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Duty and Tax Invoice

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  • 19-02-2021 3:51pm
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    babynice
    Registered Users Posts: 114 ✭✭


    I recently purchased something from an American website. The cost of the order, including shipping, was about €50. I had ordered from American sites before and remember paying for customs afterwards and it wasn’t much.

    Today I got a letter from Fedex requesting me to pay €120 in fees. Is this legitimate? How can it cost so much?


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    L1011
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 67,796 Mod ✭✭✭✭L1011


    Phone Fedex and ask for their calculation basis - but if there was no invoice provided with the item they may have come up with a value.


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    silver2020
    Registered Users Posts: 2,045 ✭✭✭silver2020


    If there's no invoice or if the invoice is obviously under declared (a lot of chinese sites do this), a reference value is found online, standard shipping costs applied and then the vat / duty is calculated.

    The item must have been very cheap as shipping with fedex from the USA would be about €50 even at a decent discount


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