Customs problem (WL packet)

[naplam]

I ordered several laser shades and they got here in two days, but they're at the customs now they ask me to provide an invoice to calculate the taxes I have to pay. Has this happened to any of you? what do you recommend to do? should I fake an invoice with lower value? ask WL to make one? give them the real invoice?

 

[SenKat]

It depends on how shifty you want to be ! I personally would give them the correct invoice total, and just pay the tax - or you can have them refuse hte package, send it back, and try again. I have never heard of lasershades being confiscated before !

 

[LarryQ]

...Oohhhh...
I didn't realize (read your OP too fast) these were only Lasershades!!

I would just give them the real invoice total...It's just not worth it for a few bucks....

Government officials can get kinda edgy when it comes to taxes...

How many pair did you get???

Burning up your wicked bucks???

LarryQ

 

[FrothyChimp]

Give them the real invoice. If customs ever found out you provided false information you might find yourself on the wrong end of an indictment. Then you can expect anything and everything you ever import to be held up for document verification.

 

[naplam]

Hmm I think you're right guys. I'll give them whatever invoice WL sends me.

LarryQ: it's 5 pairs for several friends (a mini-group buy). I guess a smaller package would have been cleared more easily, but customs in Spain are a bit picky in the last few months anyway. I know from several people buying photo lenses from China and Hong Kong that have had to pay the taxes (usually it depends on luck), delays with packets "stuck" at the customs office for weeks this summer and so on.

 

[LarryQ]

Ahhh...

I thought this was into the U.S......

I had no idea you were in Spain...

Let us know how things work out for you!!!

Good Luck!

LarryQ

 

[naplam]

I finally got the goggles today in the end i had to pay 30€ in taxes, more or less what i expected. It's VAT (16% in Spain) + some customs taxes, aprox. 20%.

 

[marianne]

if you hypothetically bought stuff with wicked bucks (or similar from other companies), would tax usually apply to the usual cost of the items, or what you'd paid for them? just curious...

 

[naplam]

They don't care about the actual price of the goods, they just look at the total you paid in the invoice (at least, that's the way it works here in Spain). It happened to me once already, with 6 r/c helicopters coming from Hong Kong. Bulky packages tend to draw attention, smaller packages have a bigger chance of not being screened.

I noticed wicked lasers had stated to EMS that the price of the goggles was $10 (yeah right). Apparently, when the customs employees here don't believe that, they ask you for an invoice.

 

[yew.sir-name]

I got a crossbow (6kg, 1 meter by, well i dunno, but it's heavy and huge) some psp stuff and other electronic things through customs on a $45hkd LED flashlight declaration. sucks to be in spain

 

[gunsimon0077]

If you can get a company to say on the doc's.present,gift or the price of the iteam was under £36...ish.Then you will not be taxed in the uk but saying that alot of companys will not do this for there own books so it would be great if you new someone in the county of the website and get them to buy it and send it to you is the best way,but yeah give them the corrett docs you've been court.

 

[sk8er4514]

every company I've ever purchased from in China always marked items as 'gifts' and less than $25, even when ordered $1100 worth of laser diodes, they mark them as ten cents each when they are actually $11 each : i've never had to pay any import taxes tho and maybe this is why

 

[rangedunits]

il buy you a diode for 25cents ^^ lol lucky!