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    Re: Busy Bee goodies —Tony Priestman
   On Fri, 12 May 2000, Larry Pieniazek (<FuFHyF.25o@lugnet.com>) wrote at 04:03:51 (...) Hmmm. Is it worth a trip to the US, just for the experience of going into a shop, seeing lots of LEGO at 50% off, and buying it. "Excess baggage?" "That pile of (...) (25 years ago, 12-May-00, to lugnet.loc.uk)
   
        Re: Busy Bee goodies —Larry Pieniazek
   (...) 50%? For shame. Mike Stanley will tell you it's 40% and then 75%.. you know you've really hit the jackpot when you find a really old decrepit Target (NOT near where Conan lives) and you go in and find lots and lots of starwars on 75% off. (...) (25 years ago, 12-May-00, to lugnet.loc.uk)
   
        Re: Busy Bee goodies —Andrew Dowle
   (...) I (...) 75% (...) trouble (...) I thought (and I'm sure I'll be corrected if I'm wrong) that you could only bring a certain value of goods back into the UK (less than 100 GBP I think) before you were supposed to pay tax on entry, even if you (...) (25 years ago, 12-May-00, to lugnet.loc.uk)
   
        Re: Busy Bee goodies —Simon Denscombe
     (...) You have to pay VAT, etc. when it comes in but you claim back the sales tax you paid abroad. Carbon 60 (25 years ago, 12-May-00, to lugnet.loc.uk)
    
         Re: Busy Bee goodies —Tony Priestman
     On Fri, 12 May 2000, Carbon 60 (<FuGovJ.240@lugnet.com>) wrote at 19:30:55 (...) So what sort of business do I have to be in for it to be a legitimate business expense? :-) (25 years ago, 13-May-00, to lugnet.loc.uk)
   
        Re: Busy Bee goodies —Larry Pieniazek
   (...) Could be, but I'm a 'murrican and I can bring in as much as I want into the US, I was able to quote the exact customs classification to the customs guy, which caused him to ask how I knew. His website, I told him. ++Lar (25 years ago, 13-May-00, to lugnet.loc.uk)
 

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