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> Basically, you need to follow the tracking regularly until the package is tagged as lost or failed delivery, which is the cue to pay import fees. > It’s the

• hdgvhicv 9mo ago
  Another Brexit bonus It’s no coincidence those that championed Brexit are those that wanted a weaker Europe and weaker U.K. That’s why the majority of tax payers were against it, the majority of educated people voted against it, the majority of working people voted against it, the majority of people alive today who voted voted against it Yet we still got it.
  • bflesch 9mo ago
    It's never to late to rejoin, we've all learned a lot about foreign propaganda in the last decade.
    • tonyedgecombe 9mo ago
      We need a whole generation to die off before that becomes likely. In the mean time we should move closer when the opportunity rises.
      • bflesch 9mo ago
        Don't be so sure that the next generation automatically gets less indoctrinated. Facebook at least documented content interactions out in the open. With tiktok you don't notice what kind of content someone consumes. There are tens of thousands of people working a full time job just to influence people in democratic countries to act/vote against their interests. Then we have hundreds of thousands more in advertisement industry with their own interests, mainly in line with goals of US companies. There is reason for optimism because if everyone is on tiktok it becomes "uncool" again but still it is a very dangerous tool.
      • bloomingeek 9mo ago
        I'll bite on this one. I've been saying to anyone who will listen here in the states: my generation, the Boomers, needs to die out and/or get the hell out of the way. We're trashing almost everything because of a cult of hero worship.
        • fnimick 9mo ago
          While I used to agree with you, based on the most recent polling, Gen X and Gen Z are both farther right than Boomers are these days. So we're fucked long term too.
          • hdgvhicv 9mo ago
            https://yougov.co.uk/politics/articles/53923-how-would-britain-vote-at-the-start-of-2026 https://yougov.co.uk/politics/articles/53923-how-would-brita... Look at age breakdown
    • yetihehe 9mo ago
      Someone at Davos commented "It took you 7 years to negotiate your way out, it will take you 7 years to regret and then 7 years to negotiate back in".
      • consp 9mo ago
        All while losing all goodies and setting the economy back a decade.
        • Nextgrid 9mo ago
          But the remaining wealth of the country has successfully been extracted in the form of overpriced and not-fit-for-purpose utilities, transport companies, taxes, and so on and given to corporate interests. From their perspective it's a resounding success.
          • hdgvhicv 9mo ago
            Didn’t need Brexit for that - it’s been going on for decades.
            • blibble 9mo ago
              with most of the privatisations triggered by EU law!
              • LightBug1 9mo ago
                I wouldn't strictly put all of them at the feet of the EU. While what you say is true, the Conservatives were frothing to privatise whatever they could. Labour just went along with the process (and I'm no Labour supporter either). The one I won't forgive was our water. I believe we're the only developed country to have privatised our water, with disastrous consequences. And that one can be squarely laid at the feet of Margaret 'Fucking" Thatcher (real name).
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  • davidwritesbugs 9mo ago
    Bloody poor people deciding for themselves what they want. Shouldn't get a vote unless you have a degree and property. If only they'd had the sense to listen to their betters.
    • infinite8s 9mo ago
      Those poor people voted for something for which they were explicitly mislead. The results of Brexit have in no ways made their lives better.
      • davidwritesbugs 9mo ago
        In other words "democracy" - people with an agenda tell their version of its benefits. Saying "the vote was invalid because the poor uneducated people were too stupid to realise they were being lied to"
    • mig39 9mo ago
      And those poor people are objectively poorer because of Brexit. But as long as there's fewer foreigners coming in, then they're happy?
      • hdgvhicv 9mo ago
        There’s more foreigners coming in. Which was “project fear” back in 2016.
    • ifwinterco 9mo ago
      The elites made the mistake of actually putting political power in the hands of the British people for once. Catastrophic error on their part, they won't do that again
• Reason077 9mo ago
  > "Paid the fee online, 20% VAT + a few pounds of handling fees ... It’s the normal procedure to buy things from Europe since Brexit 2020." Why don't Amazon and other online retailers just charge you the UK VAT when you order and ship it "VAT paid", so it doesn't get held up at the border? That's how it works in New Zealand. You pay New Zealand's GST when you place an order, not after it arrives. Any online retailer that ships over a certain volume of products to New Zealand is required to implement this.
  • alibarber 9mo ago
    Strangely, if I order from Amazon UK to Finland in the EU, the VAT is already all included and it comes directly to me, no customs. Even for some third party sellers too.
  • neilwilson 9mo ago
    It would be far better if we could get a government in who would use Brexit freedoms to scrap VAT and all the other sales and import taxes. They are an administrative nightmare and both unnecessary and ineffective. Stick to simpler taxes. The problem is that we have one side who loves all things EU and the other that loves all things neoliberal - both of which are obsessed with sales taxes for some reason
    • laurencerowe 9mo ago
      VAT is not really all that complicated and accounts for around 15% of the UK tax take. Moving that to income tax would mean a substantial redistribution from working people to pensioners and incentivise moving more production abroad. Import taxes are pretty complicated but unilaterally removing them would mean we would have nothing to negotiate tariff free access to foreign markets.
      • neilwilson 9mo ago
        Vat is stupidly complex. Try doing an international conference for example. Not to mention the impact on imports as the OP discovered. Quite why people think tax stays in one place is beyond me - all costs are passed on and tax is no different. Putting the tax on employer NiCS for example would result in roughly the same business collection and payment, but with a significant reduction in administration and the tax gap since PAYE collection is more efficient. And quite why obtaining foreign items more expensive is seen as a negotiating point could only be brought up by somebody who hasn’t thought through how floating exchange rates work. We want more stuff coming in and less going out. That’s how you win in international trade. Exports are a cost remember. As we see from the US, it is the local population that pays the cost of import tariffs and taxes. The currency exchange rate fixes the rest.
• stoobs 9mo ago
  Weird, I've never needed to do that - Royal Mail or whichever courier is handling it will either put a note for customs payment through the door (Royal Mail/Parcelforce), or send me an invoice via post or email (any of the other couriers).