[hpsdr] Mercury arrived

[Roger Hayter]

Chris,

I did much less well than you!  For a start the price on the customs 
label has been corrected (who knows where) by hand to the correct price 
including carriage, which is actually the way VAT is supposed to be 
worked out.  This is $362 rather than $329.  I haven't got the exchange 
rate they used, but I was charged £36.21 VAT (suggesting £241.40 which 
is about right at $1.50 to the £).  However I have also been charged 
import duty of £8.61 as well as the collection fee of £8, making a total 
of £52.82.  I wonder if it is worth me arguing with them, do you know 
the import duty rules for amateur radio sub-assemblies?

Roger GW8BFO



In message <20090116102503.06AE58039 at diego.dreamhost.com>, Chris Smith 
<chris at vspl.co.uk> writes
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>Willi
>
>Here in UK I have only ever been charged VAT on items over a certain
>value *PLUS* Parcel Force charge £8 for administering the deal. So, for
>instance, Mercury arrived about a week ago with a quoted value of $329
>which converted to approx £232.80. The VAT rate in UK is currently 15%
>(down from 17.5% in an attempt to combat the credit crunch!) so the VAT
>was £32.92 plus £8 Parcel Force administration charge = £42.92
>
>BTW Parcel Force would deliver on a Saturday for an additional £
>12!!!!!!
>
>Don't know if that was what you were looking for?
>
>73
>Chris G4NUX
>
>
>On 15 Jan 2009, at 22:50, Willi Reppel wrote:
>
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>  Hi all,
>   
>  During the past weeks I opened  the mail box several times a day and
>  hoped to find Mercury. Last not least it arrived today and I
>  downloaded the most recent svn with Tortoise
>  and hope to have the Atlas/Ozy/Penny/Mercury unit opera-tional soon.
>  For importers of Mercury and other TAPR products it may be
>  interesting to compare customs which are charged to you with those 
>  charged to other importers in the same country. A friend of mine had
>  to pay a substantially higher amount because his customs agent used
>  a  different customs identification number for the same TAPR
>  product.
>  I feel lucky to meet Mercury and companions at the end of  a
>  radiotic life.
>   
>  vy 73 es gl de
>   
>  SM6OMH  Willi
>   
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