www.sbs.com.au/news/article/2017/02/16/imported-goods-under-1000-face-gst
Itās like their trying to stop us from buying things overseas
This is a good link explaining details: link
If I read it correctly the people actually sending to us will be charged the GST lol
wow thats quite odd lol, leaves a lot of questions in the air
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Let me correct myself. Itās almost as if they donāt want online sellers to ship to us
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Yeah weird indeed is definitely not clear how this will be imposed, how do they expect to charge people overseas if it is in fact the sellers paying?
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Paypal private sales with goods marked as gift will become the rage!
Would only work if it was declared at $0 
f*** noā¦
seriousā¦
Does this mean that all my shit will be nabbed by customs now?
or wtfdā¦
My understanding is that we will only be charged the 10% if the seller/business on the other end registers for GST, namely businesses who deal with Australia frequently etc. but the the F knows lol
I will burn politicians for this. If they stop 1 of my incoming packages and make me wait more then 10 seconds longer then what it usually delivers forā¦ they will pay. THAT IS NOT A THREATā¦ ITS A PROMISE!
On the other hand, you can get a trusty american you know and send everything over to him/her ā¦ Mark everything as " returned goods" and since it is returned goods, it wont be gst or import duty ect. 
I know why there doing this, its same reason as usualā¦ ANd its discustingā¦ Always using the ITS BECAUSE WE WANT TO HELP THE SMALL BUSINESSESā¦ THATS WHAT THIS IS ABOUT !!! -----___-----
I run A small business basically, and this is not going to help me at all.
10% is ridiculousā¦ Its around 10% for Noppin fees on the purchase as it isā¦ Now its gonna be 20% !!!
Screw this country, im movin to japan.
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You all cannot catch a break. Geez.
Its all your fault churlocken 
On the upside if your a completly evil personā¦ we can look at this as a way to celevbrate people bidding less amount on yahoo japan, so it cuts competition out. Its good that im not evil thoughā¦ Or am I 
The way I read it is that the consumer has to pay the GST.
So if the seller sells more than $75,00 per financial year to people in Aus, the seller will have to register for GST purposes and will likely charge Aussie customers in the process.
If the seller is a private seller, weāll likely get charged in some capacity once itās delivered.
Need to figure out a way around it soon.
I think the GST avoidance and tax avoidance has gone on for a very long time for Australianās. This was just bound to happen give how active digitally Australianās are per ca-pita. I think Australianās are one of the highest downloaders of mobile applications per person in the world, and that means alot of online shopping / tech savey people.
Government doesnāt want to be losing out where they can make money off an industry like this worth billions, just like many countries in the world now charging import taxes. Australia is just late to the party again.
Donāt know what we can do, play ball and start taking into account 10% more on international purchases, or work out a way around this tax declaration / custom bs.
For the most part you guys donāt have to worry. This document shows a government wanting to collect GST but not be blamed for the higher prices. This is evident in the fact they are forcing the tax up the supply chain, where it will be a lot harder to almost impossible to enforce instead of at the boarder where it is easily enforible/collectible.
"If you sell less than $75,000 of low value goods to consumers in Australia (or other supplies
subject to GST) per year you will not be required to do anything."
Looks like no change for smaller sellers. Also, that number can be a lot higher since they donāt have a way to actually calculate how much you are sending.
What you have to worry about.
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Ami Ami/Forwarders/Other large sellers- Collection from this group will be iffy. Since registration if voluntary and it seems like they will have no way to track how much sellers are sending to Australia these companies might not collect the tax. I would be worried about Ami Ami and larger forwarding companies and expect the smaller companies not to comply. It will give them a bit of a competitive advantage. Also, companies might try to be tricky and just make multiple companies and just send out orders under different company names.
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eBay- looks safe, but this will be up the the Australian governmentās interpretation of what setting the terms and condition of sales is, the key word is any.
"An example of a marketplace website that is not liable for GST for supplies made through it
is a website that simply advertises goods for sale but which does not set any of the terms
and conditions for those sales."
Summary
Pretty much just looks like you will be paying more for sealed product/figures etc from Japan. You also might have to change forwarding companies. Everything else should be the same.
PS- I am not advocating tax avoidance, just stating what I think will happen.
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This is going to cost a shotload more to impose than they will actually collect. ESPECIALLY when the masses arrange a week where we all buy $20 worth of 10c items separately and clog the hell out of the process if it ends up being a customs thing.
Syndicate. Thank your mate harvey norman and his whinging about only making infinite profit not double infiniteā¦
Also side note apparently the guy who runs aus post was on 100k a week.
Joints fucked
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Good to see him gone 
Good to see him gone