{"id":1748,"date":"2013-11-25T09:26:17","date_gmt":"2013-11-24T23:26:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/?p=1748"},"modified":"2013-11-25T09:26:17","modified_gmt":"2013-11-24T23:26:17","slug":"government-still-wants-to-look-into-collecting-gst-on-sub-1000-imports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/news\/government-still-wants-to-look-into-collecting-gst-on-sub-1000-imports\/","title":{"rendered":"Government Still Wants to Look Into Collecting GST on Sub-$1000 Imports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Josh Taylor at ZDNet:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Moves to slap GST on overseas online shopping purchases worth less than AU$1000 will be on the agenda when Federal Treasurer Joe Hockey meets his state and territory counterparts this week.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is still gonna be discussed, even though the previous government conducted a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.treasury.gov.au\/PublicationsAndMedia\/Publications\/2012\/Low-Value-Parcel-Processing\">report finding that the cost of setting up the bureaucracy to collect the sub-$1000 import GST would actually negate the revenue earned<\/a>. Once again, logic defies these people. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Josh Taylor at ZDNet: Moves to slap GST on overseas online shopping purchases worth less than AU$1000 will&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"reckoner_social_message":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1748"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1748\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}