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I'm not a gambler so I want to know the total costs of a model/shipment/VAT/Import duties & other handling/administrative costs before I say Jay or Nay to a purchase. That's why I haven't bought from the US for over a decade - after being burnt too many times - and if the UK will head the same direction it will be better to go there once a year with some friends to do some shopping .We'll see what happens, but the usual habit of governments grabbing money wherever and whenever they can doesn't gove me too much hope for the coming years (ok, politics, so I'll stop here )...
If you are coming over for a visit and some shopping we have a local club that would welcome you on a Monday or Thursday (if you get to Scarborough) and if you are here with family we have award winning ice-creams and donkeys on the beach. If you're not here with family we have cheaper beer and cheaper hotels than London and the train goes to York (or Leeds if you wanted to look at the Armouries)
including getting folks to put gift or a lower value of the contents on the label.
That limit (the low-value consignment relief) ends across the EU at the beginning of 2021, so packages of any value will have VAT levied on them on import. Theoretically at least.
I wasn't aware of this! Do you have any sources? Probably a way to stem the tide of cheap (and often shoddy) Chinese goods being shipped into the EU?
Sorry to be a killjoy but what you're suggesting is illegal (certainly in the UK) and the penalties can be severe. I won't take the risk.
I've had this issue on a couple of occasions. The last time It happened, I asked for the items to be returned to sender and had my money back.Tony
Yep, I got caught out. When I moved from Oz, I wasn't able to pack everything for shipping due to time pressures, so a whole lot of stuff was left with a friend for safe-keeping. He sent me a parcel with my own 15mm Early Imperial Roman army in, and I was charged £70 for VAT and handling. This is despite the figures originally being purchased from the UK VAT paid. And no exemptions and no easy mechanisms to get a refund.