custom and excercise

[reg]

Hi all.

When you have gear sent from the u.s.a and the customs over here have it

do they inform you what they want in the way of vat and whatever. or do you have to chase them up as they have had two reels of mine for ten days and not a word from them

Reg

[Paul J]

Reg,

 

You should get a slip through the door from the post office i think.

10 days is about right so nothing to worry about yet

 

PJ

[conger king]

you will receve a customs bill and when paid in full they will arrange delivery date the trick is to get the person sending to put gift on parcel hope this helps

[Paul D]

A mentioned above you will eventually receive a customs bill ( I got mine via Parcelforce who charge a fee to collect the duty as well - The fee was almost as much if not more than the duty they needed to collect as well ).

 

I got a letter through the door and went to the parcelforce depot to collect ( and pay the duty ).

 

[Duncan F (bathclaret)]

As Paul says, 2 weeks is pretty average.

 

The Post Office acts as collection agent for HMRC and will (eventually) leave you a slip saying you have a package with underpaid postage on it at your Sorting Office.

 

Calculating the duty due is crazy because there's a pretty random list of different types of goods, all of which attract duty at different rates, as a percentage of the value of the goods.

 

The stinger is that Royal Mail impose a fee for "assessing" (delaying) your package of, I think,

[reg]

Thanks Lad's I know the first

[Newboy]

Thanks Lad's I know the first

[reg]

Just heard that it has been released by the british customs on the 23 so sit back and wait for the shock" I ordered a shimano culcutta 400. plus a shimano tld 30 two speed

[reg]

Well I finally got the reels and the bill which was not as bad as I thought

[conger king]

good deal sham about the vat but if he had put gift no vat to pay

as i have done this before

[Paul D]

good deal sham about the vat but if he had put gift no vat to pay

as i have done this before

Worth bearing in mind though that doing this is essentially no different to attempting to smuggle the item into the country

[reg]

Another thing that was stamped on the side of the box was that a private person sending anything to another private person. anything over