Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/10/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Doug Richardson wrote: > > Here it the UK there would be a third "tax" - a charge levied by the > customs to recompense them for the time it took to inspect the item > and calculate the other two taxes! > The same thing applies in Sweden. I've had them put a SEK 50 handling charge on something that had SEK 150 in customs and taxes due. In addition, not only is the value of the *item* used to calculate the customs charge and taxes, but the value of the *item plus shipping* is used. So, if I ship things using UPS or FedEx, I have to pay more Swedish tax than if I shipped it ground-mail. I thought it was a sick joke, until I spoke to the "kind, gentle, caring, helpful and courteous" people at the Swedish customs office. M. - -- Martin V. Howard, Application Systems Laboratory, | Dept. of Comp. & Info. Sci., Linkoping University, | Just "DOHH" it! SE-581 83 Linkoping, Sweden. Tel +46 13 282 421, +----------------+ Fax +46 13 142 231; marho@ida.liu.se; www.ida.liu.se/~marho