In this situation, a lot of small and medium retailers will refuse to ship to Australia, as it just gets too complicated for them.Whoah people, slow down
Not collected by customs, collected by retailer. SO, you buy from wiggle, wiggle pay the Aus govt GST, and no interception by customs at all.
Thinks they can do this because of agreements throughout the g20 for tax collection.
Work for the dole?That's a massive new workload for customs though.
Alaska? I think they still consider themselves a state if the USA.They cant police it 100%, so packages from .eg Taiwan, Singapore, Alaska and other random places will still come through without GST added/collected. Surely they wont let these through without pre delivery payment.
there's enough of that already in the U.S.In this situation, a lot of small and medium retailers will refuse to ship to Australia, as it just gets too complicated for them.
I've dealt with a small shop in the Alaskan back sticks on 2 occasions when buying fat bike gear (4 years ago before it was hipster), I can tell you it didn't get more primitive than dealing with them.Alaska?
Umm, GST threshold has always been $1000. Back in 2005 there was a 2 tiered system of $250 threshold for freight, but $1000 for items coming by mail ( I know this because I got caught once with an oversize package considered freight not mail). So in 2005 they were aligned, but to a consumer it's always been $1000 ( except if you used a freight forwarder rather than door to door delivery )I've dealt with a small shop in the Alaskan back sticks on 2 occasions when buying fat bike gear (4 years ago before it was hipster), I can tell you it didn't get more primitive than dealing with them.
From what I read it will be the retailer themselves that collects 10% or whatever extra, then pay's that to Aus.
Good luck to them, we have enjoyed the $1000 threshold for a few years... great idea to raise it from $250 back in 2008 to $1000 anyway, what was their reasoning back then ?
Gerry Harvey's Christmas has came early, tax the people more to raise his profits.
I didn't think anyone did shop there hence Gerry has been whining about online stores instead of realising the real problem with his stores is overpricing and crap service.Anyone who shops at Harvey Norman deserves what they get.
I didn't think anyone did shop there hence Gerry has been whining about online stores instead of realising the real problem with his stores is overpricing and crap service.
Must be time to start a thread that lists good freight forwarders.Just use freight forwarders. You are getting a package of items you already own. Nothing to declare.
That's what I'm thinking too. Still a win for the Gerry Harveys. It's not the 10%, it's the cost of applying it. For everyone except the big players it will be just too difficult so they won't sell to us. And the big players will factor the compliance cost into the australian price. If there's one thing this government can do well it's stuffing things up - just as well that stuffing things up to help their backers is their raison d'etre.In this situation, a lot of small and medium retailers will refuse to ship to Australia, as it just gets too complicated for them.