I am confused.
A retailer within the EU selling to a consumer outside the EU is not obliged to add EU-VAT.
Thus who can nonetheless charge this plus a punishment fee from the seller and and on what legal basis?
Adding UK tax on such sale to the UK and transferring such to UK fiscal authorities is a service for UK consumers to enable them such import.
How can not doing so affect the EU retailer and not the importing UK-consumer?
Thats how I understood it. Akward isn´t it?You mean that if you do not collect the UK taxes for UK customers, the UK authorities then will not claim those from your UK customer, but instead will put you as german retailer in debth to UK treasury, which then likely would hamper any business activity with the UK of your company itself or when travelling as company representative to the UK?
My wife works for the Irish Revenue Commissioners and I have asked how can the UK HMRC enforce the collection of taxes on a company or individual that is not in their jurisdiction.
The simple answer I got was, as they are not in the EU, they can't.
Wow that's an old one> It seems to date from about the same time that in British films Anton Diffring was the most overworked nazi in the business
I do not see, though, how HMRC can have any jurisdiction over foreign entities to register as UK tax entity and collect taxes on their behalf.
I don’t see what there is to prevent a supplier overseas to the UK to bill, as they would anyone else they are exporting to, the amount less any local taxes, irrespective of the total value, and and leave any taxes due on import to the responsibility of the importer.
of course the UK authorities can just refuse to allow a shipment to enter the UK territory if it does not meet all the "rules" (including having the UK taxes paid. perhaps they could go back to the 1700s and have the tax amount paid by stamps applied to to the package.
I've recently made my third post-Brexit order from Fotoimpex to be delivered to the UK....and for the first time they've hit me with a tax that I must pay before the package is released. On a £154 order (EUR177) they expect me to pay £46 in duties. No indication of how they reached this figure, no possibility to reply to the message either.
I mean....I suppose I got lucky the previous times? But there's no indication of how they arrived at the £46.
Just a warning to other people in the UK ordering from Fotoimpex and other EU-based retailers.
When the package arrives there should be a breakdown of the charges. There is an Online HMCR PDF you can fill out and post to the relevant Customs office.
Early this year I bought a near mint 1961 300mm f4.5 Xenar from a Belgian store via eBay. Tracking showing it having VAT added, then 30 mins later the charge revised. £130 extra on a 300 euro lens. I had in fact paid VAT on the purchase in Belgium.
I did get a partial refund initially from HMCR, and after a second letter I got a full refund, but not for the carriers (Parcel Force) handling fee to collect the taxes. It turned out Belgium Post had used the wrong Export code on the Customs form.
Remember the way taxes work is the Price of the Item & Shipping, then any Duty, and VAT is compounded on top.
From experience the Export Codes are not that simple and can be time-consuming to look up.
Ian
Just curious, as an "outsider" (from the USA), why wouldn't a UK-based company ship to Northern Ireland, which is part of the UK?In the past I was used to buying photographic stuff from Teamwork in the UK. :-(
Just curious, as an "outsider" (from the USA), why wouldn't a UK-based company ship to Northern Ireland, which is part of the UK?
Just curious, as an "outsider" (from the USA), why wouldn't a UK-based company ship to Northern Ireland, which is part of the UK?
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