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I had zero sympathy for Gerry Harvey when he started complaining about online retailers being able to undercut him, and trying to draw a line between that and GST not applying to items under $1000.
When he started complaining, the HN website was not even up to the standard of the utterly terrible websites that the likes of Target had in the day. Complaining about online retailers eating your sandwiches on small items that are easily shipped from anywhere in the world when your online presence amounted to a PDF copy of a junk mail brochure and trying to imply that the GST was the difference is a bit rich.
I don't know if the situation has changed but the original logic behind the $1000 threshold was supposed to be the compliance and collection costs being greater than the revenue.
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