bread
Power User
I live here in the UK and just bought a new board from Thomann in Germany.
The purchase price was £194 which I paid by PayPal on the Thomann web site. When I got the eReceipt, and at the top (and not very clear) is a text saying that I will be subject to 20% VAT, which I never needed to pay before because EU VAT and UK VAT is applied to the product sales price (i.e. including VAT).
So I received an email from UPS who Thomann use as their courier telling me I need to pay import fees of £69.70 !!!
Turns out on top of the 20% VAT there is a UPS "handling charge" of a further 20% - so my advertised pedalboard is actually going to cost me £263.70 !
I'm sure Fractal Audio would be aware of this as it is a significant price hike of any product being imported into the UK from the Germany using UPS. I'm pretty sure G66 use UPS so maybe they could look into it, because a new Axe FX III would cost a whopping £3650 or thereabouts if this is the case for them as well.
The purchase price was £194 which I paid by PayPal on the Thomann web site. When I got the eReceipt, and at the top (and not very clear) is a text saying that I will be subject to 20% VAT, which I never needed to pay before because EU VAT and UK VAT is applied to the product sales price (i.e. including VAT).
So I received an email from UPS who Thomann use as their courier telling me I need to pay import fees of £69.70 !!!
Turns out on top of the 20% VAT there is a UPS "handling charge" of a further 20% - so my advertised pedalboard is actually going to cost me £263.70 !
I'm sure Fractal Audio would be aware of this as it is a significant price hike of any product being imported into the UK from the Germany using UPS. I'm pretty sure G66 use UPS so maybe they could look into it, because a new Axe FX III would cost a whopping £3650 or thereabouts if this is the case for them as well.