Dear Robert, thanks for saying that I'm a thief. I really appreciate
it. At least, when you do so, please have the courage to sign yourself
with your own full name.
Actually, I always paid every penny of import taxes in all my life.
When my Digikey orders came in, I usually really enjoy paying big
money of EU taxes. That's a part of the game and a cost of electronic
prototyping in EU.
The truth is customs here in Italy sucks big time and I don't really
know why when the two orders from Dorkbot came in the postman didn't
ask me for taxes. If he would have asked, I would have surely paid.
But, rest assured that I never did anything to not paying those taxes
so I can surely know that my conscience is clear.
Take care,
Fabio
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On 02/15/2011 02:58 PM, Robert wrote:
On 15/02/2011 13:39, Fabio Varesano wrote:
Actually, I'm using dorkbot PCB and I live in Italy.
Never had to pay one euro for VAT nor anything like "handling" and I
always had orders of nearly 100$ of PCBs.
That's because you've been getting away with evading tax, something
which you've just announced to the world. Oops. Like any other
European citizen you are supposed to pay VAT on imports, though it may
well be waived on small amounts (and hundreds of dollars wouldn't be
counted as small). In the UK if VAT is payable on incoming parcels
Royal Mail retain the package until the recipient pays the VAT (and a
handling charge for collecting the VAT).
Regards,
Robert.
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