I have a couple of international customers reporting difficulties when getting their package from local post office. But even in the same country the process turned out to be different. I'd like to know your experiences when getting your packages:
item custom fee/tax city country other notes
Nybble & Board 46,23 € Cologne Germany 9503 0079 00 0 (custom code)
Nybble 37.65 € + 6 € Germany paid to the postman
Nybble 60 $ Italy
Nybble 68,33 € Italy custom+VAT+post office
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item custom fee/tax city country other notes
Nybble & Board 46,23 € Cologne Germany 9503 0079 00 0 (custom code)
item: Nybble
customs: 0
import sales tax: 37.65 € based on a value of 198.17 €
post office fee 6 € for paying the tax
country: Germany
other notes: I just paid the tax and fee to the postman
Hello to everyone, I would inform everyone that to receive Nybble in Italy you will pay extra fee to the post office around 60 $.
However I think Nybble is very cute and I hope that will work perfectly to make my daughters happy...
Here is italy. Not only taxes but even the post office took it's fees:
Customs tax: 8,49 euro
VAT tax: 52,34
Post office fees: 7,50
Total 68,33 euro -> 77.13$ :(((
Normaly this taxes are calculated basing on the declared value so it's reasonable to declare 25$ of value instead of 250 ;)
I hesitate to "lie". And there's insurance value in case that the package gets lost.
I recommend to always put truth of the value on the package.
If you send a parcel with false amount label, the law is broken... and could close business down....
I hope Rongzhong Li will have good success in business and be able to bring more ideas to us, so I will pay the import taxes for the full amount, so that he can be truthful...
Cost of import to the United Kingdom for 1 Nybble kit and 1 spare Nybble board -
Delivery Date: 08/05/2019
Payment Date: 04/05/2019 11:10:14
Payment Event: Release for delivery
Total Amount: £59.51 ($74.79)
for sure
even when my mom sent me a gift for the birthday and I payed 250 of taxes and 30 eur of custom clearence...
Hi,
I had to pay €58,12 (Italy).
NO customs duties for me, "only" vat and postal costs.
Unfortunately I had problem with courier (SDA) who first declared my office was closed (open from 9 am to 9 pm with me at the desk) and then that the address was wrong (it was written perfectly in four different spots on the package :-|).
Finally I found my Nybble at the post office.
So, the cost I regret more is the € 7,50 for awful SDA postal service.
exactly. sda passed 2 times at 9 o'clock at my office (shipping address) after that ... nothing. vanished. I called SDA and booked the delivery the next day and the system (the booking process was automatic by selecting key buttons on the phone) I was given a confirmative. But no delivery the next day. I got myself to the SDA office and descovered that the pack was riturned to the post office cause SDA was only a delivery agent and not a currier. Only by talking in their office I descovered the new tracking number of my pack from the post office and the next day I took the pack from the post office myself.. paying all this money. Next time it.s better to send packs by pigeons and not by the post...
One German customer wrote his company name after the street name. There were both phone number and email address on the package, but the post office simply returned it.
good for our german dude. The postman could simply steal the pack
Spends 11 days in customs.
item custom fee/tax/post service country other notes
Nybble 53.65 € + 10 € Austria paid to the postman
Hey everyone,
I think I am living in the worst tax country in the world: Belgium - that tiny country in Europe. Not only customs that took more than a month. I had to pay 79,45 EURO. That is 21% VAT and 30 EURO customs fee (WTF?).
Cheers,
Christian.
Belgium 90,87 tax. The package arrived on 11/6 in bpost clearence end was deliverd today 10/7
so expensive! 😱
The clearance charge may be USPS specific, if for instance one is registered with Fedex one can opt to pre-pay custom duty, and then there is no clearance charge in UK at least.
Think that I win on the extra duty to be paid, after waiting a couple of weeks more than the originally planned delivery date (no problem with that - these things can happen!), I got received notice that my "cat" had arrived and was now with the BELGIUM CUSTOMS after a 3 weeks of waiting and several calls to BPost, I finally managed to get an email address where I could inquire as to the whereabouts of my "cat". I sent my email off and waited ... 2 weeks later I got a reply that the "cat" was being checked over and would be shortly released from custody! Another week went by and out of the blue my "cat" finally arrived.
With a bill from the Belgium Customs for a total additional charge €90.27 !!!!! Unbelievable!!
Nice cat though :-)
I was wrong .... it was even more !!!! :-(
Why European countries are collecting so much tax? It's almost 50% of the total value!
cause of socialistic structure of the states. To "help" people that doesen't want to work the state needs to take this money somewhere
As an English guy living in Belgium for over 20yrs, I can say that while Belgium has a lot going for it some of it however , this Customs Tax is one of many very strange and crazy things about Belgium, I have NO idea how they can impose such a heavy tax on a "poor little pussy cat" :-)
because they can :)
At least German Custom office seems to Release it. It is not generally like that :( Unfortunately Custom office here is very strickt