@springyzone wrote:
wouldn't people just pick up and leave ebay and start selling on facebook on groups and personly websites???
all this is crazy!!!!
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If you make a regular business of selling on facebook or any other site & if you're making a reasonably regular income, even a small income, from it, then I would imagine you are supposed to submit that for taxation too.
The odd private item sold, no, but small business earnings, yes.
My brother was on centrelink payments just before he died & every dollar earned had to be declared.
They have ways of finding out too. When I left school I was on the dole before I got my first job. I opened a bank account with $1 at the State Bank of NSW. The only reason I opened the account was because I liked their eftpos card. It was bright green and their ATM machines were called the Green Machine. Yes, I was a silly teenager, but I thought it sounded cool! I think the most that was ever in that account was $10.
I went to submit my dole form and they asked me about this new bank account and why I hadn't told them about it. I said it was because there was very little in it and what was in it came from my dole cheque. It didn't matter, I was supposed to tell them. That was back in the 80's when computers were still in their infancy, yet they were still able to find this account. I'd imagine these days with technology, they'd have all manner of ways of finding these things out.
I became so paranoid after that, that everytime I did some work for cash in hand, like gardening or lawn mowing for the neighbours, I declared it. It was never enough to affect my payment, but I was sure they'd find out about it some how! These days, big brother is watching. They know where you are and what you're doing! They have ways of making you pay!
