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Customs duty on parcels going to Thailand


Finnc99

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Hi,

So I sent a parcel to Thailand, it had an assessed value of 1100 and was charged 1400 in customs duty, import goods vat and disbursement.

Do they include the price of shipping when they do their 30% for the customs duty? For example is it: value of items + value of shipping = blah and then take 30%?

Thank you

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5 hours ago, ChidlomDweller said:

The cost of shipping is indeed included, but the few times I've had to pay tax it was 10% customs duties + 7% VAT on top of that, so 17.7%.

 

Not sure what happened in your case.  Could it be they didn't believe the declared value?

Different sort of goods, different tax brackets.

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Thailand, in common with most (all) other countries charges duty on the CIF (Cost, Insurance, Freight) value with the VAT charged on the lot.

 

Assuming your values are in Baht it's unusual for such low value items to attract the attention of customs when sent by regular post. However your mention of "disbursement" suggests the use of a courier (FedEx, UPS, DHL etc), if this is the case you will get charged duty on even the lowest value items.

 

Of course, we don't know what the item is question is or where it was shipped from, so we can't give an idea of what the rate of duty should be.

 

In future use the normal postal service.

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On 13/02/2018 at 2:19 AM, varun said:

As has been stated many times over,

parcels sent to Thailand via the established couriers (DHL / FedEx / UPS) are a magnet for customs duties. 

 

Use regular postal service as suggested.

 

 

Using regular postal service would've been more expensive then paying for DHL and the tax lol.

But thanks everyone for the responses, wasn't a big loss but just wanted to confirm they way they charged it was correct or not.

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