Question about selling your prints to overseas and VAT question

11 years 9 months ago #240443 by One Wish
If I'm not VAT registered and sell a print to someone out of UK for example, I'm not suppose to collect VAT from them right? This would be legal to just charge them for the print and ZERO on the VAT correct?


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11 years 9 months ago #240490 by John Landolfi
Are you selling it IN the UK? Why should you collect taxes for a foreign government?


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11 years 9 months ago #240504 by Darrell
:agree: you may have to charge tax from your home country.

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11 years 9 months ago #240546 by aldyn
I know if I send an expensive gift to someone in the UK, she ends up having to pay a customs tax on it to pick it up. They hold it hostage. Wonder if they'd do the same thing to a print you sold over there - assuming you ship it to them from outside the country.


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11 years 9 months ago #240558 by Darrell
Sometimes it helps to write gift on the form, I know I have ordered items on Ebay from China and not be charged anything extra, ( I live in Canada ) and another time I had a gift from USA and had to pay a fee at the door... I think it all depends on Customs.

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11 years 9 months ago #240601 by Joves
Are you doing the printing yourself and sending it out, or is it being printed and sent out from a vendor? If a vendor is doing it then they should know if you have to add the VAT. So I would contact your vendor and ask them. If you are doing it then send it parcel post and do not charge the VAT, I am guessing that it will be sent unframed and in a protected envelope or tube marked do not bend photo. In which case it would most likely just pass through customs without a hitch. This is especially true of sent through the Postal Service.


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11 years 9 months ago #240643 by Raymond II

Joves wrote: Are you doing the printing yourself and sending it out, or is it being printed and sent out from a vendor? If a vendor is doing it then they should know if you have to add the VAT. So I would contact your vendor and ask them. If you are doing it then send it parcel post and do not charge the VAT, I am guessing that it will be sent unframed and in a protected envelope or tube marked do not bend photo. In which case it would most likely just pass through customs without a hitch. This is especially true of sent through the Postal Service.



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