Tortoise wrote:Does anybody know if there's likely to be any extra handling costs etc for items we buy now from overseas, which arrive after 1st July?? I vaguely remember them mentioning a $7 extra customs fee as well as the GST. Thanks.
GPSGuided wrote:Looks like other countries and govts are also looking to retrieve revenue from this mail order economy as with this latest US Supreme Court ruling. I still recall seeing all the US mail order catalogues back in the 70s, seeing all the amazing toys. Then through the 90s made bargain purchases through them on my trips to the US and understanding where and how to buy to avoid state sale taxes, and seeing how the mail order economy grew and grew to its present size along with efficient deliveries. Well, so here comes the revenue grab and a dampener to it all.
https://www.dpreview.com/news/919776894 ... on-bhphoto
stry wrote:Surely, the logical thing to do is simply collect the GST at the PO here, upon collection. That would mean some sort of payment being made by goverment to Auspost to cover the cost of collection which probably wouldn'nt help Gerry's cost/benefit case, but it would be simple and doable.
Gadgetgeek wrote:IAs for the no-tax states, they are already flooded with businesses. There is a town in delaware that is basically just a post-office. Lots of registered business there. But if the business doesn't actually happen there, and so there are no people (and no rent, groceries...) it really doesn't matter. Its becoming all about finding the angle and working it for the profit, the trouble is that the big companies can afford to just work the angle and not bother with the product.
I now see a pile of Ebay Aus sellers just selling exactly the same product as a china market seller, just with a huge markup. now I'm assuming that these guys are doing more than just drop-shipping by their feedback scores and their shipping time claims. So they have found a "value-add" to skim a little off the top. The good ones will survive, the bad ones will go away. And in a couple years there will be a discovery channel show about them, which will really only reward the people on the show, and further dilute the marketplace (ever actually go to a storage locker auction?)
stry wrote:Surely, the logical thing to do is simply collect the GST at the PO here, upon collection. That would mean some sort of payment being made by goverment to Auspost to cover the cost of collection which probably wouldn'nt help Gerry's cost/benefit case, but it would be simple and doable.
stry wrote:Why any overseas business would bother concerning itself with our GST is beyond me. The ATO and our government have no jurisdiction outside Aus.
Nuts wrote:http://www.sierratradingpost.com/
Arapiles wrote:stry wrote:Why any overseas business would bother concerning itself with our GST is beyond me. The ATO and our government have no jurisdiction outside Aus.
100% correct. There's no compulsion at all.
Arapiles wrote:Nuts wrote:http://www.sierratradingpost.com/
Odd ... I can't get to their website at all - are they blocking Australian addresses?
Moondog55 wrote:REI just joined this maddening crowd.
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