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Also lots of miniature companies are so small they won’t need to be VAT registered
Been talking with Jon fr Kurasan, he keeps mentioning 'withholding VAT', so that his customers don't get charged with an administration charge when paying VAT on items coming into the country. What is he talking about?
Deothar, you're lucky the seller didn't use UPS because they charge you a fee of either 13 or 15 euro - can't find the bill anymore - rather dan 4 euro ( the bare minimum in the Netherlands ) .But I feel your pain, my friend. And even worse, I hope everything is there and as promised because if the seller has to send you a replacement for free you'll get hit again by at least another 4 euro handling fee, regardless of anything else.
@Daeothar: unfortunately PostNL is a nightmare for IOSS VAT paid packages. The whole thing about VAT not being forwarded does not even remotely sound like how the system is supposed to work. It’s not even PostNL’s problem, they just have to declare the package as VAT paid and release it for delivery. If the VAT *wasn't* paid, that would be EBay’s problem as there’d be a shortfall in their monthly VAT return...
because I gather that this is hurting UK sales a lot, especially smaller companies.
Very much so
Also it seems thats Brexit has awakened customs/VAT tracking in this country, now they are trying to look after all orders from outside the EU. Before it nobody never noticed all the orders we received from the USA or Canada or Australia etc.