Originally Posted by
fuzzy
That doesn't make much sense! Why would anyone in another country give a flying fuck about UK tax laws?
How are they planning on collecting it?
It only applies to foreign busineses not to individual sellers.
Foreign business including any in the E.U will have to submit a UK Vat return just as they have to submit returns for taxes in their own country.
If the business seller doesn't collect the Vat and Duty and show it on the import documents then it's still charged at point of entry to the U.K and collected here as prior to Jan 2021.
Similar schemes may exist for other non EU countries selling to each other already.
One advantage of requiring the business seller to collect the Duty and Tax on items below £135 is that UK customers avoid being charged on average £15 by the likes of Fedex, Parcelforce etc for processing and collecting the duty when £15 is quite a penalty on that value item.
Larger businesses in the U.S have been collecting the Vat and Duty for years and are either U.K Vat registered or use Worldpay or similar to process it.
Ebay have their Global Shipping program available to sellers to process the Vat and Duty and complete paperwork.