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Why do we pay duty on shipping?

  • 05-11-2014 4:49pm
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,381 ✭✭✭✭


    Not a complaint, just a question.

    Why do we pay Duty on an items shipping cost, As opposed to just the item?

    Is it an EU thing, or just Ireland?


Comments

  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,357 ✭✭✭Beano


    You pay duty on what is known as the CIF value as that is essentially what the goods are worth once landed. The rest of the EU does the same.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,381 ✭✭✭✭Allyall


    Thanks. Reason I asked is because I was after purchasing a couple of items from the U.S. and they have been delayed over two weeks so far. I eventually got through to some freight company in Bermuda or Barbados or somewhere around that area, and they told me 100% that you don't pay duty on shipping. But that there was some mix up and the items have been delayed for duty not paid..

    God, long story short, it was a major f**k up somewhere, and the items are on their way now (luckily they are for Christmas.)
    I had to pay an extra €76 to have them released and duty paid (For the shipping)..

    I don't know what happened exactly, and I no longer care. I would have paid the duty landed, but because of some rule, I wasn't allowed to, and nobody contacted me to tell me I owed it.. :mad:
    I had already paid the duty on the items.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,357 ✭✭✭Beano


    Allyall wrote: »
    Thanks. Reason I asked is because I was after purchasing a couple of items from the U.S. and they have been delayed over two weeks so far. I eventually got through to some freight company in Bermuda or Barbados or somewhere around that area, and they told me 100% that you don't pay duty on shipping....

    they're wrong


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,381 ✭✭✭✭Allyall


    Beano wrote: »
    they're wrong

    Yeah, sorry, I forgot to mention :D..
    After about three phone calls I was able to tell them that with 100% certainty.
    The guy I was talking to seemed okay, and he rang me back to explain that, that had indeed been the problem, or part of it. Then he was asking me about duty etc. here and asked why we pay duty on shipping..

    I didn't know, and was curious myself..


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,532 ✭✭✭delahuntv


    don't believe shipping companies - they are hardly going to know all the different rules for different countries. They also don't to the customs entry. I reckon they were telling you fibs to try and explain a delay and also to get a few bob themselves.

    Normally duty/vat is paid at point of entry when the goods have landed. The value of the goods is the total value paid up to that point as it enters the country. Entry is usually completed by a customs broker.

    btw - the same system works in the USA and for goods bought outside the USA/Canada


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