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Buying from America

Tiesto · 2004-01-16 15:11:18

Hey ppl. im gonne buy some dj equipment.but it will cost my like 1200 euro to buy in ireland where as i can get it from an amercan site for 700 euro. The question i have is will i be charged by the customs when it gets to ireland and will i have to pay the tax on the product on the web site

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16-01-2004 4:11pm

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Tiesto

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Hey ppl.
im gonne buy some dj equipment.but it will cost my like 1200 euro to buy in ireland where as i can get it from an amercan site for 700 euro.
The question i have is will i be charged by the customs when it gets to ireland and will i have to pay the tax on the product on the web site

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#2 16-01-2004 4:13pm
mike65

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Yes you will have to pay an excise levy, you will also have to pay 21% VAT if DJ decks are liable to 21% vat
here.

There is a thread about this matter somewhere else which I posted. I'll look for it.

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?s=&forumid=106

http://europa.eu.int/comm/taxation_customs/dds/cgi-bin/tarchap?Taric=8519310000&Download=0&Periodic=0&ProdLine=10&Lang=EN&SimDate=20040104&Country=
&YesNo=1&Indent=1&Action=1#OK

Section 8519 31

Mike.

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