Are the EU tax collectors going to enforce this on behalf of UK collectors? I can’t really see that happening.
I know it came in in the EU because e.g. EuroGA hosting costs went up 20% despite it being hosted by an American company – because I specified a server in Europe 
Peter wrote:
I know it came in in the EU because e.g. EuroGA hosting costs went up 20% despite it being hosted by an American company – because I specified a server in Europe
That is likely for GDPR compliance post the UK’s exit given there is no role for the ECL
It came in maybe 2 years ago. They just started charging VAT. I think it was the EU VAT system mentioned above. It doesn’t happen with US companies which have no EU physical presence (i.e. most aviation parts companies).
GDPR is not related to VAT, is it? GDPR has resulted in a number of US websites blocking European IPs though, and they even tell you why.
I am just really surprised that the EU will be collecting VAT for UK HMRC, on these retail mail order transactions. Who will enforce it?
Peter wrote:
I’ve been doing this since 1978, exporting to every place imaginable. One of my earliest customers was in Lebanon. Imagine the paperwork for that in 1978
I’ll see your Lebanon and raise you my experience in 1978 exporting British made clothing to Libya, or rather to “The Socialist People’s Libyan Arab Jamahiriya”
The Byzantine nature of the paperwork required and the process to import took longer than producing said goods!
Brexit Milennials? They don’t know they are born! :-)
I used to sell to Libya too then. Differential temperature controllers for solar heating. Elaborate precautions to prevent wealthy Libyans transferring money to Swiss banks. Documents, brochures, price lists certified by the Libyan embassy. Letters of credit always expired by the time the goods could be shipped due to all this, but their bank always paid up.
What has changed? Barriers to entry to starting a business are much lower now and in particular starting an online trade is really trivial today. That’s a good thing of course; I have two sons, 24,27 who both have their own business; admittedly set up with a lot of help from me but they are running it themselves and doing good stuff. Both are catering for outdoors activities and thus benefitting hugely from the lockdown, as are many others. Bike shops are stripped bare, for example. Customer service? Never heard of it!
Sadly can’t get Jepps student manual for ATPL flight planning exam on my London address, but it’s on the way to my Paris address
I did try family address in both Lebanon & Morocco, they did not work 
Not a big deal as all exams got kicked down the road to end of March due to lockdown anyway…
because we can’t be bothered
What country is this shop in? From their website: Our company resides in Prague, Czech Republic. They should be ashamed of themselves!
Czech
Ibra wrote:
Sadly can’t get Jepps student manual for ATPL flight planning exam on my London address, but it’s on the way to my Paris address
From Czech…
…meanwhile Transair sells them at 10% off from the UK. And there’s also Pooleys.
What country is this shop in? From their website: Our company resides in Prague, Czech Republic. They should be ashamed of themselves!
Not entirely fair. Ibra does not date stamp his attempted purchase. Certainly the last week of December and the first few days of January DHL, DPD and postal service# were refusing parcels for the UK and parcels UK > Europe are still not back to normal.
