{"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

Source: Department of Home Affairs plans new tax on parcels being posted to Australia<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Australian shoppers would have to pay a $5 tax on every parcel posted from overseas under a federal…\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[10],"tags":[94,482],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"reckoner_social_message":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7080"}],"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\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7080\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}