Import taxes from EU

[Tarw Coch]

Looking at the possibility of importing some mirror guards from a company in Southern Ireland. On the face of it , at a relatively good price but I believe there could well be import taxes/duty to pay, meaning total cost is an unknown. Goods value with shipping is about 190 Euro, Does anyone know how much hassle and cost importing these is likely to cost?

 

[Bald Rick]

Looking at the possibility of importing some mirror guards from a company in Southern Ireland. On the face of it , at a relatively good price but I believe there could well be import taxes/duty to pay, meaning total cost is an unknown. Goods value with shipping is about 190 Euro, Does anyone know how much hassle and cost importing these is likely to cost?

You pay VAT too

Can work out import duty from here:

Import Duty Calculator | Free Customs Duty Calculator UK

UK Import duty calculator for Importing goods to the UK. Use this free import tax calculator and know how much you might have to pay.

wise.com

 

[Tarw Coch]

You pay VAT too

Can work out import duty from here:

Import Duty Calculator | Free Customs Duty Calculator UK

UK Import duty calculator for Importing goods to the UK. Use this free import tax calculator and know how much you might have to pay.

wise.com

Thanks, but don’t seem to be having any luck getting that duty calculator to work.
Not so worried about vat as it’s a buisnes expense so should be able to be reclaimed…………shouldn’t it ?

 

[Bald Rick]

Thanks, but don’t seem to be having any luck getting that duty calculator to work.
Not so worried about vat as it’s a buisnes expense so should be able to be reclaimed…………shouldn’t it ?

How so? Just toggle in country you’re importing from and to and the price you’re paying in either pounds or euros and it does the rest

 

[Tarw Coch]

How so? Just toggle in country you’re importing from and to and the price you’re paying in either pounds or euros and it does the rest

Couldn’t find how to change into euros so just left it as pounds, couldn’t see no way to get it to calculate, unless it was automatic in which case nothing is payable, which isn’t what I was expecting

Just tried again and no joy
I’m not sure if it’s me that hates technology or technology that hates me

 

[Bald Rick]

Couldn’t find how to change into euros so just left it as pounds, couldn’t see no way to get it to calculate, unless it was automatic in which case nothing is payable, which isn’t what I was expecting

Just tried again and no joy
I’m not sure if it’s me that hates technology or technology that hates me

How much are you paying? Assume it’s an agricultural item?

 

[neilo]

Couldn’t find how to change into euros so just left it as pounds, couldn’t see no way to get it to calculate, unless it was automatic in which case nothing is payable, which isn’t what I was expecting

Just tried again and no joy
I’m not sure if it’s me that hates technology or technology that hates me

The currency conversion is a separate thing to any duty payable, so irrelevant to any duty calculator.

If you enter 'machinery parts' as the product, it shows no duty as payable, but 20% import vat will be levied. That part is reclaimable as it's a business expense.
If it's delivered by Parcelforce, the will send you a bill for the import vat, plus their fee for collecting it (usually £12), before they release & deliver the parcel.
No idea what other couriers charge, but suspect it would be similar.

 

[Tarw Coch]

How much are you paying? Assume it’s an agricultural item?

193 Euro

 

[Tarw Coch]

The currency conversion is a separate thing to any duty payable, so irrelevant to any duty calculator.

If you enter 'machinery parts' as the product, it shows no duty as payable, but 20% import vat will be levied. That part is reclaimable as it's a business expense.
If it's delivered by Parcelforce, the will send you a bill for the import vat, plus their fee for collecting it (usually £12), before they release & deliver the parcel.
No idea what other couriers charge, but suspect it would be similar.

Its for some tractor mirror guards so machinery parts, I’m not too worried about vat as it’s reclaimable.
Shipping costs are already included by the seller unless someone might want a cut this side too ?
I would like to have a reasonable idea of all in costs and hassle for that matter before making an order

 

[jpd]

i ordered "goodies" from the uk
€315 to be exact
got stuff before from n ireland
no duty
this time
duty,duty on uk paid vat,duty on courier fee
another €90 please
grrrrrrrrrrr

 

[Kidds]

Looking at the possibility of importing some mirror guards from a company in Southern Ireland. On the face of it , at a relatively good price but I believe there could well be import taxes/duty to pay, meaning total cost is an unknown. Goods value with shipping is about 190 Euro, Does anyone know how much hassle and cost importing these is likely to cost?

No duty but should be VAT on top

 

[neilo]

Its for some tractor mirror guards so machinery parts, I’m not too worried about vat as it’s reclaimable.
Shipping costs are already included by the seller unless someone might want a cut this side too ?
I would like to have a reasonable idea of all in costs and hassle for that matter before making an order

Parcelforce (& presumably other couriers) will charge you for collecting the import vat, on top of whatever shipping you have paid to your supplier. That charge is usually £12 IME.

 

[M-J-G]

Can't you get someone in NI to buy them and send them over.

 

[Tarw Coch]

Can't you get someone in NI to buy them and send them over.

Unfortunately I don’t know anyone in NI and even if I did, presumably the same rules would apply regarding imports.
If only I was going to the ploughing this year I’d pick some up and chuck them in the back of the camper van…………..but that’s not going to happen

 

[steveR]

Unfortunately I don’t know anyone in NI and even if I did, presumably the same rules would apply regarding imports.
If only I was going to the ploughing this year I’d pick some up and chuck them in the back of the camper van…………..but that’s not going to happen

Forgotten this was coming up.... I am hoping to be in Ireland if things pan out, for a run across to Galway that week. I've wanted to get there for several years.

 

[Tarw Coch]

Forgotten this was coming up.... I am hoping to be in Ireland if things pan out, for a run across to Galway that week. I've wanted to get there for several years.

We’ll worth a visit but one day doesn’t really do it justice, gets well over 100,000 visitors on a good day so traffic can be an absolute nightmare as can mud if it’s wet.
We were there 2 years ago, first two days were beautiful, luckily we were leaving the third morning as it started raining in the night, stubble fields as car parks turned to mud.

We had stayed on a grass field in a camper van and a bit naive to what was going to happen regarding traffic thought we were going to leave in good time at 8.30 for a 2 o’clock ferry, 3 hours later we were only a couple of hundred yards away from where we’d stayed, the roads are effectively closed one way as they run both lanes into the car parks, presumably they do the same in the opposite direction later on but as we were staying there hadn’t noticed that. We quite literally got on the ferry a couple of minutes before it sailed, well after the official last boarding time.
There’s a lot of metal tracking put down but you’d still need to be prepared for plenty of mud if it’s a wet year

 

[robs1]

We’ll worth a visit but one day doesn’t really do it justice, gets well over 100,000 visitors on a good day so traffic can be an absolute nightmare as can mud if it’s wet.
We were there 2 years ago, first two days were beautiful, luckily we were leaving the third morning as it started raining in the night, stubble fields as car parks turned to mud.

We had stayed on a grass field in a camper van and a bit naive to what was going to happen regarding traffic thought we were going to leave in good time at 8.30 for a 2 o’clock ferry, 3 hours later we were only a couple of hundred yards away from where we’d stayed, the roads are effectively closed one way as they run both lanes into the car parks, presumably they do the same in the opposite direction later on but as we were staying there hadn’t noticed that. We quite literally got on the ferry a couple of minutes before it sailed, well after the official last boarding time.
There’s a lot of metal tracking put down but you’d still need to be prepared for plenty of mud if it’s a wet year

It's Ireland every year is a wet one, my best friend moved there in 2004 and only once in 12 visits has it not been wet, we went to the world ploughing there a couple of years after they moved there, was a great event, especially watching the horse ploughing

 

[steveR]

We’ll worth a visit but one day doesn’t really do it justice, gets well over 100,000 visitors on a good day so traffic can be an absolute nightmare as can mud if it’s wet.
We were there 2 years ago, first two days were beautiful, luckily we were leaving the third morning as it started raining in the night, stubble fields as car parks turned to mud.

We had stayed on a grass field in a camper van and a bit naive to what was going to happen regarding traffic thought we were going to leave in good time at 8.30 for a 2 o’clock ferry, 3 hours later we were only a couple of hundred yards away from where we’d stayed, the roads are effectively closed one way as they run both lanes into the car parks, presumably they do the same in the opposite direction later on but as we were staying there hadn’t noticed that. We quite literally got on the ferry a couple of minutes before it sailed, well after the official last boarding time.
There’s a lot of metal tracking put down but you’d still need to be prepared for plenty of mud if it’s a wet year

Your wise thoughts and advice are noted... carefully! I think a check on conditions will be Order of the Day, prior to setting off for the event if I am over here that week.

Another event with inadequate road network to feed the site.... I would be on a bike, but even those cannot help with totally snarled up traffic!

 

[Tarw Coch]

Your wise thoughts and advice are noted... carefully! I think a check on conditions will be Order of the Day, prior to setting off for the event if I am over here that week.

Another event with inadequate road network to feed the site.... I would be on a bike, but even those cannot help with totally snarled up traffic!

As far

Your wise thoughts and advice are noted... carefully! I think a check on conditions will be Order of the Day, prior to setting off for the event if I am over here that week.

Another event with inadequate road network to feed the site.... I would be on a bike, but even those cannot help with totally snarled up traffic!

as the site goes, it moves around so is in open countryside on a farm, not a lot of scope to upgrade road network, just traffic management.
I think I’m right in saying they do 3 years at a site before moving on so this will be the last year at Ratheniska.
Lots of aluminium walkways but if it’s wet there’s going to be mud, I guess you’re slightly limited in how much clothing and footwear you can take for all situations if on a bike
Just check out the location better than we did, we thought we’d found a postcode for where we were going so after coming off the Ferry, had a couple of drinks in Dublin before heading off, when nearly there stopped in a town, Athy I think for something to eat with only a couple of miles to go, down the road, it was gone 10 at night by then, turn right and as we approached the postcode a man with a torch stepped out of the darkness.
Are you looking for the ploughing boys
Yes
Well it’s not here
Think that must have been where the offices were and presumably we weren’t the only ones to make that mistake if they had someone out at that time of night.
It was 20 minutes or so down the road, we approached from some higher ground and it was quite a sight to see all lit up in the darkness.

 

[vantage]

As far
as the site goes, it moves around so is in open countryside on a farm, not a lot of scope to upgrade road network, just traffic management.
I think I’m right in saying they do 3 years at a site before moving on so this will be the last year at Ratheniska.
Lots of aluminium walkways but if it’s wet there’s going to be mud, I guess you’re slightly limited in how much clothing and footwear you can take for all situations if on a bike
Just check out the location better than we did, we thought we’d found a postcode for where we were going so after coming off the Ferry, had a couple of drinks in Dublin before heading off, when nearly there stopped in a town, Athy I think for something to eat with only a couple of miles to go, down the road, it was gone 10 at night by then, turn right and as we approached the postcode a man with a torch stepped out of the darkness.
Are you looking for the ploughing boys
Yes
Well it’s not here
Think that must have been where the offices were and presumably we weren’t the only ones to make that mistake if they had someone out at that time of night.
It was 20 minutes or so down the road, we approached from some higher ground and it was quite a sight to see all lit up in the darkness.

Didn’t the chap tell you that if he was going there, he wouldn’t start from here!!!!