Re: UK PCB Fabrication

On Sat, 04 Jul 2009 16:45:06 +0100, Ian Bell <ruffrecords@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Jim Thompson wrote:
On Sat, 04 Jul 2009 15:41:21 +0100, Ian Bell <ruffrecords@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

TheM wrote:
"Ian Bell" <ruffrecords@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:h2nbse$1u8$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
That makes a nice change. I got some boards from ExpressPCB in the USA and they marked them at the full price including freight so
I ended up paying a shed load of VAT plus a handling charge. Bloody annoying.

Cheers
Ian
That's how the big companies work. Mind you, it is illegal to falsely mark a package
to be worth less, plus insurance value in case it gets lost is smaller and they have to
absorb the difference.

Also charging import tax and vat on top of everything (including shipping) is pretty
standard everywhere.

It is "annoying" though, agreed :)

M

The other thing is I have noticed this seems to have been invoked
without fail in the last 12 months. Before that, stuff I got from the
USA was just delivered without duty/VAT being charged. Maybe the
recession has made them keener to collect their 'handling' charge' -
last one I had was £8 to collect £10 of VAT.

The rules about when charges are made have been changed recently too;
don't know if that is a factor.

Cheers

Ian

I didn't get charged VAT on a recent software purchase from "over
there".

...Jim Thompson

Was it sent by a company or an individual?? There seems to be different
rules for each.

Cheers

Ian

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