Some parts that i sell

[Mux213]

krijn,

Taxes in holland is a simple gamble.. If your lucky they'll ignore the package, if you're unlucky you'll get a whole lot of tax... Officially you are supposed to declare your shipment.. A number of shipment companies do this for you based on the invoice that comes with your shipment. If you don't declare your shipment and the customs desides to check your shipment you can expect a nice fine. If your shipment company checks it for you then you're safe but you always pay the tax.
Also if you import less then 45 euro's worth of goods privately, you don't pay any tax.

If you do everything officially you basically have to pay 2 things. First you pay "Invoer rechten" (import tax) over your buy amount and your shipping amount. Offcourse knowing how much this tax is is depending on the country you ship from and the sort of goods you're shipping. You can find info about it on http://www.douane.nl but basically you can't find exact amounts. I always guestimate it around 10%
Second you have to pay BTW (sales tax or VAT). This is fixed on 19%.

So say that you bought 80 euros worth of stuff + 20 euro's of shipping, you've paid max 100 euros'.
You then pay 10% import tax, so the total amount is 110 euros.
You then pay 19% VAT, so total amount will be 110 + 21 = 131 euros.

So you end up paying 131 euro's in total.

I'm going to be ordering a big bunch of things with max somewhere this week so we can share shipping costs. I'm just waiting for a phonecall from my mate in Germany that I'm getting some money back from a deal that didn't go through. I'm hoping that all gets settled tomorow.

The big plus on combining the shipping is that we save alot on shipping costs. The downside is offcourse that a big package is more likely to be noticed and we'll more likely end up just paying the tax.

All in all, our goverment gets rich, while neither Max, nor the manufacturer of these parts really makes anything.... So don't vote for Balkenende and kick Wouter Bos in the nuts for me please. Long Live HongKong 27% income tax and thats it.