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#Etsy:

1. They blocked my account, insisting I add my "taxpayer ID" to my account.
2. I don't have a problem with that, *but* when you do so, Etsy stops collecting and remitting Canada's #GST and/or #HST from buyers. It's now Your Problem. However...
3. They do not provide a way to let sellers add the taxes to their prices/transactions. You just have to take it out of your item price. Which means...
4. Because #tax #rates vary across Canada, from 5% to 15%, you would have to set your price differently in each #province or #territory to account for it. But ...
5. Etsy does not provide a way to do that. So ...
6. You have to add 15% to your prices, charge everyone that, and then back-calculate the "real" item price differently for each province and territory, for every sale. Which is bad enough, but ...
7. Etsy does keep collecting the *#PST* from buyers in 3 of the provinces. So it effectively charges PST on the GST/HST you've included in the prices. Back-calculating from *that* is more painful. And you're lying about the amount of tax paid on the receipts Etsy generates, which is a *#crime*.

TL;DR: Etsy makes sales impossibly difficult, and makes you complicit in a crime while doing so. Fun.

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