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[AtW]

VAT is based on place of SUPPLY, not origination, unless you mean VAT for seevice of supplying, ie driving truck

[meridian]

Farage's new "the brexit party" party

If the French suppliers deliver to a UK address then its French VAT plus customs duties . The destination country determines VAT payable. You are asking the French to commit VAT fraud.

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I’m not asking the French to do anything. I’m not even suggesting that the suppliers are French, or are VAT registered. Any Brit can send a truck of French wine through Ireland if they want to, and given that they would be more likely to have the cash-and-carry lined up on the U.K. side to sell the product I’d suggest it’s more likely to be a Brit.

As you say, the destination country determines the VAT. If there is no border check on the U.K. side, then how do you determine that the correct VAT has been paid, if you are not checking that the goods being imported match the manifesto and match the VAT paid?

How do you know that the duty paid (if any) matches the product, given the different duty rates between still and sparkling, or at different ABV levels?

How do you know that VAT, duty, and Excise have been paid on 3 cases or 3 pallets, without checking what’s in the truck?

And that’s just the financial implications. Is it Vin de Pays or Cru? Do the contents match the label? Forget wine for a moment - maybe it’s flammable pyjamas, or a choking hazard, or otherwise unsafe?

[WTFH]

Erm, no checks at all on arrival into the mainland UK?

Currently there are none, and if the DUP have their way, that will continue.