How do HMRC justify it?

wez130

wez130

wez130

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We've had our wedding photos sent over from New Zealand on a USB stick which cost about $15 NZD (£7).

We've had a letter from royal mail asking for £27.90 for our parcel. £14.40 of which is VAT.

I cannot understand the logic!

/rant.
 
Has the photographer declared the full price you paid them to photograph the wedding on the package for some strange reason?
 
wez130 said:
We've had our wedding photos sent over from New Zealand on a USB stick which cost about $15 NZD (£7).

We've had a letter from royal mail asking for £27.90 for our parcel. £14.40 of which is VAT.

I cannot understand the logic!

/rant.
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The logic is that the declared value is much higher than £7 and is on an item that is subject to both VAT and Import duty.
 
The wedding pictures cost significantly more than £7 at a guess? It's likely this was the declared value rather than the stick itself.
 
There's no duty - the value was too low to qualify.

They've deemed the value, for VAT, at £72. Was the declared value of $15 a bit unclearly written - could it be interpreted as $150?

NZ $150 more or less equals £72.
 
The wedding photos were done free of charge from my wife's sisters partner. The only cost was for the USB stick.

Edit, and thanks for moving to right section, I posted from my phone lol
 
Lopéz said:
The wedding pictures cost significantly more than £7 at a guess? It's likely this was the declared value rather than the stick itself.
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I don't think the cost of the wedding pictures has anything to do with it, that was a service they paid for in NZ presumably(so nothing to do with HMRC) and would have cost more like a grand.

I mean if this USB stick got lost then the photographer could just send another, its value is simply the value of the stick itself - they've already paid for the rights to have copies of the photographs.

edit - OK they didn't even pay for them to be taken... so almost certainly OP has been overcharged for VAT
 
wez130 said:
The wedding photos were done free of charge from my wife's sisters partner. The only cost was for the USB stick.

Edit, and thanks for moving to right section, I posted from my phone lol
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Lmao, why on earth wasn't this sorted online? It's like a timwarp back to 2004 or something.
 
OK, what site would be best to set up a free account that's accessible worldwide and so that they can upload RAW files?

Thanks
 
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