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UK abolishes <£15 VAT free imports. EU to follow.

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sleemanj:

--- Quote from: petematthews on January 10, 2021, 10:31:11 pm ---Not sure if there are other marketplaces you could run a similar plan though. AliExpress seems to require you to be a registered company to be a seller.

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You could do it as not-a-scam by using a reshipper in China, get your PCbs shipped to the reshipper, reshipper ships to you (and charges you international shipping and the VAT and their service charge).

Superbuy has made this post which seems to indicate that "if they are required to" then they will do VAT, but that they are not doing it unless they have to... http://bbs.superbuy.com/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=470199&fid=50&extra=page%3D1  (Superbuy is both an agent who can buy from taobao, 1688 etc, and also you can ship stuff bought elsewhere, like a pcb fab, to their warehouse to be reshipped to you).

Fraser:
I just received my first parcel from the EU since the changes. The parcel came from Germany and had the “VAT Paid” code as part of the second line of the address. It stated....

 “GB 365 6085 76 Code:Paid”

A standard CN22 value declaration was attached to the parcel but I understand there will be a new declaration label issued, in the UK at least, to cover shipments to the EU.

The purchase was via eBay and it appears that VAT was automatically included.
I made an offer of £30 on an item that was being offered with free postage. The eBay transaction shows a cost of £25.86 plus £4.14 VAT so I did not pay additional VAT on my offer, it was considered part of the offer price :)

In case anyone is curious about what I bought.... it was an order for two LAPC116A logic probe pods made for a Hantek/Voltcraft MSO, so £30 for two delivered to the UK was great value  :-+

No additional VAT was requested upon delivery by Royal Mail.

Fraser

Fraser:
The plot thickens........

I just made an exact same offer to the same seller fir two more of the logic analyzer cables and the eBay offer entry page clearly states that the offer amount does NOT include VAT or shipping. I may be wrong, but that appears to have been added since My last offer to the seller. I wonder whether sellers now have ‘include’ or ‘exclude’ VAT and shipping for offers option in their profile or maybe eBay now exclude these as a matter of course? When I entered my £15 each offer for 2 cables, eBay added VAT to the total that I would pay.

It looks like I got lucky with my first purchase wher VAT was considered a part of the offer.

Fraser

Fraser:
Yep, confirmed..... my offer of £15 per logic cable, Qty 2, was just accepted. The total I paid was £36 as 20% VAT was added by eBay. Still a good price and sadly it appears the seller took the hit for VAT in the first transaction. Either that or it was an eBay error and they gave the seller the full £30 that I offered.

Fraser

Monkeh:
It's all well and good if you're buying from eBay or Amazon. Shame about all the other businesses we're now not easily able to trade with and are losing out to the big players.

What, for example, do I do if I want to buy something from Welectron? Pay them their 19% VAT, somehow claim it back, pay another 20% VAT and a processing fee when it arrives here? Yeah, that sounds stupid - hence why I can no longer do small business with them. Them and thousands of other businesses we're now either locked out of or being penalised for using.

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