importing costs
Posted: 26 Sep 2013, 15:01
NZ $600 to sea freight a box of bits from the UK.
Personal effects so these should not be subject to GST at the border, but we will wait and see.
Was surprised to see this bundled in a pile of paperwork I need to complete before the box will clear customs, when I talked to the the shipping agent here in NZ she intimated that I could also be up for GST on the contents and the shipping cost.
Seems that even after taking my personal effects with me in 1995 and having returned to the UK for a week in 2011 there is no way of proving that i am not simply "importing" these items.
We are not talking a huge box either, the problem I had was two or three of the items were too long to FEDEX and there is one item in there that probably would not be allowed on a plane.
Personal effects so these should not be subject to GST at the border, but we will wait and see.
Was surprised to see this bundled in a pile of paperwork I need to complete before the box will clear customs, when I talked to the the shipping agent here in NZ she intimated that I could also be up for GST on the contents and the shipping cost.
Seems that even after taking my personal effects with me in 1995 and having returned to the UK for a week in 2011 there is no way of proving that i am not simply "importing" these items.
We are not talking a huge box either, the problem I had was two or three of the items were too long to FEDEX and there is one item in there that probably would not be allowed on a plane.