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Shipping Taxes Make Me Go Bonkers

Thursday, January 18, 2007

OK, remember I said I wanted to get the Cavision Rail Support for my DVX? Well it arrived yesterday morning and the shipping company had to charge me an Import Duty. They calculated it at 20% (CRAP!) so I ended up paying 1/5 of the product cost, which is substantial. Given that my previous shipment for my Letus was only charged at 5%, I decided to call the company. Turns outs, if your product is listed as a CINEMATOGRAPHY item on the shipping document, it costs 20%. If it is listed as CAMERA (as in digital stills) it is 5%-10%. So folks (and myself included), if you want to order something from overseas, tell whoever is sending you the stuff to list the items as items taxed at a lower bracket! 20% is a stupidly extortionist amount to pay.

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