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Glad you got it in the end @skinfreak I bet you feel ecstatic, albeit in debt but hey that's what we work for, for these rewards to ourselves isn't it
You've just described most of the threads on here....
Nice looking guitar, that. The white top and natural back gives it something of an iced bun look.
If the UK government gets it together to sign a free trade agreement with Trump(who seems to like us) then the Customs might not be an issue anymore..
Meanwhile I think you'd have to calculate whether getting 20% off the Vattable price is worth the expense and risk of flying to the US and then trying to blindside past UK customs. I think they do have Vat in the form of sales tax in most US states although I think it is more like 8-10%.
Regarding the moral question I guess this is a personal judgement - I personally don't buy blackmarket tobacco for the reason that I quite like the NHS and feel that I as a smoker I should be paying for it. But a one off diddle on a guitar may be lower level although I guess you could say if you start feeling free to blatantly break the law ,where does it end?
When importing a few grands worth of kit I was offered a faked invoice to pay less duty and tax, and refused. That's where I am now, it makes me feel content. It's my business I suppose.
However, putting that aside, reading this I was struggling to see the logic of paying large air fares, taxis fees etc. in the hope to offset those costs by illegally avoiding duty and tax, risking losing the guitar. Also losing days to air travel.
Surely it was indeed less risk and less hassle to just import with insurance and pay the tax
Excellent thread!
whole point was to weigh up the pros and cons and in the end flying would not have been worth it. I appreciate that it might have come across as some pure tax dodge decision but honestly it wasn't, but was definitely was a factor. The guitar is in the mail anyway and I will wait to see how far north of £1000 the duties will be....
EG - you still pay a f*cktonne to import a guitar from the USA to Canada and Trump thinks Canada’s deal is “too good.”
But they are undoubtedly extremely sinful and should be taxed accordingly.