{"id":7080,"date":"2018-03-22T20:01:46","date_gmt":"2018-03-22T10:01:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/?p=7080"},"modified":"2018-03-22T20:01:46","modified_gmt":"2018-03-22T10:01:46","slug":"australian-government-proposes-a-new-5-tax-on-all-online-orders-entering-the-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/news\/australian-government-proposes-a-new-5-tax-on-all-online-orders-entering-the-country\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian government proposes a new $5 tax on all online orders entering the country"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Australian shoppers would have to pay a $5 tax on every parcel posted from overseas under a federal government plan to cover skyrocketing security screening costs.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Parcels containing purchases like clothing, makeup and books worth less than $1000 – which now represent 90 per cent of deliveries entering Australia – would attract the new tax.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
This is in addition to forcing online vendors based overseas to begin collecting GST from July 1st.<\/p>\n
It’s estimated nearly 38 million parcels came into the country last year that fit the government’s criteria. That’s a cool A$190m in the back pocket for doing sweet F-A.<\/p>\n
Don’t piss in our pockets about “skyrocketing security screening costs”\u00a0<\/em>this is just more fear mongering by Mr Potato Head and his mates – the proposal coming from the Department of Home Affairs, led by Peter Dutton.<\/p>\n