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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.
(Score: 2) by MostCynical on Monday June 04 2018, @02:33AM
Australia launches new GST rules for overseas sellers | Taxation
https://www.taxation.co.uk/Articles/.../australia-launches-new-gst-rules-overseas-sellers18 [taxation.co.uk]
18 Jul 2017 - From 1 July 2018, businesses that sell goods into Australia will be required to charge goods and services tax (GST) on goods valued at A$1,000 or less. UK businesses that sell more than A$75,000 of taxable supplies (including low value goods) a year to consumers in Australia will need to register with the …
Even under the $AUD 75,000 threshold, GST has to be collected and remitted.
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