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In lugnet.market.theory, Lindsay Frederick Braun writes:
> In lugnet.market.theory, Susan Hoover writes:
> >
> > Okay, I'm still confused. I ordered some stuff last year from Emmanuel
> > and I noticed on the shipping invoice (receipt, whatever, the piece of
> > paper on the box) that something was added. I don't remember whether
> > it was VAT or duty or something else, but it was marked in French
> > francs like the rest of the items. I'll look it up when I get home...
> > Any chance this is something I didn't have to pay?
>
> Duty is charged you at the point of pickup. You'd get a slip
> saying that you have a package waiting at the post office on
> which tariff or duty is owed, you'd go to the PO, and pay the
> duty. LEGO is duty-free, and I'm going to try darn hard to
> get my VATback, if indeed any was charged! :)
>
> In the case of ETS-DYA (and maybe he can chime in here to
> clear this up if I'm wrong), if you're in the US he doesn't
> have to charge VAT (which is why the prices vary so greatly).
> I'd bet it's shipping and handling, else other taxes that
> must be paid (like we get Canadian GST back in the US, but
> not Ontario PST, sort of like national versus state sales
> tax--the former which we don't have in the US).
Okay, I'm at home now and I have looked at my receipts. For one order, I got a
bunch of copies of the same form showing a total of ~1500 FF for merchandise
("BRUT HT"), and that's all. Then there is a separate slip for the same
shipment that has the ~1500 FF for BRUT HT, plus another ~500 FF for "PORT
TAXABLE". The total of ~2000 was what was billed to my credit card. So this
sounds like it's not duty and is instead some sort of tax that is unavoidable.
I didn't have to pick up my package at the PO; it was delivered to me at work,
to the envy of my cow-orkers. :-)
--
Susan
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