im not getting it lol nonetheless it was the past for me anyway, until I decide to move back to UK, which is highly unlikely unless HK gov went berserk with their stooopid law to violate people’s freedom. don’t want to talk about politics, but it is what it is
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Well China just send the item with out paying vat. We get a letter/text saying pay 20%vat + £8 handaling fee
Get this.
I sent a rucksack to a mate in France last week.
It’s a 2nd hand avalanche backpack.
I insured it for £350 but it’s actually his so marked it as a gift.
He’s now been told he has €111 to pay in charges.
Ups marked the taxable value of £0.00 but.
There’s UPS charges at about €12, tax at €2 and the rest is “governmental charges “
It’s certainly shit at the moment.
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During my studies in Denmark…
They checked if I had a TV, a laptop, internet, etc. They taxed me for the laptop and internet. “Media tax” or what was it called.
Fellow students said to ignore it.
So I did. little rebel, that old me
So after three years I got a mail from my local tax place, I owed 650€. Good times™.
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I swear they’ll give you a cock tax for having anything more than the average
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@Trampa can we EU people get some info for what’s changend with your ordering? What’s the current VAT situation if we buy from you?
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They’ll deduct VAT, basically nothing will change. Maybe a 2-3% increase
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It actually changes quite a lot. You will now have to deal with customs when purchasing from the UK. For the most part, that just changes where you pay the VAT. Instead of paying it in the UK you will now pay it in your country. So far so good. The problem though is that getting the customs sorted out is quite expensive by itself. In the Czech Republic, if your package is delivered by the Czech Post, that’s not too bad. They only charge 200 CZK (~8 EUR) for the customs clearance. Other carriers like DHL charge about 700 CZK (~27 EUR) though. I imagine this is even more expensive in the western EU countries.
Plus, for businesses with no VAT registration (yeah, looking at you Nexusboards) this is even worse since now we’ll need to pay VAT where we didn’t need to pay it before.
This Brexit thing actually sucks quite a bit.
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yep def
only thing is it does present the oppurtunity for someone who might happen to declare a package at lower value to do so
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As an aspiring US company I just want to know if it will still be worth my time to ship to the UK anymore, and if so, how do I go about jumping through the hoops?
Seems totally anti-business to put up all these hurdles. Would love to have been a fly on the wall when this was getting cooked up in wherever laws are cooked in the UK so I could hear the reasoning.
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UPS will request you to pay the VAT in your country. You settle the bill, they deliver. It’s not tragic…
Gotta collect those cock taxes to fund disability allowance for those who are under average 
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Im paying my country’s VAT? so basically buying from UK hasn’t change, just selling to UK has a problem
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No, the way VAT it works in the EU for non-business customers is:
- If you purchase in your country, you pay your country’s VAT at the time of purchase.
- If you purchase from another EU country, you pay that country’s VAT at the time of purchase.
- If you purchase from a non-EU country, you pay your country’s VAT at the time of import.
After Brexit, UK moved from (2) to (3).
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Yea, this is why opening a store in Sweden/Denmark gets to being kinda a shitty deal, people who buy from say Luxembourg end up paying like 7% more.
So I’d be paying 1% less?
Current VAT in Germany 19%, 20% in UK?
I knew this would happen so happy to be sitting on massive stack of parts.
it no longer possible for me to order parts from EU , China and USA only now - its LESS hassle now and LESS cost 
i suspect this may stick in the UK charts for many months to come
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Sorry if I’m not understanding something here, but why is it such a hassle to order something from the EU? AFAIK its only complicated if you sell something to the UK, everything else is as it ever was?