[LINK] Kogan on Online Retail....

[Jan Whitaker]

At 12:16 PM 10/01/2011, Frank O'Connor you wrote:
>1. It costs more than it raises in revenue. Doesn't make a lot of
>sense to do this ... as the ATO pointed out.


PM doesn't buy push to expand online GST

http://www.theage.com.au/business/pm-doesnt-buy-push-to-expand-online-gst-20110110-19l4g.html

Ben Butler and Peter Martin

January 11, 2011

PRIME Minister Julia Gillard has all but killed the retailers' 
campaign to widen the GST net for online purchases from overseas.

''I would be very reluctant to see Australians who are facing 
cost-of-living pressures not able to access shopping on the internet 
in the way that they access it now,'' Ms Gillard said.

''A small percentage, a very small percentage, of shopping is on the 
internet from overseas and the present advice is, in terms of revenue 
and recovery from that small percentage, that it would cost more in 
administrative costs than it would recover in revenue.''


I think it's over.
Jan



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