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Originally Posted by GeoffR
I'm not suggesting anyone should pay tax they do not have to. At the moment New Zealand law says that foreign companies do not have to collect GST. That law could be changed so that foreign companies did have to collect GST. Whether they would comply with the law, we would find out once the law was changed. It would cost very little to change the law, so if the govt. wants to prevent tax revenues dropping as people switch to buying online from foreign companies, a law change seems like an obvious thing to try.
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That sounds wonderful but is actually either very naïve or despotic. You also do not see the fallacy in your "That law could be changed so that foreign companies did have to collect GST".
I do agree that if revenues are dropping through the internet reducing the effectiveness of GST then the Government should be looking at other ways of collection of revenue from its own citizens or by reducing its expenditure, not from the foolish concept of writing "law" pretending that one has jurisdiction over the citizens of other countries.
That is enough from me as you are really just taking a "We are the 99%" ideological, but illogical, approach to the matter.