On 30 Mar, kelsey@mse wrote:
>
> As I recall, IT products were reduced to 3% tariff a few years back and 2
> years ago was reduced to 0%.
> So legally there should be no tax. I believe the rule was even amended to
> include CD-ROMs, as before they were not included as IT products. Anyway,
> if anybody has the connections, can anybody verify if this is the case?
>
This is certainly not the case. My last job involved importing several
boards and we definitely did get taxed over this. This was mid-2000.
The actual items in question were embedded microprocessor boards from
AMD: we declared them as motherboards and still got a tax of 10% on
their declared cost. These are without question IT products by any
definition (they're computer parts!), but the University still wound up
paying a hundred thousand or so in customs duties for several of the
boards.
And this was only a few months prior to the impeachment flap.
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