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Issue with border force incorrectly charging me import VAT

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  • [Deleted User]
    [Deleted User] Posts: 0 Newbie
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    edited 9 December 2020 at 4:42PM
    If you understand the Japanese culture of gift giving it would make sense.  
    You are trying to avoid paying tax - just admit it. I don't blame you, but HMRC are not stupid and monitor things like this all the time. If they suspect you of deliberately being deceptive they could seize your goods or prosecute you. That's very unlikely but not impossible - they like to make examples of people who think they are smarter than the system.
  • Aylesbury_Duck
    Aylesbury_Duck Posts: 15,935 Forumite
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    If you understand the Japanese culture of gift giving it would make sense.  
    Does that culture involve strategies to avoid taxes on gifts, then?
  • If you understand the Japanese culture of gift giving it would make sense.  
    Yet you have to send them the postage money for the gift?!

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