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The move is a response to a new GST policy that will apply 10% tax to all overseas purchases under $1,000 announced by the Turnbull government last year in a bid to “level the playing field” between Australian and overseas retailers.
"Australia is a lucky country run mainly by second rate people who share its luck. It lives on other people's ideas, and, although its ordinary people are adaptable, most of its leaders (in all fields) so lack curiosity about the events that surround them that they are often taken by surprise." -- Donald Horne
If any of you Australians want someone to drop ship you, email me
The move is a response to a new GST policy that will apply 10% tax to all overseas purchases under $1,000 announced by the Turnbull government last year in a bid to “level the playing field” between Australian and overseas retailers.
Why not collect the tax rather than banning Australians?
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why not collect the tax rather than banning Australians?
Presumably they will collect the tax when using the Australian Amazon site. It's not that Australians can't use Amazon at all, they just can't order from the US site to avoid the tax.
The move is a response to a new GST policy that will apply 10% tax to all overseas purchases under $1,000 announced by the Turnbull government last year in a bid to “level the playing field” between Australian and overseas retailers.
Why not collect the tax rather than banning Australians?
Earlier quoted context omitted.
This may become? Hasn't it always been like this for most commercial companies and sites? "Video not available in your country". "Google Nexus is not available for your country, check back soon". google.com -> google.ro (or whatever). I guess most Americans haven't noticed it because they haven't needed stuff from abroad...
I've occasionally run across European online retailers while looking to buy something online and sometimes the prices are even attractive before you see what the shipping costs. They've never flat out told me "You can't order from here because you're in the US." Cell phones and videos have service and licensing problems that physical goods don't run into, so geographic limits on those is less surprising.
I've been told that, for something as simple as an attached room for an RV/caravan awning. Fiamma product, can't find it in the U. S. "Shipping costs be damned, send me one of those!" And they flat out said they wouldn't. Prolly customs paperwork or something, that they didn't want to do (or didn't know how).
The move is a response to a new GST policy that will apply 10% tax to all overseas purchases under $1,000 announced by the Turnbull government last year in a bid to “level the playing field” between Australian and overseas retailers.
Why not collect the tax rather than banning Australians?
There may also be some organizational lines being crossed; I can imagine the American site team doesn't really want to deal with Australian tax issues.
At least they clearly know. Compare to frustrations with shipping from US to Europe where you'll never know till checkout whether delivery is possible or not.
I don't understand the issue as long as you're paying for the shipping.