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Originally Posted by The Mekon
Your post is absolute rubbish. Clearly you should move to another country that has no government provided benefits like health, education, roads etc (what have the Romans ever done for us?)
Are you perhaps a member of the Peoples Front of Judea?
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I concur John
The Customs are indeed empowered by law to intercept any item and to seize an item if the importer fails or refuses to pay the required legal taxes and duties or fails to complete the correct importation documentation..... in fact it is their duty to do so.
The onus of proof is on the importer.
Whilst the Australian Government has no legal right to force another country's entity to collect the taxes, items imported without the taxes having been paid can be legally seized by the Australian Customs until such time that the taxes and other relevant charges are paid.
In the case of AliExpress it is cheaper for the importer to have those taxes collected by AliExpress than by Customs.