It makes me puke. On the one hand that we do need more revenue to run the country -I get that. And undesirable though it may be for us individually, it makes sense to make gst more widespread or raise it on the existing range of items and services subject to gst, or both.
But then the likes of Bronwyn Bishop, and probably many more pollies too, unapologetically spend money like it's going out of fashion on their ego driven executive modes of travel. 5 grand for a helicopter flight, 1000 bucks a day for limos on a taxpayer funded holiday. They should be dragged across broken glass!
Incidentally, Amazon now charges VAT for sales to UK and European buyers of downloadable books. So I'm guessing the mechanism is in place for them to remit the moolah to the relevant tax authorities.
Just my 2c
