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Originally Posted by Bifta
You are liable for VAT on any goods coming from the Channel Islands. I think you've just been lucky. However, saying that, play.com afaik have their warehouses based in Jersey or Guernsey or some such place, and I've never had anything seized coming from there.
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Play.com are based in Jersey. As others have said it is the luck of the draw whether your packet gets spotted. I think they tend to go for the larger value items or ones that command a higher duty (you have to pay this first and then pay VAT on that too)! Plus you have to pay a fee to Royal Mail for processing.
See:
http://www.hmce.gov.uk/public/shoppi...rnet-goods.pdf
The worst example would be £20 of smoking tobacco:
Purchase price = £20
Duty @ 74.9% = £14.98
VATable price = £34.98
VAT @ 17.5% = £6.12
Royal Mail fee = £4
Total Price = £45.10