Sep 25, 2023
The International Revenue Service (IRS) has significantly lowered its threshold to tax ticket resellers, impacting those who have resold tickets to sporting events or concerts on marketplaces such as Ticketmaster and StubHub.
Ticket platforms will now be required to report information on sellers’ proceeds to the IRS if their ticket sales in 2023 surpass $600. The previous IRS threshold applied to ticket resellers who reached $20,000 in revenue and more than 200 transactions, but the new law can be applied to just one transaction if it’s more than $600, according to Fox Business.
Regardless of whether resellers earned a profit, ticket platforms must send users who sold more than $600 in tickets a 1099-K form to fill out for the IRS. However, sellers will only owe additional taxes if they made a profit on their ticket by selling it for more than they bought it for.
Source: Front Office Sports