Well, that depends on how you conduct business in your Brick & Mortar store. You don't have to pay any fees on cash or checks that you receive as payment for your products, and you can also charge the customer a transaction fee for using a card, like many small businesses do. You can also factor that into your price when you price the items in your store, as you are not generally competing on an international scale as a small business. The fact is, we as small businesses on eBay are competing internationally against the likes of Amazon, Walmart, Tesco, and Alibaba.., and we cannot add those kind of buffers into our prices and stay competitive! The point is that PayPal is collecting that tax money and delivering it to the individual state governments, not to us, we don't get a penny of it..! Those state governments should be paying the PayPal fees for the money that they get from PayPal, just as we are paying PayPal for the money that we are getting from PayPal... PayPal should just deduct their fee from the total amount of money that they deliver to the state, at the time of delivery, be that monthly, annually, or whatever. If the state doesn't want to pay for PayPal to collect the tax money for them, then that state can pay to design a system to keep track of it themselves, and then they can bill us directly for the amount of taxes we collected for that state, but don't make us pay PayPal for the work that PayPal is doing for them..!
