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PayPal is trying to charge the ex-VAT price

Joe7894
Joe7894 Posts: 5 Forumite
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Hi all,

I’m looking to buy a new phone online & when I choose to pay by PayPal the Total amount shows the price ex-VAT.

Have I just found a loophole that I probably shouldn’t take advantage of?

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  • DarkShadow
    DarkShadow Posts: 180 Forumite
    Is it ethical to not give govt the VAT? Remember every pence goes towards our schools, roads, maintenance.
    Bank accounts
    Santander : 17 year relationship, 0 problems to date.
  • AndyPK
    AndyPK Posts: 4,392 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts
    I think I read an email that they are making changes.


    or did I dream it
  • mobilejunkie
    mobilejunkie Posts: 8,460 Forumite
    edited 21 October 2019 at 2:44PM
    DarkShadow wrote: »
    Is it ethical to not give govt the VAT? Remember every pence goes towards our schools, roads, maintenance.
    And there was me thinking most went on wasting copious amounts of our money on all sorts of things instead of the right things whilst planning ways to thwart what I voted for. Good to know they're so good with my money
  • molerat
    molerat Posts: 35,148 Forumite
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    Joe7894 wrote: »
    Hi all,

    I’m looking to buy a new phone online & when I choose to pay by PayPal the Total amount shows the price ex-VAT.

    Have I just found a loophole that I probably shouldn’t take advantage of?
    Where are you buying this phone ?
  • Joe7894
    Joe7894 Posts: 5 Forumite
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    molerat wrote: »
    Where are you buying this phone ?

    I’d looked at buying it sim-free through clove.co.uk because they offered cashback. Put a 64GB iPhone11 in the basket, choose to pay via PayPal & the total asked for in ex-vat.
    I ended up buying direct from Apple to save any hassle.
  • grumbler
    grumbler Posts: 58,629 Forumite
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    DarkShadow wrote: »
    Is it ethical to not give govt the VAT? Remember every pence goes towards our schools, roads, maintenance.
    It's companies that pay VAT, not their customers. Unless the goods they sell are exempt of VAT, the company has to pay VAT as a proportion of the actual price they charge the customer and it doesn't matter what the websites says about VAT.
  • d123
    d123 Posts: 8,748 Forumite
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    Joe7894 wrote: »
    I’d looked at buying it sim-free through clove.co.uk because they offered cashback. Put a 64GB iPhone11 in the basket, choose to pay via PayPal & the total asked for in ex-vat.
    I ended up buying direct from Apple to save any hassle.

    Their prices are shown as ex-vat on their website, I would presume the vat will be added when you actually checkout.
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