Stop cheating the tax man with your shopping trips to America!

[Mailman]

Haha...you must just be dodgy. Im for ever sending stuff out there and have not once been hit with a tax bill (or been told about a tax bill being received by the people stuff was sent to).

Then again I guess its only fair. After all, El Gordo taxes you when you return so its only right Uncle Sam does the same to you!

Mailman

[Bagpuss]

Haha...you must just be dodgy. Im for ever sending stuff out there and have not once been hit with a tax bill (or been told about a tax bill being received by the people stuff was sent to).

Then again I guess its only fair. After all, El Gordo taxes you when you return so its only right Uncle Sam does the same to you!

Mailman

Obviously you are the Dodgy one becuse having worked for a shipping company I can assure you they levy UK good with very heavy taxes

[Mailman]

There is a fine line between being creative and being dodgy!

Mailman

[vetran]

If its cheaper

Easy solution make it cheaper in the UK

[expat]

[i]in reply to expat[i]
Absolute chicken pox! You arent making any market smaller because in all likelyhood if it was so expensive here in Blighty you most likely would never have bought it in the first place.

But this wooly thinking ....
Mailman

Nice piece of woolly thinking there, Mailman. How do you know that I wouldn't buy something if the price were higher?

[bobhope]

"All your money belong to us"

I don't know why people persist with the idea that it's their money, when it's obviously not

[Mailman]

Nice piece of woolly thinking there, Mailman. How do you know that I wouldn't buy something if the price were higher?

Oh yes I forget you are a high paid contractor!

Mailman

[BoredBloke]

So long as you don't take the pi5s I find it difficult for the customs people to get you on this. How do they know you didn't buy the stuff in the UK before you went on holiday - All you have to do is remove all the packaging etc and pack it as normal.

I know a guy who used to take a guitar bag with him when he went to the US. Then he would buy an expensive guitar and travel back with it. He would then flog it in the UK. If he got stopped he would simply say he bought it in the UK before he went.

[Mailman]

Things like cameras have region specific serial codes on them. Id assume that big f8ck off 20foot plasma in your carryon backage will also be picked up by HMC!

Mailman

[XLMonkey]

the economists have been here before Mailman, and proved that the opposite is true - shopping in New York actually drives prices in the UK down, not up.

it's called Ricardo's Law of Comparative Advantage

humans are famous for not being able to understand it properly. Monkeys find it easy, as they only ever think about bananas.