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  2. Goods and services tax (Australia) - Wikipedia

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    Businesses whose turnover is below the threshold may register if they wish to. A GST-registered business must charge its customers GST on taxable goods and services it provides, but is entitled to a credit for any GST it has paid for its expenditures on these goods and services as well as capital purchases (called input tax credits).

  3. Container deposit legislation in Australia - Wikipedia

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    Container deposit legislation (CDL), also known as a container deposit scheme (CDS), is a scheme that was first implemented in South Australia in 1977 and over the decades has spread to the Northern Territory in 2012, New South Wales in 2017, the Australian Capital Territory in June 2018, Queensland in November 2018, Western Australia in October 2020 and Victoria in November 2023.

  4. Customs house agent - Wikipedia

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    If the CHA is not a firm or company, the Commissioner will grant permission to continue as a CHA if there is any change in the constitution of the concern. If the change is due to the death of a licensed CHA, his legal heir (assisting him in his work as CHA under Regulation 20) may be granted a licence subject to no adverse findings and passage ...

  5. Container Security Initiative - Wikipedia

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    The Container Security Initiative (CSI) a.k.a. the 24-Hour Rule [not verified in body] was launched in 2002 by the U.S. Bureau of Customs and Border Protection (CBP), an agency of the Department of Homeland Security. [1] Its purpose was to increase security for container cargo shipped to the United States. As the CBP puts it, the intent is to ...

  6. Container-deposit legislation - Wikipedia

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    Container-deposit legislation (also known as a container-deposit scheme, deposit-refund system or scheme, deposit-return system, or bottle bill) is any law that requires the collection of a monetary deposit on beverage containers (refillable or non-refillable) at the point of sale and/or the payment of refund value to the consumers. When the ...

  7. Cargo scanning - Wikipedia

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    Gamma-ray image of a shipping container showing two stowaways hidden inside Gamma-ray image of a truck showing goods inside a shipping container A truck entering a gamma-ray radiography system. Gamma-ray radiography systems capable of scanning trucks usually use cobalt-60 or caesium-137 [6] as a radioactive source and a vertical tower of gamma ...

  8. Port security - Wikipedia

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    Former U.S. Coast Guard officer Stephen Flynn has stated that interest in shipping container security has seen a definitive shift pre and post-9/11. Shipping container and port security pre-9/11 was focused primarily on promoting the advancement of globalization. These interests were prioritised over sea and border defence. [20]

  9. Secure Freight Initiative - Wikipedia

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    A third pillar was to have been the Global Trade Exchange (GTX), a data acquisition program which was funded as part of the Homeland Security Budget for 2008 and 2009, but is delayed and remains under study. The Secure Freight Initiative was kicked off in end-April 2007, [3] with the commencement of the International Container Security project ...