Someone I know sells toy soldiers (dont laugh) and has loads of EU based customers:
From 2021, all EU sales will no longer be charged VAT. This will automatically reduce the base costs of an order by 20%.
For the moment, postal charges will remain unchanged. However, once your order arrives in your country, you will be liable to be charged VAT and a local tariff if applicable. We cannot tell you what this will be, as each country within the EU sets its own rates and thresholds for payments, as well as classifications of goods, (as they are all sovereign states and the EU has no centralised control over them). Experience tells us that the general rate of collection of these charges on mail order goods depends on the diligence (or lack therof) of local postal services, and that most charges are not picked up. However, that is a generalisation not a promise!
The amount of paperwork at our end will go up considerably, and we will have to declare the cost of the goods on any paperwork and customs declarations. This total will not include p&p costs. Please don’t ask us to under-declare totals – these are legal documents and form part of our VAT records, and we are not going to break the law. If you know that your country will impose a tarrif on ‘Models’, but not on ‘Toys’ (or vice versa), please let us know when you place the order. We will work with you as best we can.
Some of you have outstanding orders with us waiting to be processed, and you will already have been charged VAT on these. If they are sent out to you after January 1st, you will be refunded the VAT total. I will be in contact with you in turn as we get to your order.
Already going to have to change this as advised him 'toys' require a CE mark.
Many people will pay the price for the Tory MP's who insisted on the most ideologically pure form of Brexit.
