Firstly let me state that:
I withhold all rights to the following personal correspondence and evidence that I will be posting in this thread and do not allow it to be copied and pasted onto any other website or forums without express permission, If Ebid have any clauses saying that they own all information posted on its website like face book! I hereby nullify these clauses. If this should be a problem please inform me and I will remove this thread and post it on another website where I am currently trading and link all future traffic to that website rather than bringing it here to my shop and this forum.
If anyone would like to spread the word on the web and use my personal evidence I would only ask that you inform me beforehand so that I don’t double post and also that you link it back to my shop and this forum.
Please message me beforehand!
Here it is:
Over the last 4 months I have been arguing a point of law with government bodies over the amount of vat charged on my imported coins into the UK, if any of you have ever imported legal tender coins like the American eagle or maple leaf into the UK then you will have no doubt had to pay 20% vat before you were allowed to take them home!
If you have not imported them but just brought them from a bullion dealer then you should have noticed that they have passed the 20% vat on to you,
Over the next 3 to 6 months this will no longer be the case when the vat will be dropped to 5% as soon as the UK border force follows the rule of law and implements it’s classifications correctly.
Short back history:
Initially I had a hard time dealing with HMRC trying to argue and explain my case ( most of them had no idea what I was talking about ) but eventually I was passed on to the technical manager ( this gentleman makes the classifications on products imported into the UK and decides what rate of vat is applicable),
I cannot express my admiration and respect for this civil servant, who reinstalled my belief in government employees.
His dedication to being honest, fair and following the rule of law made me proud to be British and I wish we had more people like him in government departments.
I will not ramble on here anymore but will instead post my parliamentary complaint letter below in the next section with the attached information that I sent with the complaint following in the sections afterwards ( some personal details have been omitted).
At this moment in time it will most probably still take a while for the UK border force to stop overcharging vat and also for the bullion dealers to stop passing the 20% vat onto your purchases in the UK but should you be importing coins then make sure you download the BOR286 form and demand a refund, it might take 6 months for the cheque to arrive but it’s your money so go get it!
Please keep a look out on my central thread for future investigations that I will be posting.
http://www.ebid.net/forums/showthrea...83#post1536983
Most are boring as hell but I would hope informative.
Sincerely Martin