Australian Customs

[sunriseboy]

Have any Aussies received notices from Border Force about imported leaf?

 

[foursidedtriangle]

I stopped buying online post the tobacco import date last year. How do they handle this law in practice?

 

[mikethompson]

I thought they just threw you in jail and made you box Red Kangaroos?

 

[PaulTheScandinavian]

Somehow I have a feeling they would not have time nor desire to enforce this ruling too eagerly

 

[Briar Baron]

They have the time, motivation and spite in ample portions........now that I stopped buying pipe tobacco I tried to get a few cigars in.

Even 2 or 3 small cigars get caught, then duty, GST and tax on supposed shipping is added. Firstly they proportion the weight of the cigar above actual weight, then they pick a number for the cost of shipping, usually 3 x the actual charged cost, (it is printed on the box by the vendor but they ignore that) and then apply GST (10%) to the inflated fictional shipping cost, and then come up with a BS number for the total amount to be paid. Had to let several packages be destroyed rather than pay some outrageous amount. Yep plenty of time and an abundance of spite. Good to know how a government will respond when we are in deep trouble with COVID and the impacts of that, they are a total disgrace.

 

[jazz]

They have the time, motivation and spite in ample portions........now that I stopped buying pipe tobacco I tried to get a few cigars in.

Even 2 or 3 small cigars get caught, then duty, GST and tax on supposed shipping is added. Firstly they proportion the weight of the cigar above actual weight, then they pick a number for the cost of shipping, usually 3 x the actual charged cost, (it is printed on the box by the vendor but they ignore that) and then apply GST (10%) to the inflated fictional shipping cost, and then come up with a BS number for the total amount to be paid. Had to let several packages be destroyed rather than pay some outrageous amount. Yep plenty of time and an abundance of spite. Good to know how a government will respond when we are in deep trouble with COVID and the impacts of that, they are a total disgrace.

I have had it up to my eyeballs with governmental overreach in the western world.

 

[foursidedtriangle]

That sounds like the new standard for the country with highest tobacco taxes in the world. I want to vote for lower taxes on tobacco and removal of prohibition of imported leaf. That’s the only way to go from here on out