If he'd put the correct value on it, I'd still have had to pay something - but not this much...
(also, it would seem that my seller has vastly overcharged me on shipping too, but that's a different matter...)
Thanks again.
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davthepunk
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Procedure to claim back customs charges?
Hi guys. Don't know if this can even be done or not (first time this has happened to me) - but is it possible to appeal VAT charges applied by UK customs for an item imported from abroad, when from looking at the CN22 form on the package (after paying the charges so I could get my item), the sender has significantly over-valued the contents?
If he'd put the correct value on it, I'd still have had to pay something - but not this much...
(also, it would seem that my seller has vastly overcharged me on shipping too, but that's a different matter...)
Thanks again.
If he'd put the correct value on it, I'd still have had to pay something - but not this much...
(also, it would seem that my seller has vastly overcharged me on shipping too, but that's a different matter...)
Thanks again.
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Lounge Lizard
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Re: Procedure to claim back customs charges?
Surely you should contact HMRC not Royal Mail, but probably best just to dismiss it as swings and roundabouts, set against all those items you've received without paying customs charges.davthepunk wrote:Hi guys. Don't know if this can even be done or not (first time this has happened to me) - but is it possible to appeal VAT charges applied by UK customs for an item imported from abroad, when from looking at the CN22 form on the package (after paying the charges so I could get my item), the sender has significantly over-valued the contents?
If he'd put the correct value on it, I'd still have had to pay something - but not this much...
(also, it would seem that my seller has vastly overcharged me on shipping too, but that's a different matter...)
Thanks again.
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davthepunk
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Re: Procedure to claim back customs charges?
That last part's a given. I've heard of sellers overinflating the value of their stuff on the CN22 so that they can put in an embellished claim with their local postal service if the thing happens not to arrive at the other end, but it's the first time I've actually seen it happen.Lounge Lizard wrote: Surely you should contact HMRC not Royal Mail, but probably best just to dismiss it as swings and roundabouts, set against all those items you've received without paying customs charges.
This was like $30+ dollars difference to the actual value, by the way.
By the way, how common is it for the *recipient* to get in trouble if a seller does something like declare the value of an obviously expensive item as $1 (or whatever), without the recipient's knowledge? I think that some of them do that because they think that they're helping, but I heard that it's the buyer who gets into trouble for that, if the customs choose to look into it...
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Lounge Lizard
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Re: Procedure to claim back customs charges?
I don't normally notice the CN22 but on a big parcel I advised yesterday it had the value as £650, but from a BFPO address I think so no customs charge, and not sent Registered, Recorded or Special either. 
Deliver to neighbour ? Not with £650.00 on the CN22. 
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Re: Procedure to claim back customs charges?
Nothing to do with us or HMRC,you have to give the sender an earful.the sender has significantly over-valued the contents?
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davthepunk
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Re: Procedure to claim back customs charges?
Oh, right. I thought that I might be able to send the CN22 and the actual invoice somewhere, with the differences in value noted, and they'd sort it out for me...POSTMAN wrote:Nothing to do with us or HMRC,you have to give the sender an earful.the sender has significantly over-valued the contents?
