Exactly! I told the seller about having to pay the extra £65 and why he declared it has low value,gavinda":25i19y71 said:thats a best case scenario. what would you have been left with had the parcel arrived with the kit smashed to pieces?
I've no idea mate! The phone call was some ten minutes long and all I kept getting was...gavinda":10qd2ot8 said:Out of interest was that £65 charge based on a true value of £200 or a ball slap from c and e for 'evasion'?
B77":2dkllumj said:gavinda":2dkllumj said:If you can't get the stuff in the uk then that's not an issue. However I think wilfully avoiding tax/vat is not acceptable, regardless of how you believe it is spent. If you don't like how much we pay, take it to the gov and your local mp.
I suppose you were in full support of the mp's use of loopholes and blatant misuse of their expenses too. Plus those who are claiming more than one set of legitimate being its must be alright as well.
If you get lucky and noone asks for the money, well done, but I feel if you blatantly try to avoid paying what you owe, you may end up worse off.
What he said.
Why would this be a problem? Customs value, and insured value don't need to be the same, and rarely are. This information isn't shared between them.gavinda":z2ss1e70 said:thats a best case scenario. what would you have been left with had the parcel arrived with the kit smashed to pieces?
02gf74":82rw6b2x said:As for being compared to an tax fiddling MP, the £ 50 or so I am trying to save hardly compares with the several thousands of £ cllaimed for duck houses and moats of public money.
If that's what is declared for insurance, then you are right. However, as I said, just because the customs value is declared at that, doesn't mean the insured value has to be.gavinda":upejmr9x said:Tim, I was making the assumption that if the declared value was only £50 that's all you would get.
Other bloke- wtf is your point??? What am I supposed to do when I fill up? Not pay?
So you do support the dodgy mp's or not. If they can fiddle then why shouldn't you seems to be your point.
Karma dude.