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Doh thought we had escaped all this bullshit by leaving the EU but looks like our GOV has fecked us here. Pinball parts are hard enough to get hold of over hear and always with a markup to cover importing fees and now we can’t even get them??
This whole trade war / import tax crap is getting beyond a joke, literally gonna be pinball smuggling rings soon.
What work is now involved states side? The store has to detect U.K. buyers and automatically charge the 20% vat? Then you have to sign up for a VAT number and do some sort or yearly VAT return to HMRC directly? (like a VAT registered company in the U.K. would do)
Quoted from G-P-E:In a nutshell -- this is what I have gotten from my shipping software provider:
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Effective Jan 1, 2021, value added tax (VAT) must be collected for all goods entering the United Kingdom (UK).
There will be a 20% VAT rate on goods valued up to £135 (about $180 USD), which you must collect unless your online marketplace (e.g. eBay, Amazon, Etsy, etc.) is already collecting it. Current procedures for goods valued over £135 remain the same.
To prevent your UK shipments from being delayed, held, or returned by UK customs in 2021, please take the following steps:
1. Register for a VAT number with the UK: https://www.gov.uk/vat-registration
2. Collect VAT at the time of purchase.
3. Make quarterly VAT return payments to the UK.
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I am not part of an online marketplace so it would be up to me to collect the VAT.
Several people on my website developer's forum (my website is from UK) are agreeing with this simplified set of instructions. They are modifying the source code to allow collection of VAT up to £135 (currently it is VAT or no VAT with no cutoff threshold).
Fortunately, there are no taxes collected/paid on any orders other than what I ship locally within Nebraska.
With two full time jobs - I barely have time for the annual Nebraska taxes and I know I won't have time to process UK taxes.
So at this time, I'm in a holding pattern waiting for this to either get simplified (e.g. external service) or just go away.
But over £135 is ok? So we need to just place larger orders or group then together?
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