Tax policy

Sellers are responsible for paying all fees and taxes associated with using shoppingtown.info.

Income Tax

You are required by law to declare and pay taxes on income you've earned from your shoppingtown.info sales. Please consult your tax advisor to confirm whether you are liable for payment of taxes on the income earned through your sales.

Goods and Services Tax

Australian Goods and Services Tax (GST) generally applies to items sold on shoppingtown.info. If you as user are a business or other enterprise that is liable for GST, you must ensure that you are registered for GST, confirm whether your sales on shoppingtown.info are taxable, and issue buyers with valid tax invoices for taxable sales.

As GST is bound to taxable sales connected to Australia, users may not misrepresent the location of their items on shoppingtown.info

Items sold within Australia

GST may be payable for the sale of items located in Australia and sold to buyers with a delivery address in Australia. If you are not sure if this applies to your sales, please contact the Australian Tax Office (ATO) and/or seek professional advice about your tax obligations.

If you are required to charge GST on your items:

• For listings on shoppingtown.info, your prices must include GST, when applicable.
• You are responsible for paying that GST in accordance with the appropriate laws and regulations

Items imported into Australia

GST applies to goods imported by consumers into Australia

Orders up to AU $1,000

shoppingtown.info is considered an Electronic Distribution Platform (EDP) under the relevant legislation and therefore responsible for collecting the GST on low value imports and paying it to the Australian Government. We will therefore add the GST at checkout on all import items with an order value less than AU $1,000. We will then remit the GST to the ATO, and can provide users with proof that this has been completed if required by law.

As a seller based outside Australia you confirm and agree that your prices may appear 10% due to the addition of the GST at checkout to comply with the above obligation, and that we will not report the GST collected to you, however we will indicate that GST was paid / collected on your Order details page. This will however not affect your payment as seller, and you will receive payment of the listing price as normal.

Orders over AU $1,000

Seller don't collect GST on orders over AU $1,000, as this is collected at the Australian border

Information for sellers

If GST was collected, you'll receive payment for the order value (item price + all service costs) as usual. As seller you are responsible for payment of the GST to the ATO. We provide a built in tool to add tax on each item for sale, but it is dependant on the seller inputting the tax percentage to show whether an item?s price includes tax or not.

Remember that you may also have tax/GST obligations in other countries if you are doing business outside Australia. If your business on shoppingtown.info sells goods in any EU country, you may be required to register for and collect Value Added Tax (VAT). VAT in a tax on consumer spending. It is collected by VAT-registered traders on their sales within the EU territory, and passed on to the national tax authorities via VAT return filings. Most EU countries allow you to register for VAT online, through the local tax authority?s website

On all sales outside of Australia the seller is obligated to ensure they comply with the tax obligations of the applicable country.