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For anyone buying parts overseas, here's a heads up - if the parts total more than AU$1000, break up the order into a couple of transactions, to avoid paying duty and GST to the Australian Government.
I ordered some wheels and a bunch of stuff from Alfaholics, shipped as one order, and now I have to pay duty and GST. That is if I can actually navigate the ridiculous multitude of forms that the inept b*stards from Customs sent me.
Apparently you can't just pay the duty, you have to register as a client in their "Integrated Cargo System", which is an excuse for more forms, and more ways the fascist government c*nts can track your every move.
I'm not a 'client' of an 'integrated cargo system', I'm just a bloke who bought some wheels from England, cause nobody in this backwater country makes them!!!
And just in case they haven't got their hand in my pocket deeply enough, I also have to pay GST on the shipping!! *** should I pay GST for shipping that I paid to a company in another country?
Of all the 200-odd countries in the world, I had to be born in this one! Just my friggin luck!
I ordered some wheels and a bunch of stuff from Alfaholics, shipped as one order, and now I have to pay duty and GST. That is if I can actually navigate the ridiculous multitude of forms that the inept b*stards from Customs sent me.
Apparently you can't just pay the duty, you have to register as a client in their "Integrated Cargo System", which is an excuse for more forms, and more ways the fascist government c*nts can track your every move.
I'm not a 'client' of an 'integrated cargo system', I'm just a bloke who bought some wheels from England, cause nobody in this backwater country makes them!!!
And just in case they haven't got their hand in my pocket deeply enough, I also have to pay GST on the shipping!! *** should I pay GST for shipping that I paid to a company in another country?
Of all the 200-odd countries in the world, I had to be born in this one! Just my friggin luck!