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Unfair UK Pricing on US Website
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You're absolutely right. It's usually the tax differences that make the majority of the difference, however.Mark_Hewitt wrote: »And I'm sure they'll add a bit on the top to take care of merchant costs for changing the currency, and to mitigate against currency fluctuations and to round it up to a nice number!0 -
How can the price from a US supplier include VAT?
VAT is charged by UK retailers and repaid to the UK VAT authorities. The VATman cannot collect from a US-based company, the company will not be registered, nor will it fill in VAT returns!0
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