[Grey Granite]

Mr Granite and I bought a kitchen last June! Yes, I know, but I'd had my eye on it for ages. It's free standing one from Ikea, so it will look good either in a an old or a new property.

Obviously its still flatpacked and is stashed under the spare beds and our bed for the flat selling!

How can we pack it so that it looks used and avoid paying GST on it? Mr G says he reckons we will have to pay, but I said if we got the movers to 'repack' it in their moving papers, we might get away with it.

Whadayareckon?


Mrs G

[IanW99]

Mr Granite and I bought a kitchen last June! Yes, I know, but I'd had my eye on it for ages. It's free standing one from Ikea, so it will look good either in a an old or a new property.

Obviously its still flatpacked and is stashed under the spare beds and our bed for the flat selling!

How can we pack it so that it looks used and avoid paying GST on it? Mr G says he reckons we will have to pay, but I said if we got the movers to 'repack' it in their moving papers, we might get away with it.

Whadayareckon?


Mrs G

Do you have the receipt for it? If you do then you can prove that it isn't new, so no problems.

Ian

[Grey Granite]

Hurra!

I thought because it was as yet unused that would mean it was new

Cheers m'dear

:raebanana

[CJ22]

I think it has to be more than 12 months old if it's unused, so looks like you're in luck.

[nippa&pippa]

*cough* or do what i did, remove packages and rewrap with moving company's wrapping...got away without paying tax...just don't mention it on paperwork as "new". * cough*:o

[peebles16]

*cough* or do what i did, remove packages and rewrap with moving company's wrapping...got away without paying tax...just don't mention it on paperwork as "new". * cough*:o

Yep that may have worked for us too - sshh!! :exit

Karenx

[Jo Jo]

I brought quite a lot of new and unused items with me when I moved here, including four flatback wardrobes from Ikea still in their original packaging, plus a vacuum cleaner, tools, some book shelves, etc (again, all in their original packaging). Most of those items were wedding gifts, and I had only owned them for four weeks prior to shipping our stuff. I declared them as unused on the Unaccompanied Personal Baggage Declaration form (http://www.customs.govt.nz/NR/rdonlyres/5944F998-A14B-456E-8455-CDE8D5F9FEA9/0/NZCS218.pdf) - it specifically asks you to list any items you own that you have not used, and you can attach receipts (I didn't attach any receipts, though).

I thought we would be charged duty on those items, but we didn't get charged a penny (or cent, I should say).

[Nick88]

I think they have enough paperwork to do without looking for little things like this. Don't worry about it, it's old enough for you to not declare it with a clean conscience (if get what I mean).

[BaldyBeardyBloke]

I don't think they are too bothered about people bringing stuff in for their own use so much as bringing stuff in for re-sale as 'new items' in NZ.

[StevieD]

We didn't get bothered, we left our Ikea stuff in the original packaging (yes it was brand new!) no problem at all. So rest assured, just pack it in the container along with everything else.

[Familyofmonkeys]

You are very unlikely to have a problem.....customs are far more interested in collecting tax on big things like cars. If the tax due is less than $50 then almost never colect it either. Things that are 'unused' are not always 'new'......theoretically you could have had the kitchen stuff boxed up for a decade under your beds!!