Page 1 of Jump for joy! EU import duty threshold blown sky high!

Hooray for Europe.

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Up to around £120 from December 1st, which shall be known henceforth as Victory for Importers day.

Just in time for Crimbo.

Darling will be totally Browned off assuming they`re both still in office by then.

Me? I`ll be shopping. :D

Snaps

Nice one :)

Nick

What odds on Labour suddenly getting a back bone and telling the EU to shove their policies (well just this one) around about November the 25th???

Chris

A.C.C. Member
LFC
YNWA

None at all, and even if they did, companies would just start importing to other Euro based depo`s and posting across to the UK.


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John Prescott

That`s very good, not before time.

Dose any one know how old the £18 threshhold is?

thanks
jemma

Im sure at this point they are conjuring up a way to get around it. No doubt by changing introducing another tax of some sort. Hope it sticks though but remember the tax and vat people are a law unto themselves in this country.

I read the EC directive as Customs duty NOT VAT so the £18 VAT limit will continue but dutiable goods will have a higher exemption limit. :(

Petemc,

Dose this mean that the whole thing is worthless, because royal mail will still charge every thing else at the existing , or more?

jemma

Yes, if they don`t change the VAT threshold then things will carry on more or less as they already do. Duty will be nil on those goods that fall below the new threshold but as duty on a lot of items is only in the low % then the benefit will be marginal e.g. on DVD`s.

An informed friend of mine commented that the two limits usually go hand in hand but so far there`s nothing to indicate that VAT limits are going to rise :(