Customs Charge

Crave

How do I find out offically how much I may be charged by customs?

Link?

StevieGriff

21 percent of the items price.

Spetzcong

http://www.revenue.ie/en/tax/vat/full-intro.html

Dunno how up to date it is, basically you get charged for VAT on goods imported from outside the EU. I don't think customs charge you anything else. The cost of postage is included in the price they charge VAT on though.

Rhinocharge

Crave wrote: »

How do I find out offically how much I may be charged by customs?

Link?

Add items + delivery cost + handling fee & multiply by 1.215 for the total amount.

kdouglas

From: http://www.citizensinformation.ie/categories/money-and-tax/tax/duties-and-vat/value-added-tax

If you buy online or by mail order etc.

From outside the EU

You can buy goods from outside the EU up to a value of €22 without incurring any VAT charges. Goods up to a value of €150 may be imported without payment of Customs Duty. To avoid these packages being stopped by Customs, the value should be clearly marked on the label. However, VAT and import duty is charged on importations of tobacco, tobacco products, alcoholic product and perfumes even if they cost less than €22. The Revenue Commissioners provide a Guide to the reliefs available for the import from non-EC countries.

If your online purchase costs more than €22 you will have to pay VAT. If your online purchase costs more than €150 you will have to pay VAT and Customs Duty. This will be collected by the company that delivers your parcel. The company usually have an administration charge. Methods of delivery and collection differ from company to company, so you should contact them directly for more information.

From another EU Member State

If goods are sent to you from another Member State whether you pay VAT here or in the Member State depends on the level of trade the supplier has with Ireland. If the supplier has a high level of trade with Ireland you may pay VAT here. The European Commission provides more information about shopping online within the EU.

Excisable products (for example, alcohol, tobacco and oil) purchased within the EU via the internet or by mail are subject to excise duty and VAT.

There's also a "handling fee" added on by the courier/anpost

Chuck the Buck

And An Post stick a €5 handling fee if I remember correctly (haven't ordered anything above the limit in a while), while a courier handling fee can be anything thy like.

NakedDex

The rule of thumb I usually use is 25%. From having plenty of items delivered from all over in the past, I've found that VAT is obviously 21% (now 21.5%), customs is about 3% and the handling charge equate to the remaining .5%.

Since working this out, I've pretty much had the exact amount of money waiting for the courier when he/she arrived with my bill from customs, give or take a tenner. It hasn't failed me yet.

Always remember, it's the total final cost, including the shipping, that you calculate from. So if you item is 150 plus 50 for shipping, you're adding 25% of 200, not of 150.

Puding

im the same plan for 25% and it normaly covers all thise lovely fees

moggser

Puding wrote: »

im the same plan for 25% and it normaly covers all thise lovely fees

that should be loads to cover it alright like yourself and dex point out

when i asked tnt staff how they come up with the figureof vat they told
me that it is 21.5% plus a % of freight on top of that so as dex says it might be a3% on top or its a random amount they put on the package pending on the weight of it

TheDoc

Got a letter of customs today

They grabbed two eotechs and a headset off me, looking for a firearms license.

Rang up, was polite, lady was really helpful. Sent of an email declaring it airsoft and with a paypal invoice receipt, she said it would be with me around Friday, and that i pay the guy at the door, and unknown charge, she couldnt give me the cost.

Also said airsoft scopes and sights are been recorded to monitor the amount entering the country.

Puding

Also said airsoft scopes and sights are been recorded to monitor the amount entering the country

interesting strange and worrying at the same time, i was under the impression that optics where not a controled items, so there would be no need for a picence for real steel items anyway?

TheDoc

They were eotechs, and ive heard a serious amount of them been snatched.

But your one said there was no hassle, would receive it in the coming days.

Puding

i've heared from a lot of people who have had the eotechs held,

TheDoc

Puding wrote: »

i've heared from a lot of people who have had the eotechs held,

yeah same here, although have to say, was dreading getting onto the phone, and wa expecting a little war. But the lady was helpful as anything, and was like " send me the email now and you'll have it friday" i even got a "sorry for the inconvenience "

Horse84

Yea exact same thing happened to me a about 5 weeks ago, it was an eotech again, and i rang em and they were very helpful. i had an acog shipped the week before and it wasn't stopped at all.....

Rew

Very stange that they asked for a firearms licence for the sights, you couldn't possibly get a firearms cert for one regardless of type or intended purpose! Even NV scopes arn't done on licence you get an authorisation letter from a Superindenant.

Chuck the Buck

Rew wrote: »

Very stange that they asked for a firearms licence for the sights, you couldn't possibly get a firearms cert for one regardless of type or intended purpose! Even NV scopes arn't done on licence you get an authorisation letter from a Superindenant.

Any scope of mine they've stopped (some Aimpoint and a weird RIS covered telescopic one) the letter I got asked for both the receipt and my firearms licence. When I rang them up got talking to the lady in customs (Mary) told her it was airsoft and she said just email the paypal receipt. I think they've always asked for a firearms licence just in case you have one, but I could never fathom why.

Glad you getting your stuff DOC.

OzCam

Puding wrote: »

interesting strange and worrying at the same time, i was under the impression that optics where not a controled items, so there would be no need for a picence for real steel items anyway?

Two possibilities come to mind... Either someone has decided that they might be "or parts thereof" for a firearm (which may or may not be correct, I'm just saying some officer new in post might think that), or Customs might just have decided that they want the count for statistical purposes to do with goods classification or INTRASTAT reporting or whatever. Optics do have their own goods numbers.

It would be wonderful if we could just ask someone...

TheDoc

Rew wrote: »

Very stange that they asked for a firearms licence for the sights, you couldn't possibly get a firearms cert for one regardless of type or intended purpose! Even NV scopes arn't done on licence you get an authorisation letter from a Superindenant.

I made that point.

Seemingly the item was removed from the package, to the bemusement of everyone around. The item was then identified by some "fella" as being a scope for a rifle. So, being an attachment for a firearm, required a firearms license. So this lady told me.

I then asked her about the licensing thing, that afaik, licenses are not required for scopes, but then she replied " They can be fitted to firearms so therefore require a license" Fair enough I said.

She was rather inquisitive about " Eotechs", informing me that this was the 5th she had encountered in the last two weeks and wondering where they real or clones.

The conversation actually got very friendly, and she was asking could these be put onto real rifles, to which I replied " I'm not too sure". The conversation ended with me explaining what an Eotech was mostly used for.

"Well basically its this really fancy scope, that I'm familair with from Tv, and its used by alot of special forces and some Us army or something, but to be honest, its something that goes on a rifle that you cannot legally get in Ireland, if I saw one of these on a .22 , I'd throw up"



After thinking about it more, are they perhaps creating a catalogue of airsoft items, for the upcoming " import ban" if the likes of scopes are banned, I'd be well pissed off. But she was very specific about " making sure to declare it airsoft in the email"

Crave

This may just be me, but if I get anything more than a spare part from overseas I get the retailers to say it's airsoft on the packet, think he writes Airsoft(toy) and I also get him to write below 1 joule on the packet.

zero19

Why the obsession with eotechs on customs part though? It's very odd...theres lads getting real steel russian optics through no bother but it's those chinese eotechs that wouldn't stand up to a firearm at all that get stopped...the mind boggles

TheDoc

zero19 wrote: »

Why the obsession with eotechs on customs part though? It's very odd...theres lads getting real steel russian optics through no bother but it's those chinese eotechs that wouldn't stand up to a firearm at all that get stopped...the mind boggles

A recent vietnam pouch order of mine, cost me insane amounts of money for shipping, so I made my complaint clear to the seller who said " yeah thats a fair point, i'll throw in a freebie"

I assumed he ment a free pouch or something, but he gave me a free knife, real knife, got through no bother, on the day they announced " being caught with a real knife will have serious jail time"

lols

Spetzcong

Knives aren't illegal though, it's all about context, being caught with a knife in your pocket on the street is one thing, getting one in the post could just mean you've been up late drinking and watching the shopping channel.

As far as I remember from when I first started airsofting all optics for AEGs are supposed to be specifically designed for airsoft or else they are classified as firearms components. If customs are being extra dilligent about them now it's probably because some of them have been reading up on what exactly is and isn't allowed. Probably causing them a bit of a headache too, I mean AEGs can be sent for testing and proven to be legal/illegal pretty easilly, where would ya send an Eotech Replica to find out if it was any use on a real gun?

I wouldn't be at all surprised if airsoft optics got a special mention in the upcoming legislation.

TheDoc

Well I got my eotech so no bother, plus Tony is getting them in as main stock so no problems

Spetzcong

[DM]-TheDOC- wrote: »

Well I got my eotech so no bother, plus Tony is getting them in as main stock so no problems

Nice, I may have to invest in one.

Rew

[DM]-TheDOC- wrote: »

I then asked her about the licensing thing, that afaik, licenses are not required for scopes, but then she replied " They can be fitted to firearms so therefore require a license" Fair enough I said.

She's wrong its only the fundemental components that require a licence (pretty much the barrel and the action). Magazines, sights, stocks etc don't.

Its impressive to see government officals make up the law as they go along.

Gaiscioch (^.^)

damn you Doc getting your scope before me!!!

i was just on the phone to a very nice lady an hour ago over getting a letter to say i need a firearms lic. for my scopes lol. Soon as i said it was for airsoft she cut over me saying "oh very sorry, send me your paypal receipt and ill dispact your parcel out to you" so i e mailed them and just got one back with the price they going to charge + the day it will be delivered (monday)

she said the same to be about been fitted to a firearm so it required a firearm lic.