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Something is wrong with mouser
peter-h:
" I'll also acknowledge that it does seem rather bizarre that a business outside the UK needs to register for UK VAT collection if they're directly exporting consignments under £135, leaving them with the stark options options to either (a) use an OMP to facilitate [& stomach the cost], (b) register & account for UK VAT or (c) not sell to the UK."
What happens if a seller in the EU or US ships a package worth £130 to the UK, simply by posting it, with a suitable customs declaration?
Monkeh:
--- Quote from: peter-h on March 10, 2021, 06:41:19 pm ---" I'll also acknowledge that it does seem rather bizarre that a business outside the UK needs to register for UK VAT collection if they're directly exporting consignments under £135, leaving them with the stark options options to either (a) use an OMP to facilitate [& stomach the cost], (b) register & account for UK VAT or (c) not sell to the UK."
What happens if a seller in the EU or US ships a package worth £130 to the UK, simply by posting it, with a suitable customs declaration?
--- End quote ---
What always happened: The recipient gets a letter asking for the VAT and a handling fee. Whether this will continue to be the case and if not, for how long it will be tolerated, are unknown, as our government will not cite laws nor keep the published legislation up to date.
peter-h:
It has to continue, otherwise you are chucking out standard international trade practices.
HMRC is merely trying to keep a lid on the big channels and collect VAT from those. Fo most people that is amazon and ebay and they are already mostly compliant.
Ice-Tea:
I think I'm starting to understand why Mouser is backed up.. I got two rotary encoders where the encoders were put in an antistatic bag (fine!) with several ESD stickers (uhm.. sure?) and the washers and nuts came in 2 separate ESD shielded bags.
So, yeah, that kind of service takes time :-DD
peter-h:
That's hilarious :) But there is no way to train packing staff on what needs ESD and what doesn't.
Mouser are still not shipping. My last order, 2 days ago, has been notified as delayed by 5 days. That means, based on the past, that they won't even pack it for 5 days.
I have bought the important parts from a UK source...
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