12-03-2013, 07:26 PM
For what it does, I am prepared to pay VAT. Over the past 15 years or so, I have imported a lot of electronics parts, kits and completed goods. To date, I have only been asked to pay VAT once, and that was on a piece of kit (logic analyser) from the US costing many hundred of pounds. Even accounting for the VAT paid, it was still half the price being asked by UK distributors. At the time, I had my own company and the kit was for use in the company's normal trade. I therefore claimed the VAT back.
My main hobby to date has been with digital electronics, mainly the Arduino and the Beagle board. Many of the bits for those are imported from the US and sold at reasonable prices here in the UK. Occasionally, a board or kit doesn't make it into UK/European distribution and so I import it from a firm called Adafruit. Again, above the VAT threshold, but never charged.
Fingers crossed though.
Colin
My main hobby to date has been with digital electronics, mainly the Arduino and the Beagle board. Many of the bits for those are imported from the US and sold at reasonable prices here in the UK. Occasionally, a board or kit doesn't make it into UK/European distribution and so I import it from a firm called Adafruit. Again, above the VAT threshold, but never charged.
Fingers crossed though.
Colin
