10% tax for Australians

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10% tax for Australians

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I recently ordered some parts from Partzilla and was advised the 10% tax charged was for Australian sales tax.
Since the Australian tax office has no jurisdiction in the USA and is totally unable to force USA suppliers to collect their tax, I regard this as a ripoff as there is no way to ascertain if this tax is actually paid to Australia.
I will no longer use Partzilla and advise Australians to check whether USA suppliers are charging this tax.
Partzilla is the first I have come across so far.
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I just called Ebay and yes they are charging tax now in 39 states, so when a seller is selling a item and the buyer is in one of these states that want there tax money you will be charged. I guess it even other countries have to pay as well. And by the end of the year all states will be part of it. Sucks for the buyers for sure.

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Ebay started adding the tax in Nov. 2019.
I get purchases shipped to New York State and they are one of the States that does collect.
Even worse, recently i was required to pay import duties into Canada on a small item and the ill-informed Customs Agent tried to charge the fee on the entire purchase including the State tax. It would only have been a small amount but after a LONG wait they decided the State tax would not be included in the total.

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You are not alone bud; from 01 December 2019 15% VAT is added to all overseas online purchases by New Zealanders using Ebay, Aliexpress, Alibaba & 1000's of other businesses which the government have been clever enough to rope into tax collecting arrangements. It's a curse however there's no way out of it. Don't blame Partzilla- they are only doing what they're obliged to do

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My beef is that I have checked to see if the USA businesses are registered with Australia and are actually paying the tax collected from Australians to Australia.
So far I have found none are registered which indicates they are collecting the tax but not paying it across. Nice 10% bonus on their sales.

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We're in this together, my friend. And we are all disappointed. But from 2019, a 15% VAT is charged for online orders from online stores. At the beginning of 2020, I was about to fall into the trap when I planned to order an expensive electric guitar. Respectively, the VAT I had to pay was going to be relatively high. Luckily, I wanted to pay it with my ThePayStubs account, and I was informed about taxes. That's when I decided I'd better buy a guitar straight from a store.

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