Comment on If you resold Taylor Swift Eras Tour tickets, the IRS is watching — A new rule from the IRS is punishing those who resold tickets for more than $600 in profit with a tax penalty

• surewhynotlem@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  That’s just capitalists capitalizing. The IRS just wants a cut, not to stop it.

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  • Natanael@slrpnk.net ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    IRS isn’t in the business of stopping transactions (unless it’s money laundering) anyway

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• LukeMedia@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Agreed. Obviously, the tax code should be better enforced against wealthy people, but you can support one action without it meaning you don’t support another.

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  • SARGEx117@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    And as long as they ACTUALLY do both, then it doesn’t matter.

    But they don’t.

    So it does.

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• Ajen@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  On the other hand, if it’s worth your time to scalp tickets then you aren’t part of the upper class.

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  • cjsolx@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’m not well-versed on the subject, but is ticket scalping not a large-scale business at this point? Like, yeah individual ticket holders can be opportunistic, but don’t bots buy tickets by the thousands as soon as they go on sale?

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    • Ajen@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Most of those “businesses” are run by just one person, or maybe a few friends. And how much money do you really think they could be making?

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  • Sir_Simon_Spamalot@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    With that logic, we can say scalpers are class traitors, then!

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