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Import tax from Usa to Ireland

  • 04-11-2010 9:30pm
    #1
    AH92
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 510 ✭✭✭


    Hey guys im planning on buying a protein shake from USA worth 35 dollars but it costs 50 dollars all together with fedex express shipping!!
    Im just wondering would I have to pay import tax on this?? And if I do is it 21.5 percent of 35 dollars??
    Cheers.


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  • #2
    dudara
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,518 ✭✭✭✭dudara


    Moved to Online Buying & Auctions

    dudara


  • #3
    DYLF
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 320 ✭✭DYLF


    21% VAT plus the duty (no idea what the rate would be forprotien shakes) plus a fedex handling charge (which i think is about €20)

    at a rough guess.. your looking at paying about €43


  • #4
    rubadub
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,386 ✭✭✭✭rubadub


    All info will be in the sticky at the top of the forum, as this was moved you might have missed it.

    Duty is only applicable above €150 so not an issue. The VAT is a very interesting one, there was a lot of discussion in the fitness forum about it. A large company called myprotein.co.uk was selling to Ireland, they were very popular with members as they were by far the cheapest. Once a foreign company does over €35,000 worth of business into Ireland they have to register and pay VAT. This happened to them.

    http://www.revenue.ie/en/tax/vat/leaflets/vat-registration-foreign-traders.html
    3.1 Distance sales covers mail order sales and phone or tele-sales made to persons in the State who are not taxable persons, by a supplier registered in another EU Member State where such supplier is responsible for delivery of the goods.

    If you advertise your whey as a sports supplement the VAT is 21%, if it is a food it is apparently 0%. Myprotein have said they are paying 21%, it seems all they would have to do is state this is a food and not a supplement and they could have 0% VAT.

    Same goes for glucose, if it is on the shelf in a supermarket in the usual baby food section then its 0%, it if was stocked alongside lucozade it seems it should really be 21%, if pressed into tablets it is definitely 21%.

    In the UK VAT is 0% on whey even as a sport supplement, so the prices appear to have increased a lot, though it is VAT. But myprotein have done a play.com on it and put in euro pricing with a very bad exchange rate. Instead of doing what amazon do and just add the VAT on and allow you buy in sterling, with only the legitimate VAT difference.

    BTW you should check the fitness forum, you can probably get whey far cheaper than from the US, one US supplement companies seem to be blacklisted by Irish customs who hold onto stuff for ages as they were sending illegal stuff in the past. Here is a large thread on supps http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2054989471


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