Buying a PBG4 from USA to use in UK

[mpw]

While talking customs duties etc. and original receipts be warned. HM Customs in the UK can charge you 17.5% VAT on you laptop/iPod/Desktop/underpants when you return to the UK even if you’ve bought them in the UK paying VAT, had them 10years and took them on holiday. It is down to YOU to provide an original receipt not for them to prove the items are new or being imported for the first time.

This happened to me with my 3month old iBook but I showed them a PDF of the Apple web order I had on the laptop. (I’ve had problems with customs before that cost me an extra 17.5% on a gift I bought in the UK took home and then returned to the UK with it wrapped)

 

[Mustafa]

It's your conscience.....

......at the end of the day -- personally I prefer to live up to my responsibilities as a UK citizen and pay taxes that are due. Evasion is a crime however much you think there is no victim.

Just remember that you will have to run the gauntlet of UK Customs every time you take the PB overseas -- unless you're into forging sales receipts as well. But Customs aren't as dumb as they look............

 

[Mr. G4]

1) buying in the u.s. is cheaper, but, in nyc there is a city tax, this is 8% or more i think. YOU DO NOT GET TAX BACK AT THE AIRPORT WHEN YOU LEAVE. there is no tax refund ever from the u.s..

There are store here in the Los Angeles (Micro Center) area that if you show your passport and plane tickets they won't charge you tax. So it doesn't cost you any thing to ask the store.

If you stay long enough whereever you are going, order on line out of state and have them mail (even rush mail) to you that way you don't have to pay tax either. Go to Powerbook Central to see which merchant charge tax to the state that you are going to be.