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I bought 4 sets of bogu from korea, which came in 2 boxes (2 sets in each box). I was charged £39 tax for each box.
I rang up customs to complain, and they said it doesn't matter what you write on the box, if it is over 18kg, there is a tax charge appropriate to its weight. ![]() So i had to stump up £78 before parcel force could unload them off the lorry, which almost made it not worth buying outside of the UK. Hope this info helps. |
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That's odd, 'cos every time I have been hit with import tax, it has always been value-based. That's why the sender has to write the approximate value of the parcel on the shipping advice label.
However, gifts or items of no value (paper-based files, documents etc that can be reprinted and were not sold to you) are not chargeable. If Auntie Hilda in Oz sends you a birthday pressie, you don't pay an import duty for your own gift. However, if you buy an item from a source outside of the UK, there's about (from what HMC&E tell me) a one in three chance of it being hit for duty. If you buy from inside the UK from a company that has imported the items, there is no duty 'cos the company has already paid it. Small items are also excluded. Under (if I remember correctly) £20 value, there isn't a a requirement to pay import tax. |
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That's odd, 'cos every time I have been hit with import tax, it has always been value-based. That's why the sender has to write the approximate value of the parcel on the shipping advice labe |
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