Importing from EU clarification

The French company should be charging, and accounting for, UK VAT. If they do, and there's no customs duty to pay, that's it.

If the French company doesn't charge/account for UK VAT, and/or there's customs duty to pay, then the courier should require payment of the VAT/duty plus their admin. fee.
 
Surveyor said:
The French company should be charging, and accounting for, UK VAT. If they do, and there's no customs duty to pay, that's it.

If the French company doesn't charge/account for UK VAT, and/or there's customs duty to pay, then the courier should require payment of the VAT/duty plus their admin. fee.
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Over £135 it'll be dealt with by customs regardless, not by the seller, IIRC
 
Mikey said:
Don’t have a prob with the vat, it’s the **** take re couriers.
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The courier is paid to ship the item from A to B. Collecting and accounting for the taxes is additional work hence they charge a fee for doing so. It's not like you're unaware this could happen.

Have you checked if the item would also be subject to customs duty?
 
Surveyor said:
The courier is paid to ship the item from A to B. Collecting and accounting for the taxes is additional work hence they charge a fee for doing so. It's not like you're unaware this could happen.

Have you checked if the item would also be subject to customs duty?
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indeed, hence ordering less from abroad, TBH not spending much at Uak shops either. Planning a year of minimal spend now.

i haven’t messaged the retailer yet, it’s clothing made in the EU.
 
Mikey said:
Don’t have a prob with the vat, it’s the **** take re couriers.
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If I buy an electrical appliance from Amazon France, over £135. Am I liable to pay any extra in VAT/import? Or is it just a complete gamble?
 
Ahleckz said:
If I buy an electrical appliance from Amazon France, over £135. Am I liable to pay any extra in VAT/import? Or is it just a complete gamble?
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Generally speaking, as a consumer dealing with typical retail purchasing, anything you buy from abroad (in or outside the EU) now should attract VAT, maybe customs duty depending on whether the item in question attracts duty and possibly a courier's handling fee if these things are getting paid at import stage.

Under £135 it should be included in the sale price and dealt with by the seller, over £135 it should be collected at import. With the latter, you may get lucky and find it slips through the net without being noticed but you ought to assume you'll be charged it.

Online marketplaces work to slightly different rules whereby they collect the sales VAT instead of the individual seller but the same general under/over £135 principle applies.
 
Kenai said:
Over £135 it'll be dealt with by customs regardless, not by the seller, IIRC
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Yeah, strange who the UK is one of the few places to introduce that and forces forging businesses to register with HMRC for VAT. This is one of the reasons some EU businesses just think screw it, why bother.

It is a bit daft they didn't apply the rules used for every other non-eu country importing into the UK.

Nasher said:
Send it via NI :D
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I'm surprised some businesses haven't started doing this to try and skirt the rules.
 
englishpremier said:
Yeah, strange who the UK is one of the few places to introduce that and forces forging businesses to register with HMRC for VAT. This is one of the reasons some EU businesses just think screw it, why bother.[...]
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Who are the other places?
 
dLockers said:
Who are the other places?
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I don't actually know of any other country that does it, but I'm curious. It's artificially creating a barrier to foreign businesses selling into the UK.

I doubt the UK came up with the idea on its own though. Most likely panicked by not having enough people or the technology to automatically check packages at customs, and thought XX country does this, lets copy them.
 
englishpremier said:
I don't actually know of any other country that does it, but I'm curious. It's artificially creating a barrier to foreign businesses selling into the UK.

I doubt the UK came up with the idea on its own though. Most likely panicked by not having enough people or the technology to automatically check packages at customs, and thought XX country does this, lets copy them.
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Pretty sure it is the EU fella.
https://www.avalara.com/vatlive/en/vat-news/2021-eu-marketplaces-vat-deemed-supplier.html

Except now they get to register in each others country, and centrally for the EU One Stop Shop ID.

We were 'first' on reforms that have been needed for a long time.
 
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