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Buying laptop from USA

  • 23-01-2010 4:47pm
    #1
    Essonimex
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8 ✭


    Hello. I was looking for some information about irish customs charges.

    I need a new laptop and i am on a limited budget. After looking at the price difference in EU shops and US shops i decided to send my money to a trustworthy friend in USA to buy me a laptop and send it to me. I was completely oblivious to any taxes from packadges until i stumbled upon this "Sure, we could order from the US, but in the end, with shipping and the Customs Office taxes, we would end up paying the same (with a US keyboard)." in a thread about this laptop. Wtf is he talking about? What taxes? How much? WHY? How to reduce or avoid it?


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  • #2
    IrishTonyO
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,321 ✭✭✭IrishTonyO


    You have to pay import duty on products that come for non EU countries. Small purchases Revenue do not normally bother with but with a laptop they probably would. One way around it is to have your friend post the laptop to you from his address not from the store and label it as a gift. This isn't guaranteed but normally there are no import duties on gifts. If you do a search on www.revenue.ie you will find the details.


  • #3
    Overheal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,729 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    by all means visit revenue.ie, but Tax Evasion is a Crime.


  • #4
    swampgas
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,588 ✭✭✭swampgas


    Essonimex wrote: »
    Hello. I was looking for some information about irish customs charges.

    I need a new laptop and i am on a limited budget. After looking at the price difference in EU shops and US shops i decided to send my money to a trustworthy friend in USA to buy me a laptop and send it to me. I was completely oblivious to any taxes from packadges until i stumbled upon this "Sure, we could order from the US, but in the end, with shipping and the Customs Office taxes, we would end up paying the same (with a US keyboard)." in a thread about this laptop. Wtf is he talking about? What taxes? How much? WHY? How to reduce or avoid it?

    This kind of tax is standard practice for most countries. Putting something as valuable and fragile as a laptop through the post is risky though, have you considered what your options would be if it arrived damaged or otherwise faulty? Those shipping costs add up pretty quick...

    You can buy a reasonably cheap laptop in this country - e.g.
    http://www1.euro.dell.com/ie/en/business/Laptops/laptop-vostro-1015/pd.aspx?refid=laptop-vostro-1015&s=bsd&cs=iebsdt1

    Might as well just suck it up like the rest of us.


  • #5
    Alanstrainor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,157 ✭✭✭✭Alanstrainor


    Talk of tax evasion etc is strictly forbidden on all Boards.ie forums. ANd this is not the forum to discuss the reasons for taxes and import duties.
    Closed


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