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A Question Concerning Australia Postage
On Jan 28, 3:49 am, Asia-translation
wrote: On Jan 28, 10:48 am, "rodney" wrote: G'day Rein, I wished you hadn't asked that question I am feeble in the knowledge therein. The best I can do is a guess, and what I have always thought, is that the 10% charged on the use of internal postage stamps on international mail, is to offset the GST tax credits customers are entitled to claim for that particular postage. I have often sent international mail via internal stamps, and kick myself for not checking what I was charged, and whether the 10% was included threrin. If you so desire, I can send you a 3Mb pdf on the "general" post office guidelines that may cover this in scrutiny. I now you have a very enquiring mind Please advise if you would like it. Rod. "Rein" wrote in message news Rodney, How does the Post levy this GST when you're using stamps for domestic purposes that don't bear 'International Post"?? groetjes, Rein "What is the GST? The Goods and Services Tax (GST) in Australia is a Value Added Tax (VAT) on the supply of goods and services in Australia. It was introduced by the Federal Government with the A New Tax System (Goods and Services Tax) Act 1999, taking effect from July 1 2000. The basic premise of the new tax was to broaden the tax base, which was heavily biased toward the provision of services. Prior to the GST, Australia operated a Wholesale Sales Tax (WST) which imposed a tax on wholesales of goods. The WST was implemented in the 30's when Australia had an economy dominated by goods. Over the years however, Australia's economy evolved to be more services based, and the GST served to strip the unfair tax advantage that service providing businesses had over suppliers of goods. The GST is levied at a flat rate of 10% on most goods and services, apart from gst exempt items, and input taxed goods and services." Op Sun, 27 Jan 2008 00:46:17 +0100 schreef rodney : G'day Dan, from page 13 of aust post postage guide http://cjoint.com/data/bBaTBhUxjn.htm HTH "Coinenthusiast" wrote in message . .. Howdy; Are the issues of the Australia "colonies" valid for use in Australia proper? I know that Australian Antarctic Territory are but what about Christmas Island, Nauru, Norfolk, etc? Regards Dan -- Gemaakt met Opera's revolutionaire e-mailprogramma: http://www.opera.com/mail/ As I understand it (and the Goods and Services Tax has driven stronger men than me to spirituous liquors) domestic postage is free of GST, but international mail isn't. That is why we are supposed to use only International stamps on international mail. Tony Mac Gillycuddy Slight Correction, Tony... Domestic postage is charged GST (VAT) while International postage is not. The same applies in Canada. Here we use the same stamps for both. However, if you are buying stamps and mailing them internationally at the counter, you can fill in a form for an instant GST rebate. Minimum postage must be $5 total to make it worth while. In Canada, we have provincial tax as well, so GST is now 5%. The reason for this is that International Postal rules (I expect one of the UPU conventions) precludes charging tax on international mail. (After all the stamp is a receipt for a "tax" being paid.) Blair |
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