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sk00bie1

VAT at 20% is due if the package is assessed to be over £15 value or £40 if the package is declared as a gift.

Customs duty is due is the package is assessed to be over £135 value, however if the amount due is less than £9 is it waived. The duty charged varies between 0 and 85% depending on the product. Most are between 5 and 9% though.

Royal Mail will charge £8 for handling the customs forms/process for you.

see here (HMRC website) and here (royal mail website)

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As others have said the sender will lose out on insurance payout if the package is lost, however you are responsible if the package value has not been declared correctly.

Travo

Thank you everyone for all your help, the package arrived today with no customs charge or anything along those lines, the value of the package was around £135 so I'm very lucky to get away with that charge as it would of been a hefty sum to pay!

Avoriaz

Travo wrote: »

Thank you everyone for all your help, the package arrived today with no customs charge or anything along those lines, the value of the package was around £135 so I'm very lucky to get away with that charge as it would of been a hefty sum to pay!

I hope you are pleased that you have effectively stolen money from taxpayers. :whistle:

pulliptears

Travo wrote: »

Thank you everyone for all your help, the package arrived today with no customs charge or anything along those lines, the value of the package was around £135 so I'm very lucky to get away with that charge as it would of been a hefty sum to pay!

I wouldn't celebrate just yet, it's been know to receive an invoice later down the line.

Travo

Avoriaz wrote: »

I hope you are pleased that you have effectively stolen money from taxpayers. :whistle:

Yeah sorry, I'm sure I would of LOVED a charge on my parcel, I mean who wouldn't?

Travo

pulliptears wrote: »

I wouldn't celebrate just yet, it's been know to receive an invoice later down the line.

Never heard of this happening

NeverEnough

Clearly the sender did NOT complete the Customs Declaration truthfully or there would have been Import Duties to be paid on a £135 item.

Keep taking chances, OP, its a numbers game - being dishonest will catch up at some point.

RFW

Avoriaz wrote: »

I hope you are pleased that you have effectively stolen money from taxpayers. :whistle:

If that worries you, console yourself with a coffee from Starbucks;)

It's interesting how import tax works, it's a totally unworkable system, to manage it properly would cost more than would be raised, ie checking every parcel.

If the OP was an extremely law abiding citizen, I don't know exactly what he would need to do to go about paying the tax. I'd assume that some people haven't paid tax the other end on items I have sent overseas. I'd assume it balances out over time.

Travo

Everything was completed truthfully and fully thankyou

Avoriaz

RFW wrote: »

If that worries you, console yourself with a coffee from Starbucks;)

It doesn't worry me, but, if it did, Starbucks is the last place I would seek solace and coffee would not be my consoling drink.