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Hit by customs on a parcel from Dealextreme

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  • #32
    jor el
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,713 ✭✭✭✭jor el


    cathysworld wrote: »
    What does "trolling" mean?? Having an opinion that isnt the same as yours?!

    In Internet slang, a troll is someone who posts controversial, inflammatory, irrelevant or off-topic messages in an online community, such as an online discussion forum, chat room or blog, with the primary intent of provoking other users into an emotional or disciplinary response[1] or of otherwise disrupting normal on-topic discussion. Which is exactly what Bob_Harris is doing.
    teddy_303 wrote: »
    Not content on fleecing the population, if you purchase items from people or places which don't, the man will do the fleece differential on their behalf. Wow. :mad:

    In English?


  • #33
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 94,914 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    teddy_303 wrote: »
    Not content on fleecing the population, if you purchase items from people or places which don't, the man will do the fleece differential on their behalf. Wow. :mad:
    the only reason they allow parcels below a certain value go tax free is the cost of collecting the tax is probably more than it's worth

    and the difference is the man pockets the money , in the normal fleece it's the middleman who does


  • #34
    teddy_303
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 361 ✭✭teddy_303


    It is in English. That is precisely what I think. If you worked abroad, you would not pat tax on you earnings here, so why do you when you purchase items abroad? Apologies to jor el. I didn't realise I was posting to the Queen.


  • #35
    jor el
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,713 ✭✭✭✭jor el


    cruizer101 wrote: »
    Really, does this mean if I do declare something I won't be charged a handling fee. While I'd prefer not to have to pay VAT I accept it and know I will on certain packages, so if I knew I could avoid the extra handling would be nice.

    If this is the case any idea how I'd go about this. I had a quick look on revenue.ie but couldn't find anything.

    http://www.revenue.ie/en/customs/leaflets/pn1882.html
    If you want to declare and pay before the item arrives, then you should contact revenue with the invoice and see what they say. Not sure if it's possible, but I doubt they'd turn someone down when they volunteer to pay tax.
    teddy_303 wrote: »
    If you worked abroad, you would not pat tax on you earnings here, so why do you when you purchase items abroad?

    If you worked abroad, you'd pay all your taxes abroad. If you live in Ireland, you pay your taxes in Ireland. How does this relate to living in Ireland, and importing taxable goods, from countries outside the EU?
    Not content on fleecing the population, if you purchase items from people or places which don't, the man will do the fleece differential on their behalf.
    The words are in English, but I have no idea what you're trying to say, other than that you're annoyed at having to pay tax. What is a fleece differential, who is "the man", and who are they? Your post makes little sense.


  • #36
    rubadub
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,388 ✭✭✭✭rubadub


    I honestly don't know what some people are asking or stating as the problem. Do people think this practice is particular only to ireland or something?

    Maybe this might explain some things to the people who seem more confused than me.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Value_added_tax
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duty_(economics)


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  • #37
    Gamesnash.ie: Pat
    Company Representative Posts: 2,957 ✭✭✭Gamesnash.ie: Pat


    I think that the issue may be in the understanding of VAT.

    VAT is basically designed as a levy on the consumption of goods / services within the state. In most cases the businesses involved in the supply chain all the way through to the end user are acting as tax collectors for the revenue ( in that they charge VAT on the goods / services and have to pay this VAT to the revenue ) Each business can claim the VAT paid on their raw materials etc so basically the VAT that each business pays is on it's profit or value added along the way - hence the term value added tax. The end user / consumer pays the final portion of the VAT charge which is in effect a sales tax.

    The reason why VAT is preferred over a straight forward sales tax is for example a general levy of 10% is added to all sales in an economy by the time it gets to the final consumer they would be paying a compounded 10% for every supplier involved in the chain which could be astronomical.

    Goods imported from outside of the state have not had any consumption tax / VAT charged or paid to the Irish revenue. ( EU member states have other rules and procedures that address this but in the case of imports from the channel islands, china, USA etc the revenue have not received any tax on the goods purchased. )The importer as a private individual will be consuming those goods and therefore tax is levied on the consumption of those goods.

    The alternative would be to abolish VAT altogether and to hugely increase taxes on wages etc.


  • #38
    jor el
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,713 ✭✭✭✭jor el


    rubadub wrote: »
    Do people think this practice is particular only to ireland or something?

    Yes, I think they do. It's easier to forget that some countries charge higher VAT than us. Most EU countries charge around 20%, similar to Ireland, Hungary and Sweden charge 25%. Why worry about that when you can just have a rant about how you had to pay 10 euro extra on a game you bought on eBay, even though you still end up saving on what it would have cost you in the shops here, or on a website that included VAT in it's prices.


  • #39
    Tolerz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21 ✭Tolerz


    i bought a fake iphone off deal extreme.. hong kong post said that it was posted on the 7th of june ,, its now the 17 ??? ,, still no phone ,, ! , it cost 60 usd do u think that customs will kick up a fuss and bill me ??


  • #40
    allthedoyles
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,892 ✭✭✭allthedoyles


    Tolerz wrote: »
    i bought a fake iphone off deal extreme.. hong kong post said that it was posted on the 7th of june ,, its now the 17 ??? ,, still no phone ,, ! , it cost 60 usd do u think that customs will kick up a fuss and bill me ??

    If Customs get their hands on it , no they will not bill you .

    They will send you a letter to say that they will check with the Rights Owner ( brand name ) to see if the item is genuine or counterfit .

    If it is deemed to be counterfeit , it will be sent to their warehouse for destruction.


  • #41
    jor el
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,713 ✭✭✭✭jor el


    Stop cross posting and dragging up old threads please.


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