This sort of thing is often a problem in 3rd world countries. A payment needs to be made to the postal service for the privilege of paying tax. In the UK via the post office this is a percentage of the tax or £8, whichever is the greater. The real problem is that if everything is invoiced in one go, you will pay tax on that amount. Then when a spare or back ordered part is sent, it will have a value and the tax will be due again.
Tax is payable on that value (plus the shipping costs) regardless of whether or not you needed to pay that amount. That is, the tax is due on the declared value, not what you happen to pay for it. This stops you evading tax by say buying a £20 car with a £20000 handbook and avoiding VAT because VAT is not payable on books. It gets worse, if you send back your new K3 for repairs, you may find you have to pay import duty again on it's return. The reasoning being that it had a lower value when you exported it because it did not work than when you re-imported it repaired. You pay tax on the difference. So, you need to be very careful when sending items away for repair and buy a special type of certificate before you export indicating it is only a temporary export and no tax is payable. Back here in the 3rd world, where the courier is able to charge whatever they like to collect the tax. You have no choice except to use a different courier. Oddly although clearly in competition they all seem to charge about the same amount. Your best solution is to emigrate or wait until everything is ready. I am seriously considering emigrating myself. Mike -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Potential-issue-with-back-ordered-items-in-EU-tp14834961p14841367.html Sent from the Elecraft mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
