Should overseas online purchases be subject to GST?

Retailers in New Zealand will be watching closely the Australian campaign to have GST collected on privately imported goods.

Most goods bought online for less than $400 here escape GST and duty and retailers are worried about imports being used for commercial purposes.

As in Australia, the Retail Association is worried about the threat of online sales to the sector which has sales of about $65 billion a year and employs about 325,000 people.

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