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I was looking the receipt you get when you buy from Kromlech, and it looks like I'm paying Polish taxes, at 23%!?

This seems kinda odd to me, anyone else who ordered from Kromlech able to chime in on this?

You try asking Kromlech?

I bought from them a few months ago and looking at the receipt there is no line for taxes. I would definitely recommend asking Kromlech.

May have been import duties.

 greatbigtree wrote:
May have been import duties.

23% sounds very unlike size of any import duty I am aware of and coincidentally is exactly what the VAT (sales) tax in Poland is.

I suspect they just slap it on all the orders, domestic and foreign, and hope people won't notice.

Well, HST (Sales Tax) in Ontario is 13%, and a 10% duty on imported "Toys, Collectibles, or Other Luxury Item" seems within the realms of reason to me.

But if sales tax in Poland is 23%, then it's possible the sales clerk forgot to check off the "non-taxable" box in their accounting software.

I've made that mistake myself, from time to time.

Ordering from them has a hefty tax/fee. I assumed it was the VAT

At work now, buf yeah it's on the receipt they gave me in the shipping box. 23% is the VAT huh? Well.. what the heck that's just not cool.

I wasn't charged VAT that I'm aware of the last time I ordered Kromlech. Did you buy via their site or their eBay store? If the basic website "includes" VAT then I guess I did, but I just paid exactly what the web price was in USD.

Did you get charged for shipping as well? I know a lot of UK retailers (not GW) still charge you the whole price including "VAT" but use those funds to provide "free" shipping.

 Elbows wrote:
I wasn't charged VAT that I'm aware of the last time I ordered Kromlech. Did you buy via their site or their eBay store? If the basic website "includes" VAT then I guess I did, but I just paid exactly what the web price was in USD.

In the UK (and probably elsewhere in the EU), listed prices will include VAT - none of this "$9.99 plus tax" stuff you see in the US. It's possible the website removes the VAT amount before converting the Euro price into US dollars; you'd need to check that yourself with the USD/EUR exchange rate.