VAT on postage

[Mark Bolam]

This really bugs me when I buy a smallish item, then they add the fiver postage or whatever (which is all fair enough), but then clag the VAT charge onto the whole total.

 

You're just collecting money for the VAT man which nobody gets back, you bastards!

[skyhuck]

This really bugs me when I buy a smallish item, then they add the fiver postage or whatever (which is all fair enough), but then clag the VAT charge onto the whole total.

 

You're just collecting money for the VAT man which nobody gets back, you bastards!

 

If they don't collect it off you they will have to pay it out of their profits, which would presumably lead to higher prices.

[Gary Prentice]

are you paying Vat twice on the carriage cost?

 

If the sender pays the post office £2.00 (including vat), then charges the customer £2.00 for carriage (net) + the item, then adds Vat, The customer then pays Vat on the Vat that the courier charged the sender

[Gary Prentice]

This really bugs me when I buy a smallish item, then they add the fiver postage or whatever (which is all fair enough), but then clag the VAT charge onto the whole total.

 

You're just collecting money for the VAT man which nobody gets back, you bastards!

 

If you enter the full cost of the item, what it cost you to get including post, you'd get it back. Don't know if it would wash, but that is what you've spent.

 

If you drove to pick it up, you'd claim the vat you'd paid at the pump after all:confused1:

[Mark Bolam]

That's exactly my beef Gary.

 

If they had to pay the PO postage + VAT fair do's, but they don't.

[Gary Prentice]

That's exactly my beef Gary.

 

If they had to pay the PO postage + VAT fair do's, but they don't.

 

I'll ask the missus, that'll screw with her mind for the rest of the day:lol:

[Mark Bolam]

If they don't collect it off you they will have to pay it out of their profits, which would presumably lead to higher prices.

 

Wrong.

Postage charges from the Post Office are VAT exempt.

[Arctostaphylos uva-ursi]

I'm with you on that one. Really grinds my gears. Just think yourself lucky you dont have a postcode in the highlands! Apparently it cost the same to ship to the highlands as it does to Europe!

[skyhuck]

Wrong.

Postage charges from the Post Office are VAT exempt.

 

OK, with you now, my apologies

[skyhuck]

Actually that may be fraud. You cannot collect VAT when it's not due!