ONLINE shoppers face "severe" penalties if they are caught taking advantage of loopholes to avoid paying tax on foreign goods.

Read more: http://www.news.com.au/business/online-shoppers-to-be-fined-if-they-accept-fake-invoices-to-avoid-gst/story-e6frfm1i-1226379657028#ixzz1wVdsB3Xn

Of course Gerry Harvey has to weigh in, since laws these days are designed purely to benefit him.

Harvey Norman chairman Gerry Harvey said the only way to stop people doing things that are illegal is to punish them.

"When they know nothings done about it - it's no different to me bringing drugs or firearms or anything into the country," Mr Harvey said.

The champs at Kogan are against it.

What a fucking idiot

Haha oh this is going to go well. So now buying online = a stupid fine. Goodbye Ebay.

Is this actually news? Pretty sure there have always been fines involved if caught dodging tax.

Breaking news: Capitalism not working for capitalist businesses

Na, as long as the price you pay matches the price on the invoice and you have proof (bank statement?) you should be right. Still doesn't make it right though, like the million dollar fines for blaming the carbon tax for a price increase without proof (when the accc says that it will be near impossible in a lot of cases to actually provide that proof).

http://www.accc.gov.au/content/index.phtml/itemId/1039030#heading3
http://www.hangthebankers.com/australians-face-fines-of-over-1m-for-speaking-out-against-new-carbon-tax/
http://www.news.com.au/money/cost-of-living/dont-serve-carbon-lies/story-fnagkbpv-1226366534694
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/carbon-tax/pricing-harder-to-police-than-gst/story-fndttws1-1226367402324

Spending is down 0.2percent but I think that may also be a lot of people waiting to see the actual effects of the carbon tax before dealing their cards.

Also fuck Gerry.

I haven't purchased anything from HN for at least a year and will continue to boycott HN in hope that other will do the same.

Don't think I've ever bought anything from Harvey Norman, not with their stupid prices on furniture and office supplies.

gerry harvey is a rotten little cunt. i wish someone would throw a shit pie at him. even thats too good for the prick.

i haven't bought anything from HN in over 5 years and long may it continue.

Is this like all the people that were going to be fined hundreds of thousands of dollars for importing Mortal Kombat when it was RC'd here?

I mean, how are they ever going to know unless you're unlucky enough to be one of the few random inspections. Just seems like a whole lot of hot air intended to scare people into buying locally.

You don't need to boycot HN. Their prices do it for you.

i bought a cap the other day from a us store and the cunts tried to sting me $50 for shipping for a fucking hat...

got my $20 refund for the hat and told oldmate to suck a dick.

$50 freight for a hat, come on....

This makes me not only want to continue boycotting this cunts store, but actively campaigning to get other people to not spend a single cent in Harvey Norman.

Wake the fuck up Gerry you git.

Can't wait until everything in Australia comes from a warehouse, with no actual human sales people. Just a web portal for everything.

And then people will wonder why they can no longer have anything instantly.

What ? some dumb logic there.

Regionalised pricing has nothing to do with shipping, logistics or warehousing costs. And everything to do with "middlemen" publishers and marketing not getting a cut.

dodging tax is illegal so people doing it deserve to be caught and fined.

you mean like Harvey Norman Direct import? you know the site he opened so he could avoid GST?

you mean like Harvey Norman Direct import? you know the site he opened so he could avoid GST?

What did that company do that was illegal?

I haven't purchased anything from HN for at least a year and will continue to boycott HN in hope that other will do the same.

Don't think I've ever bought anything from Harvey Norman, not with their stupid prices on furniture and office supplies.

I dont shop at harvey norman, COZ ITS CHEAPER ONLINE :D.. and I don't have to go to the shop, deal with sales people, go to another physical shop get a different quote, go back and barter.

If I was more of a fuckwit "bogan" (mrdamn 2012), i'd say that the reason I don't shop there is our amazing anti-carbon government has educated me on the importance of this and I realised that these shops promote carbon emission through:
- Use of electricity
- customers driving in
- transport of supplies
- construction of building
- waste through tangible marketing
- sales people's hot air
- higher prices cause more carbon emission (i.e. driving to other shops to re-price)
+ Delivery of goods from store to home if not entering store or bulky item (so triple dip here - deliver to warehouse, move to store, move to house)
+ they have online shops so wtf they complaining about?

Then multiply this by the amount of phsyical unrequired shops to service a small area.

Vs online shop
- Much less electricity requirements in comparison
- Reducing carbon by piggy-backing off the use of courier and international postal systems which will operate regardless :)


Jobs and economy seem irrelevant in this context as the government certainly don't give a fuck about it.


I would just not post this now that i'm done ranting, but then it would feel like a waste.

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Every single one of you should work for news dot com dot au. ... READ THE ARTICLE.

The news.com.au article?!

Every single one of you should work for news dot com dot au. The amount of idiocy in this thread is fucking amazing. READ THE ARTICLE.

nah fuck that I just wanna read the tagline and winge.. like a boooogan



edit: found better video

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