On Wed, 12 Jan 2005 11:17:19 -0500, Luigi de Guzman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wednesday 12 January 2005 11:12, Graywolf wrote: > > VAT? > > Again, unless the Iron Chancellor has made Canon DSLRs VAT-exempt, this > wouldn't make a difference. Something else is going on. > > -Luigi
It's like Peter said: Taxes and greed. Here in the Great White North, there's an incoming duty on all photographic equipment, even used. Import duties are only supposed to be in place to protect local industries. AFAIK, the only Canadian manufacturer of photographic instruments is Leica in Midland, and while I know they still make surveyors' equipment there, I'm not sure if they still make camera lenses. Even if they do, I don't imagine that Leica is losing any sales because I buy a 20 year old Pentax lens from a list member. But if it comes up from the US (or in from anywhere else, for that matter), it's subject to duty. Imagine how much money our gov't has made of this specious tax! That may have nothing to do with why Pentaxen are so expensive in the UK, but I got that pet peeve off my chest, anyway... <VBG> cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson
