Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/04/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Nathan, Exactly the same situation in India. In fact, the private companies even collect duty on goods which are duty free, just to be on the safe side! Cheers Jayanand On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 10:27 PM, Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu>wrote: > Joseph (and others), > > When someone resident in the EU buys something from a merchant outside the > EU, the rule is that the recipient must pay his local VAT on delivery, plus > any duty that may be applicable. In the case of photo equipment, the duty > is > small: something like 4% on bodies and nothing on lenses, or the other way > round. The VAT is much more substantial, e.g. 17.5% in the UK if I am not > mistaken. > > It is the job of the delivery company to collect the VAT and duty. Now, > sometimes I have been lucky and the post office has simply delivered the > product to me without any charges. This has happened both in the > Netherlands > and (much more frequently :-)) here in Spain. But it is an act of > negligence > on their part, albeit one in which I happily acquiesce :-) > > The private delivery companies like UPS or Fedex are much less likely to > commit such an act of negligence, and they often charge additional fees for > doing the customs paperwork. For that reason, whenever I buy from the US, I > specify the USPS as the carrier and will simply not do business with > merchants who insist on using UPS etc. > > Cheers, > Nathan > > Nathan Wajsman > Alicante, Spain > http://www.frozenlight.eu > http://www.greatpix.eu > http://www.nathanfoto.com > > Books: http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/search?search=wajsman&x=0&y=0 > PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws > Blog: http://www.fotocycle.dk/blog > > > > > > > On Apr 17, 2010, at 6:40 PM, Joseph Yao wrote: > > > What Import Duties? > > > > I have been selling photo equipment to the UK for over ten years and none > of > > my customers has ever had to pay import duties or VAT. > > > > I am sure fellow UK LUGger Jem Kime can confirm. > > > > Joseph > > > > > > On 17/04/2010 12:48 AM, "Eric Calderwood" < > eric.calderwood at btinternet.com> > > wrote: > > > >> I contacted the seller yesterday, however with him being in Canada and > >> Import Duties etc being what they are here in the UK it would make it a > >> rather expensive proposition, otherwise I would have already snapped it > up. > >> > >> Cheers > >> > >> Eric > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Leica Users Group. > > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >