customs charges ....

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nappyaddict · 05/12/2007 08:45

how much would i have to pay on this

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Dropdeadfred · 05/12/2007 09:02

should be 30% max, therefore about £30...

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nappyaddict · 05/12/2007 09:04

cos a while back there was someone on here who spent £130 on children's clothes and had to pay £84!!!

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Dropdeadfred · 05/12/2007 09:13

that must have been wrong NA cos you don't have to pay VAT for childrens clothes.
It's roughly 20% customs charge plus 17.5% vat as far as I understand it. The only other charges are from Royal Mail (handling costs!!)
I think if you budgeted £50 you'd be okay.

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nappyaddict · 05/12/2007 09:18

apparently there was an extra 15% for something which made it up to 45% in total.

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Dropdeadfred · 05/12/2007 10:13

I have never had to pay that much!! But you could look up HM Customs & Excise web page and have a look?

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nappyaddict · 05/12/2007 10:27

yeh i did that it was all a bit gobbledigook. think i will risk it.

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loler · 05/12/2007 10:38

i had to pay VAT plus fixed rate handling fee to royal mail this was £8.

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nappyaddict · 05/12/2007 10:43

did you not have to pay a customs charge?

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loler · 05/12/2007 12:30

Not sure? What I said before was what the man at the post office told me and it worked out to be about the same amount as i had to pay.

evenhope · 05/12/2007 12:37

4.9% according to the website here

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