haha, I own my own business and am fully aware of how the GST...

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13/07/18

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Originally posted by All4One ↑

nosirommit

Collecting tax is nothing if not pedantic.
As for foreign companies charging GST when they dont have an Australian presence they will not spend tens of thousands of dollars collecting it for the Australian government, why would they?
The Australian government cant get big corporations with a big Australian presence to pay the right amount of tax and they wont do what is necessary.

"Amazon has been applying VAT on Japanese delivered products for many years, no doubt to many other countries as well.
Their systems already allow for tax collection and payment."

That whole argument is mute as that is an English tax not Australian and they probably have some deal with the English government as to getting paid for collecting it.

Once again GST is not a company charge it is a government charge and companies spend a lot of money collecting it for the government in Australia.
If you dont understand that point I cant see you understanding the rest if you have never had a business.

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haha, I own my own business and am fully aware of how the GST and taxation system in general works.
As far as consumers are concerned GST is part of the cost of purchasing a good or service. Yes it is a tax but just like sales tax used to be, GST is not quoted separately, in fact it is illegal to do so. B2B is different.

Not sure what English has to do with Japanese VAT???
And collecting Japanese VAT is in no way, shape or form any different to collecting Australian GST.
I'm sorry that it ruins your argument, but that's how it goes...

Collecting tax is part of doing business, if a company can't make enough revenue to cover collecting tax in a particular market then it clearly isn't worth them being there, period. The fact that Amazon has opened a local operation suggest that is not the case...
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