GST payments from eBay to The States of Jersey

​​Request 802861778

How much has The States of Jersey been paid by eBay for GST collected by them, please? Year on year figures since they started collection would be appreciated

Response

This information is taxpayer confidential. It is exempt from publication under Article 29 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011, which states that information is absolutely exempt if the disclosure is prohibited by an enactment. Article 8 of the Revenue Administration (Jersey) Law 2019 prohibits the disclosure of any information obtained under a Revenue Law, including the GST Law, for any purpose other than that for which it was obtained.

Articles applied

Article 29 - Other prohibitions or restrictions

Information is absolutely exempt information if the disclosure of the information by the scheduled public authority holding it –

(a) is prohibited by or under an enactment;

(b) is incompatible with a European Union or an international obligation that applies to Jersey; or

(c) would constitute or be punishable as a contempt of court