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Old 06-09-2016, 07:52 PM
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As I understand goods bought overseas for $1000+ attract 10% GST plus 5% customs fee (10% customs fee for automotive parts).

I about to buy an exhaust for roughly $700 and the shipping is about $350 from Japan, with the total price over $1000 would I have to pay tax because of the shipping cost or is it only the item price that you are taxed on?

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Nope, you pay on the total including shipping.
So $1050 + 10%= $1155 +10%= $1306, plus whatever misc costs they can think of.
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Ask the seller if they are willing to lower the value of the exhaust on the shipping form.

Which place are you buying it from?
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Nengun, they said they won't alter the cost price but can insure it for 50% which they reckon customs goes by but if anything happens to it then I only get 50% of the price back.

When I asked them about taxes they said they don't know the taxes and fees for every country in the world, even though they know I'm Australian and they are Australian too I thought they would have some idea.

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How about invoices and receipts for the $700 and the $350 separately.
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Frome what ive gotten in before tax only applies to the parts not shipping

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Frome what ive gotten in before tax only applies to the parts not shipping
Normally the shipping is considered a service and they will add it to the cost of the item, they tried pulling that with me when I got some tyres delivered from the UK a few years ago.
Tyres and shipping came in at $978 AUD so they couldn't get me and tyres were released once they had a copy of the sales invoice (which was actually attached to all four tyres).
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Nengun, they said they won't alter the cost price but can insure it for 50% which they reckon customs goes by but if anything happens to it then I only get 50% of the price back.

When I asked them about taxes they said they don't know the taxes and fees for every country in the world, even though they know I'm Australian and they are Australian too I thought they would have some idea.

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Just order. Nengun "say" they wont alter the price. But what they "say" and what they "do" are 2 different things.

I bought some $2k worth kf parts from them before in one order. Slipped in under the radar no worries.
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Try RHD Japan as they did it a few times for me and are generally cheaper than every other online Japanese parts store.
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Yeah. RHDJapan is a good store too. But Nengun is cheaper on some things. And the shipping quotes vary wildly between the 2, even on the exact same part. So shop around.
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