Difference between revisions of "Undervalue"

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There are many countries which will add extra taxes onto goods coming into their country. There are many reasons behind this, but for you this is just an additional fee that will cost you money. Depending on your country, there are ways to avoid this. Using these methods may be against the law depending on your country, it is advised that you look into your country's laws before attempting this.

Shops

If you are from a country which is strict with customs charges, then it is recommended to use one of the following shops that undervalue:

Big in Japan - After making a preorder, go to your order details and add a message to the product stating that you would like the product to be undervalued to a certain amount. Obviously put it under the threshold for paying VAT.

Nippon-Yasan - After making a preorder, your package will be automatically undervalued. There is no need to do anything yourself. If you wish, you can pay the VAT through opting for the Transi-logistic service that they offer.

Jungle - While ordering, there will be an option to send as a gift/devalue your package.

Purchasing from Amiami and the like may be tempting, but if your order is over a certain amount then there is a possibility of getting hit by customs. There are certain things you can do to try and avoid this however excluding purchasing from one of the above stores.

North America

United States

There are no taxes unless a single package contains 200,000 yen ($2000) worth of stuff. Customs do a poor job of screening out illegal items.

Canada

Watch out, loli is illegal so be smart and sneaky about it. Taxes should be on anything marked over $60 CAD, however it's possible that you may avoid customs as long as there is no individual item over 10K in the package. Strict about checking international packages (unlike the US) but drops the ball on domestic packages (rotting human body parts have made it through the mail; it takes longer and costs more to ship something within Canada than from Canada to the US). Shipping does not seem to be taken into account when determining whether not to tax something.

A Canadian from /jp/'s Onahole threads went to court due to importing a loli hole, so be careful.

Mexico

Never use private couriers, they get taxed 99% of the times. SAL and EMS almost never get taxed.

Europe

France

Germany

Germany will tax parcels at the following rate: Tax: Tax based on type of stuff you are importing, usually 4.5% for figures. Is calculated if your package value is above 150€.

EuST: Is calculated for every package with value+shipping above 22€. It's usually a flat 19%. If you have to pay taxes, you have to add them in.

Package value+shipping = 25€ --> You only pay a 19% EuST --> 25*0.19 = 4.75€. Package value = 160€, Shipping = 20€ --> You have to pay additional taxes, if you are buying figures you are at 4.5% --> 160*0.045 = 7.2€ --> EuST is calculated on top of it, so additional 19% --> (160+20+7.2) * 0,19 + 7.2 = 42,77€ tax+EuST.

If a package isn't labeled correctly (i.e. shipping cost missing, suspected for undervaluing), you'll have to go to your customs office, show a proof of purchase and pay. There is an option to send in the proof per mail and let DHL handle the rest, but since 2015, this costs 28,50€ + the taxes you have to pay.

Using SAL or Airmail will normally get through if the parcel is undervalued to ~2000 yen. SAL parcel most of the time gets caught, same with EMS. But this depends on your customs office. Using USAL to sneak past customs does not seem to work if the parcel is not undervalued.

Shipping also gets added to the value and included for taxes. So if your stuff costs 20€ + 30€ shipping, you'll have to pay 9,50€ taxes.

German customs use their own exchange rate for calculating, which is changed at the beginning of each month. The current exchange rate can be found here.

Italy

EMS is usually spotted at custom and charged 24% import tax (not if below 45€, but by using EMS you are like to be above that).

Latvia

Latvia will charge at 21% of the value of the package as long as the value is over 23.5€. However undervaluing seems to work very well no matter what type of delivery you use, so feel free to use EMS to get your parcel quicker.

Sweden

VAT (moms) is 25% on item(s), shipping and insurance cost except on food (12%) and printed matter (6%). VAT is paid on everything over 300 SEK total and over 500 SEK total if marked as gift. Import tax (tull) is paid over 1500 SEK total. However small packages usually get through no matter value (for example 1-2 Blu-ray(s) or game(s)) and bigger packages somewhat rarely get taxed no matter the value or if it's marked as gift (for example one figure ~0,75 kg). EMS is free from import declaration fee (PostNord is handling EMS). Import declaration fee is 125 SEK for PostNord on anything that isn't EMS, ~80 SEK for FEDEX and ~60 SEK for DHL.

United Kingdom

Within the UK, you will pay VAT of 20% on anything that is over £15 or £36 if it is labelled as a gift. Furthermore, if you receive this charge then you will also pay an additional admin fee of £8 if the parcel goes through the Royal Mail or £13.50 if it goes through Parcelforce.

If you send your parcel by RSAL then there is a higher chance of it missing customs, this is also done through the Royal Mail so if you do get hit by customs then your admin charge will be £8.

Sending your parcel by EMS however will make it significantly more likely to be hit by customs and is delivered through Parcelforce which will mean a £13.50 admin charge. Additionally, this may potentially remain in customs for such a long time that RSAL would have been faster.

Australia

No taxes on imports less than $1000. Loli material is illegal to import however possession laws vary by state/territory. Customs is pretty lazy though so the chances of anything being intercepted is slim.

South America

Brazil

No taxes on books/printed stuff. Taxes (60% import tax) are rare with RSAL and below. EMS has very high risk on taxes, try to avoid, use SAL Parcel instead for large shipments. Smaller risk with small packages and cheaper package value.