Originally Posted by jock
just remember not to go crazy with pooling or bulk purchases. Customs is obliged to collect tax on imported items, but generally don't chase tax amounts of less than (say) $50. Seem to recall expat having some more info on this sort of stuff from back in TAT 1 or 2
From my experience anything over AUD750 (or is it AUD1000? I get the USD/AUD thing confused) automatically gets hoiked, anything under and it's subject to random checks and is generally pretty safe and will more often than not get through without being GSTed.
Thanks been my experience anyway, and I import a fair amount of schtuff.