Ebay email about ATO

[qash130]

I received an email from ebay regarding , addressed directly to me, ATO need my personal detail, infact it was mentioned that ATO asking handover the personal details of all seller, who sold items of more than 10K from July 01, 2014 to June 30,2015. But this mail is not in my ebay inbox, It appears ligit: but still wondering about its authnticity. anyone have an idea about it? Is it Scam? need help in this regard. Cheers

[lyndal1838]

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@collect247 wrote:

I got it and am dam peed off about it because the ATO have instead of looking at what I sold during a financial year at the US conversion rate have looked at it at the current conversion rate which adds another US$3000 to the total when it should only be US$6000 and it now makes it US$9000.

There is 1/3 difference in price of the dollar now compared to back then.

This is what I'm arguing with the ATO about grrrrrrr!

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Crow, it really does not matter about exchange rates.  At the end of the day all you have to do is declare your income in AU$ as it was when you received it.

As you should have been declaring every $ anyway it really does not matter what the exchange rate was at any given date.....all that matters is the amount that you received at that time.

[chameleon54]

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@winkler78 wrote:

I RANG HELP DESK ABOUT THIS AND IF IT IS NOT ALSO IN YOUR EBAY MESSAGES, THEN IT IS A SPOOF EMAIL  !

HELP DESK ADVISES TO FORWARD IT TO   spoof@ebay.com.au  (and then delete permanently)

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The same thing comes up every year. The ATO & Centrelink ask for details of sellers over 10k, ebay complies and sends emails to those affected.  Sellers come to the boards questioning the authenticity of it all and scrambling to comply. Ebay help desk know nothing about it as it seems to be an Australian accounting thing, rather than main ebay system thing  etc. etc. etc.

I recieved the messages for all three selling accounts. It happens every year and is nothing new. The only thing that changes is the threshold which has been decreasing every few years as online selling becomes more popular and the ATO,s computer systems get better at data matching. It used to be $70,000 once, then $20,000 and has been $10,000 for the last couple of years.