Importing a MESA board into UK from EU surplus in Portugal - taxes

Has anyone imported from EU Surplus in Portugal recently? I want a 7i73 from them but don't know the EUR20 quoted below is covering admin and import taxes or if I will be charged those by DHL in addition? I have asked Felipe and he's not sure.

Sub-Total: 52.65€
DHL EXPRESS WORLDWIDE: 21.58€
DHL Customs dispatch + Brexit UK: 20.00€
Total: 94.23€

yes I've bought from them

no, you will pay VAT on the lot too.

+20%

and get a nice message from DHL before it arrives that you owe them vat as well

Geesh and I thought getting stuff Down Under from the US was expensive.

Wouldn't it be cheaper to jump in a tinnie make a trip to Portugal and but it in person ?
Maybe when you arrive back home you could claim asylum and get heaps of free stuff ?

BigJohnT wrote:

I quit shipping to UK when they started requiring sellers to collect VAT on anything less than 300 pounds IIRC and open an account and making monthly payments to the UK.

JT

I know, (

I get around it by using a forwarding agent, they still collect the vat, but I can still buy stuff from you (and others in the us), the shipping seems to work out cheaper too so it sort of balances.

www.myus.com/

tommylight wrote:

Brexit sucks !
And i am not in Britain !

don't get me started, it's the worst thing any country can do and it only just marginally decided it wanted to do it.... almost half the country did not want it and thought it was a bad idea.

should have taken the EU parliament seriously and played the game better across europe and been better engaged , instead the politicians (and those it would be of financial benefit) found it easier to stir up patriotic pride and the media just followed along.

try to remember that almost 1/2 the country did not want it. yes 2% more / 1.7million voters did want it.... but that is still a lot of people who did not think it was a good idea or in their best interest.

it's a global world now, more than it ever was before, and it's better to spend your time making alliances than thinking it's better going alone and making your own trade deals (or trying to).

try to remember that almost half of us thought it a bad idea

I remember this joke and adjust it accordingly....
remember you don't have to be clever, know all, see all, hear all, or be strong or fit to be the boss.... sometimes it just takes 1 (or a group of) a holes to mess it up for everyone else / or something that worked fine for almost the majority (48%)
www.ebaumsworld.com/jokes/when-the-body-...to-be-boss/80702475/

most of the time stuff is not black and white, good or bad, right or wrong.... there is a vast grey area.

BeagleBrainz wrote:

.... Portugal...

thanks to covid we have a green, amber and red list of countries that we are allowed to visit (because we like to be told what we can and can't do.. )... funny enough... Australia and New Zealand are on our green list.... but they don't want us.... and we kindly had Portugal on the green list for 3vweeks and then decided that case numbers are going up there so... we will move them to the amber list... whilst in the last couple of weeks the case numbers here have doubled

BeagleBrainz wrote:

Maybe when you arrive back home you could claim asylum and get heaps of free stuff ?

that's not true, I know the media like it portrayed that way and everyone who doesn't have a job is a low life scrounger... but the actual number of people that get away with benefit fraud is actually quite small... but they are an easy target that it is easy to justify as being a target and scum of the earth.... where as big business doesn't pay taxes due... or can afford to pay legal fees and accountants to use loop holes..... or smaller businesses having family members on the books as employees dispite them never working for the firm so that they can split salaries to make use of zero and low tax rate thresholds for family members, and avoid the higher tax bands.

asylum seekers, genuine ones that are granted asylum are barred from working in the country so have to be given monies and vouchers.

boarder jumpers are another matter and you see them sleeping on the streets of London (I was shocked how many when I was last in London about 18months ago, sleeping as families down park lane
/ marble arch around Hyde park..... below estate agent frontages showing houses worth millions I and they could never afford but Chinese and russian visitors snap up and don't pay the council tax fees as they list them as owned by foreign companies ..... which us poor locals can't or don't do ( but I have been tempted to set up an offshore business and sell my house to it and then claim non-dom status on and save £1700 a year on. unfortunately the bank owns the house ).... and I live in a small modest UK house....

www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com...yde-park-council-tax

www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/thats_rich_council_tax_rip_off_a

.... not all is ever as it seems.... two sides to every story and a grey area between those perspectives.

www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.com/news/stories-50459821.amp