Move to make online buyers pay GST

[p.dath]

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/ar...ectid=10697859

Retailers in New Zealand will be watching closely the Australian campaign to have GST collected on privately imported goods...

And from an Australian web site:
http://www.zdnet.com.au/uproar-at-re...-339308281.htm

Brick-and-mortar retailers have already experienced considerable resistance against their campaign to have GST imposed on purchases under $1000 from overseas sites, with consumer groups and politicians weighing in against a change to the GST threshold...

It can only be a matter of time before everything has GST added that comes into the country.

[Quasievil]

Good, one less disadvantage for those in the trade

[sil3nt]

It will still be cheaper to buy from overseas.

[onearmedbandit]

LOLZ, I paid GST on all my parts I ordered recently and it was still under half the price of what I would've paid here in NZ.

15% doesn't worry me. 200% does...

[NinjaNanna]

Ebay was running a print advertising campaign in OZ before Christmas, the slogan read, "Browse it at Westfields, buy it on Ebay."


Now there was something very perverse about that, its that type of immoral shopper behavior that will see traditional retail and all of the jobs associated with it dissapear.

Sure buy online if you want but don't exploit the retailers that carry stock to reduce your risk of buying the wrong thing.

[bogan]

Ebay was running a print advertising campaign in OZ before Christmas, the slogan read, "Browse it at Westfields, buy it on Ebay."


Now there was something very perverse about that, its that type of immoral shopper behavior that will see traditional retail and all of the jobs associated with it dissapear.

Sure buy online if you want but don't exploit the retailers that carry stock to reduce your risk of buying the wrong thing.

agreed, thats pretty shit. Seen the poll results? pretty much a landslide for not paying GST, gotta wonder if there is an argument for that that doesn't contain "I just want cheap shit"

[p.dath]

agreed, thats pretty shit. Seen the poll results? pretty much a landslide for not paying GST, gotta wonder if there is an argument for that that doesn't contain "I just want cheap shit"

I bet if they ran a poll saying "would you like to pay personal income tax" it would also be a landslide result ...

[YellowDog]

Ebay was running a print advertising campaign in OZ before Christmas, the slogan read, "Browse it at Westfields, buy it on Ebay."


Now there was something very perverse about that, its that type of immoral shopper behavior that will see traditional retail and all of the jobs associated with it dissapear.

Sure buy online if you want but don't exploit the retailers that carry stock to reduce your risk of buying the wrong thing.

I can't really see what the issue is.

GST is presently payable on items of over $NZ400 imported. Items for resale would be of a higher value, so GST. Reduce the threashold to NZ$200 if the admin isn't too expensive. It won't remedy the actual problem.

If the item + NZ$100 shipping is still considerably cheaper than the NZ price, maybe the NZ traders should ask their suppliers to get real. Most would rather buy from local traders unless they feel the H U G E additional cost cannot be justified. IMO - Global pricing should not be so variable.

GBPound and NZ$ prices seem very cheap at the moment. NZ traders can buy even cheaper than 'Jo Public' can.

I'd quite like to buy a tanker load of fuel and sell it at $1.50 / litre rather than the rip off prices the oil companies are marking up.

If US$140 per barrel with a 0.68 NZ to US exchange rate = NZ$2.00 per litre, why does US$90 per barrel with a 0.77 NZ to US exchange rate also = NZ$2.00 per litre?

http://www.oil-price.net/

[Blackflagged]

Fuel in Bolivia`s cheap (subsidised) thing is people from across the boarder, buy it.So tax pays are subsidising neighbouring countrys. But the general Bolivian populus can`t see that, it`s a bad idea in the long run. Just the price of gas.

[Quasievil]

If US$140 per barrel with a 0.68 NZ to US exchange rate = NZ$2.00 per litre, why does US$90 per barrel with a 0.77 NZ to US exchange rate also = NZ$2.00 per litre?

http://www.oil-price.net/

Do you pour oil into your Car and or Bikes gas tank ? you should try Petrol mate, its much better.

Ya Muppet, it costs alot to dig the stuff out the ground and process it to a petrol suitable for the market.
Not to mention return on investment the exploration costs and numbers to get product to the market are staggering !!

[phill-k]

Do you pour oil into your Car and or Bikes gas tank ? you should try Petrol mate, its much better.

Ya Muppet, it costs alot to dig the stuff out the ground and process it to a petrol suitable for the market.
Not to mention return on investment the exploration costs and numbers to get product to the market are staggering !!

And don't forget the verious taxes our government add to the price of a ltr

[Swoop]

GST on EVERY item entering NZ?

That would be a nightmare to police and be a HUGE bureaucratic nightmare!
It's bound to happen then.

[imdying]

Sweet, no trouble. I buy things that are over the threshold value, pay my GST, and still pay less than half NZ price.

John Albertson must be some special kind of dick head if he believes those things.

[YellowDog]

Do you pour oil into your Car and or Bikes gas tank ? you should try Petrol mate, its much better.

Ya Muppet, it costs alot to dig the stuff out the ground and process it to a petrol suitable for the market.
Not to mention return on investment the exploration costs and numbers to get product to the market are staggering !!

Huh ?

It's all changed then and the price of our fuel is no longer related to the price of the traded stuff that comes out of the ground that is used to make it.

So it's the processing and distribution costs that have gone up to justify $2.00 per litre.

Glad you don't think you are being screwed.

[Blackflagged]

The Barrel price is Crude not even what you would think of as oil.

Petrol tax (Some of these price will change with the rise in crude)

When you last bought petrol, 59.129 cents per litre was collected by the government as taxes, duties and levies, made up of:

* 48.524 cents - National Land Transport Fund
* 9.90 cents - ACC Motor Vehicle Account
* 0.66 cents - Local Authorities Fuel Tax
* 0.045 cents - Petroleum or Engine Fuels Monitoring Levy

In addition, GST is collected on the overall price of fuel, which amounts to a 7.7 cents per litre "tax on taxes".

All fuels also pay an Emissions Trading Scheme charge (approximately 3 cents per litre).

http://www.aa.co.nz/about/issues/fue...etrol-tax.aspx

Watch this space they will be thinking up a new Tax.