Overseas online retailers falsifying invoices to evade GST

International online retailers are instructing buyers to take advantage of the GST-free threshold by offering false invoices in a practice which is becoming increasingly widespread.

Hong Kong electronics retailer eGlobal is offering to "prepare and adjusted invoice upon customer's request", so that goods appear to cost less than the $1,000 tax free limit.

An eGlobal customer service representative offered to falsify the invoice for a $1,900 camera - saving about $300 in GST and custom imports – on the basis that the package was unlikely to be intercepted by Australian customs.

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