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> Surprised they are not focusing on LOCAL Aussie ecommerce sites that don't collect and remit GST for local sales. Like?
by asdfaoeu 10y ago
> Surprised they are not focusing on LOCAL Aussie ecommerce sites that don't collect and remit GST for local sales.
Like?
- sjwright 10y agoOne example is Kogan, who claims the sale occurs in Hong Kong. https://www.kogan.com/au/help/import-duties-and-gst/ https://www.kogan.com/au/help/import-duties-and-gst/
- cyberferret 10y agoMost subscription based SaaS services for instance. You usually have a single price advertised for your monthly revenue. Most customers are just an email address, not a physical address. It's a tough call to look at your monthly Stripe payments and try and work out who is a local customer and who is overseas. I know this from hard experience. We have to cross refer the Stripe info across to our user database where we have an 'Office Location' field used in the app itself (for other purposes) to try and work it out. Messy. But without that, it is a wild stab in the dark. I am willing to bet that most AU SaaS businesses are either claiming all their sales are from overseas, or just estimating a %age of Australian customers to fill out their BAS figures.
- caf 10y agoIf a lot of their customers are businesses they'll know, because their Australian business customers will want a tax invoice so they can claim it as an input credit.