Electronic equipment free trade in Europe

You'll pay double ;-) ...Jim Thompson

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Hello:

Nope, the UK is considered to be in the E.U. for those purposes ;)

Best Regards

Steve Sousa

If the UK supplier ships directly to a consumer in another EU country, he has to add VAT (according to UK rules I thought). When he ships to a company (must have VAT number), VAT is 0 per cent.

With kind regards, Wim PA3DJS

So you don't pay VAT twice.

yes supplier has to add VAT for private costumers, I believe as long as the supplier is below are certain annual limit of business with a country he can the local vat, when he gets over the annual limit he has to add the vat rate in the customers country.

-Lasse

There is no import duty on transfers within the EU. You should be charged VAT at the Portuguese rate (23%) rather than the UK rate (20%).

If you're planning on taking these goods out of the EU within a short period of time, you may be able to get the VAT refunded. However, this isn't straightforward, and having the goods shipped from the UK to Portugal won't make it any simpler.

Some information:

In conclusion:

The best and certainly the easiest way is to have it send to Canada by postal carrier. Since the destiny is a private address I will pay the British VAT , the equivalent Canadian tax that we call GST and PST that total about

Tank you all for the valuable information.

John

The crazy thing is that no VAT is due for sales outside the EU, so that's

Nial

That's unlikely. If it's exported directly, the seller doesn't have to charge you VAT. It's only when you buy something within the EU then take it home with you (i.e. once the government already has the money and they're supposed to give it back) that the bureaucracy really kicks in.

Yes, this is the case.

Thus, if your local VAT is lower than the country selling the product, select a company with a large turnaround and hence use your VAT.

However, if you live in a country with high VAT, try to find a small company with low turnaround, you will get the product with the VAT of the low VAT country.