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

[David Kase]

I will check my receipt at home tonight but I ordered stuff from VAG and 
I am 99% sure I was not charged VAT.  I think you just need to remind 
them you are in the U.S..  Most of their sales are in the U.K.

Dave K.

Eric Phillips wrote:

>On 2/9/06, Steve Powers <sbpowers at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>Eric -
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>>>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
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>>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).
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>That's what they quoted me.  AFAIK, VATs anywhere in Europe get
>charged on stuff sold, no matter to whom it gets sold.
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>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?
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>Eric
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