--On 24 September 2019 15:45 -0600 Martin Leese <martin.le...@stanfordalumni.org> wrote:
> My experience of shipping equipment to the > USA for repair is very dated, but it used to be > that you could complete a form and, *providing > the serial number of the item was the same on > return*, there were no added charges, Details of this are on the HMRC website here: <https://www.gov.uk/guidance/outward-processing-relief-opr> I did not know about this when I sent my mic back for recalibration (as a repair many years earlier hadn't been caught), and was charged duty and VAT on its return. I managed to find enough documentation from when I bought it twelve years ago to challenge this, and HMRC refunded the money - but I didn't get the ParcelForce admin charge back. ParcelForce and HMRC each said the other would repay it, and so neither would in practice! Paul -- Paul Hodges _______________________________________________ Sursound mailing list Sursound@music.vt.edu https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound - unsubscribe here, edit account or options, view archives and so on.
