TaxWatch: Do you make money selling stuff on eBay or PayPal? The IRS is saving you a tax headache — for now

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The Internal Revenue Service is delaying a tax-reporting rule that would have required payment platforms including eBay and PayPal to send out scores of potentially confusing tax forms to their users.

For a second straight year, the federal tax collector is holding off on implementing a rule that would have required certain payment platforms to send tax forms to platform users who got at least $ 600 for the sale of goods and services.

Until…

Master your money.

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