Stories
Slash Boxes
Comments

SoylentNews is people

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.


Original Submission

 
This discussion has been archived. No new comments can be posted.
Display Options Threshold/Breakthrough Mark All as Read Mark All as Unread
The Fine Print: The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. We are not responsible for them in any way.
  • (Score: 4, Informative) by c0lo on Sunday June 03 2018, @01:51PM

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Sunday June 03 2018, @01:51PM (#688009) Journal

    These are the same conservative idiots who claim to be for free enterprise.

    Yes, they are for free enterprise, but not any kind of it. You need to be able to donate to their parties to skew their policies towards your "freedom"

    Just as happened, a good thing some barnaby screwed up a certain pooch, so that he fell from deputy PM-ish, he was quite hardline against investigations into banking sector. Once down, some of national MP-es supported the shove of the royal commission into banks ass, in spite of the other idiots.

    --
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
    Starting Score:    1  point
    Moderation   +2  
       Interesting=1, Informative=1, Total=2
    Extra 'Informative' Modifier   0  
    Karma-Bonus Modifier   +1  

    Total Score:   4