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Originally Posted by murg
Depending on where you buy the device in Canada, there is between 5% and 15% sales taxes (GST/PST/HST).
As such, this makes Australia's 10% GST roughly equivalent to Canada's sales taxes, so the AU GST cannot be blamed for any part of the premium. Or at least no more than 5% (which is the Canadian GST rate).
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Not sure how your GST works (from your post I'm gathering it's included in the sales price) but in Canada it is added on at the register -- so in Ontario my final price that will be charged to my credit card will be $130 + 13% or $146.90 CAD. So your GST could well account for 10% of the cost difference if it's included in the retail price.