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Hong Kong - customs charges?

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  • deanos
    deanos Posts: 11,241 Forumite
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    PinheadSK wrote: »
    Not if they've declared the shipping cost on the invoice... that may well push it over the limits. As I posted earlier, it's the value of the item plus the shipping cost that the duty is calculated on.

    Sean

    IIRC they only include the shipping cost if the item is over £18
  • Heliflyguy
    Heliflyguy Posts: 932 Forumite
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    Must add that the VAT you pay has nothing to do with a perceived value, in my letter I stated the retail cost of the item and was charged to the value of what I paid.
    If it were any other way when you bought an item in a sale in the UK you dont pay VAT on how much the item was prior to being reduced do you.
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