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Post by bpg on Aug 5, 2021 10:56:47 GMT
Il Postino Pat needs to start wearing his reading glasses when filling out the customer note. He read the customs sticker upside down and wrote the wrong amount. It was 8.89€, about 19% of the total amount of the package which is the local VAT rate.
Maybe that is a coincidence as I thought you only paid tax once but as the package came from a third country who knows.
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Post by WDB on Aug 6, 2021 8:19:45 GMT
Doesn’t the VAT have to have been paid in an EU country — which, of course, Global Britain no longer is? So Germany was the first EU country in which it could be paid. There’s supposed to be some sort of threshold for goods arriving in GB from the EU — I’ve had smallish orders delivered recently from Italy and Sweden with no demand for payment — but I’ve no idea how it works the other way. I know a lot of smaller GB online businesses now say they will no longer dispatch to EU countries.
Still, least-worst option. Obviously. 🙄
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Post by Deleted on Aug 6, 2021 9:50:47 GMT
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Post by bpg on Aug 6, 2021 10:51:30 GMT
Doesn’t the VAT have to have been paid in an EU country Yes, I would expect to pay 'VAT' somewhere, this is not about tax avoidance, I don't think VAT should be applied twice though. If I buy something in the US I can have it shipped and the tax removed from the purchase price and applied when I receive it at home. I suppose these are the issues that need ironing out and why some companies are no longer trading in neighbouring territories. |
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Post by bpg on Aug 6, 2021 10:59:58 GMT
Food and drink exports I do not understand why companies are giving up. Yes, it is not how trade has been done for the last 40-something years however everywhere you look in a restaurant in Europe there is Argentinian beef, Argentina is a third country,, OK, they must have some TA with the EU in order to import beef and that is where the government need to get to in order to open up the channels again.
In summary, I do not think the trade has gone forever the question is whether or not the political will exists to enable it. Pressure needs to be exerted and the loss of hard cash to the treasury is surely a driver to the UK economy given many countries have been spending huge sums to keep the lights on.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 6, 2021 11:06:38 GMT
I'd venture that the food and drink businesses involved have a better handle on why they're giving up than you or I. As you say, it's already possible to do it, however evidently the costs and barriers involved are too big for these businesses to absorb now. Why do it if there's no profit in it after the new costs and non-tariff barriers are factored in. That will be the bottom line.
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Post by bpg on Aug 6, 2021 11:10:45 GMT
I'm not suggesting businesses do not know what they are doing and yes, there is significant pain at the moment, the ball is firmly in the governments court and what they want to do about it.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 6, 2021 12:30:58 GMT
The government is under the impression that it has secured an excellent deal and has no intention of improving our trading relationship with the EU, and that any problems are the EU's (or remoaners') fault. Business now needs to embrace the opportunites Brexit has provided. Which is of course a fantasy aimed at satisfying their deluded and ignorant voters. That's why I've been saying we need to remove this government in order to change that.
We are not dealing with a rational government, in the way that we have always understood it. It cannot be trusted to act in the best interests of the country. Even the PM in charge of it is thought to be a security risk. This is uncharted territory, but the only thing we can count on is that they will say and do whatever plays well to their "culture war "agenda.
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Post by bpg on Sept 28, 2021 20:20:23 GMT
I tried to load the latest version of 'Brexit' on my PC.
Nightmare! Couldn't find any drivers.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 29, 2021 8:08:47 GMT
Nice one, Centurion.
It's interesting to look at the very first post of this thread at the moment....
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Post by Deleted on Sept 30, 2021 8:25:47 GMT
Brexit.
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Post by bpg on Jan 14, 2022 12:31:55 GMT
Get in, bin EU FoM for subcontinent FoM: www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-59972444Someone wrote in the DE comments section "I wonder what the collective noun is for 17.4m dentures hitting the bottom of porcelain tea cups full of sweet, milky tea"  |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 14, 2022 13:36:18 GMT
 I have to confess though, I got the FoM thing very, very wrong. I speculated before the referendum that Brexit voters would be apoplectic when they realise they've got rid of the Poles to only end up granting freedom to move here to Philipinos and Ugandans. How silly I feel now when it turns out it'll be Indians. |
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Post by WDB on Jan 14, 2022 13:39:05 GMT
Natural wastage, of course, means that about 2.5m of the 2016 cohort are now situated about 2m below the level of those teacups. ⚰️
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Post by Deleted on Jan 14, 2022 13:58:20 GMT
I was not and I am not a supporter of Brexit in its entirety, but in particular the loss of FoM.
I do wonder though, if the Indian trade agreement is perceived to be a good thing, which I expect it probably is, would it have happened if we were still part of the EU?
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