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TAXES customs usa & ireland

  • 28-01-2013 2:50am
    #1
    goz83
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,035 ✭✭✭


    Will be travelling to vegas and newyork this year. I plan on spending a few hundred dollars on clothes and gifts when i'm there. I was wondering what I am supposed to do when leaving the states and arriving home. I heard that I can get my tax back when leaving the USA, but to remove price tags when arriving home to avoid getting spit roasted when I get home.

    Can someone clear this up please?

    If in wrong forum, mods feel free to move.


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  • #2
    readytosnap
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,330 ✭✭✭readytosnap


    if there are no labels on the clothes then it cannot be proven that you bought them in the usa nor how much they cost so thats why people do that, i bought expensive bose earphones one time and posted home the box with the receipts and booklet etc and just wore them as if i had brought them with me.

    as for claiming back tax, i know if you are american and purchase here then you can get the vat back when you return home (outside eu, probably subject to certain items or value, i don't know for sure) dunno about the other way round, you will be saving plenty either way so i wouldn't be that concerned about claiming back a few bucks in tax.


  • #3
    ProudDUB
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,569 ✭✭✭✭ProudDUB


    OP - The US does not give the sales tax back to departing visitors. They do not operate the same cash/VAT back policies that EU countries do

    If you bring goods into Ireland, and you do not declare them and pay the customs duty owed on them, technically you are smuggling. What you are "supposed" to do is not break the law. If you get stopped and you claim that you bought the goods in Ireland, the onus is on you to prove that. Cutting the labels & price tags off the clothes won't help you if you are asked to produce your receipts.


  • #4
    goz83
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,035 ✭✭✭goz83


    ProudDUB wrote: »
    OP - The US does not give the sales tax back to departing visitors. They do not operate the same cash/VAT back policies that EU countries do

    If you bring goods into Ireland, and you do not declare them and pay the customs duty owed on them, technically you are smuggling. What you are "supposed" to do is not break the law. If you get stopped and you claim that you bought the goods in Ireland, the onus is on you to prove that. Cutting the labels & price tags off the clothes won't help you if you are asked to produce your receipts.

    Smuggle then I will. The besterds would charge me for the NY steak in my belly if they could!


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