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Article #138Re: Online dealer that ships to Australia?
From: glocock
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1998 00:00
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1998 00:00
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In article <360ecc69.66413320@news.tig.com.au>, alanr@tig.com.au (Alanr) wrote: > On Sun, 27 Sep 1998 08:42:50 +1000, "Rod Speed" > <rspeed@dragnet.com.au> wrote: > > > > >Andrew Morgan wrote in message <6uj2m6$l5o$1@usenet44.supernews.com>... > > > >> Whe ordering from international stores what is the deal with import taxes??? > > > >Basically you pay the sales tax on entry. And thats calculated > >on 120% of the converted price for complicated reasons. > > Sorry, but is this correct? 120% on the converted price? > > If I want to buy a Riva TNT from the US @ $US 139 = $ AUS 240 would I > end up paying another 120%! ie total of $528???? No, he's saying the sales tax is calculated on 120% of the purchase price. So if you bought a Riva for $A 240, and the sales tax was 22%, you'd pay 1.2*240*.22 =$63. So what are the complicated reasons? -- Cheers Interested in efficient electric wheel-motors? Greg Locock http://www.tip.csiro.au -----== Posted via Deja News, The Leader in Internet Discussion ==----- http://www.dejanews.com/rg_mkgrp.xp Create Your Own Free Member Forum
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10d683,fbca567a34db6ee7 X-Google-Attributes: gid10d683,public X-Google-Thread: 109e38,fbca567a34db6ee7 X-Google-Attributes: gid109e38,public From: glocock@my-dejanews.com Subject: Re: Online dealer that ships to Australia? Date: 1998/09/28 Message-ID: <6umu5e$40s$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> X-Deja-AN: 395492335 References: <6tpi0u$kpn$1@aggedor.rmit.edu.au> <906007015.4746@karri.southwest.com.au> <6uj2m6$l5o$1@usenet44.supernews.com> <6ujqik$uc6$1@reader1.reader.news.ozemail.net> <360ecc69.66413320@news.tig.com.au> X-Http-Proxy: 1.0 x9.dejanews.com:80 (Squid/1.1.22) for client 136.1.1.19 Organization: Deja News - The Leader in Internet Discussion X-Article-Creation-Date: Mon Sep 28 03:01:02 1998 GMT Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.misc,aus.computers.ibm-pc X-Http-User-Agent: Mozilla/3.04 (Win16; I)