Calculating Import VAT/Duty

[Martynt74]

I'm a little baffled by UPS and wonder if anyone can explain to my donkey brain. I tried ringing UPS but their answer didn't seem to make much sense.

Item value is started as $250 USD

The Invoice has an FX rate of 0.806972000 and so that works out at a GBP value of £201.74. Adding 20% to that creates a VAT amount of around £40.


The breakdown on my UPS sheet is

Import VAT - £57.23
Duties - £9.97
Brokerage Fee - £12.20
Total - £79.40

Can anyone help me understand how they've got £57.23 as the VAT value? I've used a few import calculators which seem to match more in line with my original calculations.

For clarification, i've already paid the invoice as didn't want to delay the delivery, and the initial request for payment didn't break it down so i just assumed there were hefty "admin" fees.

 

[Martynt74]

No, shipping was free. Here's the original invoice

 

[Martynt74]

It looks like someone took the $250 and direct translate it to £250, add on brokeage fee and Duty and took a VAT of all that....which still would be about £54.

Yeah, but still not quite there, i also wondered if they'd ballsed up the conversion to turn turn $250/0.8 to get £300, but that still doesn't seem to work. If i could at least work out what they've done it'd help me mentally but at the moment, everything i try doesn't get back to the £57.23

 

[Martynt74]

Cheers guys, i think i might send a brief email to try and get some sense from it, but then just write it off given it's only around £15 more than i would've expected it to be. I don't think it's worth too much time battling it out!