Re: [AH] new tax issues for selling items to the UK

From A.
Sent Thu, Mar 7th 2019, 21:26

The thing with paying tax on old goods is that sometimes old goods go up =
in value rather than down. Imagine you didn=E2=80=99t have to pay tax if =
you want to import a nice Van Gogh that your great-great-great Auntie =
could have bought for the price of a pound of sausages (fictitious =
example for effect...), but now it=E2=80=99s worth the same as the GDP =
of a pound of small countries. You surely couldn=E2=80=99t complain =
about that being unfair based on the original ticket price of the item =
and that there was a tax paid on its very first sale. The same goes for =
second-hand anything really.

It=E2=80=99s a tax on the movement of value. Not goods.

Anyway, we have always been getting hit with customs duties. And i=E2=80=99=
ve never understood why we had to pay VAT still when buying things from =
EU countries. Even software. Ableton, for instance, is much cheaper for =
Americans (exchange value considered) as there is no 20% VAT added to =
the price at the shopping cart.




> On 7 Mar 2019, at 20:44, Sevo Stille <xxxx@xxxxxx.xx> wrote:
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> Am 07.03.2019 um 19:42 schrieb Werner Sch=C3=B6nenberger:
>>> The difference from what is suggested here is that the tax is =
entirely
>>> my burden and not that of the seller.
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> That is the relevant difference. In that a country demanding taxes =
from a foreign seller has little options to get them - the more so if =
they are in limbo without international treaties. Doing it the wrong way =
around is rather a bizarre notion, even more so when it comes from a =
fairly small and irrelevant country that has given up all options of =
cross border litigation. The probable outcome is that many Brits that =
come up against that regulation would see their purchases from abroad =
confiscated and destroyed by HM Revenue and Customs without compensation =
- given that, there is a fair chance they'll correct it before the cry =
to return to the EU gets too loud...
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