Steam titles will have 10% GST added in Australia

22 Feb 2017

Steve Wright

Kotaku today reports that Steam titles purchased in Australia will soon have an additional 10% GST added to their totals.

The additional charge was confirmed in an email from Valve to developers. It confirmed the charge will go into place from July.

“The VAT tax amount will be included in the advertised price of your product, just like VAT is currently treated in the EU. This means the customer will pay the price displayed on the storefront, and the tax will be separated out afterwards,” an email to developers reads.

A number of other regions — Switzerland, South Korea, Japan, New Zealand, Iceland, South Africa and India — will see similar charges from March.

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Steve's the owner and Editor-in-Chief of Stevivor.com, the country’s leading independent video games outlet. Steve arrived in Australia back in 2001 on what was meant to be a three-month working holiday before deciding to emigrate and, eventually, becoming a citizen.

Stevivor is a combination of ‘Steve’ and ‘Survivor’, which made more sense back in 2001 when Jeff Probst was up in Queensland. The site started as Steve’s travel blog before transitioning over into video games.

Aside from video games, Steve has interests in hockey and Star Trek, playing the former and helping to cover video games about the latter on TrekMovie.com. By day, Steve works as the communications manager of the peak body representing Victorians as they age.