sct911 Member 848 Member For: 12y 25d Gender: Male Posted 02/05/13 11:43 AM Share Posted 02/05/13 11:43 AM Biggest winners are the professionals , e.g. electrical engineers , doctors , farkn mad pay in US compared to aus . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bulletime Donating Members 937 Member For: 13y 10m 22d Gender: Male Posted 02/05/13 12:22 PM Share Posted 02/05/13 12:22 PM Mate all I'm saying is I don't give a rats ass if its a bigger market or any shiet, a dollar is a dollar, it's meant to equalise with exchange rates and such. Not sayin you can't have a good life or be comfortable, f.uk we all got nice cars, I got things pretty good too, but imagine a wicked supercharged v8 for the price of your xr6T, or the T for 30k new. But that's what we are stuck with atm, just hope it changes one day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Never had any say Panda I <3 Floods Silver Donating Members 11,198 Member For: 13y 4m Gender: Male Location: South West QLD Posted 02/05/13 08:21 PM Share Posted 02/05/13 08:21 PM So what your saying is.. A dollar is a dollar so that means the two countries must have economies that are almost identical?If you wanna buy a brand spanking new XR6T for 25-30k... I'm sure Ford wouldn't have a problem with that.. But the bloke that walked into the assembly line and told the workers they were only gonna get $8 per hour because FORD IS SLASHING PRICES!!!, well that bloke wouldn't be alive very long.. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paulie2256 Donating Members 7,441 Member For: 16y 9d Gender: Male Location: SE Melbourne Posted 02/05/13 09:02 PM Share Posted 02/05/13 09:02 PM Expensive Daewoo and fords are expensive because of the cost of manufacturing locally. Imported cars are expensive because of the taxes on them. We pay more taxes cause guys like the one above me loves to waste govt money. The govt does nothing but spend more money = higher taxes. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Never had any say Panda I <3 Floods Silver Donating Members 11,198 Member For: 13y 4m Gender: Male Location: South West QLD Posted 02/05/13 09:29 PM Share Posted 02/05/13 09:29 PM Now now.. Lets be reasonable.. Just because I charge the government to sit in a site office and watch TV.. Doesn't necessarily mean it's wasted money right?.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tab Sucker Moderating Team 32,303 Member For: 20y 7m 6d Gender: Male Location: Brisbane Posted 02/05/13 09:57 PM Share Posted 02/05/13 09:57 PM Imported cars are expensive because of the taxes on them.The funny thing is, they aren't. It's mostly just huge mark-up 'because they can'...same deal for computer software & itunes. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paulie2256 Donating Members 7,441 Member For: 16y 9d Gender: Male Location: SE Melbourne Posted 02/05/13 10:09 PM Share Posted 02/05/13 10:09 PM Partly true tab but 33% for cars over 75k because they can.Why is a car 75k in the first place? Cause we will pay it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MiKa Donating Members 4,243 Member For: 18y 3m 10d Gender: Male Location: Melbourne, VIC Posted 02/05/13 10:11 PM Share Posted 02/05/13 10:11 PM Surely tax's can't be that much? An iPhone in the US brand new is like $300-$400, here it's like $1000.. Why? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tab Sucker Moderating Team 32,303 Member For: 20y 7m 6d Gender: Male Location: Brisbane Posted 02/05/13 10:18 PM Share Posted 02/05/13 10:18 PM (edited) Simply because they can.33% for cars over 75k because they can.Are you talking about luxury car tax? Same applies for locally built vehicles too. But in all cases it's only taxed on the amount over the threshold - not the full sale price.PS: It's $59k too, $75k if it's classed as fuel efficient. Edited 02/05/13 10:21 PM by tab Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paulie2256 Donating Members 7,441 Member For: 16y 9d Gender: Male Location: SE Melbourne Posted 02/05/13 10:21 PM Share Posted 02/05/13 10:21 PM Well that's not much then. We need more people like bulletime Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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