[s-cars] Front brake research continues...

[Eric Phillips]

On 2/9/06, Steve Powers <sbpowers at gmail.com> wrote:
> Eric -
>
> > Thanks for the link.  Those guys will ship to the U.S., and it's not
> > the shipping, but the damn VAT that'll really kill the savings.  The
> > driver's side mirror ended up being something like $80 after VAT and
> > shipping.  :-O
>
> why are they charging VAT on exports? that's an in-country tax. seems
> fishy to me because I've never been charged VAT on things from europe
> (shipped to the US).

That's what they quoted me.  AFAIK, VATs anywhere in Europe get
charged on stuff sold, no matter to whom it gets sold.

Maybe they're just padding their charges, or have forgotten that I'm
overseas.  Are you sure you've never been charged?  Maybe the VAT was
already wrapped into the price quoted?

Eric