GST on online sales over $20

[misterforgetfulsbooks]

Why not just get ebay to collect it off the sale of anything sold here in Australia?

ie: you sell items in Australia, you pay Australian taxes - level playing field

[lyndal1838]

And how many manufacturers went off shore while Labor was in government?

I don't think it matters who is in government...while it is so much cheaper to manufacture overseas the companies will jump ship.

[lurehouse]

Every western country has to subsidise it's manufacturing sector to compete against China, case in point look at Germany and Japan.

Abbott is happy to give Gina and company a 7c subsidiy on fuel for mining but will not let in 20 billion dollars worth of renewable energy projects into the country. He is an idiot that is living in the 1950's so bring on an election, anyway i hate politics but I know a religous fraud when I see one...............

[padi*0409]

It's been mentioned in other posts here that the GST on imports will add a lot more than the 10% to imported goods, here's a link to the Daily Mail's rundown on what will probably happen to the charges imposed on those imports.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3186609/The-end-cheap-books-clothes-make-hidden-costs-new-GS...

[lyndal1838]

That makes interesting reading Padi but you are preaching to the converted here.

I have already said that far more than 10% was involved......in fact I tipped that the new charges would exceed 40% of the value of the item.   It is already up to approximately 30%

[padi*0409]

Apologies lyndal, I realised you and others knew about this, but it seemed to go over the top of some posters heads......

It'll open a large can of worms when the deed is done and Australians finally realise what importing goods is going to really cost them.

At the moment the government is deliberately not giving the full story of what the costs will be..........how unusual.......

[imastawka]

I can see Michelle making a lot more visits to the buying boards    

[padi*0409]

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@imastawka wrote:

I can see Michelle making a lot more visits to the buying boards    

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[lyndal1838]

She is already back on her thread about the GSP

[imastawka]

Seems Joe Hockey liked the idea that ALL overseas goods and services

should pay GST.    From 1/7 2017

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-08-21/gst-to-be-applied-to-all-products-services-sold-by-vendors/671...

[cq_tech]

So premenopausal women finally get to pay GST on sanitary products. And about bloody time, too. I can see that happening. Not.