28-01-2021, 03:37 PM
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Import taxes
Marge tells me that she heard a discussion on the wireless about some people being stung by import taxes on items bought from the EU.Earrings, wallpaper, wine and other things.
Has anyone else heard about this?
I thought we had a free trade agreement with the EU, so why these taxes (apparently imposed by our own government)? We didn't have them when we were under the Dictatorship.
It makes me ask why did we bother to make Boris's BRINO agreement?
28-01-2021, 04:12 PM
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Re: Import taxes
Originally Posted by JBR
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Marge tells me that she heard a discussion on the wireless about some people being stung by import taxes on items bought from the EU.Earrings, wallpaper, wine and other things.
Has anyone else heard about this?
I thought we had a free trade agreement with the EU, so why these taxes (apparently imposed by our own government)? We didn't have them when we were under the Dictatorship.
It makes me ask why did we bother to make Boris's BRINO agreement?
It's not BRINO, we have our sovereignty restored and now are able to unravel the awful hangover of laws we were obliged to take on from Brussels but it will take time.
With how things are turning out I wonder if by now, especially where the covid vaccine is concerned, in the past we would have been at war especially with France - and if we should go to war with France now.
28-01-2021, 04:38 PM
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Re: Import taxes
Originally Posted by The Artful Todger
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There is a largely free trade agreement with the EU but the change in VAT in which we apply UK VAT to sales but do not have to pay VAT at the point of sale in Europe. We now must pay import duties into the UK but the same tax would be paid at the port of entry into the EU but we would not have seen it. The danger is that we might have pay that twice. Shouldn't need to but unscrupulous EU dealers might forget to remove it
Originally Posted by The Artful Todger
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It's not BRINO, we have our sovereignty restored and now are able to unravel the awful hangover of laws we were obliged to take on from Brussels but it will take time.
Originally Posted by The Artful Todger
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With how things are turning out I wonder if by now, especially where the covid vaccine is concerned, in the past we would have been at war especially with France - and if we should go to war with France now.
well except for 1914 and 1939!
28-01-2021, 04:43 PM
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Re: Import taxes
Originally Posted by JBR
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Marge tells me that she heard a discussion on the wireless about some people being stung by import taxes on items bought from the EU.Earrings, wallpaper, wine and other things.
Has anyone else heard about this?
I thought we had a free trade agreement with the EU, so why these taxes (apparently imposed by our own government)? We didn't have them when we were under the Dictatorship.
It makes me ask why did we bother to make Boris's BRINO agreement?
28-01-2021, 04:45 PM
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Re: Import taxes
Originally Posted by JBR
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If such is the case, surely we'd be well advised to miss out the EU middleman and buy direct from the appropriate 'third country'.But that's exactly why I regard it as BRINO. As far as I'm concerned, only when (and if) we can extricate ourselves from every level of control by the EU shall we have achieved BREXIT. Perhaps after 2024?
Either that or end all interactions and alliances with them once and for all. They are our enemy and always have been...
well except for 1914 and 1939!
Donkeyman! 🤔🤔
28-01-2021, 05:19 PM
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Re: Import taxes
Originally Posted by JBR
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As for the laws to unravel, it's not EU laws it's OUR laws that we were obliged to take onto our statute books but that are so intertwined it will take time to get shot of. An essential first few include Human Rights legislation which really is and always was unnecessary, and employment legislation.
28-01-2021, 05:24 PM
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Re: Import taxes
Originally Posted by The Artful Todger
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But you still have to pay import duties and VAT.
As for VAT, I thought that was introduced by the EU. If we're going to charge something like it, perhaps we could go back to calling it purchase tax.
28-01-2021, 05:43 PM
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Re: Import taxes
We can call it what we want to now.As for the import duties etc., it is AT LAST our country getting the taxes owed to it when people buy from outside the UK.
It is no different to buying from anywhere else, and Amazon.com for example has listed all the charges on applicable imports from the USA when you buy something for years.
If it makes people think twice and then even sometimes buy things from here in the UK rather than from the EU, I'm all for it.
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