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Why not collect the tax rather than banning Australians?

• imgabe 8y ago
  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.
  • mikeash 8y ago
    The Australian site only has a small fraction of the products, so it’s not a straight substitution.
    • rosege 8y ago
      and its much more expensive
• deleted 8y ago
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• jccooper 8y ago
  Presumably complying with the import tax is a PITA. Import/export usually is. Certainly it's more work than adding a redirect. 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.
  • exhilaration 8y ago
    There are companies out there that will take care of collecting duties/taxes from your foreign customers, like https://www.i-parcel.com/ https://www.i-parcel.com/
• emodendroket 8y ago
  I'd guess the answer is they're not happy about the tax.