Calling fellow UK men and women - any of you received a VAT bill yet? - Page 2

Fatal Exception · February 9th, 2010, 08:49 AM

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Originally Posted by oniongirl

Tax bill just arrived here.

Shows the shipper's invoice value at £331.23 with VAT totalling £57.96 plus £1.25 admin fee, so total is £59.21.

Very pleased with this as my bank account shows the amount I paid for the phone as £353.83. Saved myself a whopping £2.71. Gotta love exchange rates

£353.83 is the the amount your bank charged you for the exchange. It will include their commission, even though they may say it's free of it... They just give you a not quite exact conversion rate to claw some cash in. You get charged VAT on the actual value, not the bank's value.

I got charged mine as the exact exchange rate on the day + £10 commission.

Still not got my bill yet. At least it's better than the £10 that Royal Fail charge to present items to customs.

oniongirl · February 9th, 2010, 10:19 AM

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Originally Posted by Fatal Exception

£353.83 is the the amount your bank charged you for the exchange. It will include their commission, even though they may say it's free of it... They just give you a not quite exact conversion rate to claw some cash in. You get charged VAT on the actual value, not the bank's value.

I got charged mine as the exact exchange rate on the day + £10 commission.

I had forgotten about the charge Barclays slapped on me. Dang. Oh well. I'm pretty pleased with the price anyway, I never expected to get out of paying VAT, Google and DHL are professional companies who wouldn't mess something like that up.

kam187 · February 9th, 2010, 10:33 AM

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Originally Posted by Rusty!

I'm not just talking about the Nexus One here, I frequent a car owners club forum where parts are very often sort from Japan/US from companies who do things legally and getting away without paying VAT.

It does happen, maybe not often, but it does.

I've never seen that happen when the customs code was correct unless it was manually mis-entered. I guess if parts are sent without pre-clearing it could happen. Its just human error rather than them 'missing' the package. The chance of it happening on the N1 is close to zero 0.

markouk · February 10th, 2010, 02:22 AM

I got an email from a colleague at work saying an IMPORT DUTY/VAT package had arrived from DHL so I have that delight to go into today!! Bugger.

MartinS · February 10th, 2010, 04:05 AM

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Originally Posted by markouk

I got an email from a colleague at work saying an IMPORT DUTY/VAT package had arrived from DHL so I have that delight to go into today!! Bugger.

It's a delight when it comes isn't it? Especially when you know what it is even before opening the package.

markouk · February 10th, 2010, 08:58 AM

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Originally Posted by MartinS

It's a delight when it comes isn't it? Especially when you know what it is even before opening the package.

Yeah, such a joy. My company was going to pay it, they had it open and it was with finance but I said that I better pay it just in case!!
They kept insisting but I felt guilty and think they may call a favour in at some point saying, "Oh well remeber we paid your VAT bill for you". Not on your nelly

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It came to £59.21....Showed up as £331.something for the cost which was good. I know I paid more than that so I've saved a few pound I think.

chaz_uk · February 11th, 2010, 08:41 AM

Got mine today. £60.40

saquib · February 11th, 2010, 09:31 AM

Will have had mine a full month tomorrow, no sign of a bill yet. Anyone else had it that long without a bill ?

lutherinlondon · February 11th, 2010, 09:54 AM

Still waiting

ROBIN50N · February 11th, 2010, 09:55 AM

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Originally Posted by lutherinlondon

Still waiting

id be worried case its been lost in post.

markouk · February 11th, 2010, 10:45 AM

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Originally Posted by saquib

Will have had mine a full month tomorrow, no sign of a bill yet. Anyone else had it that long without a bill ?

Almost a full month for me. Just a couple of days short of it. I think you'll have it tomorrow or Monday at the latest.

markouk · February 11th, 2010, 10:49 AM

My says a custom entry date of 14/01/10 then an invoice date of 26/01/10. I got the bill on Tuesday 09/02/10. So you can work it out roughly from that.

r-j-y · February 12th, 2010, 05:42 PM

Bill (£61 with charger, I'm a fool) arrived today and paid

oniongirl · February 12th, 2010, 07:13 PM

Ah crud, this has just reminded me that mine arrived and I haven't paid. Has anyone used the website to pay and not the telephone number?

chaz_uk · February 12th, 2010, 07:18 PM

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Originally Posted by oniongirl

Ah crud, this has just reminded me that mine arrived and I haven't paid. Has anyone used the website to pay and not the telephone number?

My wife paid for mine last night online and all went well!

theartfullodger · February 13th, 2010, 04:18 AM

'course, you could always buy 5+ @ $285 (2-8-5 US Dollars) each, sell 4 (say profit $100USD each - so one free N1 @ $115 extra) and possibly not get DHL's VAT bill...

Original htc google nexus one HTC Google Nexus One Nexus One TW products

Cheers!

Lodger

Rusty · February 13th, 2010, 06:12 AM

Yeah, cos that sounds legit lmao

r-j-y · February 16th, 2010, 05:17 AM

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Originally Posted by oniongirl

Ah crud, this has just reminded me that mine arrived and I haven't paid. Has anyone used the website to pay and not the telephone number?

Mine arrived late last week... I paid online; I had to go back to IE to make their website work. Stupid IE.

£61 paid, for the phone and charger.

Fatal Exception · February 16th, 2010, 07:32 AM

The website wouldn't let me pay online so I had to phone. Mine was £59.21.

slipperman · February 18th, 2010, 06:54 AM

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Originally Posted by ST Kyle

I got mine, just the phone no charger, £78.95 they've added on duty at 5% going to have to ring them to complain, mobile phones are duty free!

My bill was around £80, which I paid. After read this thread I rang DHL, explained that I thought I had been incorrectly charged.

I received a credit note today for just over £20!

cxm · February 18th, 2010, 07:25 AM

i got the phone 2 days after launch and still haven't had the vat invoice. just hope it hasn't got lost in the post or the first i will hear of it will be from some sort of debt enforcement...

lutherinlondon · February 18th, 2010, 01:02 PM

Got my bill on Monday.... £61.40 for a phone and UK charger so not bad. Put a cheque in the post on Tuesday so that should be the last of the matter hopefully....

bitxboi · February 20th, 2010, 06:04 AM

yep, got mine today ¬_¬

EDIT: two of them, one for the phone, and one for the dock (ordered later), but in both cases say unit value 548$...that's wrong. What should I do?

ROBIN50N · February 20th, 2010, 07:44 AM

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Originally Posted by bitxboi

yep, got mine today ¬_¬

EDIT: two of them, one for the phone, and one for the dock (ordered later), but in both cases say unit value 548$...that's wrong. What should I do?

you sure its not just a duplicate? check invoice nums.

bitxboi · February 20th, 2010, 07:55 AM

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Originally Posted by ROBIN50N

you sure its not just a duplicate? check invoice nums.

they're not duplicates, they've different dates

Soupdragon · February 20th, 2010, 08:16 AM

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Originally Posted by cxm

i got the phone 2 days after launch and still haven't had the vat invoice. just hope it hasn't got lost in the post or the first i will hear of it will be from some sort of debt enforcement...

>>EDIT: two of them, one for the phone, and one for the dock (ordered later), but in both cases say unit value 548$...that's wrong. What should I do?<<

Send one to cxm??

Rusty · February 20th, 2010, 08:40 AM

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Originally Posted by bitxboi

they're not duplicates, they've different dates

Mine came attached to a copy of the invoice, that should have the right value on.

theartfullodger · February 20th, 2010, 11:21 AM

£60:16 for dog, charger & admin fee...

(Paid for out of my winnings on "Monet's Garden" which I just saw [in the flesh..] win the 3:15 Grade One Betfair Ascot Chase at Ascot Racecourse - lovely horse!)

Cheers!

Lodger

PS There is a Betfair APP !!

singh · February 20th, 2010, 12:41 PM

Still haven't received anything at all regarding a VAT bill, and its been over a month!

oniongirl · February 22nd, 2010, 07:12 AM

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Originally Posted by singh

Still haven't received anything at all regarding a VAT bill, and its been over a month!

I'd give them a ring. They probably whack on a whopping charge for late payments.

As for those having trouble with the website, I recommend switching browsers. I'm on my Mac and use Safari as default and just got bombarded with error alerts, but worked fine with Firefox.

t0ph0id · February 22nd, 2010, 07:29 AM

I've not received mine either, been almost a month.

Just on the phone to DHL now to see if it's been sent as I had the phone delivered to work.

t0ph0id · February 22nd, 2010, 07:35 AM

They hung up on me! I WANT TO PAY YOU!!!

Does anyone have a link to the online VAT paying, I can't find it on thier site.

theartfullodger · February 22nd, 2010, 07:48 AM

https://dhlukweb.suth.com/

and click on (I assume) "Open Invoice"

However when I did it it didnae seem to know about my cust no/waybill number...

Cheers!

Lodger

dhevans · February 22nd, 2010, 08:17 AM

My VAT bill came today and I ordered my phone 6/2..

Have duly rung up to get them to take the duty off, so awaiting the reprinted one.

They've got the phone down at £325, so total should be about £55 (it was £71 with the £16ish duty).

stoosh · February 22nd, 2010, 01:39 PM

Also got mine today with the total amount being £58.12. Just the phone, no charger ordered.

t0ph0id · February 22nd, 2010, 02:02 PM

Is the VAT bill delivered to the same address as the phone, or to your actual billing address?

Rusty · February 23rd, 2010, 04:04 AM

Delivery address

chris_h · February 24th, 2010, 09:45 AM

Ordered mine on the 19th January and received it on the 22nd. Still no sign of a VAT bill!! That's nearly five weeks!

finesta101 · February 24th, 2010, 11:04 AM

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Originally Posted by johnboyw

I know there is another thread on this and in it i said that if the box isnt opened you wont get a bill. Well that is wrong.
I know now different from lots of sites ive read.
I have had my Nexus One 3 weeks and only just got my bill!
The worst thing is i bought my phone from ebay because the guy said he would send it as a gift. He sent it direct from Google the T**T.
So not only did i pay over the odds i now get a vat bill, plus i oredered a dock the other day thinking i wont have to pay tax on that!!!

How much did you buy it for?

afonja · February 24th, 2010, 11:07 AM

Recieved my bill yesterday for £60ish(phone, delivery, charger)... paid online with no problems

darkLuke · February 27th, 2010, 03:21 PM

Sorry for refreshing but i'm not quite sure about something.
When I buy N1 i pay VAT (OK - it's fine - I knew about it before) and it's about 60pounds.
And now i don't understand - if I buy dock i pay higher vat right (higher by few pounds)?
But if I buy this dock later (just dock) i have to pay 60 pounds again?! Or it's just some % of dock price.

btw. I have to pay for UK charger (I mean... There is NO charger in standard?).

Toml99 · February 27th, 2010, 03:30 PM

Before mine was delivered I was rang by dhl saying i needed to pay import duty before they would delivery could be made. Has anyone else had this happen as although it differes from what most people seem to have experienced on here it is similar to the only other thing I have bought from the US where royal mail refused to deliver before getting payment.

Rusty · February 27th, 2010, 03:35 PM

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Originally Posted by darkLuke

Sorry for refreshing but i'm not quite sure about something.
When I buy N1 i pay VAT (OK - it's fine - I knew about it before) and it's about 60pounds.
And now i don't understand - if I buy dock i pay higher vat right (higher by few pounds)?
But if I buy this dock later (just dock) i have to pay 60 pounds again?! Or it's just some % of dock price.

btw. I have to pay for UK charger (I mean... There is NO charger in standard?).

They send a US charger which works fine with a shaver plug.

As for the dock, you'll get VAT and probably a few % for duty.

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Originally Posted by Toml99

Before mine was delivered I was rang by dhl saying i needed to pay import duty before they would delivery could be made. Has anyone else had this happen as although it differes from what most people seem to have experienced on here it is similar to the only other thing I have bought from the US where royal mail refused to deliver before getting payment.

DHL don't withhold delivery, they bill you for it later.

dhevans · February 28th, 2010, 03:29 AM

just remember if you buy the dock separately from Google you'll have to pay the $30 shipping fee again. On a $45 dock that's a large amount!
The dock is being sold in the UK but I think it was £45 so not cheap either…

billytkid · February 28th, 2010, 04:37 AM

my bill arrived on friday

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dhevans · February 28th, 2010, 03:43 PM

I had to phone DHL back as they sent a credit note for the extra duty they'd incorrectly charged me but not another bill..
Apparently common practice, so I have to just pay the difference.. Must pay it on Monday!