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Joey Starr
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Posted - Nov 5 2002 : 11:19AM
Just wondering what Australian Customs were like regarding private importation of porn DVDs.

Are you likely to be taxed?

Will they seize DVDs featuring rough sex, pissing, fisting, S&M?

Thanks for your feedback!

The_Poker
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Australia
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Posted - Nov 6 2002 : 2:34AM
Australian customs are pretty good. I have ordered three times from Fivestar DVD (8 discs per order) and havnt had any problems with customs. However, my second order came to about $300 AU. I did have to pay customs and tax charges that came to about $80 AU.

Looking at the customs website, it seems that they are not really interested in parcels where the goods cost under $250. My other two orders were under $250 and didnt get touched by customs.

Australian customs are very unlikely to confiscate anything that is legal in the US. Anything that comes from Europe might be questionable though.

scipio
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Posted - Nov 16 2002 : 8:42PM

Aust customs -should not- touch anything with a declared value of less than AU$500 as it's customs policy to not charge GST unless they can collect AU$50.

Of course, the "value" of the package also includes the postage/shipping costs for some odd reason. Yes, we're required to pay local Tax on postage charges that were charged and spent overseas.

Earlier this year, and for much of last year I used to make fairly regular orders from fivestar that came to AU$300-$380
with no problems at all, though this was including the shipping costs.

I haven't had anything seized, though since I'm not interested in any of those sorts of things, I havent had any experiences there. I have had my orders opened and checked many times with no problems however.

hope this helps,

cheers,

scipio

Joey Starr
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Still wanking after all these years.
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Posted - Nov 19 2002 : 8:33AM
Thanks for the feedback guys, much appreciated!

Joey.




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