
On Tuesday, the eBay Inc. Government Relations team scored a victory for our customers, when the U.S. and Canadian governments announced that they had jointly decided to raise and harmonize their informal entry thresholds at $2,500.

In the Irish Presidency Special Issue of the EU’s Parliament Magazine, Stefan Krawczyk, eBay Inc. Associate General Counsel & Head of EMEA Government Relations, urges the EU to prioritise digital empowerment of small businesses.
At the annual NASSCOM-DSCI 2012 Summit, members of eBay Inc.’s Global Asset Protection, Government Relations, Legal and Information Security teams advocated eBay’s position as a responsible company willing to cooperate with the public sector to promote cyber security in India.
Steve Kenny, Head of Privacy for eBay Inc. in the EU, recently presented eBay Inc.’s position on the Regulation proposal put forward by the European Commission last January and currently being negotiated by the European Parliament and the Council.

On December 11th, eBay Inc. sponsored and presented the DSCI Excellence Award 2012 to outstanding Cyber Police and Law Enforcement Agencies in India.

In December, eBay Inc.’s Government Relations team met with Deputy Director Li Shi of the Shenzhen Investment Promotion Bureau (Invest Shenzhen) to exchange public policy priorities and opportunities between eBay Inc. and the Shenzhen municipal government

Main Street members know better than anyone how proposed Internet sales tax legislation would negatively impact the U.S. economy and small businesses using the Internet to reach new consumers and new markets. That’s why we asked people to tell us which aspect of the Internet sales tax debate they think is being most overlooked by the media. Here are the results.

Paul Jones, eBay’s Senior Director of Global Asset Protection, recently spoke to eBay Radio and Jim “Griff” Griffith about what eBay is doing to protect its customers.

As many of you know, 2012 has seen a lot of Congressional action on Internet sales taxes and there have been numerous attempts to impose new sales tax collection burdens on small online retailers.

December saw the adoption of an own initiative report by the European Parliament entitled “Completing the Digital Single Market”. This report builds on the work done in the EU over the last few years to promote the digital economy and dismantle barriers to a well-functioning internal market. Importantly, it passes on the baton from 2010 and in doing so it calls for renewed efforts in several areas identified as priorities by our Roadmap Towards Commerce 3.0.
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