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BMX General => BMX Chat => Topic started by: dwain dibbly on January 26, 2007, 11:05 PM

Title: if i buy a frame from the states
Post by: dwain dibbly on January 26, 2007, 11:05 PM

am i likely to get hit with vat?????

Title: Re: if i buy a frame from the states
Post by: selfpreservation on January 26, 2007, 11:08 PM

yes you can ask them to label them as "second hand childrens bike parts " and theyre is a tarriff number you can put on it (ask billy stupple ) for it , but even so i got stung for £50 on a £300 frame

Title: Re: if i buy a frame from the states
Post by: aditup2004 on January 26, 2007, 11:20 PM

If it gets pulled in, you pay £13 handling charge, so, as a consequence, they WILL charge you a import duty to justify their "intervention".
This is a percentage the value of the item (which HAS to be stated on the export document)
Theiving barstools, is whaat I think.
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