GST for items sold by Australian sellers

[foxinsox2000]

If an Australian seller becomes registered for GST, how it does it work when their items are sold worldwide?

For example, if an item was formerly priced at $50, the seller would change the price to $55, and pay $5 to the ATO if it sells to an AU buyer.

However, if the item sells overseas then no GST is payable. Ethically the price should be $50 for overseas buyers, $55 for AU buyers.

Am I correct?

How does eBay facilitate this?

Or is it one of those areas that they say 'not our problem, try to find a workaround like with all the other inconsitencies with the eBay platform.'?

This is not a question about how to set your price point, it's about how to ethically and transparently manage pricing, tax, and the global market. 

Is there a correct, legal, ethical way to manage this? Or does the addition of the GST component for AU buyers just end up as something O/S buyers have to wear, unless the seller chooses to refund the GST to every O/S buyer?`

Are eBay a global marketplace that can't yet manage these ethical and legal trivialites? 

[siliconheavenaustralia]

Well the Government is taking an Extra 10% tax on the sale second hand goods now. Because it is impossible for Ebay to prove if goods are new or used easier to just make everyone pay the tax (maybe if comment says used they just keep the money. Have zero proof but they legally can keep the GST)

GST is only supposed to be paid for new goods and services or if it is a business that resells these items.

GST  was never meant for second hand goods. The tax has already been paid once at full price. It should never be applied again to an end user. You do not pay GST on a second hand car when you buy it privately.  You do now pay GST when you buy a second hand anything on Ebay.

I hate tax. 10% gst 30% wages tax 50% fuel or alcohol or tobacco tax. 

But **bleep**ing hate paying a stolen tax of an extra 10% ON SECOND HAND GOODS.

[k1ooo-slr-sales]

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@siliconheavenaustralia wrote:

Well the Government is taking an Extra 10% tax on the sale second hand goods now. Because it is impossible for Ebay to prove if goods are new or used easier to just make everyone pay the tax (maybe if comment says used they just keep the money. Have zero proof but they legally can keep the GST)

GST is only supposed to be paid for new goods and services or if it is a business that resells these items.

GST  was never meant for second hand goods. The tax has already been paid once at full price. It should never be applied again to an end user. You do not pay GST on a second hand car when you buy it privately.  You do now pay GST when you buy a second hand anything on Ebay.

I hate tax. 10% gst 30% wages tax 50% fuel or alcohol or tobacco tax. 

But **bleep**ing hate paying a stolen tax of an extra 10% ON SECOND HAND GOODS.

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any buyer who buys a second hand item from an Australian eBay seller registered for GST will be paying GST on the item.  GST is payable on anything bought from sellers registered for GST whether buying online or in a shop.

GST on second hand items bought from overseas is a totally different thing.  The GST on low-cost imports has been in place for a few years now, regardless of whether the item is second hand or not, and regardless of whether the seller is a Private or business seller on eBay.

This statement is not entirely true “GST  was never meant for second hand goods. The tax has already been paid once at full price” as GST has always been due on second hand items bought in Australia from Australian GST registered businesses/sellers.  ALSO, for items bought from overseas, GST hasn’t been paid on second hand items.

This statement is also not true: “You do now pay GST when you buy a second hand anything on Ebay”