Actually this is also the guy who is also a convicted terrorist too, for mailing explosives in the mail. So it's practically a step backwards to commit something petty (by comparison to terrorism) like tax fraud.
My crime was "Dealing in Explosives
WITHOUT A LICENSE". I sold store bought fire crackers on ebay, and my crime was doing it without the right government paperwork. It was a politically motivated prosecution. Even while I was in prison, the company I bought the fireworks from, and the manufacturer were still selling them without a license. Details
here.
Agree with the quote author TaunSew, what you did was pretty lame, the assumption of virtually unlimited liability to make just a few dollars selling fireworks. It gets even worse, did you not realize the terms of use for any method of shipping stuff for sold on ebay? In order to ship anything like this if it's ok, means that you have to specially mark and pack the fireworks. If correctly labeled, packed and shipped according to firecode, just the packing and shipping is probably cost more than the product. If you shipped this stuff priority mail or via air, it would be only because the package wasn't properly labeled. Priority mail can go via air. I can see the Feds handing out jail time if some fireworks ended up being shipped by air.
Since no good deed goes unpunished, to your credit, you might be the reason that the USPO, Fedex, and UPS now every time (correctly so) quiz people if they are shipping any hazmat stuff.
Nowadays, even Li batteries have to go by ocean freight and ground transport.
I'm glad I live I live in a country where people aren't free to ship unmarked HAZMAT by air.