Welcome to this week’s casual kōrero thread!
This post will be pinned in this community so you can always find it, and will stay for about a week until replaced by the next one.
It’s for talking about anything that doesn’t justify a full post. For example:
- Something interesting that happened to you
- Something humourous that happened to you
- Something frustrating that happened to you
- A quick question
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- A picture of a cloud that kind of looks like a hippo
- Anything else, there are no rules (except the rule)
Fuck my mate who went out for a fish with us whilst sick.
If you’re sick just stay home. I’m tired of this convoluted game of germ tag we keep playing.
The weather has been terrible today, so we all stayed inside. I started playing PGA Tour on game pass on a whim and hoo boy am I bad. I don’t remember the last time I played a golf game, but man it feels difficult. My character, John Golf, can’t even qualify to get past the first stages of the career mode, he’s ended up placing in the 140’s after my first few goes 😂
My day was similar except I played Stardew Valley with the kids. Luckily it’s hard to lose at that. Though I did forget to update the game before we played so we missed out on the recently released new content, but there were no tears so all in all a good session.
I haven’t played Stardew for so long, there must be a lot of content I haven’t seen. I don’t know if I can bring myself to start it again though. I thought the creator was working on a new game, did that ever come out?
Nah, they are still working on it. Took a break to release a Stardew Valley update.
If it’s been a long while (many years) since you’ve played, there’s probably a lot of extra content. If you have old saves you can probably continue them, most of the content seems to be more end game stuff and extra areas rather than stuff you need to start again for.
I’ve been looking online but couldn’t find a definitive answer.
It seems that if I purchase something overseas and have it shipped here, if its total value (incl. shipping) is under $1000 NZD, that Customs won’t collect GST at the border, and rather, this is supposed to be collected by the Vendor.
But what happens if your vendor doesn’t collect GST at the time of sale, and your goods are under $1000? Will it then be collected at the border by Customs?, or by your shipper (e.g., DHL)?
So you’re not using YouShop or similar, the place you’re buying from is not registered for GST in NZ and the value including shipping is under $NZ1000?
This CAB page says:
If the overseas seller is not registered for GST, they do not have to add GST to the cost of the goods
If the overseas seller is not registered for GST (because they do less than $NZ60,000 of sales to New Zealand customers), they will not collect GST on the goods you buy from them.
If the total value of the goods is no more than $1000, you will not be liable for GST.
So it seems you wouldn’t pay GST.
Yeah just shipping via DHL or UPS.
Interesting, I wonder if there’s a way to know whether a seller does under that per year, or maybe if customs flags that they are doing over the limit, they send a request to the vendor, hence if they don’t seem to be collecting gst as time of sale, one could assume they are under?
My assumption is that the govt makes sure big tech are all registered then that gets them 90% of the GST they want.
It’s probably difficult to enforce for small vendors even if they clear $60k, but it probably doesn’t make too much difference. I’m pretty sure one if the main targets was subscriptions (I seem to recall it being called the Netflix tax).
Did you guys hear about the stabbings in Aus over the weekend? Its insane
Yeah, seems like incel stuff again? I feel like in the future this period of time will be studied in detail by historians due to being very influential for many reasons, this being one of them.
Yea he was like 40 year old Virgin or something. Crazy stuff I hope this doesn’t spark any copycats.
