International Transformers retails and Australian GST. What retailers are doing.

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Here is the latest info from BBTS, regarding if you A: Have your items sent to a mail-forwarding company and B: Have your items sent to a friend in the US:

Regarding Mail-Forwarding:
I apologize to report that any time you will be receiving items from outside Australia, you will want to expect to pay the GST in some shape or form. While I am able to say that you will not be assessed the GST unless selecting a shipping address within Australia with us, I anticipate that the GST would then be collected from any freight-forwarding company you would work with to receive the goods.

Regarding to a US friend:
I do not believe that you will be assessed any GST in those instances, since the items will not be imported and/or leave the USA. The GST is only assessed, by my understanding, on the items that will ship into Australia by means of importation.

So by the sounds of it, if you have a friend in the US, you could have your stuff sent to them, then they could send it to you as a ‘gift’ with no GST added.

Just in case though, I’ve just had all my outstanding items shipped today.