An Post Customs Admin Fee

It's been that way for years. Even worse, if you use addresspal you pay them twice. You pay customs on the item plus all delivery costs (including addresspal), then you pay the addresspal fee plus the 3.50!

most couriers are the same.. it’s usually a lot cheaper and more convenient then nominating an independent broker.

the admin fee goes to them running that particular department... no sense to fund the running of that department out of charging customers extra shipping costs who don’t require customs clearance or interaction with said department.

They were €10 last year.

The work involved is the same whether it's a €6 item or a €200 item.

They are EU rules

And before you blab about unfairness, if an EU company wants to sell to the UK, they have to set up a company there and register for vat. So UK consumers don't even get the opportunity to purchase from many EU companies

Does anyone know from anpost/customs pulls value of the item ?

I got post today from anpost asking for 36 euros VAT and handling fee for a mechanical movement for the watch.

They valued it at 140+ euros while I purchased it for 20 pounds as it is faulty and I'm gonna tinker with it.

Brand new movement cost around 40-50 euros.

Any ideas how come they end up with 140+ euros price ?

and how to revert from this fees ?

Regards

Tom

Should be from the commercial value on the commercial invoice that that the company provided with the package, either that or the declared customs value on the shipping documents...

IF the shipping company under declares to save themselves or the client a few bob they might be found out and fined.

It happens from time to time.

you could have ‘designer watch’ commercial value 560 euros declared. The truth could be ....Cartier designer watch 3,560 euros

Did Revenue inspect the parcel and declare that value? Very odd An Post would come to this valuation. I've in the past being asked by Revenue to prove the value of an item by supplying the invoice, then after supplying they released the item without need to pay based on item being below threshold. In your case it nearly looks like a decimal place is out on it.

Yes I managed to reduce incoming of the state so much !

It is NH36 movement with broken stem inside movement.

You could purchase whole watch with that movement for less money !

Try using Deliverme.ie based in Carrickdale/Jonesboro on the border. Will accept delivery and forward on to you for from €25. (Furniture/White goods and alcohol/wine included). It is a UK address so qualifies for free UK delivery. Will also hold multiple parcels till shipment complete for negotiation of price

Of course it's right. It's charged on the total cost of the item plus all carriage. You chose to buy in the UK and pay UK vat plus the seller's p&p and addresspal costs. That's the cost of the items coming in to Ireland. You ended up paying two lots of VAT as well.

The second payment is import duty. The first is vat on carriage. Why send to a UK address and be hit for extra carriage and both UK and Irish taxes? You're adding at least 20% to the cist.

Like it or not those are the rules and saying it's not right won't make it so.

You keep ignoring that the Import duty is VAT and must be charged on the carrier fees as well. So you must pay it in the addresspal fee and an Posts admin charge.

You just don't seem to get it,

I just submitted my tax return and 4 figure payment. If Revenue ask for a further 45% as a fee for processing the return, blood will be spilt.

Having to pay a fee for others to do a job the taxpayer already pays them to do has always struck me as wrong.

Possibly sent via royal mail? - They may have bulk shipped to UK and then shipped back to here so that it seemed to be a package from Britain.

Email them and they should sort it. Include copy of receipt showing NI address

Useful there is a thread dealing with this. I got a notification this morn from An Post for an item I bought from a .ie electrical spare parts site. Item was 6e.

The email from an Post is below

Customs charges:

Import Duty:

€0.00

Excise Duty:

€0.00

VAT:

€1.44

Admin fee:

€3.50

Total to be paid:

€4.94

To be paid by:

19/08/2023

Odd that there are no customs or duy involved but An Post charged me anyway. Is that the fee just for them having had to check the package value?

It must be a low value item?

Read what they sent you. There's no Import Duty or Excise Duty but there is VAT. You're being charged the VAT on the import plus the admin fee. All perfectly in order. And An Post has the lowest admin fee of any of the carriers. A .IE website means nothing. The item came from a non EU location. An Post don't decide who gets charged what: That's down to customs.