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| | | Author: | jwars  | | Posted: | Aug 31, 2023 13:49 | | Subject: | Unfair policy towards British buyers | | Viewed: | 224 times | | Topic: | Taxes | |
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| I am a British member and have been buying and selling on Bricklink for many
years. Since the UK came out of the EU there seems to be a new policy here on
Bricklink where every purchase is automatically charged a VAT fee. On top of
this British buyers get charged VAT and customs fees from our Customs as well.
So we are paying VAT twice! Surely this isnt right? I know for example that if
non US citizens buy goods in the US they do not have to pay VAT so why isnt this
the case for EU as well? Am I missing something?
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| | | | | Author: | SylvainLS | | Posted: | Aug 31, 2023 14:02 | | Subject: | Re: Unfair policy towards British buyers | | Viewed: | 88 times | | Topic: | Taxes | |
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| In Taxes, jwars writes:
| | I am a British member and have been buying and selling on Bricklink for many
years. Since the UK came out of the EU there seems to be a new policy here on
Bricklink where every purchase is automatically charged a VAT fee. On top of
this British buyers get charged VAT and customs fees from our Customs as well.
So we are paying VAT twice! Surely this isnt right? I know for example that if
non US citizens buy goods in the US they do not have to pay VAT so why isnt this
the case for EU as well? Am I missing something?
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Hi,
What you’re paying to BrickLink is the UK import VAT (levied by the UK government,
and it’s the UK government that made laws to make BrickLink responsible for directly
collecting it for olders below £135).
You shouldn’t have to pay a second time at reception. The seller should have
sent the VAT receipt (where it’s said that BL already collected the VAT) with
the package and the postal or delivery services or Customs should have seen that.
You should have received the VAT receipt from BL too.
I don’t know the UK procedure in case of double taxation, try to talk to the
postal or delivery services or HM Customs.
As for other countries:
There’s a similar law in EU: we have to pay our country’s import VAT to BrickLink
for orders from outside EU below €150.
The double-taxation happens more often here because the information has to be
sent electronically and not all sellers do it.
The correction procedure here should be that BL refunds the VAT it collected…
but BL doesn’t do that.
There’s also a similar law in Norway (VAT, below the equivalent to €150) and
in Australia (GST, below AU$1,000).
And there’s a similar law for the USA too: BL has to collect sales tax for many
US states. But as it’s “local” (not federal), this is not checked at customs.
More info here:
US: https://www.bricklink.com/help.asp?helpID=2467
UK: https://www.bricklink.com/help.asp?helpID=2514
https://www.bricklink.com/help.asp?helpID=2511
EU: https://www.bricklink.com/help.asp?helpID=2517
https://www.bricklink.com/help.asp?helpID=2518
AU: https://www.bricklink.com/help.asp?helpID=2597
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| | | | | Author: | crazylegoman | | Posted: | Aug 31, 2023 14:05 | | Subject: | Re: Unfair policy towards British buyers | | Viewed: | 100 times | | Topic: | Problem | |
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| In Taxes, jwars writes:
| | I am a British member and have been buying and selling on Bricklink for many
years.
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Your ID card says that you just joined on Jul 1, 2023. If you have another account
here, the two need to be merged.
David
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| | | | | | | Author: | jwars | | Posted: | Aug 31, 2023 19:01 | | Subject: | Re: Unfair policy towards British buyers | | Viewed: | 74 times | | Topic: | Problem | |
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| In Problem, crazylegoman writes:
| | In Taxes, jwars writes:
| | I am a British member and have been buying and selling on Bricklink for many
years.
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Your ID card says that you just joined on Jul 1, 2023. If you have another account
here, the two need to be merged.
David
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Hi David. No, it's ok, the other account got deleted because I didnt renew
the password when you made the changes to the website a while back so i had to
start this account.
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| | | | | | | | | Author: | Stellar | | Posted: | Sep 1, 2023 02:22 | | Subject: | Re: Unfair policy towards British buyers | | Viewed: | 83 times | | Topic: | Problem | |
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| In Problem, jwars writes:
| | In Problem, crazylegoman writes:
| | In Taxes, jwars writes:
| | I am a British member and have been buying and selling on Bricklink for many
years.
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Your ID card says that you just joined on Jul 1, 2023. If you have another account
here, the two need to be merged.
David
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Hi David. No, it's ok, the other account got deleted because I didnt renew
the password when you made the changes to the website a while back so i had to
start this account.
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If you have access to the email your account was created with then search for
a Bricklink email containing a file, it can be used to restore your old account.
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| | | | | | | | | | | Author: | jwars | | Posted: | Sep 1, 2023 09:23 | | Subject: | Re: Unfair policy towards British buyers | | Viewed: | 64 times | | Topic: | Problem | |
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| In Problem, Stellar writes:
| | In Problem, jwars writes:
| | In Problem, crazylegoman writes:
| | In Taxes, jwars writes:
| | I am a British member and have been buying and selling on Bricklink for many
years.
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Your ID card says that you just joined on Jul 1, 2023. If you have another account
here, the two need to be merged.
David
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Hi David. No, it's ok, the other account got deleted because I didnt renew
the password when you made the changes to the website a while back so i had to
start this account.
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If you have access to the email your account was created with then search for
a Bricklink email containing a file, it can be used to restore your old account.
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I have tried but unfortunately I cant seem to find it. My old account name was
legolandia.
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| | | | | Author: | yorbrick | | Posted: | Aug 31, 2023 15:11 | | Subject: | Re: Unfair policy towards British buyers | | Viewed: | 63 times | | Topic: | Taxes | |
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| In Taxes, jwars writes:
| | I am a British member and have been buying and selling on Bricklink for many
years. Since the UK came out of the EU there seems to be a new policy here on
Bricklink where every purchase is automatically charged a VAT fee. On top of
this British buyers get charged VAT and customs fees from our Customs as well.
So we are paying VAT twice! Surely this isnt right? I know for example that if
non US citizens buy goods in the US they do not have to pay VAT so why isnt this
the case for EU as well? Am I missing something?
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If the sellers includes the correct paperwork you should only need to pay VAT
once when importing, and not pay the collection fee and further VAT. I buy a
fair bit from China and occasionally from the US (not on BL) and not had a problem.
But I've not bought anything internationally on bricklink for a while, as
even with one lot of VAT it is rarely worth it any more.
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| | | | | Author: | sasquatch_eater | | Posted: | Aug 31, 2023 16:49 | | Subject: | Re: Unfair policy towards British buyers | | Viewed: | 70 times | | Topic: | Taxes | |
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| In Taxes, jwars writes:
| | I am a British member and have been buying and selling on Bricklink for many
years. Since the UK came out of the EU there seems to be a new policy here on
Bricklink where every purchase is automatically charged a VAT fee. On top of
this British buyers get charged VAT and customs fees from our Customs as well.
So we are paying VAT twice! Surely this isnt right? I know for example that if
non US citizens buy goods in the US they do not have to pay VAT so why isnt this
the case for EU as well? Am I missing something?
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They must be racist.
--Claude
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