Hi Ralf, There are no customs duties on photographic gear in Australia. There is a 10% GST if the value is over AU$1,000 (including shipping) which this would be. This makes bringing things in from overseas into Australia interesting as it can work out cheaper to pay several lots of shipping rather than have items sent together and exceeding the AU$1,000 limit.
But yes, it's taking everything into account except the toll and petrol to drive over and put in the customs forms (which realistically I could do via fax anyway). Leon 2009/6/3 Ralf R. Radermacher <[email protected]>: > Leon Altoff <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I want to buy a couple of lenses. I've priced them locally and via >> mail order from B&H. If I buy locally it will cost me an extra AU$900 >> (after GST, shipping and currency exchange, etc). That's over half a >> K7! > > Is that including customs duties, import VAT and the like? Here in > Europe, this often gobbles up much of the price advantage from buying > overseas. > > As an example, something that costs, say, 300 USD plus 40 USD P&P will > have 27,20 of customs duties (8 percent) plus 69,76 of VAT (19 percent) > added on import for a total of 436,96 USD. > > Ralf > > -- > Ralf R. Radermacher - DL9KCG - Köln/Cologne, Germany > Blog : http://the-real-fotoralf.blogspot.com > Audio : http://aporee.org/maps/projects/fotoralf > Web : http://www.fotoralf.de -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
