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    Croptonboy reacted to gameofyou in LTT Backpack £69 import to UK   
    I am not sure what exactly what your trying to say here, I presume your not a back pack purchaser from the UK. Yes your right there are many different charges you could get when importing goods, parcel force is good enough to break is down for us (see pictures earlier in thread for example break downs). No one here to my knowledge as complained about the other costs only the "VAT" line (All be it I was rather surprised by them as I thought everything had been taken care of by the LTT store, but they do seem be in order). We are complaining about the "VAT" line because when we bought the good from the LTT store we were charged "TAXES" which amounted to 20% of the goods value (which happens to be the rate of VAT here). Unless someone can explain what these 20% taxes are on my LTT receipt and they are something other than VAT collection for the UK. I will continue to assume I have been double charged VAT.
     
    I can completely understand why purchasers would assume everything had been taken care as the LTT store had charged them "TAX" (I did). However it would appear the error here is from LTT they should not have charged TAX, and Parcel Force are completely right to charge VAT, Import charges and Fee (really high).
     
    So what we need now is for LTT to refund the money they charged in error. As I believe they have with MrAmos123 so sit tight and everything should be over by Christmas!
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    Croptonboy reacted to YaBoiiGeorge in LTT Backpack £69 import to UK   
    It depends what charges you are referring to.
     
    Customs duty is charged by Border Force/HMRC for every single thing worth more than £135 that comes in to the UK. This applies to every country.
     
    VAT is charged, also on everything entering the UK, worth £39 or more. 
     
    The issue is that the UKGov simplified the system, by making the eCommerce shops take VAT at the time of sale if it £135 or lower, so it can just be easily delivered (as no customs charge would apply at this price point) and not held at the Border for however long, and cause confusing charges. LTTStore's system has been taking VAT at point of sale EVEN if it is worth more than £135, which they shouldn't be doing. 
     
    The customs charge whether it came from German as the originator, or Canada, would have been the same.
     
    Hope this helps! 
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