Customs and excise

roofer · 29-04-2006, 06:31 PM

Dont you just love em

Ive just shipped a capilano helm from states £103.33 duty and vat and some bits from trick marine £185.76 vat and duty, our goverment dont half take the piss.

Foolish · 29-04-2006, 08:18 PM

Always helps to have a friend out there to re-wrap them and send as presents

Tony Davis · 29-04-2006, 09:06 PM

Not guaranteed to work, the C&E have a £50 max limit on gifts, so you may well still get clobbered!

michaelcaine · 30-04-2006, 07:38 AM

i used to buy phone covers from china,i always got them to put on the ticket low value samples

BluFin · 30-04-2006, 09:43 AM

SSSShhhhhhh I reckon you are about £69.00 up on the deal for the Cap helm. You got away lightly.

roofer · 30-04-2006, 10:27 AM

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Originally posted by BluFin
SSSShhhhhhh I reckon you are about £69.00 up on the deal for the Cap helm. You got away lightly.

I think they made up for it, I spent just over $1200 at trick marine but they put $1331 value on contents so ive paid vat and duty on that.