On 10/05/2013 12:36 PM, James Harper wrote:
Oh and if I was the government, I would put a stop to the practices of Kogan, that is, avoiding GST by selling to Australians IN Australia, but from an "overseas supplier" .... well, the sooner we get a fair market place, the better.
How are they doing this? Imports are still subject to GST, although I believe it's the responsibility of the importer. Is it as simple as taking the position that "it's up to the customer to settle the GST with the ATO for imported services, if they don't do this we can hardly be to blame"?
Anyone can buy any single item or group of items from overseas -- if the total order value is low enough, then GST is not applicable.
Ah. I thought you meant they were skipping GST on the data & call charges somehow, but you were talking about hardware. James