From Wheaton Sent Sun, Mar 10th 2019, 05:00
> From: Adrian Corston [xxxxxxxx@xxxxxx.xxx] > Sent: Sunday 10 March 2019 11:54 > Subject: Re: [AH] new tax issues for selling items to the UK > > In Australia there is a recent new model, where retailers (ebay, amazon e= tc) now add the 10% GST (our > equivalent of the UK's VAT) to all sales (regardless of where the seller = is or the used/new status) and collect it > from the buyer to send through to the Australian tax office. A few months= ago when this was introduced > everything on those online sites went up 10% in price. That 10% GST being applied by the overseas seller only applies when the ite= m is a low valued item, up to 1000AUD, not to all sales. It also only applies when the seller makes 75,000AUD or more in sales in a = 12 month period that are connected with Australia, which is why it applies = to those large sellers such as eBay and Amazon. > The proceeds go to our politicians, who use it to give themselves pay ris= es and huge allowances, hand that > money to multinational conglomerates as "subsidies" in return for kickbac= ks, purchase extravagant properties > for themselves and generally line their own pockets. GST doesn't go to our politicians, it is collected by the Federal Governmen= t, and is distributed to our state and territory governments, and is includ= ed in their taxation revenue. What the states and territories do with their taxation revenue, including t= heir share of the GST that is distributed by the Federal Government, might = be debatable, but what you describe is not what the GST goes directly towar= ds. > There's a separate tax leveraged and collected by Customs officials when = importing goods into Australia, which > has an AUD$1000 minimum threshold, below which it does not apply (althoug= h there have been recent talks of > lowering or eliminating this altogether). That is the same tax, it is GST. > There are over 10,000 different categories of goods, with a wide variety = of levy rates. Those are additional import duties on some items. They are different to, an= d in addition to, the 10% GST. Simon Canberra AUSTRALIA ----------------------------------------------------------------------- This email, and any attachments, may be confidential and also privileged. I= f you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender and delete a= ll copies of this transmission along with any attachments immediately. You = should not copy or use it for any purpose, nor disclose its contents to any= other person. -----------------------------------------------------------------------