@santlache_sales wrote:
Did you expect their business to run differently than all the other businesses?
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I do and I could throw it back to you....
Do you treat your customers with the contempt that ebay shows towards it's customers (sellers).
Somehow I think the answer is no, you treat them the opposite to the way eBay treats us.
eBay aren't a business in the sense you and I are part of, they are a coporate giant and these people do what the hell they want nowadays, even avoiding tax on a massive scale as eBay does in the UK.
If you make just one slip, HMRC will come down on you hard, yet eBay gets away with it by employing people to make sure they do, in other words unlike you and me they don't contribute to the society they operate in. They avoid doing so as best they can.
You could likely build several schools or a hospital with the money eBay UK avoids in tax.
No, I treat my customers with the respect due. However I am required to run my business for my shareholders, not my customers.
Ebay are a business in that they have owners who want a return on their investment. Just like small businesses too.
The differences are in how they are run and their vastly increased corporate requirements. Something much smaller businesses would find too expensive to handle.
Of course they avoid tax - many people do. Its legal.
You have a pension scheme, an ISA, perhaps claim for working at home part of the year? Tax avoidance.
I had to purchase a new rollator a couple of years back, no VAT paid on it - tax avoidance.
Now if you were talking tax evasion, that would be illegal and HMRC (and others) would come down on them like a ton of bricks. Every year there are people fined or even jailed for tax evasion. Generally not at the large corporate level, its not worth the benefit.
More the retailer smuggling in tobacco, or the homeowner paying a builder cash to evade VAT or the businessman running two very similar businesses he classes as seperate to evade registering for VAT due to turnover.
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