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posted by martyb on Sunday June 03 2018, @03:12AM   Printer-friendly
from the Ignore-the-customer-and-maybe-they-will-go-away dept.

The Australian government gave notice to online retailers that they must collect tax on behalf of the Australian Tax Office (ATO) and submit the tax collected to the ATO for purchases made by Australians overseas. Surprisingly, online retailers objected to this and at the time threatened to block Australian shoppers. Now Amazon has taken the step of preventing Australians from purchasing from their US site and sending parcels to Australia. Amazon have stated that Australians can now purchase products from the Australian Amazon site, which while true comes with a significant markup of, in some cases, 160 per cent or more over the price of the product in the US Amazon site. This does not prevent Australians from working around this technicality by engaging with a shipping company in America to bounce products through their warehouse and having the parcels forwarded on to an Australia address. In the mean time, from July 1st 2018 onward, Amazon will no longer ship products to an Australian address.


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  • (Score: 2) by isostatic on Sunday June 03 2018, @11:56AM (1 child)

    by isostatic (365) on Sunday June 03 2018, @11:56AM (#687987) Journal

    You realise your first link is AUD97, not USD97

    The second link looks like USD61 to me.

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  • (Score: 2) by MostCynical on Sunday June 03 2018, @12:28PM

    by MostCynical (2589) on Sunday June 03 2018, @12:28PM (#687992) Journal

    In Oz, price was in $AUD

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