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Offline Fun Police

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Re: I Find it Quite Amusing....
« Reply #50 on: May 08, 2012, 11:41:37 AM »
I actually don't understand why it would cost a fortune to administer the collection of 10% GST (??)

Wouldn't it be as simply as when you pick up your parcel from the post office, they just charge 10% of the declared value prior to collection??

And with couriers, the same thing.  You are expecting an order, so you have to logon to their website and pay the 10% prior to delivery.

How hard can that be??
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Re: I Find it Quite Amusing....
« Reply #51 on: May 08, 2012, 02:40:04 PM »
Because of the economy of scale. As an example, if I buy a book from Amazon at $25 then GST is just $2.50

There is more than one person and several departments/agencies/companies involved in processing my GST transaction, but for simplicity lets assume it's just one person and leave out all the overheads of employing that person or overtime rates etc.

Assume, albeit generously, that processing time to process my parcel including identify the contents, calculate, gather and remit that money through the accounts system would be 15 minutes. After we are government workers...  ;D If somone is being paid around $48k per annum (Based on ABS average aussie weekly earning stats) that equates to roughly $33 an hour, or around $8.25 salary for the 15 minutes work.

So, by my (very rough) reckoning it would cost the government an additional $5.75 for me to buy a book from Amazon if they charged GST. And my purchase is one of thousands of extra parcels to process every day.





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Re: I Find it Quite Amusing....
« Reply #52 on: May 08, 2012, 06:12:59 PM »
This thread is getting way to 'technical now?!?!
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I Find it Quite Amusing....
« Reply #53 on: May 08, 2012, 08:23:50 PM »
Ok. That's fair enough. I can see now why they set the $1000 limit now.
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Re: I Find it Quite Amusing....
« Reply #54 on: May 10, 2012, 06:25:49 PM »
Hey Duggie can you get me a job with a pay like yours.


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Re: I Find it Quite Amusing....
« Reply #55 on: May 10, 2012, 09:28:11 PM »
Well all through the years the world has been changing................and things are just not the same as they was............but guess what ?? Its still all going to be OK !!


So long as we love and respect one another xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxox

And yes, I to want a job with pay like Duggie...........nurses don't earn big money...........but not in it for the money.
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