A year of  so ago a prominent – forward thinking and innovative ( at least in his mind)  businessman was complaining bitterly – “And another thing these people running businesses out of their houses and homes are not paying business taxes”

Well it may be true that city , provincial state and federal governments are not far behind in figuring out how to work the taxes , this will take some time due to the bureaucratic structure and system. We may well living in a “golden age”  or perhaps not.  Add to this the benefit in terms of costs of being able to use  residential as opposed to business phone and internet rates.

Here is a most amazing discovery by the financial magazine Forbes. If Forbes is only just realizing how the landscape has changed – then government and government agencies must be somewhat further back.

Sales tax collection compliance among eBay sellers is “alarmingly low,” says a new academic study published as states look for ammunition to bolster tax-collection laws.

When Georgia State University Economics Professor James Alm and Mikhail I. Melnik, an assistant professor of economics at Niagara University, downloaded and analyzed data on all consumer electronics sold on eBay during a 24-hour-period in July 2007, they found that only 18% of sellers bothered to collect sales tax even on sales to buyers within their own states. Under current federal law, an online seller has to collect sales taxes on purchases by buyers in his home state, but not on those by buyers from other states in which he has no physical presence, or “nexus.” States generally exempt residents who aren’t in business and make only “occasional” sales–say at a garage sale–from this requirement.

Not surprisingly, the new study, which appears in the National Tax Journal, found compliance rises dramatically with the size of the merchant. But Melnik said in an interview that he was surprised to find that even among eBay sellers with 10,000 to 15,000 ratings–meaning they have had that many unique customers and hardly qualify as “occasional” sellers–only half bothered to collect sales taxes on in-state sales. “They appear to be real businesses who have decided deliberately not to comply with state sales tax,” Melnik said. “That’s a violation of law.” (EBay gives all sellers the option of having sales taxes included when the final purchase price is calculated, allowing the researchers to determine whether the taxes were being charged although not whether the taxes collected were actually remitted to the states.)

Melnik said it seems likely some merchants who aren’t collecting in-state sales taxes aren’t complying with income tax laws either. Someone who is buying and selling items as a business (even a side business) on eBay would normally report it on a Schedule C attached to his 1040. This provides better tax treatment than is afforded hobbyists selling on eBay, who legally must report their sales, but can only deduct their expenses as miscellaneous itemized deductions. (For more on tax reporting of side businesses and hobbies, click here.)

But nonreporting of eBay sales is apparently widespread. For example, in April, a U.S. Tax Court judge ruled an Internal Revenue Service revenue officer was liable for back taxes from thousands of eBay clothing sales that she hadn’t reported on her tax forms.

Beginning in 2012 (for transactions taking place in 2011 and later) credit card companies and third-party transaction handlers such as eBay and Amazon.com must report to the IRS annually the gross sales of any U.S. seller doing more than 200 transactions and $20,000 in sales per year. Congress passed this requirement in 2008 to help pay for the first-time-home-buyer tax credit.

Meanwhile, the states have been using new laws, enforcement tactics and pressure on Congress to attempt to capture more sales taxes from online sales. New York, North Carolina and Rhode Island have passed novel laws that attempt to force big online out-of-state retailers such as Amazon and Overstock.com to collect their sales taxes based on the location of the companies’ affiliate sellers. Those laws are being challenged in court, as is a new Colorado “big brother” law that requires certain out-of-state merchants to either collect the tax or advise customers of their (widely ignored) obligation to pay it over to their state if the merchant doesn’t collect it. With state and local sales taxes nationwide now averaging a record 8.6%, billions of dollars in revenue a year are at stake nationwide.

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Harkness bid $90, and after an exchange of e-mails on AOL, sent Carlos a money order. But the address turned out to be a private P.O. box, the high-tech flashlight never arrived, and Harkness realized he had been ripped off.

So in early 2007, he wrote his congressman, laying out his dealings with the mysterious eBay seller from South Florida and the possibility of a bigger scam. Rep. Adam Smith, D-Wash., urged the U.S. Postal Inspection Service to investigate.

Thus began a three-year probe to unmask “Jorge Carlos,” and to figure out how many other victims he might have fleeced around the country.

The payoff: Earlier this month, Nilton Rossoni, 50, a Brazilian businessman with multiple aliases who had lived in Sunny Isles Beach and Fort Lauderdale, was sentenced to 51/2 years in federal prison for running one of the biggest eBay scams in history.

“If postal inspectors had written it off, then it all would have fizzled,” Harkness told The Miami Herald.

Rossoni was convicted in October of hauling in $717,000 from more than 5,500 eBay buyers, by creating at least 260 different auction accounts, and using dozens of e-mail addresses with Yahoo, Google and AOL, as well as nearly 60 private postal boxes.

Rossoni engineered the intricate online retail scheme with the help of his son, Nilton Joel Rossoni, 28, according to an indictment. The younger Rossoni is a former Brazilian race car driver who graduated with a business administration degree from the University of Miami in 2007. He is believed to be on the lam in his native Brazil.

From 2003-08, the father auctioned thousands of products, from horse saddles to rotisserie grills, without delivering anything to the winning bidders. He maintained a legitimate reputation by fabricating positive feedback.

He also insisted that his buyers use cashier’s checks or money orders, not PayPal. The anti-fraud protection services at eBay are designed to help people who only use PayPal online to purchase their merchandise.

The total illegal take from Rossoni’s eBay victims may seem like a drop in the bucket — some $60 billion in goods were sold on eBay last year, according to the San Jose, Calif.-based e-commerce company — but his brazenness was unparalleled.

“Whenever people would complain on eBay, he would continue to put them off and even blame the post office for the delay,” said U.S. Postal Inspector Richard Koss, who led the investigation after the congressman’s letter landed on his desk in Miramar, Fla.

“He would be able to put them off a few weeks and promise a refund, but he’d never pay them. That would allow him to use the phony eBay user ID a little longer.”

How Koss cracked the case:

First he checked out “Jorge Carlos” on the Federal Trade Commission’s consumer complaint Web site. He found hundreds of angry eBay buyers who had sent thousands of dollars to Carlos, complaining that they never received their merchandise. Koss traced the name to dozens of private postal stores in Miami-Dade and Broward counties, which had photos of “Carlos” on record, as required by law.

“I had numerous pictures of him, but I didn’t know who he really was,” Koss recalled. He eventually zeroed in on “Carlos” at a Fort Lauderdale-area UPS mail box site. “I just went there and waited for him. He matched the photos.”

The inspector looked up the license tag on the man’s car, a Kia Rio. It wasn’t registered to Jorge Carlos but to Nilton Rossoni.

Koss, searching the FTC Web site, discovered not only eBay consumer complaints regarding “Jorge Carlos,” but also another likely alias, “Celso Ferreira.” In fact, the fraudster’s aliases accounted for some 1,400 consumer complaints to the FTC, dominating the list, he said.

Victims detailed rip-offs of $300 to $800 for such items as Bowflex machines, generators and metal detectors.

“It looked like a viable case, with ongoing fraud,” Koss said. “It wasn’t a gigantic dollar amount, but it was certainly worth investigating based on the number of consumer complaints.”

As he surfed the Internet for clues, Koss stumbled upon LotusTalk.com and MustangBoards.com. In summer 2007, he found postings by Thomas Alberti of the Chicago area, who summarized his bad eBay encounter with a South Florida man named “Celso Ferreira.”

Alberti, a lawyer who owned a small business supplying parts for sports cars, described how he successfully bid about $129 for a Snap-on torque wrench and sent the seller a cashier’s check, to a Miami street address. But Ferreira never sent the wrench.

Alberti’s online postings generated responses from others who also had had negative eBay experiences with Ferreira.

Alberti, who had been using eBay since the late ’90s without incident, contacted the police and filed an FTC complaint.

“I was kinda mad,” he said. “I gathered every single communication I had with this guy.”

The police did nothing. But Alberti and Koss compared notes.

The postal inspector figured out that Rossoni was using “Celso Ferreira,” “Jorge Carlos” and several other aliases in his eBay scam. Koss, working with federal prosecutor Marc Anton in Fort Lauderdale, also obtained voluminous records of Rossoni’s bank accounts under his alias names, along with e-mail correspondence and eBay statements.

Koss got back in touch with Alberti to fill him in on the investigation last summer, just before Rossoni’s arrest at Miami International Airport in August.

“I was amazed to hear from him again, because I had written it off,” Alberti said. “I was awed by his level of thoroughness. Now I’d like to see if I’m gonna get my money back. I would imagine I’m pretty low on the pecking order.”

A federal court hearing on restitution for victims is pending

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The means of marketing for or with lists goes as far back in recent advertising as Sears Roebuck and the famed Sear’s Catalog.  Sell a consumer a product — even at a loss , yet obtain his or her name as a future customer and you have a target to throw mud against the wall.  Its not John Candy , explaining on a SCTV skit as to why he and his “partner”  had remade the famed film classic “Midnight Cowboy” as a 3d movie  – “Well Maam its like this – we thought about it and…. if only a small percentage … 1/10 of a 1/10 of a percent of the people who went to see the original famous Midnight Cowboy movie went to see our film then we would be on the “Gravy Train”.

Yet these concepts of working with a list often meet limited results in the hands of the inexperienced and rank amateurs.  For example one Bridges long hair seminars , involved in the marketing of  long hair seminars, this fellow and  character had it all worked out.  He would offer a favor or prize online at his site – an ebook of a hard cover book , that had been promoted and touted by Oprah herself.  The hard cover book cost  $ 55 at Barnes and Nobles or Chapters worked out this rank novice.  The book was “hot hot hot”.  He could purchase and ebook version online on ebay.  Then over the book on an autoresponder for free, collect the names .   These names would thus form the basis of his targeted marketing list – his gold mine , who would certainly purchase more product . to earn the Bridges character big money.

Welcome to life and reality in 2010.   First of all – if the book was that hot – then it would of been available online for free , or at little cost and risk from many other sources – not the least would be file sharing and torrents.  Next add in duplicate and decoy email addresses – all free or little charge – thus diluting the real effect and power of the list.  Lastly add in spam filters so that the messages or sales messages in many if not most cases would never reach the potential purchaser and buyer what so ever.  Welcome to life – if the idea is good its most likely been thought of and worked with before.  However in these marketing times , the time frames are very quick and rapid and you have to be at the leading edge of the curve.

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It is always best to be on the conservative side. It is very easy to be marked and cataloged by the authoritative sites as a spammer. Once in its very difficult to be removed and taken “off the list”
Whom do you call ? Who do you contact ? How do you verify ?

Often these “procedures” are noted , in the email that may or may not arrive , are “automated”. Its worse than eBay. There is no one to contact. Its not as if you can drive to Google headquarters and have a discussion with a nice looking young women or fill out a simple form.

There are no shortages of web sites for the search engines to evaluate. Why make life difficult for yourself. It never hurts in SEO to take it slow , with a long term view , and play it safe.

Always remember that Search Engine Optimization is a two edged sword. Takes a long time to get in and make an impact and a longer time to get knocked out. That is if you play by the rules of the big boys.

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