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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::A new rule from the IRS is punishing those who resold tickets for more than $600 in profit with a tax penalty.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

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

Edit: but I do agree, fuck scalpers

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year 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?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

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