Originally Posted By Rog G
Originally Posted By Dab of oppo
Don't talk to me about tax, it has just cost me £140 in import duty and VAT to get my own rear drive pulley back into the country from Supermax.

Robin B'stards!

I don't want rub salt into the wound but my Supermax pulley arrived this week and only cost £94.60 to import and I was peeved at that, as I thought as it was being sent for "repair" it would be returned without any import duties payable, made slightly more annoying by the fact I have a friend in New York who is coming to the UK later in the month and he would have brought it.


The HMRC seem to make this stuff up on the day and remarkably they have the power to do pretty much just what they want. A friend of mine sent a £10,000 AV amplifier back to the US for repair last year and the repair was only about £1500 yet the re-importation costs were close to £4000 GBP. HMRC were not in the slightest bit interested, they just wanted the money. Bar Stewards the lot of them.