Quote This raises a question in my mind for you VAT payers. If you pay the VAT, and then discover that your item has been more or less destroyed in shipping, do you get any refund on the VAT? What happens on the replacement item, assuming you get one? Perhaps your comment about the replacement part suggests you wouldn't pay the VAT twice.
Dave W7AQK Dave, Don't forget the postal service's "handling" fee, which is another addition to the UK's 17.5% VAT. Oh, and you'd likelystand a better chance of piking butter up a porcupine's a55 with a red hot shovel than getting a refund from Her Majesty's Customs and Excise! Fortunately, replacement components I've needed have had a shipped value below the VAT threshold, so they've come through unchallenged. HMC&E are a law unto themselves and once rendered one (constructed) piece of equipment I imported into a kit, having even dismantled and destroyed some of the components. Complaints in all directions including my MP received approximately the same response: Tough! I just hope there's never a need to return a K3 module to Elecraft for repair as that could well prove interesting. In theory, VAT would be chargeable on the repair cost, return shipping and insurance as that's the service provided, but if they decided to assign their own value to the item, it would probably prove impossible to change their assessment. 73 DaveL G3TJP _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: [email protected] You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
