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Tax Free Shopping

  • 14-08-2007 10:12am
    #1
    tonyj_mc
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    was thinking about this on the way to work this morning, i've seen numerous signs around for tax free shopping and in a previous life when working in retail we filled out tonnnes of tax free shopping vouchers for residents of non-eu countries, my question is if we went over to hong kong and purchased aegs could we claim back any HK tax paid on them, and if so could we get claim back the tax we pay on the items we purchase over the internet as we efectivly being taxed twice on the same item.:confused:


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  • #2
    ambro25
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    tonyj_mc wrote:
    if we went over to hong kong and purchased aegs could we claim back any HK tax paid on them.

    Yes - in the same way HK residents purchasing AEGs from Shiva would have you fill up a VAT refund claim (in your previous life). If Shiva charges VAT of course, and that's a whole lot more complicated and I'll not go there.
    tonyj_mc wrote:
    if so could we get claim back the tax we pay on the items we purchase over the internet as we efectivly being taxed twice on the same item.

    No, because you are not "being taxed twice": you do not pay HK tax on Internet purchases (the e-tailer should not charge them at all, since the e-tailer is exporting them to you - in the same way an Irish business doesn't invoice VAT to a non-EU customer).

    Prices from, say, Gunner or RSOV are (to the best of my knowledge) net prices ex-any local taxes. If Gunner or RSOV include HK taxes in their online prices (unbeknowst to us), then it's wrong of them: they should charge 'HK VAT' to local buyers (whether those HK buyers buy in their bricks-&-mortar or online) , but not to overseas buyers.


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