offline business practices.
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