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Australian prices! 18-May-2011 At 3:31:09 PM strerror

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On 18/05/2011 nmonteith wrote:
>Totally off topic - I want to know why cars cost half price as well. A
>Subaru WRX costs $25k there and $40k here for example!

Actually this one I can answer. As both a mate and myself have recently moved back home after living Overseas for a number of years we just went through the outrage of prices again recently. One of them was cars.

After doing the research it turns out that the fundamental issue with the car prices was that all the taxes (I can't remember the breakdown, but there are at least the following ones: federal, state, luxury [for cars over certain cost], and another state) are COMPOUND. That is, they all add on top of each other, not in isolation on the base cost. So while on paper the total taxes only came to about ~25% the compound effect was a large factor. The other factor was sheer greed as far as we could ascertain unless there are factors that we weren't privy to at play like cost of shipping, but that's hard to believe giving the level of shipping to Australia and the proximity to Asia.