- The Home and Affairs minister slammed speculation on cheap online packages
- It costs $90 a package to screen the cheap imported items to Australia
- Items under $1000 were rumoured to be charged the tax to get in to the country
Online shoppers won’t be charged an extra $5 for their overseas delivery after after a speculated ‘Ebay tax’ was reported on Thursday.
Home and Affairs Minister Peter Dutton has slammed rumours Australians will be charged an extra $5 in a parcel tax.
Items under $1000 were proposed to be charged the fee to compensate the $90 screening costs for imported items.
Items under $1000 were proposed to be charged the fee to compensate the $90 screening costs for imported items
Peter Dutton has slammed rumours Australians will be charged an extra $5 in a parcel tax
The $90 screen is to stop drugs and gun parts being shipped in to the country.
Cheap items such as make up, books and clothes were reported to be on the firing line for the tax.
These items make 90 per cent of small packages passing through the screens.
‘We have said we’re not going to do that in this budget,’ Mr Dutton told Nine Network on Sunday.
These items make 90 per cent of small packages passing through the screens
A $5 per parcel tax would give the government a $200 million boost as importing products to Australia continues to increase, according to Fairfax Media.
‘We expect the cost of the levy per parcel to be in the dollars not the cents,’ Freight and Trade Alliance director Paul Zalai said.
Currently, there is a $90 levy added on to parcels more than $1000.
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