on 28-03-2018 12:29 PM
on 07-07-2018 04:45 PM
@rapadaan wrote:Yes kicks in this July already talking an extra added $5 security fee !
I have just bought an item from a Chinese supplier and they have charged me approx $23Aud GST on the purchase.
How does the Australian Government collect these funds when I have paid the seller direct, via PayPal?
on 07-07-2018 04:52 PM
The Chinese seller has not collected the GST from you, ebay has....at the checkout.
Ebay remits the GST to the ATO
on 07-07-2018 06:21 PM
@mojo8188 wrote:
@rapadaan wrote:Yes kicks in this July already talking an extra added $5 security fee !
I have just bought an item from a Chinese supplier and they have charged me approx $23Aud GST on the purchase.
How does the Australian Government collect these funds when I have paid the seller direct, via PayPal?
was the purchase on eBay?
The reason I ask is you wrote "a chinese supplier" . . . . . and most of us would say "a chinese seller" if discussing eBay.
on 07-07-2018 11:38 PM
This is just another tax rip-off which makes me wonder how long we let them get away with it. Maybe it's time to grab the pitch forks...
07-07-2018 11:44 PM - edited 07-07-2018 11:45 PM
@v8goody wrote:This is just another tax rip-off which makes me wonder how long we let them get away with it. Maybe it's time to grab the pitch forks...
well, it has been introduced by the Turnbull coalition
goverment, but don't hold your breath waiting for a change of government to ditch the GST on low-cost imports. Won't happen.
on 08-07-2018 12:13 AM
08-07-2018 02:07 AM - edited 08-07-2018 02:11 AM
@v8goody wrote:
Of course not. That’s more money in the pocket of the government without any work. The folk is just bleeding out. It is ridiculous that in this time and age, a government puts a tax on low cost items bought online. Just imagine how much money the postal services make on the transport of online sales. This governmental robbery has to stop.
actually, you should think about how much money our national postal service is losing on the delivery of low-cost online sales imports!
Think about it for a moment . . . . . those $1 widgets from China with free delivery . . . . . get delivered to your door by Aust Post.
If the GST on low-cost items helps to claw back some of that expense then it can't be all bad.
There is a surefire way to avoid paying the GST on low-cost items from overseas . . . . . . BUY FROM AUSSIE SELLERS!!!!!!!!!!!
on 08-07-2018 07:30 AM
on 08-07-2018 08:12 AM
Nobody has paid Australia Post to deliver those low value items from outside Australia.
on 08-07-2018 09:53 AM