Xmas Gifts For The Folks Back Home. Suggestions??

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My experience has been that if you buy booze and cigarettes in PP before you leave, you can have hours of fun (well, slight exaggeration perhaps ) cruising the duty-free shops and laughing at their ludicris prices. WTF $22 for a carton of Malboro, $20 for Bombay gin etc :plus1:

Even if you are a non-smoker - if you get a carton of cigs for someone in Oz it's like a $100 present and they will :bow:
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into oz now there is a special lane for taxing smokes- you are only allowed 50 cigarettes- yes, thats right 50.
it is a giant revenue source with 25 marlboros at over $27- yep.

and lest anyone be tempted to lend any credence to our crowing and cackling friend- you had better declare ANY food you bring in as they will fine the living shit out of you simply for not declaring it. NZ too- for good and reasonable quarantine reasons.

and yes, they screen now for pharmaceutical drugs esp ED and hypnotics/ tranks.

they want to see an oz script.
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frank lee bent wrote:into oz now there is a special lane for taxing smokes- you are only allowed 50 cigarettes- yes, thats right 50.
it is a giant revenue source with 25 marlboros at over $27- yep.
Wow, thanks for the heads up about that one. I was planning on taking 2 cartons (400 cigs) with me and claiming 1 as mine and the other belongs to Mrs UT.

But, wait, check out the math on a simple packet of Ara @ 1500 riel.

I packet of Ara = 20 cigs
1500 riel = about $0.37 USD or roughly $0.45 AUD (that's for one packet).

The customs duty payable is $0.46268 per cigarette. ($0.46268 X 20 cigs = $9.25 AUD)
But wait, there's more. GST @ 10% of the duty plus the original price, add another $0.97 AUD

The breakdown:
1 pkt Ara = 0.45 AUD
Customs duty = $9.25 AUD
GST = $0.97
TOTAL for 1 pkt Ara = $10.67 AUD!!! (One carton of Ara = $106.70 AUD) :shock:

http://www.customs.gov.au/faq/AlcoholCigTobacco.asp
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It's almost like they don't want you to bring your own...
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Or maybe they're just jealous of the prices we pay. :facepalm:
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not just cigs, my rent in a canberra suburb is $2k/month for a very modest 2 BR house.
double that in sydney.

i am done with it.
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Username Taken wrote:
frank lee bent wrote:into oz now there is a special lane for taxing smokes- you are only allowed 50 cigarettes- yes, thats right 50.
it is a giant revenue source with 25 marlboros at over $27- yep.
Wow, thanks for the heads up about that one. I was planning on taking 2 cartons (400 cigs) with me and claiming 1 as mine and the other belongs to Mrs UT.

But, wait, check out the math on a simple packet of Ara @ 1500 riel.

I packet of Ara = 20 cigs
1500 riel = about $0.37 USD or roughly $0.45 AUD (that's for one packet).

The customs duty payable is $0.46268 per cigarette. ($0.46268 X 20 cigs = $9.25 AUD)
But wait, there's more. GST @ 10% of the duty plus the original price, add another $0.97 AUD

The breakdown:
1 pkt Ara = 0.45 AUD
Customs duty = $9.25 AUD
GST = $0.97
TOTAL for 1 pkt Ara = $10.67 AUD!!! (One carton of Ara = $106.70 AUD) :shock:

http://www.customs.gov.au/faq/AlcoholCigTobacco.asp
so is it cheaper to take them and pay the taxes or not?
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General Chatter wrote:
Username Taken wrote:
frank lee bent wrote:into oz now there is a special lane for taxing smokes- you are only allowed 50 cigarettes- yes, thats right 50.
it is a giant revenue source with 25 marlboros at over $27- yep.
Wow, thanks for the heads up about that one. I was planning on taking 2 cartons (400 cigs) with me and claiming 1 as mine and the other belongs to Mrs UT.

But, wait, check out the math on a simple packet of Ara @ 1500 riel.

I packet of Ara = 20 cigs
1500 riel = about $0.37 USD or roughly $0.45 AUD (that's for one packet).

The customs duty payable is $0.46268 per cigarette. ($0.46268 X 20 cigs = $9.25 AUD)
But wait, there's more. GST @ 10% of the duty plus the original price, add another $0.97 AUD

The breakdown:
1 pkt Ara = 0.45 AUD
Customs duty = $9.25 AUD
GST = $0.97
TOTAL for 1 pkt Ara = $10.67 AUD!!! (One carton of Ara = $106.70 AUD) :shock:

http://www.customs.gov.au/faq/AlcoholCigTobacco.asp
so is it cheaper to take them and pay the taxes or not?
Yes it's still cheaper. I haven't smoked for a number of years but I sure as hell wouldn't ever smoke in Australia again. There are much cheaper, more enjoyable ways to kill yourself.

Only one of my friends here smokes. She said the cheapest pack of 20 is $14
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make sure you bring a suitcase full of USD, you will need it here.
bacon egg roll at the local takeaway is $7 now.
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