And Crosse & Blackwell Piccalilli, I haven't seen it on the shelves here for a couple of years

Stew, if you bring a heap of stuff in, I'm pretty sure you'll cop GST and Duty. So have some $$$ ready for this.

It'll still work out heaps cheaper than buying whatever it is here, but getting slugged with GST and Duty could be a rude surprise if you're not expecting it.

whats GST again?

but thanks for the note, i only intend to bring the small stuff out, so no big engines or the like, hoping if it can be seen as spare parts for a car then i might get away with it?

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same as VAT @ 10%

Keep in mind that duty and GST is only payable on items you bring in to sell. If you own it, you've paid VAT already (and have proof), and you don't look like you're importing bits commercially you'll get away without paying duty and GST.

You won't pay GST or duty on your car, furniture, or any other possessions -- if your "spare parts" are "possessions" then you'll be fine

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Simon

The adventures of an owner builder in the Tallarook Ranges

not necessarily - if you've bought it in the past year you get charged (assuming you're honest and say so on the customs form ). I was charged 10% customs duty and THEN 10% GST on the value of the goods PLUS customs duty on a pile of stuff i brought back over last year. $900 worth of stuff + $90 Customs duty + $99 GST.

theoretically you can inversely not pay (or claim back) the UK VAT but I kind of f---ed up that up when i did it and missed the opportunity to do so..

If I could offer any advice, it would be to buy whatever you are going to and then make sure it looks like you've owned it for over a year remove packaging and sure as heck don't have invoices or receipts for things packaged with them - as long as you've 'owned' it over a year it's just considered a possesion and is not taxed. At least then you can tell them you've owned everything for over 1 year and there's less contrary evidence!

thanks for the info everyone, im going to do what weevel says and make it look like ive owned for ages

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Two pounds of chips from the chippie near Camden station, pleeease. The one opposite the right hand side of the station as you go towards Sainburys

Yeah, and bring some crisps too - Prawn Cocktail, Smokey Bacon and Pickled Onion Monster Munch. And Frazzles. oh, and Wheat Crunchies, and Red MIll Bacon Streaks (finest petrol station crisps known to mankind).

F***, I'm getting hungry...need to go to the british sweet shop again soon...

Not really, a mate of mine got a set of 4 6" mamba's from ebay in the UK a few weeks back, with freight & everything they cost him $540 to his door, cheaper than you can buy them out here.

Doogie

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Hay, it's not about the car, it's not about the venue, it's about the people that come here. Peter Dwyer, Mayor of Hay NSW.

Yow, that's a good deal! I would expect freight alone on something that bulky to be in the hundreds of $$..

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The adventures of an owner builder in the Tallarook Ranges

[quote="sssstew"]whats GST again? quote]

Hi Stew,
It means Grab, Steal and Take. !!!!!!!!!!!

Al

mmm sounds lovely, never thought about not being able to get these 'essentials of life!' oh my god how am i going to survive!

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There used to be "the british shop" at Robina Town Center on the Gold Coast that stocked all the British staples you'd be craving , not sure if it's still there but there'd be something similar in Brissy somewhere . After all , if you can buy Tim Tams in the "Aussie shop" in the center of London , you can get pommy foods down here if you look hard enough

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you can buy tim tams in sainsbury supermarkets now in the UK! Cheaper than the aussie shop