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DarthSwales
Imperial Gunner
Posts: 36
Join date: 2011-06-14
Location: UK
 |  Subject: Re: Extra customs charges  Tue Jan 10, 2012 10:58 pm | |
| Edited my original post, thanks for the help guys. Maybe it's HMRC and the government's over the top taxes I should be directing my anger at.  |
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Tank1252
Moderator
Posts: 1968
Join date: 2009-11-10
Age: 41
Location: Coffs Harbour, Australia
| | Subject: Re: Extra customs charges Wed Jan 11, 2012 2:47 am | |
| | aussiejames wrote: | | I've said it before- "I'm glad we don't have import tax here" |
Try bringing in anything over $1000 AJ. Then it kicks in & "we" have some of the heaviest taxes known to man!------------------------------------------------------------------------ WANTED: Anything POTF Coin Related; Proto's, UDE, Variations/Errors, Coin Offers/ Mailers etc Also Loose Top Toys Figures. Member of the 62 Club Power Of The Force Coins Facebook Group - For Everything POTF Coin Related. Join Now!! TIG Feedback Tank1252 FeedbackRS Feedback Tank1252 Feedback |
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aussiejames
Moderator
Posts: 3430
Join date: 2009-11-12
Age: 38
Location: Western Australia
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Tank1252
Moderator
Posts: 1968
Join date: 2009-11-10
Age: 41
Location: Coffs Harbour, Australia
| | Subject: Re: Extra customs charges Wed Jan 11, 2012 4:19 am | |
| Lol, i sorta guessed it wouldn't be applicable to you AJ, but it does kick in @ 15% plus costs. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ WANTED: Anything POTF Coin Related; Proto's, UDE, Variations/Errors, Coin Offers/ Mailers etc Also Loose Top Toys Figures. Member of the 62 Club Power Of The Force Coins Facebook Group - For Everything POTF Coin Related. Join Now!! TIG Feedback Tank1252 FeedbackRS Feedback Tank1252 Feedback |
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shoenix
Imperial Gunner
Posts: 55
Join date: 2009-11-24
| | Subject: Re: Extra customs charges Wed Jan 11, 2012 2:02 pm | |
| The really worst thing is that taxes have been payed over these items at least once already. In the Netherlands it's even worse. The low limit is 22 euros (excluding shipping costs), gift limit is 44 euros (excluding shipping costs). And guess what ? If you exceed the limits you must pay tax over the declared package value INCLUDING shipping costs! This is double theft again since over the shipping costs taxes were payed by the sender already. That's why I am really carefull the shipper declares the correct value and they did not shaft me on shipping as I get screwed double (ehm, triple?) on this  And even when I make sellers declare the actual selling value it goes wrong. I mean, you can underdeclare a DT luke or an original Vlix (customs will beleive that sold for 5$) but I have had a customs dispute because they did not beleive I payed 25$ for 8 POTF2 figures in package! I mean, it's in package so it must be worth a lot right!  And I won't even start on the fact there have been cases when customs ripped figures out of packaging to have them tested for authenticity or when customs reported people who unknowingly bought reproduction crap and reported the recipients to manufacturers (like Disney) who in their turn fined them thousands of dollars for copyright enfringements.... Specific laws should be implemented for trading second-hand items, but governments don't care, it just puts money in the till. I even tried to protest once. The answer was : We cannot do any say on tax related items, you need to take that up with your political party's representatives. Yeah, that will happen .... |
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frunkstar
Imperial Lieutenant
Posts: 221
Join date: 2011-09-19
Age: 42
Location: In the middle of nowhere - North Wales
| | Subject: Re: Extra customs charges Wed Jan 11, 2012 2:54 pm | |
| Sure I had already posted this yesterday but I guess I forgot to hit send, here is a thread I posted elsewhere as I keep getting shafted on import tax, should help guys  http://www.starwarsforum.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=10123 |
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pomse2001
Sith Apprentice
Posts: 1046
Join date: 2011-03-09
Age: 33
Location: Denmark
| | Subject: Re: Extra customs charges Thu Jan 12, 2012 5:32 pm | |
| | cantina_patron wrote: | A dealer friend of mine regularly gets stung on customs charges on 'new' items entering the UK e.g. the latest Hasbro releases, which I can understand. But why should they apply to 'used' items?
I have also heard that requesting sellers to send items as a 'gift' can avoid additional customs charges, but I have never put this to the test. |
It works if you get the seller to write gift. But there is also a limit to how much value the gift may have before that gift also will be hit by a tax. Some times they take the gift packet and ask you to prove it is a gift and they want it confirmed from seller. There is also a gift rule about the gift can't be mailed from a company address, only from a privat address and also need to get it delivered to a private adress. Gifts can't be send to a company adress without tax.
This are the law here in Denmark and the tax office told me it was the same law in all the EU countries because it was a EU law.
I hate this law.
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DarthSwales
Imperial Gunner
Posts: 36
Join date: 2011-06-14
Location: UK
| | Subject: Re: Extra customs charges Sat Jan 14, 2012 2:32 am | |
| 'okcomputer1138' just randomly emailed me calling me an idiot because of the feedback I left on the other guy's page, regardless to the fact that eBay closed my case and denied my appeal. Seems like this nut has nothing else better to do than look through peoples feedback and target strangers on the internet. The insolence is strong in this one.  |
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