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Why on earth do you need a local representative in a country/region to meet local regulations.
So, when it comes to product a recall in your market, there's someone with the responsibility to do it.
Also looking at his EU. Mountain range whilst hiding in the DoD Lair, the crazy world of Brexit benefits are that they are for people in the E.U. 🙂
Hmmm. <looks out of window at EU mountains, before heading home to his home in the EU> …..Sounds like an opportunity to ME….
Wanna start a business? I have a file full of EU product regulations to offer : )
Tax free shopping. Don’t get me wrong, it’s pissy in comparison to the negatives, but a few hundred quid each holiday is better than nowt Shirley?
Just how much do you drink & smoke to save a “few hundred quid each holiday”?
Not everything is about drinking...
New skis, boots and bindings in Austria at half term.... £300 VAT refund.
New avalanche tranciever at Christmas ditto
4 Petzl Laser Speed light and an Ablokov threader about £50 back
Doubt we'll manage to get the tax back on the new Mantras as they are from France but...
It's weird that more people don't mention it on the forum given that travelling and shopping seem to be some of the favourite hobbies....
Correct me if I'm wrong but you get the EU vat back so you can pay the UK VAT. It's not a tax give away because you live in a different country. It's the end of a convenient reciprocal arrangement that made things easier. You should still pay the tax AND probably an import duty too.
Yebbut small scale smuggling and tax evasion is basically kosher innit?
Correct me if I’m wrong but you get the EU vat back so you can pay the UK VAT. It’s not a tax give away because you live in a different country. It’s the end of a convenient reciprocal arrangement that made things easier. You should still pay the tax AND probably an import duty too.
https://www.gov.uk/bringing-goods-into-uk-personal-use/when-to-declare-goods
Allowance for other goods
You can bring in other goods worth up to £390 (or up to £270 if you arrive by private plane or boat).If you go over your allowance you pay tax and duty on the total value of the goods, not just the value above the allowance.
You may have to pay import VAT and customs duty if you exceed your allowance.
It’s up to you to declare, but they are also allowed to seize your transport as well as your toys 🙂
Dunno how well it’s being ‘enforced’ (which makes a mockery of ‘taking control of our borders’)
Interesting that I can't see anything in that link differentiating between goods that have paid EU VAT and those that don't. So essentially shit loads of people will be falling foul of the following:
Yebbut small scale smuggling and tax evasion is basically kosher innit?
No?
I suppose a degree of common sense has to be applied. "Anything to declare, sir?" - "yes, I bought a tee-shirt from a tat shop in Magaluf."
New skis, boots and bindings in Austria at half term…. £300 VAT refund.
New avalanche tranciever at Christmas ditto
4 Petzl Laser Speed light and an Ablokov threader about £50 back
That's more than the £390 allowance. Not judging as I was considering getting a bike in Andorra but the confusion around VAT etc and the fact I got a UK bargain settled things.
bought a tee-shirt from a tat shop in Magaluf
Mmm but back to the example being discussed.... there's loads of ski shops in ski resorts. There's loads of Brits in ski resorts. I imagine a fair number of those Brits buy skis or boots and stuff whilst on holiday. Are all the ones that don't declare them returning through customs breaking the law and theoretically liable to seizure of vehicle if driving?
( Apart from the ones buying kit under £390 natch)
That’s more than the £390 allowance
Yep agreed. But my wife brought the bindings and one boot back, the kids brought one ski each and I carried the other boot and the skins. Or something. 🙂
Are all the ones that don’t declare them returning through customs breaking the law and theoretically liable to seizure of vehicle if driving?
If the goods were liable to a duty being paid on importation to the UK then yes the people are breaking the law and yes, technically their vehicle would be liable to seizure (Customs & Excise Managment Act 1979, s167 & s141) however for such a low value crime the seizure of a vehicle is unlikely - if it was stuffed full of Benson and Hedges that may not be the case.
Another Brexit benefit.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5yg1471rwpo
Without the shortage of skilled labour, large parts of the countryside would flooded with new housing.
Yep agreed. But my wife brought the bindings and one boot back, the kids brought one ski each and I carried the other boot and the skins. Or something. ?
Nah, that line
You cannot combine your personal allowance with anyone else.
you’d have to be able to produce a receipt for each thing and share them about.
Remember that taking sports equipment on holiday and returning with sports equipment or a bike or even spare parts is not an unexpected event and you don’t log exactly what you left the country with 🙂
If the goods were liable to a duty being paid on importation to the UK then yes the people are breaking the law
Don’t forget the VAT,even if you’ve already paid local VAT on it it’s still liable for U.K. VAT 🙁
Remember that taking sports equipment on holiday and returning with sports equipment or a bike or even spare parts is not an unexpected event and you don’t log exactly what you left the country with
And this cost me £700 earlier this year in import and vat, having already paid vat at source and unable to claim back...
And this cost me £700 earlier this year in import and vat, having already paid vat at source and unable to claim back…
That sounds harsh and unlucky. Tell us more...
Was this something you were carrying?
Brexit has benefitted a warehouse owner.
https://twitter.com/cathynewman/status/1867619257053590011
Cathy Newman @cathynewman
Chairman of @marksandspencer Archie Norman @therealarchie tells me on @TimesRadio that Brexit means they've had to hire a warehouse just to store the paperwork needed to export to the Republic of Ireland….
On a similar theme did anyone take teamhurtmore's advice on the original Brexit thread of: "[Go long Dublin apartments]"?
Are all the ones that don’t declare them returning through customs breaking the law and theoretically liable to seizure of vehicle
O don’t think they are if they use them before returning. I think VAT and import duty only apply to new goods. If you buy the skis at the beginning of the trip and use them for the week you are no longer importing new goods. A technically but that’s what the law states. A friend of mine did it when buying a kayak in the USA.
don’t think they are if they use them before returning. I think VAT and import duty only apply to new goods. If you buy the skis at the beginning of the trip and use them for the week you are no longer importing new goods. A technically but that’s what the law states
I was indeed wondering about that. Any source for it? ( I will of course search myself)
I think VAT and import duty only apply to new goods. If you buy the skis at the beginning of the trip and use them for the week you are no longer importing new goods. A technically but that’s what the law states.
Import duty and vat is based on value not being second hand, customs relief on ownership doesn't apply for goods you've owned a week. If you have owned something for a week customs are likely to say the relevant valuation is the price you paid a week or go. But don't worry middle class crime is fine.
I reckon that things will look stuck for a while on rejoin, and then very quickly lots will happen to do CU and SM. They know, we know, even effing Faridge knows, that the only way we get back to growth is EU trade.
And I suspect that Starmer will prefer that as a means to growth than kowtowing to NUFC
I found one! Not a benefit for consumers or most businesses but definitely a benefit of you're a card scheme.
Visa and MasterCard took the opportunity to raise cross-border interchange fees fivefold from 0.2% to 1.15% for debit cards and 0.3% to 1.5% for credit cards. This post-Brexit increase, says the PSR, is costing businesses £150-200 million extra per year.
https://www.finextra.com/newsarticle/45219/uk-regulator-psr-plans-cap-on-cross-border-card-fees
New skis, boots and bindings in Austria at half term…. £300 VAT refund.
So you're a Smuggler now, are you going to turn yourself in or do we?
mugsys_m8
Hmmm. <looks out of window at EU mountains, before heading home to his home in the EU> …..Sounds like an opportunity to ME….
if I had the freedom to do it I'd be setting up an agency to do exactly this and I'd base it in Morzine, But sadly I'm British and apparently surrounded by muppets, so can't.
Not in any significant way is he doing that. Without accepting the 4 freedoms there can be no real rapprochement and refusing the young peoples mobility scheme really annoyed many in the EU
Not significant to you maybe, but by the same token you're not the yard stick by which 'progress towards closer ties' should be measured There's quite a bit of ground between active policies of exclusion and divergence on the one hand and a de facto membership of the EU in all but name on the other that would make trading and travelling a bunch more simple.
There’s quite a bit of ground between active policies of exclusion and divergence on the one hand and a de facto membership of the EU in all but name on the other
LOL how are those imaginary cherries tasting then?
We can of course accept as many of their rules as we want, in order to satisfy their requirements. And abandon any hope of the supposed "brexit benefits". I'd be happy with that but you can bet the headbangers wouldn't. And it would at best be a lot shitter than what we had before all this nonsense kicked off.
We are never going to get back to where we were, the best we can hope for is that we end up somewhere better than here. Hopefully before I retire so I can eff off to sunnier climes.
was indeed wondering about that. Any source for it? ( I will of course search myself)
I cant find one but it all seems to hinge on the value of the goods and as used they no longer have the same value as new ones
i did find this
https://www.gov.uk/bringing-goods-into-uk-personal-use/arriving-in-Great-Britain
This suggests that if you can show its from the eu th limit is £1000 per item
Via LinkedIn, presented without fact-checking, hashtag do your own research:
Laura Roman
• 6 hours ago
Guess what’s about to be illegal?
? Hiding salaries!
The EU is shaking things up with its Pay Transparency Directive, kicking in from June 2026.
Here’s the scoop:
? Salary history questions = BANNED
Employers won’t be allowed to ask candidates their current or previous salaries. FINALLY ?
? Mandatory salary disclosure
Employers must include the salary range in the job ad or, at the very least, disclose it before the interview. No more guessing games and wasted time ?♀️
This is a huge win for fairness and transparency in hiring.
As a recruiter (and, you know, a human), I always include salaries in my job posts. It just feels like the right thing to do.
But should it be a legal requirement?
Should the UK adopt similar pay transparency laws? ?
What’s your take?
We’re going through a salary review right now and the first person in the same department as me has a clause in his new contract forbidding any discussion of his salary with colleagues…
We’re going through a salary review right now and the first person in the same department as me has a clause in his new contract forbidding any discussion of his salary with colleagues…
What's the 'cost' if they were found to?
What’s the ‘cost’ if they were found to?
I doubt it's legally enforcable to punish people for sharing their salaries? You'd probably have a target on your back after that though.
I think it should absolutley be transparent... I once got a 3k pay rise out of the blue, and thought 'how nice!, I'm valued!'.
Turns out I was getting paid 3k less than the person who sits next to me doing the same job, who was also a less experienced, newer hire, I got on with them very well, and I think my manager put two and two together, and equalised us before I inevitably found out and went nuts.
In retrospect, that was the catalyst for me becoming a 'silent quitter'... I probably cost the company a lot more than that over the next few years by basicaly not giving AF.
In my insustry, the only way to get a decent pay rise is to get a new job with a different company once every few years, but then that looks bad on the CV if you are a job hopper.
this is the reality of Starmers hard brexit position. How anyone still believes his gaslighting is incredible to me
The EU has said it will only move ahead with new agreements once the UK has shown “full and faithful implementation” of existing ones.
Which we still have not done
Despite warm words on both sides, the EU has not moved beyond the red lines intended to protect the single market that were conceived at the start of the Brexit negotiations. A “significant further reduction of trade frictions” would be in the EU’s interest, but would require the UK to join the single market and/or customs union, according to an internal EU document seen by the Guardian.
So no rapprochement while Starmer persists in his hard brexit stance
The two sides are also on a collision course over a youth mobility scheme, which the EU sees as essential to any successful rapprochement. The EU would like to create “a youth experience scheme” that allows young people aged 18 to 30 to work, travel and study anywhere in the UK and 27 member states for a few years.
The British government is opposed to any scheme that may increase inward migration without being targeted at specialist skills.
Another hard brexit block put in place by Starmer to any rapprochement. This one is not inherited - its his policy
Another hard brexit block put in place by Starmer to any rapprochement. This one is not inherited – its his policy
Again, you're not thinking strategically, you need to realise that the EU and the UK are now trade competitors - niceties don't come into it.
We're not getting back in for at least a generation, and possibly not in our (you're only a few years older than me) lifetimes.
I don't say this with any joy, but it's a reality we need to get use to - we really do need the adults in charge to steer the UK thru the next few decades (at least).
we really do need the adults in charge to steer the UK thru the next few decades
Around 1 in 6 of those who voted in the 2024 GE voted for Reform. Think about that when you next see a crowd of, say, 20 people.
Or he could stop gaslighting and lying about the EU, make the case for rentry to the CU and SM and apply.
Until we rejoin the economics of the UK will remain disastrous
The vast majority of the population want rejoin, even a majority of those who voted for brexit would accept CU and SM membership. What does Starmer do? Attempts to gaslight the country in his utterly reprehensible hard brexit stance
Too many folk on here have bought the gaslighting
Or he could stop gaslighting and lying about the EU, make the case for rentry to the CU and SM and apply.
Sorry TJ, but you really don't seem understand, or want to understand that this isn't a simple 'fix', think of it more like playing 3D chess with multiple players.
As I said, we're out - they won, we all lost.