[chbot] GST on AliExpress orders

[Henri Shustak]

Level playing field. In China the business (Chinese Owned) which do well get monetary incentives unlike many other countries. Especially those with large exports. Businesses setup in China but owned by overseas parties are not part of this and as such they have a hard time competing with some markets in China.

Henri

> On 9/01/2020, at 8:34 PM, Volker Kuhlmann <list57 at top.geek.nz> wrote:
> 
> On Thu 09 Jan 2020 18:40:59 NZDT +1300, Robin Gilks wrote:
> 
>> Found out that my US$17.74 is going to cost me US$20.40 as AliExpress are
>> putting GST onto orders now.
>> 
>> Not sure when this started - beginning of the year? Last week had the tax
>> applied, last September didn't!
> 
> It started 1 Dec 2019, not unexpected. It was like that by 12 Dec.
> 
> It's less to do with ripping off the poor and more with levelling the
> playing field for local businesses against overseas corporations.
> 
> That aliexpress would pull out of the NZ market I put into the urban
> myth / wishful thinking basket. They already had to do something similar
> for a number of other countries. Given the loads they're raking in from
> NZ they're far better off to do a little programming. Amazon just didn't
> have their act together in time; I didn't get any impression they'd quit
> the NZ market. As long as they can squeeze us because we want something
> from them, they'll be here.
> 
> Volker
> 
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