Hi, Of course, things may (and probably are) vastly different in other countries, but my experience in Canada, is that about one in ten items that I've bought from the US (sent by mail) are dinged for duties and taxes. I guess with the volume of goods crossing our borders, they can't check them all.
Although I've never asked a shipper to do these things, several have marked the items as "gifts", or "damaged camera parts", and marked the value at under $10. It also may be that I tend to buy eBay items really cheap - typically under $30 - so maybe these things don't catch the Customs officers attention due to their low value. regards, frank Frantisek Vlcek wrote: > Sunday, February 03, 2002, 11:02:19 AM, Peter wrote: > PS> Has any list-member experience of customs and taxes to be payed for > PS> articles sent to you from abroad after eBay-auctions. In Sweden were I live > PS> the custom offices official answer is that you have to pay both customs and > PS> VAT (25%) on the declared value of the parcel sent. Then of course the cost > PS> would depend on the value declared by the sender. Maybe this is only a > PS> typical Swedish policy? > PS> Any creative ideas how to evade these costs? > > Peter, > does it apply to all declared values, or is there a limit? For > us in Czech republic, there is a limit under which you don't > have to pay anything (except small customs fee), not even VAT. > The limit is 8000,- CZK for items received from persons and > about 1500,- CZK for items from businesses. Perhaps there is > something like it in Sweden too, only the official "forgot" to > mention it :) ? > > Anyway, marking the declaration as Gift wouldn't hurt. Also, try > to have the sender sent it as a private person, without any > sales receipts inclosed, that way it might look really like a > gift. > > Good light, > Frantisek Vlcek > - > This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, > go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to > visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org . -- "The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true." -J. Robert Oppenheimer - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
