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I've been looking online but couldn't find a definitive answer.
It seems that if I purchase something overseas and have it shipped here, if its total value (incl. shipping) is under $1000 NZD, that Customs won't collect GST at the border, and rather, this is supposed to be collected by the Vendor.
But what happens if your vendor doesn't collect GST at the time of sale, and your goods are under $1000? Will it then be collected at the border by Customs?, or by your shipper (e.g., DHL)?
So you're not using YouShop or similar, the place you're buying from is not registered for GST in NZ and the value including shipping is under $NZ1000?
This CAB page says:
If the overseas seller is not registered for GST, they do not have to add GST to the cost of the goods
If the overseas seller is not registered for GST (because they do less than $NZ60,000 of sales to New Zealand customers), they will not collect GST on the goods you buy from them.
If the total value of the goods is no more than $1000, you will not be liable for GST.
So it seems you wouldn't pay GST.
Yeah just shipping via DHL or UPS.
Interesting, I wonder if there's a way to know whether a seller does under that per year, or maybe if customs flags that they are doing over the limit, they send a request to the vendor, hence if they don't seem to be collecting gst as time of sale, one could assume they are under?
My assumption is that the govt makes sure big tech are all registered then that gets them 90% of the GST they want.
It's probably difficult to enforce for small vendors even if they clear $60k, but it probably doesn't make too much difference. I'm pretty sure one if the main targets was subscriptions (I seem to recall it being called the Netflix tax).
That makes sense. Maybe I'll give it a go and order it lol. It's somthing that isnt sold here, and even if they do end up putting on GST somewhere along the line, it's not a deal breaker.
For future reference - in case you want to order something over $1000: I recently bought a PC directly from a small manufacturer's website (not your usual Amazon etc) which was over $1000 NZD, and I didn't get charged any duties for it. I'm not a 100% sure why, but it could be that didn't declare the full value on the waybill. And it also got shipped by DHL, who'd normally take care of clearing the customs duties etc and would contact you if you had to pay anything.
But on the other hand, if I'd ordered it via Amazon or eBay, I would've definitely had to pay duties. For instance, a couple of years ago, I had ordered another PC - this was from eBay - and they shipped it via DHL. Normally if the seller used the eBay Global Shipping option, eBay would've calculated and charged me the duties during checkout itself. In this case however, DHL handled it. I also had to apply for a client number with customs beforehand, since I was importing something over $1000 (this was basically just filing out a form and providing identification). But this can take a couple of weeks, so best to get registered well in advance, so as to not hold up the delivery.
So maybe what Dave implied was true (as in they keep any eye out only for the big name exporters).
Did you guys hear about the stabbings in Aus over the weekend? Its insane
Yeah, seems like incel stuff again? I feel like in the future this period of time will be studied in detail by historians due to being very influential for many reasons, this being one of them.
Yea he was like 40 year old Virgin or something. Crazy stuff I hope this doesn't spark any copycats.
At this point surely all the incel murders are copycats of their early/OG homocidal incels like Eliot Rodger.
I finally watched Dune 2 and it was better than expected. I found the first one forgettable for some reason but I’ll have to watch it again now.
Also watched a few episodes of the 3 Body Problem. I read the books and this series does them justice.
Oh 3 Body Problem is out? It's been a while since I read the book but have been looking forward to seeing the series. Good to know it's good!
It’s excellent. I’ve spotted 3 Games of Thrones actors so far too. It’s made by the same showrunners.
Well that comment was a rollercoaster. I was excited by "it's excellent" and then deflated by "the same showrunners" because of what happened to GOT.
I recently rewatched GoT for the first time. It’s taken me this long to make peace with the final few seasons. I enjoyed it more than I expected though. And don’t let it put you off the 3 Body Problem.
I just completed a big milestone in my whitewater kayaking journey, my first grade three trip, down the Hut gorge.
Put in was just downstream of the waterworks at Kaitoke regional park, and get out at Te Marua.
One combat roll, no swims, flow approx 6.5 cumec at the Kaitoke gauge, probably about 8 after the Pakuratahi joins the flow.
The weather has been terrible today, so we all stayed inside. I started playing PGA Tour on game pass on a whim and hoo boy am I bad. I don't remember the last time I played a golf game, but man it feels difficult. My character, John Golf, can't even qualify to get pass the first stages of the career mode, he's ended up placing in the 140's after my first few goes 😂
My day was similar except I played Stardew Valley with the kids. Luckily it's hard to lose at that. Though I did forget to update the game before we played so we missed out on the recently released new content, but there were no tears so all in all a good session.
I haven’t played Stardew for so long, there must be a lot of content I haven’t seen. I don’t know if I can bring myself to start it again though. I thought the creator was working on a new game, did that ever come out?
Nah, they are still working on it. Took a break to release a Stardew Valley update.
If it's been a long while (many years) since you've played, there's probably a lot of extra content. If you have old saves you can probably continue them, most of the content seems to be more end game stuff and extra areas rather than stuff you need to start again for.
I just want to say that windows troubleshooting is unbelievably frustrating and needlessly complicated.
They constantly point you to tools that run but don't fix the issue then redirect you to forums that tell you to run the tool.
Then you search the problem and find posts telling you to install a random 3rd party tool to fix the problem. No I'm not installing a random non open source tool to run with admin privileges that would be unbelievably stupid.
Also I'm bombarded with system tray notifications because programs on windows think its ok to serve the user an ad via system tray. I expected better from malware bytes but I expected exactly this from Adobe and one drive.
Another thing is that the windows forum advice is really bad like really bad. It doesn't teach the user anything about problem and instead gives them a solution that will work but might break other things.
I'm not a noob to windows either I've used it for 20 years at least. I think after moving to Linux I've realized how simple things can be.
I reckon with Windows it's just easier to nuke the whole thing and reinstall. Especially with most stuff syncing / backing up to the cloud (and drivers pulled down via Windows update) plus with SSDs, it's much more faster to just do a clean install.
And the settings ever since windows 10, like the main interface is the slick new style but it doesn't provide all settings info, so it ends up back into the old layout/control panel that traces back to windows 95 (but is still better). It's all just a mess as far as ui goes.
I switched to Linux again for my home laptop last year and pretty much use it full time. The only major sticking point for me is ms office - libreoffice feels like office 2003 and you can never be confident a libreoffice docx is going to look the same when someone opens what you've sent them in ms office.
Plus when I troubleshoot in Linux I can use the terminal and feel like a real hackerman™ (even if I am mostly just copying stuff off Google).
The only major sticking point for me is ms office - libreoffice feels like office 2003 and you can never be confident a libreoffice docx is going to look the same when someone opens what you’ve sent them in ms office.
If you haven't tried it already, check out OnlyOffice - looks very similar to MS Office and has great compatibility with it too. I once did a side-by-side comparison with the same .docx running in Word (M365) and OO, and they looked virtually identical (I posted the screenshots sometime ago on Lemmy, if I can dig up the post I'll link it here).
Ah yes I have heard of onlyoffice, it looks great. I had assumed you need a backend given how much it pitches it as an online collaboration tool thing so hadn't gotten around to it. If you can run it locally like a ms office type thing I might check it out soon.
Yep you can indeed run it locally, easiest way to get it is to just install it via Flatpak. If you use Gnome you can use the Software Center, and If you use KDE you can get it via Discover.