Customs & VAT

[leslie10646]

Can anyone help with this one?

Enda Byrne sent me some of his containers. The jolly old Royal Mail has sent me a bill for £20 (£8 to them for telling me!).

Simple query -  which maybe IRM can answer as they sent me stuff from Ireland and i paid nothing! - is VAT/duties payable on toy trains into UK?

Regards to ye all from the Third World dump next door.

[jhb171achill]

15 minutes ago, leslie10646 said:

Can anyone help with this one?

Enda Byrne sent me some of his containers. The jolly old Royal Mail has sent me a bill for £20 (£8 to them for telling me!).

Simple query -  which maybe IRM can answer as they sent me stuff from Ireland and i paid nothing! - is VAT/duties payable on toy trains into UK?

Regards to ye all from the Third World dump next door.

I know it's been said before, but the rules seem to change hourly! The whole brexit thing is now seen by most to be the utter, nonsensical disaster that anyone with a bit of wit could have predicted it would be.

[DJ Dangerous]

20 minutes ago, leslie10646 said:

Can anyone help with this one?

Enda Byrne sent me some of his containers. The jolly old Royal Mail has sent me a bill for £20 (£8 to them for telling me!).

Simple query -  which maybe IRM can answer as they sent me stuff from Ireland and i paid nothing! - is VAT/duties payable on toy trains into UK?

Regards to ye all from the Third World dump next door.

 

In theory, yes, but I don't think they've bothered enforcing it before - wouldn't have looked good if people knew it was a "BrExit Benefit"...

Royal Mail website says:

 

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Royal Mail is required by law to present all items arriving from outside the UK to Border Force. This mail may be checked by them and be subject to customs charges.

Any charges are calculated and applied by Border Force on behalf of HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC). These charges aren't applied by Royal Mail.

The charges depend on the contents, where the item came from and who sent it. Letters, postcards and parcels containing only documents are normally exempt.

For items sent through the post, Royal Mail pay HMRC any import VAT and Customs Duty on your behalf. This ensures you receive your item as quickly as possible.

We'll then send you a Fee to pay card. This shows how much you need to pay before you can receive your item. The amount will include our £8 handling fee.

 

 

[irishmail]

21 minutes ago, leslie10646 said:

Can anyone help with this one?

Enda Byrne sent me some of his containers. The jolly old Royal Mail has sent me a bill for £20 (£8 to them for telling me!).

Simple query -  which maybe IRM can answer as they sent me stuff from Ireland and i paid nothing! - is VAT/duties payable on toy trains into UK?

Regards to ye all from the Third World dump next door.

Yes,  VAT is payable, but customs/import duty is not. 

[leslie10646]

Thanks, really with the reams said on this forum before, I should have accepted that the answer was "Yes"!

But quite how 20% of £20 comes to £11 is beyond even my mathematics.

 

[BosKonay]

9 minutes ago, leslie10646 said:

Can anyone help with this one?

Enda Byrne sent me some of his containers. The jolly old Royal Mail has sent me a bill for £20 (£8 to them for telling me!).

Simple query -  which maybe IRM can answer as they sent me stuff from Ireland and i paid nothing! - is VAT/duties payable on toy trains into UK?

Regards to ye all from the Third World dump next door.

Absolutely. You’ll pay 20% VAT plus admin fee on entry to the country (unless like us you’re collecting and reporting it under Ioss rules)

[DJ Dangerous]

18 minutes ago, leslie10646 said:

Thanks, really with the reams said on this forum before, I should have accepted that the answer was "Yes"!

But quite how 20% of £20 comes to £11 is beyond even my mathematics.

 

It's quite simple.

20% of £20 is £4, plus an additional 40% in the small print to cover that (in)famous £350M per week hole in NHS finances, so that's £12.

[Past-Avenue]

Sorry this may have been answered before but if you post from Northern Ireland to the UK what's the story?. I know that you can post within the island of Ireland with no problem. 

Enda 

[Galteemore]

24 minutes ago, Past-Avenue said:

Sorry this may have been answered before but if you post from Northern Ireland to the UK what's the story?. I know that you can post within the island of Ireland with no problem. 

Enda 

Don’t put it that way in certain parts of NI Enda or you’ll cause great offence !;)  NI, technically speaking, is part of the UK (it’s the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland) so postage to GB not an issue. 

Edited November 29, 2024 by Galteemore

[Markleman]

Leslie

This has happened to me before with stuff from Australia - the VAT they charged was much more than 20% of the value.

There is no duty on things like that so VAT is all you should be charged. You have to pay it to get the stuff delivered, so then I appealed against it.

Apparently they sometimes do not believe the values stated and make an estimate. Seemingly they believe that some unscrupulous types understate the value of things on customs declaration - I don't know why they think that.

Anyhow there was a section on the HM Customs website for appealing which I did. I had to restate the value (which was what was written on the declaration in the first place). Eventually they sent me a cheque for the difference.

Good luck.

Jim

[leslie10646]

2 hours ago, Past-Avenue said:

Sorry this may have been answered before but if you post from Northern Ireland to the UK what's the story?. I know that you can post within the island of Ireland with no problem. 

Enda 

Actually, Enda, when I tried that in Bangor, they would only sell me international postage - so the parcels (several) were posted in Dundalk!

We can't get back into the Custom's Union a day too early!

[Colin_McLeod]

On 28/11/2024 at 6:21 PM, leslie10646 said:

But quite how 20% of £20 comes to £11 is beyond even my mathematics.

It's 20% of the value of your item plus shipping.  But unless your shipping was £33 then the charge to you seems high.