Author:  Admin_Russell  Posted:  May 22, 2023 17:00  Subject:  Australian Tax Implementation  Viewed:  753 times  Topic:  Administrative Cancel Reply

BrickLink ID Card Admin_Russell Location:  USA, California Member Since Contact Type Status May 9, 2017 Admin BrickLink Administrator

Dear BrickLink members, On June 1, 2023 we plan to implement new marketplace features and settings to handle Australian Goods and Services Tax (GST). This will mostly affect transactions where an Australian buyer is purchasing from stores outside of Australia, but it will also affect all Australian BrickLink members to a degree (both buyers and sellers). Here is a summary of what will change: 1. BrickLink will now collect Australian GST for all orders being shipped into Australia from the outside with a consignment value under $1,000 AUD. As with other taxes collected on the BrickLink site, this means that all such orders will require an onsite payment method. 2. When seller invoices go out on June 5th, GST will now be added to the invoice for Australian sellers. 3. Australian business sellers who are GST registered will now have the option to upload tax information to their BrickLink seller profile. GST will not be added to the monthly fee invoice for such sellers. We plan to send out emails to all affected BrickLink members later this week. For a deeper explanation of this implementation, please see our new Help Page, Australian Tax: https://www.bricklink.com/help.asp?helpID=2597 Thanks for reading, and feel free comment below if you have further questions. The BrickLink Team

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Re: Australian Tax Implementation - SylvainLS (46)

[...] Thanks for the headsup, Russell :) [...] Hurrah! (Still adding Australia, the $1000 limit, and the new help page to my copy-pasta library though :D) [...] (13 months ago, May 22, 2023, to Administrative)

Re: Australian Tax Implementation - ghyde (203)

[...] Interesting. If I am the buyer and order within the next 24 hours, do I have to manually pay GST on a parcel from the US? I'm setting up to place an order and just [...] (13 months ago, May 22, 2023, to Administrative)

Re: Australian Tax Implementation - nevyn68 (793)

[...] Since when do we pay GST on 2nd hand goods? New = Yes.... Used = No.... How are you going to seperate this? (12 months ago, May 24, 2023, to Administrative)

Re: Australian Tax Implementation - KynanG (8)

Will there be an option to forego adding gst to some items a user imports? To my understanding it is not payable on secondhand goods here so I am not sure where the money is [...] (12 months ago, May 24, 2023, to Administrative)

Re: Australian Tax Implementation - jonwil (82)

Does this mean anything for an Australian seller who sells to an Australian buyer? (12 months ago, May 26, 2023, to Administrative)

Re: Australian Tax Implementation - maxlego (15791)

To Australian sellers that have an ABN (Australian Business Number) and already registered for GST, this won't effect them much. It will make the paperwork a little [...] (12 months ago, May 26, 2023, to Administrative)

Re: Australian Tax Implementation - Nicks.Bricks.Au (113)

"BrickLink will now collect Australian GST for all orders being shipped into Australia from the outside with a consignment value under $1,000 AUD. As with other taxes collected [...] (12 months ago, May 26, 2023, to Administrative)

Re: Australian Tax Implementation - deanonet (90)

2. When seller invoices go out on June 5th, GST will now be added to the invoice for Australian sellers. If my store is a 'hobby business' without an ABN, it is not required [...] (12 months ago, May 26, 2023, to Administrative)

Re: Australian Tax Implementation - lukester1 (126)

We do not pay GST on second hand goods in Australia (12 months ago, May 26, 2023, to Administrative)

Re: Australian Tax Implementation - Dingoboy (123)

[...] I hate this country, Govt ruined it (12 months ago, May 27, 2023, to Administrative)

(Cancelled) - brick.warehouse (11604)

(Cancelled) (12 months ago, May 27, 2023, to Administrative)

Re: Australian Tax Implementation - domain (17)

Is there list of which other importing countries Bricklink currently or intends to charge GST (or similar, e.g. VAT) for? Can't find to find this information on the [...] (12 months ago, May 27, 2023, to Administrative)

Re: Australian Tax Implementation - maxlego (15791)

Hey Russell, Thought I better mention this as I don't think it has been mentioned in the help page or on this forum page. If a buyer was to purchase in the US just say and [...] (12 months ago, May 27, 2023, to Administrative)

Re: Australian Tax Implementation - Bee84 (63)

Every other business charges taxes on ordered over $1,000 not under. What about used bricks. They don't get taxes. Australian's always get's burnt with this rubbish. (12 months ago, May 28, 2023, to Administrative)

Re: Australian Tax Implementation - kezany (3960)

Dear Russel, we have many buyers from Australia. Currently three different paying method available for Buyers from Australia. 1. PayPal - onsite, no question 2. Stripe - onsite [...] (12 months ago, May 29, 2023, to Administrative)

Re: Australian Tax Implementation - Pachara72 (648)

Hi Russell, I've just tried to pay for my first international order since this came in and have an error telling me the price has changed and I need to go through the checkout [...] (12 months ago, Jun 6, 2023, to Administrative)

Re: Australian Tax Implementation - WT (587)

Hi there, I got a problem that the order from Australia cannot find the "GST receipt" in both E-mail and BL system. And the BL system said "download VAT receipt" [...] (9 months ago, Sep 9, 2023, to Administrative)

Re: Australian Tax Implementation - SezaR (1398)

I think about 8% of my orders were from Australia. Since the implementation of tax for Australia, (in the last 3 months), I have received only one order from Australia [...] (9 months ago, Sep 9, 2023, to Administrative)

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