Does Selling on eBay Make You an Auctioneer?
Pennsylvania enhances its bad reputation for being anti-business by threatening a stay-at-home mom with $10 million in fines for selling items on eBay without having an auctioneer’s license. The commonwealth is deciding whether to require an electronic auctioneer’s license (with a licensing fee) or to permit online auctions without such a license.
You can read more about it at philly.com in Bob Fernandez’s article titled “Pennsylvania takes on online auctions.”
What to learn from her experience? Here are three lessons:
1. Vote with your feet by moving to a pro-business state.
2. The government is always looking for ways to control you through regulation and/or taxation.
3. Put the proper legal safeguards in place so that you don’t become the next victim of bureaucracy run amuck.
About the Author
With an advanced international law degree from Georgetown University and more than 15 years of real world legal experience, Attorney Mike Young is President of the Internet Ethics Council and creator of Website Legal Forms Generator software. He helps entrepreneurs protect and grow their businesses online.
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