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Originally Posted by AnotherCat
My experience is that Kobo and Amazon, for example, have increased their ebook prices since GST was levied - whether such a supplier is actually GST registered or not, whether they pay or not any GST to IRD, and whether they correctly assess the amount of GST to be collected and paid on digital products is their responsibility.
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Amazon, Apple, Google, Kobo all collect NZ GST on New Zealand ebook sales, but if they can tell it is a New Zealand sale then they are going to use that information to enforce georestrictions. So I am pretty sure that whatever method I use to circumvent georestrictions at those big retailers is also going to circumvent the collection of NZ GST.
Buying from a smaller retailer that is not required to collect NZ GST avoids the issue, but most of the smaller retailers are DRM-free so they can't sell most of the big publishers' books, which tend to be the ones that have geographical restrictions. But it is not an impossible situation, just a more complicated one now that ebooks are taxed.