Importing Into The Uk

[Steve-O]

are you actually reading anything that anyone is posting?

both myself and skysnapper have stated that its possible, look i'll just requote my own post here in an effort to make it plain what you have to read:

afaik marking it as gift makes it exempt from duty, but, as you are so aptly demonstrating, the abuse of such leniency has likely led to the withdrawl of such priveleges.

yes, but Finty said "They start to charge after £36 for gifts"....

"skip" import tax? you mean get something into the country but without customs and excise realising? with the jumper it was likely that either it was such a small package that customs didn't care, they opened it up and saw it was a jumper and thus it wasn't worth the hassle or maybe you just got lucky.

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The Jumper was a Big heavy Parcel



Just found out that The company Im going to order it from said If you click the "Send this Item to someone as a Gift" then Its like you are ordering something for someone as a present and sending it to them and they will mark it as a Gift... Ill do that

 

[Radio]

Custom Charges

 

[johncross85]

Three things... When I got my GP32 from LikSang they didn't mark it as a gift and I still didn't pay tax on it. Still no idea how I got away with it

Secondly, what about second hand stuff? If that doesn't incur a charge maybe the company could open the box, close it again and call it used?

Finally, do you know anyone in Europe? If you knew someone in a country with lower import taxes you could get it shipped there and then get it forwarded onto the UK - no import tax from EU countries. Bit of a pain tho.

J(ohn)

 

[spray]

i always thought that the whole of the EU has the same import and export taxes? single market and all that jazz

 

[skysnapper]

Second hand stuff would incur charges, work collegue bought second hand clubs of ebay and got stung.

Also read on antotherboard about some guy who was living in the states, when he moved back to the uk had his artists easel sent by post as he couldn't take it on the plane. customs charged him when it entered the country.

Read another about someone sending their camera to the states to get it repaired, as they had bought it out there. Usa Customs charged them when it entered the US, Uk customs then charged him when it was arrived back to the uk.

Its a conspiracy by countries to make sure we don't by cheaply abroad and lose tax income to be gained from value added tax and all the other revenue from the many added taxes involved in ever stage of production and distribution of a product (wages, cost of raw materials, buildings, running cost of plant) . Stealth taxing.... and then we pay for tax again in the for of vat great eh :rolleyes:

Why do you think countries have such high import taxes on third world countries.. cause there stuff is dead cheap to make produce out and would easily out compete with our own produces. Losing the government valuable taxes

 

[johncross85]

i always thought that the whole of the EU has the same import and export taxes? single market and all that jazz

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That would make sense... but it would be about the only thing in the EU that did make sense I made the point because I once read about importing a car that way - US cars are way cheaper than here and I read about someone importing a Chrysler (or somesuchthing) into Portugal then driving it back to the UK. It worked out stupidly cheap - top spec mid size car for the cost of a bottom spec supermini here.

J(ohn)

 

[Steve-O]

what is FedEx Delivery?? do you get charged more for using FedEx ?

 

[spray]

fedex is just another delivery co, like initial or parcel force

 

[Steve-O]

is FedEx like the ones that will Charge you a Handeling fee thing when they take it from customs ?

 

[finty]

Most will, Parcel Force will do it also.

 

[Steve-O]

is it possible to make sure the Parcel will be delivered by Royal Mail or does the parcel just get given to a random delivery company?

 

[spray]

good question

i'm guessing with a brand name delivery co such as FedEx that it would be handled by them throughout the process.

having royal mail deliver the package won't mean that it will then invoke duty fees, it as soon as it comes into the country.

 

[Steve-O]

good question

i'm guessing with a brand name delivery co such as FedEx that it would be handled by them throughout the process.

having royal mail deliver the package won't mean that it will then invoke duty fees, it as soon as it comes into the country.

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yea, but apparently the royal mail Dont add their little handling fee bit on