GST

[brian]

How tight are people finding the GST net on imported parts at the moment.
I'm expecting some stuff shortly and wondered what my chances are of it slipping through unnoticed

[RobClubley]

Had to pay $280 GST on some clothes my wife bought which totalled $1050 in value.
Apparently they're much more keen if value is over $1k

[brian]

Not what I wanted to hear, but we shall see

[RobClubley]

I've had valuable car parts sail through a couple of times, you might be lucky!
Maybe they just pick on luxury goods, like $1000 rain jackets.

[schattenblau]

I've recently had low value items (under $500) from sale through.

If you buy from a large seller like Ebay, Amazon, Discogs et al they have all fallen into line and automatically add NZ GST 

The thresholds for grabbing GST have changed but it's still a crapshoot as to whether you get pinged or not.

[brian]

Mine is a set of Bilsteins and are tax free (so far)
I have had a couple of other orders around the $400 mark slip through unscathed so fingers crossed

[brian]

Phew!  Unless customs has taken to sending out accounts in arrears, I appear to have escaped the net

[RobClubley]

Success! In my experience if you already have the thing you won't get a bill for it.

[brian]

Yeah, that has saved half the installation cost....booked in next Wed for fitting.

[LouieP]

Usually anything under $1k nzd slides through and anything over gets banged. A lot of sites like Rock Auto, ebay etc are now automatically adding gst on

[brian]

This was well over $1000 which is why I thought I would be pinged