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Australia recently ruled that its local (10%) Goods and Services Tax (GST) applies to the majority of online purchases. The big overseas sites, such as Amazon,
by femto 8y ago
Australia recently ruled that its local (10%) Goods and Services Tax (GST) applies to the majority of online purchases. The big overseas sites, such as Amazon, claimed that it was not practical for them to collect the GST on behalf of the Australian Government. It could get interesting now that that Australia can say "but you have the facility to collect out of state taxes, so why not out of country?"
Presumably there will be a host of new web based startups offering a one-stop tax collection service for all jurisdictions in the world.
- SyneRyder 8y agoAmazon has reopened the Amazon US store to Australia now that their systems are upgraded. But it only applies to a handful of items, sold directly by Amazon - you can't buy items from third party sellers on Amazon US & have them delivered to Australia anymore. Third party sellers still have to register on Amazon Australia instead.
- wavegeek 8y agoYes there was recently an item on Amazon I wanted to buy. But could not as it was not listed on the local amazon.country. It ended up costing me 10X as much having it shipped from Europe to a friend in the USA and then here. Enormous costs imposed on me and others for very little benefit.