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rredar

What determines in-game sales tax? (How can I avoid it?)

On my main, I pay no tax for a key, however, my smurf pays tax.

I live in a US state w/ sales tax.

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starboythebest

you pay a tax when you buy it from IN game ? or of the market ?

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rredar

in-game. I pay no market tax.

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WardenASD

you don`t pay a maket tax ? hard to belive that

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rredar

In the community market, I pay for what the item's listed at. Either the seller pays tax or I do. Depends on how you look at it :P

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DanZDK

Depends on how you look at it. The tax is added to the price to make it final before it is displayed on the market, so you're the one paying it in the end but the seller has been considering it while determining his price. Any item on the market has to pay the fee. :P

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TatsuyaHiro

if you mean the 15 percent fee that gets taxed every time you sell something on the community market

thats unavoidable sadly

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rredar

No, when you open up csgo and try to make an in-game transaction.

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HappyCakeday

I assume you are an exchange student or recently moved from another country to the U.S., because your steam profile says you are from the UK.

Certain American states require tax with original price, other American states don't. For me in California I don't pay extra for anything on Steam - only the price shown to me(i.e. a 5 USD CSGO key will be 5 USD I will have to pay and nothing else). I know for a fact if you are living in Washington state you will need to pay for extra tax because Valve headquarters is in Washington state. Look around on the internet about the state you are residing in. I suggest using keywords like "sales tax", "online merchants", "-state you are living in-" to help your search.

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dingbat

technicallly, you're supposed to declare the purchase and pay the tax when you file your state taxes. Because Valve does not have a nexus in your state (or most states, for that matter) the state cannot compel valve to collect the taxes and pay for it on your behalf.

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SirALike

In simple words, CSGO keys are cheaper when bought in-game compared to buying them in Steam Market. In our currency the current price of the keys in the Market are ranging between P126 - P130 while in-game its only P118. I think this is what he meant.

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antiHiko

You can't avoid taxes in a legal way... i think that the taxes we pay on those items are something like VAT ,which we pay for bundles too, basically everyone in the EU region has to pay for them.

EDIT: Also when you buy an item on the market for 5 euros you are NOT gonna get 5 euros, usually around 8% of that amount goes to valve+csgo. (3% csgo , 5% valve if i remember correctly) , you can check it by clicking on " buy " on a random item on the market, you'll see on a 3 cents case it says something like "0,01 for csgo , 0,01 for valve , 0,01 for the seller. " the first two are taxes.

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dingbat

technicallly, you're supposed to declare the purchase and pay the tax when you file your state taxes. Because Valve does not have a nexus in your state (or most states, for that matter) the state cannot compel valve to collect the taxes and pay for it on your behalf.

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TinyPurple

i read: "CSGO in-game sales sax"
which doesn't mean anything. but made me wander what am i missing in that game

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