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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;jimmy_goodfella, post: 18345, member: 919&quot;]today i had fed ex on the phone telling me there are custom charges and vat at 17.5% due on 500 1 gram bars im importing to the uk from istanbul</p><p><br /></p><p>so i told fed-ex that gold is exempt from vat in the uk which it is.The woman was suprised and tried to tell me it wasint.I insisted it was.</p><p><br /></p><p>so she gets the customs and excise to phone me up and he insists its classed as jewellery not investment gold which i again refuse.So we had to look through the codes and i explained which is right that its a higher purity than can be used for jewellery ie higher than 22k which is the limit under that its classed as jewellery.</p><p><br /></p><p>So he consulted with his boss and long and short of it i won my case.On the fact it was of a higher purity than gold jewellery ever is.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />,very strange in the fact you would think they would know that.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>very very relieved[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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