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 Author: kelslegos View Messages Posted By kelslegos
 Posted: Feb 20, 2024 00:36
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 Author: BrickDeals View Messages Posted By BrickDeals
 Posted: Feb 20, 2024 00:51
 Subject: Re: BrickLink overcharging taxes
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In Taxes, kelslegos writes:
  When purchasing from a seller in a different country that lists prices in their
own currency, BrickLink figures the amount of my local sales tax based on the
foreign currency, thereby charging me too much sales tax. Case in point, Australian
dollars and Canadian dollars are a greater number (of dollars) than US dollars
for the same amount. The sales tax is my local sales tax and therefore should
be figured based on my local currency. How do we fix this?

Also...
When a seller issues a refund without using BrickLink's refund system, which
refunds the sales tax, how do I as a buyer get that sales tax refunded?

The sales tax is based on a percent, so it isn't going to make a difference.

If this doesn't make sense to you, maybe someone else can explain in further
detail with an example.
 Author: SezaR View Messages Posted By SezaR
 Posted: Feb 20, 2024 01:22
 Subject: Re: BrickLink overcharging taxes
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In Taxes, BrickDeals writes:
  In Taxes, kelslegos writes:
  When purchasing from a seller in a different country that lists prices in their
own currency, BrickLink figures the amount of my local sales tax based on the
foreign currency, thereby charging me too much sales tax. Case in point, Australian
dollars and Canadian dollars are a greater number (of dollars) than US dollars
for the same amount. The sales tax is my local sales tax and therefore should
be figured based on my local currency. How do we fix this?

Also...
When a seller issues a refund without using BrickLink's refund system, which
refunds the sales tax, how do I as a buyer get that sales tax refunded?

The sales tax is based on a percent, so it isn't going to make a difference.

If this doesn't make sense to you, maybe someone else can explain in further
detail with an example.

value of items in an order = 100
currency exchange rate = 1.3
tax percentage = 0.1

100 * 1.3 * 0.1 = 100 * 0.1 * 1.3
 Author: kelslegos View Messages Posted By kelslegos
 Posted: Feb 20, 2024 01:42
 Subject: Re: BrickLink overcharging taxes
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kelslegos (24)

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In Taxes, SezaR writes:
  In Taxes, BrickDeals writes:
  In Taxes, kelslegos writes:
  When purchasing from a seller in a different country that lists prices in their
own currency, BrickLink figures the amount of my local sales tax based on the
foreign currency, thereby charging me too much sales tax. Case in point, Australian
dollars and Canadian dollars are a greater number (of dollars) than US dollars
for the same amount. The sales tax is my local sales tax and therefore should
be figured based on my local currency. How do we fix this?

Also...
When a seller issues a refund without using BrickLink's refund system, which
refunds the sales tax, how do I as a buyer get that sales tax refunded?

The sales tax is based on a percent, so it isn't going to make a difference.

If this doesn't make sense to you, maybe someone else can explain in further
detail with an example.

value of items in an order = 100
currency exchange rate = 1.3
tax percentage = 0.1

100 * 1.3 * 0.1 = 100 * 0.1 * 1.3

Yup, got it. I feel foolish.
 Author: jbroman View Messages Posted By jbroman
 Posted: Feb 20, 2024 01:43
 Subject: Re: BrickLink overcharging taxes
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In Taxes, SezaR writes:
  In Taxes, BrickDeals writes:
  In Taxes, kelslegos writes:
  When purchasing from a seller in a different country that lists prices in their
own currency, BrickLink figures the amount of my local sales tax based on the
foreign currency, thereby charging me too much sales tax. Case in point, Australian
dollars and Canadian dollars are a greater number (of dollars) than US dollars
for the same amount. The sales tax is my local sales tax and therefore should
be figured based on my local currency. How do we fix this?

Also...
When a seller issues a refund without using BrickLink's refund system, which
refunds the sales tax, how do I as a buyer get that sales tax refunded?

The sales tax is based on a percent, so it isn't going to make a difference.

If this doesn't make sense to you, maybe someone else can explain in further
detail with an example.

value of items in an order = 100
currency exchange rate = 1.3
tax percentage = 0.1

100 * 1.3 * 0.1 = 100 * 0.1 * 1.3

The above is correct, unless you’re saying that the sales tax is calculated based
on the foreign currency amount and then shown as the same figures but in USD.
 Author: kelslegos View Messages Posted By kelslegos
 Posted: Feb 20, 2024 01:43
 Subject: Re: BrickLink overcharging taxes
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kelslegos (24)

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In Taxes, BrickDeals writes:
  In Taxes, kelslegos writes:
  When purchasing from a seller in a different country that lists prices in their
own currency, BrickLink figures the amount of my local sales tax based on the
foreign currency, thereby charging me too much sales tax. Case in point, Australian
dollars and Canadian dollars are a greater number (of dollars) than US dollars
for the same amount. The sales tax is my local sales tax and therefore should
be figured based on my local currency. How do we fix this?

Also...
When a seller issues a refund without using BrickLink's refund system, which
refunds the sales tax, how do I as a buyer get that sales tax refunded?

The sales tax is based on a percent, so it isn't going to make a difference.

If this doesn't make sense to you, maybe someone else can explain in further
detail with an example.

I feel sufficiently foolish. Thank you!