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context: I feel like our government has a selective hearing problem. They do this so often I can't stand how powerless we are. Here they are saying "we heard you about the time-line" when people don't care about the time-line. We care that they dropped the reportable tax threshold from 20,000 to 600$ during massive inflation due to their inability to control their spending. Now anyone who sells anything online has to keep track of their purchase of a lamp they bought 30 years ago, and now sold for 20$ so they can prove that it was a net loss. The 20,000$ threshold was to protect people from having to do exactly that. >
  
  Why $600? Why did they choose that particular number? >
  
  Genuinely I have no idea. They probably assumed that was the lowest dollar amount that they could get a nickle or a dime for. Anything under that would most likely be untaxable. >
  
  This is a nightmare. >
  
  I feel like our government has a selective hearing problem. They do this so often I can't stand how powerless we are. Here they are saying "we heard you about the time-line" when people don't care about the time-line. We care that they dropped the reportable tax threshold from 20,000 to 600$ during massive inflation due to their inability to control their spending. Now anyone who sells anything online has to keep track of their purchase of a lamp they bought 30 years ago, and now sold for 20$ so they can prove that it was a net loss. The 20,000$ threshold was to protect people from having to do exactly that. >
  
  The $20,000 threshold resulted in too many people cheating on their taxes. >
  
  Why $600? Why did they choose that particular number? >
  
  Genuinely I have no idea. They probably assumed that was the lowest dollar amount that they could get a nickle or a dime for. Anything under that would most likely be untaxable. >
  
  This is a nightmare. >
  
  You are a week or two late on your "news".