With Amazon.com
recently being forced to pay state sales taxes in the USA some people are
raising the question again about why
GST cannot be levied on overseas based online retailers. Well, this particular issue is a domestic U.S.
problem where state sales taxes vary from one state to another and no
international borders are crossed, so the problem is a little simpler to solve.
We also do not have this issue in Australia. GST is national and is levied on online
purchases from Australian companies. The collection of GST on low value purchases from
overseas is said not to be economically viable; however I am sure it could be
done by data collection from banks, Paypal and other
