How to declare and prepay excise duty on cigars ordered from abroad

[Pleevy]

I decided it really wasn't worth the hassle and wrote it off as a loss. I have friends in different countries that like sending gifts

[Simon-JG-hr]

Excellent tip their Lascaux. I believe EugeneSax had an issue whereby the carrier had weighed the whole package to determine customs liability. It's always worth checking how they have calculated the tax. Duty on 10 Churchill's should be around ?50 (working on average-ish weights), plus say another ?30-?40 in VAT. Either way, you should have received a bill which was sub-?100 (unless my maths is far worse than it used to be...) Most likely a Parcel Force cock-up (too lazy to do their job properly).

[Lascaux]

Thats a crazy amount. I believe you pay VAT on the declared price of the cigars too, so that may affect. Also you have to declare the net weight of the cigars as often customs will just weigh the whole box and charge a lot more because of this.

[Pleevy]

I received a lovely letter from Parcel Force today. 10 RyJ 1987 (Dominican) Churchills that i ordered about a month ago have a duty of ?170 to be paid. This was a massive shock considering i was only expecting a charge of around ?35, from what i worked out from the gov info site i used. The letter states that if payment is not made within 20 days that it will be returned to sender, i called a checked and found that in the event the item is returned, all charges will dissapear right back up from where customs pulled it out of the air.
Peter

ps - I hope this post hasn't broken any rules

EDIT: Just seen the sticky with regards to tax evasion. Pretty certain that being that the item is returned and i received no goods, that the tax hasn't been evaded. Rather i just have nothing to smoke.

[cj121]

HA HA HA What ever,,,,

Re PM, no mate. will ring you for chat...

Kule

[cohibaIV]

Ha ha. He's burned you there CIV LOL

[cohibaIV]

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Or something like that isn't it?

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HA HA HA What ever,,,,

Re PM, no mate. will ring you for chat...

[Stevieboy]

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Ha ha. He's burned you there CIV LOL

[cj121]

How would you know???

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Or something like that isn't it?

Ha ha.

Has your PM broke?

[cohibaIV]

Hey Stu, if youpop onto the main forum page, where all the various areas are, scroll down and you'll see a section named, curiously enough "Newbie Greets"

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How would you know???

[cj121]

How do i go about that. I'm new

Hey Stu, if youpop onto the main forum page, where all the various areas are, scroll down and you'll see a section named, curiously enough "Newbie Greets"

Pop along and get some

[StuBoyUK2010]

Interesting post Stu, why don't you put up an introduction on newbie greets.

How do i go about that. I'm new

[monkey66]

Interesting post Stu, why don't you put up an introduction on newbie greets.

[StuBoyUK2010]

RE: Customs and duty

In response to this message you can keep the goods and pay the duty for the weight of the box, or you could decline the goods as rejected import and let customs burn them.. Should you choose to reclaim duty, u need to complete a H&E 1179 form NOT A C285 form..

I got caught up in this mess, nothing explained before, and I was footed with a 400 GBP invoice and had to pay regardless of the goods being returned to sender. HMRC did not believe my case, and my appeal was crushed for a refund of 400 pounds. I appealed again, only to be declined in a tribunal court. So I wish you ever success, but word of warning, don't buy overseas, its too costy.. at 400% the price of the goods in DUTY!

So there is a box of cigars I want to buy from abroad, and I want to declare them and pay excise so they won't get destroyed by the good folk at UK borders agency...

But HMRC don't make it easy at all do they??
I'm greeted with a list of hundreds of forms and haven't glot a clue which one to fill in, or how to do it, or how the whole process works?

Does anyone have any experience on this and can offer any help on the process?

[tippexx]

[QUOTE=daverave999;76088]

Is there a list of agreed average weights that is used to calculate duty in the UK?

Doubt there's an agreed list Dave.

But this may be useful for anyone needing to know.


http://ndp.govt.nz/moh.nsf/pagescm/7573/$File/havana-house-08.pdf