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Beware when orderimg from ST.com - nasty surprise

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themadhippy:

--- Quote ---And you use a bank statement as a base for tax calculation
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great idea as that means i wont pay tax on 2 jobs i do a year that pay me in  pound notes that never get to see my bank account.

jfiresto:

--- Quote from: EPAIII on January 03, 2023, 09:32:18 am ---If it is a Value Added Tax, just how and how much does shipping add to the value? Seems to me that it adds nothing....
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How much value does a part have for a circuit you are testing/building/selling, if it is still sitting in a warehouse on another continent? A bird in the hand....

Faranight:

--- Quote from: EPAIII on January 03, 2023, 09:32:18 am ---If it is a Value Added Tax, just how and how much does shipping add to the value? Seems to me that it adds nothing.

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It doesn't, but shipping itself is a service, which is taxable by itself. I wondered the same a few years ago i.e. why do we have to pay more, if we ship an object from EU to US and then back. The object is the same as it was before, so how come it now costs more? And an act of simply increasing something's price apparently counts as added value, even without any physical change to the object in question. Yuck.

Jeroen3:

--- Quote from: BreakingOhmsLaw on December 30, 2022, 09:50:20 pm ---
--- Quote from: tom66 on December 30, 2022, 01:39:34 pm ---However, in future, if ordering from a company outside of the EU[..]

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ST is a French/Italian company, but they used Mouser for shipping from Texas.

Not what you'd expect.

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Can you name an equivalent eu-based distributor for mouser?

Berni:
Yeah unfortunately we have to deal with this crap when importing stuff into Europe.

None of this is STs fault. It is the local government enforcing import tax and then shipping carriers using it as an excuse to charge more money.

This is the reason why i love AliExpress shipping options. It costs a bit extra but they somehow magically get the package into the EU and then send it trough the post from there. As a result there is never any import bullshit.

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