Bonneville America Forums Forums Off Topic Discussion Forums Lounge custom's import tax in Australia

Well firstly hello to everybody on hereand thanks for the informative people here it's great to be able to search and find just about any question that needs answering, anyway all that aside i thought i would just let everybody in austyralia know about this customs import tax if you don't already know abourt it. To put it siply if you pay more than AU$1000 for apart that is sent from overseas you may have to pay a import tax on it, for AU$1600 it was $192 after speaking with the lady there, she was mpst helpfull I was surprised by that, a government employee helpfull!!!) sidetracked a bit there but her suggestion was that if i had further parcels with multipul items that they should be split up to eliminate the tax, and preferably sent on different days as they can add delivery's together. this was a simple explination but hey hope it may help someone out there. A so to summerise
1. reduce cost of package to below AU$1000
2. send on different days.

sounds silly but hey thats me.

cheers

Craig