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Re:LBC parts: Australian Impor

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Subject: Re:LBC parts: Australian Impor
From: Larry Hoy <73253.1136@CompuServe.COM>
Date: 24 Oct 96 01:14:46 EDT
Owen

In the USA we don't pay sales taxes on imported parts but we do pay an import 
duty (read, TAX).  Different car parts have different duties.  I have ordered a 
soft top from England the duty will be just under ten percent.

Larry

----------------- Begin Original Message ------> I was thinking of ordering 
some parts from the UK and have just been
> informed by Australian Customs that on any parts for motor vehicles
produced
> after 1963 Sales Tax and Import Duty of 46% must be paid on the
invoice value.
> 
> Made me wonder whether other governments, particularly the American,
> Canadian, New Zealand, are also into extorting their population of LBC
lovers?
> 


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