Import taxes are only a problem if the order is sent from outside the EU, UK to Netherlands is only the UK VAT and postage
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+1. Go ahead, mechanicalbride, your boyfriend will not have to pay anything else if you buy in the UK and have it delivered to the Netherlands.
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^ This.
I'm not in the Netherlands and I've ordered books from the UK without any problems or extra fees.
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As long as you're not shipping The Anarchist Cook Book to him, or any equivalent widely prohibited books,, it should be fine.
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If I remember rightly, although it could just be an urban legend, pretty much most European countries, USA, Canada, basically all the countries that have displayed some form of common-sense over the years, really, no matter how small the event was,
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Well it's definitely not banned in the UK or USA, I know that much. In fact, you can buy it on amazon, the surest possible sign of it not being in any way illegal. And common-sense does not equate with banning books, that's the opposite.
Edit: According to Wikipedia, the only place it's illegal (along with hitting people with dildos in a fucking video game) is Australia.
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Like I said, it could have been an Urban Legend, but then again, I could mention 10s, possibly 100s of things that can be bought now, especially on Amazon, (where I recently bought my favourite purchase of year so far, that being a pair of much larger than street-legal sized knives. Thank you, Amazon, love you!!)), that used to be banned by our government
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I appreciate the offer, that's very kind of you, but it's already taken care of, there's a pig farm near to where I live and until my back gets better, the chest freezer next to me will keep things fresh and stop any festering from going down.
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Just a heads up regarding knives - Most places I'm aware of that it's illegal past a certain size is for CONCEALED carry exclusively. That's here in the US, not sure about other countries. In my home state, it's illegal to conceal a knife longer than, iirc, 3". However, you can openly walk around with a sword strapped to your back if you want to - it's not illegal, but you will deal with some weird looks and frightened people most likely.
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Here in the UK they go batshit crazy about knives. I think it's 21 and half inches for the maximum blade length, (it used to be 3 and a half but they changed it. However, they may have reversed the decision). On top of that, any knife that locks into place is banned from carrying, regardless of length. Switchblades are outright banned, butterfly knives are frowned upon very seriously and flick knives, (in the original sense of the phrase), are a no-no, too
. One of the ones I got off Amazon is a flick knife, well, most people wrongly call a knife that you press the button and the blade quickly comes out as a flick knife, (they are switchblades, as far as I'm aware), e but originally, the term "flick knife" was for a knife that you could open up with a little "flick" of your wrist. I've been practising with mine, when I'm not sharpening it, and I've gotten pretty good at it. My motivation is thinking of my ex-wife :) And how did Amazon get away with selling this? Because they didn't use the term flick knife, it is merely "Spring Assisted" lol
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taxes in the Netherlands are highly unpredictable at times i'm afraid.
One time they don't charge anything and another time you need to pay more then the packages acctually was worth due to an error, even if it's from another country in europe.
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cant u buy them from a shop in Netherlands and let them be shipped to his house? maybe from amazon.nl? there will be no fees
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There should not be any fees shipping from the UK to NL(other than paying for the shipping cost). NL actually has higher sales tax than the UK (though only marginally so).
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That depends on the store. I live in Belgium myself (which neighbours your boyfriend's country of the Netherlands) and used to order from UK sites such as Play.com and zavvi.com, simply because they offered media cheaper than I could find here. I haven't ordered from them in a while now, but they never charged additional fees, taxes or shipping costs. I ordered something, paid the price I saw on the site and got it within like three days. No harm, no foul.
Hope this helps!
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We sometimes use the german amazon to ship to the uk and sweden and we've never been charged anything extra. my husband sometimes orders from dutch and french online stores back to the uk without problem.
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Not sure how it would work. I will let the other answer.
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"The European Union's (EU) internal market, also known as the EU Single Market, is a single market that seeks to guarantee the free movement of goods, capital, services, and people – the "four freedoms" – between the EU's 28 member states.[1][2][3]"
You'll be fine.
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No import taxes if you buy stuff inside the EU, so go for it :3
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No Problem, just be sure it´s not shipped from the Chanell Island, f.e. Jersey which don´t belong to EU. (Zavvi and the hut are doing that sometimes) but even if it´s from outside the EU he will only have to pay extra taxes, it the Price is higher than 26,5€
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As long as the item is shipped from within the EU he will not pay taxes. As a portuguese resident that imported a lot of stuff from the UK i vouch that he won't pay extra taxes.
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Buy at www.bol.com (if they have the books you want to buy). Saves in delivery costs.
UK->Holland = no extra taxes. I ordered many things from the uk and never had to pay a dime extra
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In general there shouldn't be any big problems (like a lot of others already said). If you order from amazon it even shows you how much VAT and shipping are and I never had to pay anything extra when I imported from the UK.
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So, for now, I live in the US and my boyfriend is Dutch (if you're curious, we met while he was here for work). But I need a little help from the Europeans of Steamgifts.
I want to buy him some books as a little surprise as we're both geeky bookworms. If I buy them from a shop in the UK that charges VAT and have them delivered to his door, are they any other customs charges I have to worry about? I don't care if it's a little expensive. My concern is that it'll arrive in the Netherlands, he will have to pay some esoteric sort of customs fee, and voila. The surprise is ruined and crapped all over. Thanks for any insight you can give.
obligatory gibbaway
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