If you are limited company I think you will have to pay the VAT first (unlike last year when I bought a trailer from Poland and they knocked off their 22% vat before charging me)
If you are not VAT registered - you will have to pay customs paperwork at least
Most liklely they won't deal with you as EU companies are having to register with our VAT and they just don't see why .
"As a basic,
companies must be
VAT (
EU companies) or tax (non-
EU companies) registered. They will then be required to complete and submit a local
VAT registration form, along with supporting documentation. The application form will often be in the local language.
EU countries have become increasingly reluctant to provide document translations as this can create misunderstandings."
Gov website makes it as clear as mud -
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Overseas sellers
HMRC defines you as an overseas seller if you sell goods stored in the UK to UK customers and do not have a business establishment in the UK.
You’ll be established in the country where the functions of your business’s central administration take place.
To work out where that is you should consider where:
- essential management decisions are made
- your registered office is located
- management meetings take place
You’re also an overseas seller if you’re based outside:
- the UK and sell goods to customers in Great Britain, then import them into Great Britain
- the UK and EU and sell goods to customers in Northern Ireland, then import them into Northern Ireland
There are
different rules if your goods are in the EU and sold to customers in Northern Ireland.
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But its the VAT registration that is turning my supplier soff -
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VAT registration
You must
register for VAT in the UK if you’re:
- a UK seller selling goods as a business activity in the UK, and your business’s VAT taxable turnover is more than £85,000 a year
- an overseas seller and the online marketplace provides you with the VAT details of a business customer
- an overseas seller selling goods located in Northern Ireland at the point of sale and sold to customers in Northern Ireland
- an overseas seller with goods stored in the EU and your total sales to customers in Northern Ireland are more than £70,000 a year
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