Import Duties

[tomhugill]

If it doubt these calculators are good

http://m.dutycalculator.com/new-import- ... 202577540/

[wibblywobbly]

Just wondering what happens if you go it alone from EU how does that work do you get hit taxes both ends ?

VAT Germany 19%
VAT Poland 23%.
VAT UK. 20%

Amazing why the difference what will the uk call it BAT

You never get hit with VAT twice, it is only ever charged at the point of sale, by the dealer.
The rates that are charged are the same rates that would apply if you were resident in that country and bought it over the counter.
It's the most logical way to do it, eg If the dealer is in the UK and it makes no difference whether the goods are sold in the UK or to someone elsewhere in the EU, the UK government collects the VAT. It's the same for every other EU country.

Of course if the EU countries weren't basically operating a cartel, one country would be wise to drop their VAT to 10% and see a huge boost in exports...

[jarndice]

Kaiser If the UK leaves the EU it would no longer be obliged to charge VAT BUT if anyone is naïve enough to think that the same tax under a different name would not take its place you havn't been paying attention to the nasty minds that run this nations economy.
If the UK votes to leave the EU next month I guarantee that very shortly afterwards there would be an emergency Budget to take care of such niceties as VAT.
Shaun.

[wibblywobbly]

It would work the same way that it does for imports from China/USA/Japan, despite Project Fear the government would have no choice but to strike up trade deals with countries, the same way that we operated before we joined the EU. The difference being that we will be free to do whatever deals we want, rather than being bound by bureaucrats in another country.

If anyone asks me what is what, I just tell them to go and watch 'Brexit The Movie' on You Tube. Anyone in the UK who watches it will be stunned, anyone from outside the UK that watches it will probably come to the conclusion that we are completely barking mad to be in the EU in the first place.

Interestingly a delegation of UK MP's is currently in Moscow to tell them that we would much rather that the propaganda war stopped on both sides, and that we would much prefer to have them as trading partners, and get along nicely. Another piece of interesting reading is the Coudenhove-Kalergi plan, and who was awarded a badge in 2010. You can add TTIP into the mix, it's all smoke and mirrors, no matter which way you look.

[jarndice]

I am not sure if I want to go down this path But I shall anyway,
The attack on Pearl Harbour was of itself disaster for the UK,
We were relying on the attacks on American merchant shipping by the German navy in the Atlantic to finally force the USA into joining the UK in a war against Germany,
The Government and the population of the USA were absolutely opposed to fighting a war in Europe AGAIN!!
When Japanese forces attacked the USA it meant that the Military aid being sent to the UK would have been halted and redirected to fighting to defend Americas Pacific interests and of course the American West Coast,
This is simply because General of the Army George Marshall being a highly trained Military officer had no intention of fighting a war on two fronts.
That would have left the UK virtually defenceless and capitulation would have been inevitable,
The biggest single error any military commander can make is to take on an enemy on two fronts at the same time.
Britain because of the geographic nature of its Empire had little choice and Japan because of its perceived economic needs had no choice but to hold down a belligerent nation to its East (China)and as the USA had cut off the oil exported from its dependencie's in the Pacific and South China Sea to Japan, they felt driven to attack the USA to its West,
BUT Adolf Hitler had no such pressures and if he had concentrated his efforts solely against the Soviet Union his back would have been safe while fighting on one front. Instead he declared war on the USA and the USA had no choice but to honour an agreement made between the UK and the USA that stated that should Germany declare war against the USA then America would prioritise its military efforts toward Europe with Japan in second place.
The Whiskey and cigars took a hammering in 10 Downing Street that night I an sure, with loud shouts of "SAVED" coming out of the windows.
Shaun.

[jackalope]

Shaun's right, the last thing the US wanted was to send more of our troops to help figure out fighting in Europe. Wasn't our problem.

Pearl Harbour may have been a success but it was the single dumbest thing Japan and the axis could have done. Sure Russia would have stopped Germany but no one else could have.

Hate to say but if it weren't for the Japan's stupidity and the US a whole lot of you guys would be speaking German.

[jarndice]

Jack are you sure that the Soviet Union would have beaten Germany ?
When German forces were 14 Kms from Moscow, That nice Mr Stalin ordered all heavy industry to move East of the Urals,
Concrete pads were laid down and even while the walls and roof's were being built tanks and other militaria was being built and rolling off the production lines.
And they could do this because the Germans did not have a Strategic Air Force which would have flattened the factories and training areas being set up in the East,
What this meant was that for every T34 destroyed by the German Army, 20 T34s were on flat cars on the way to the front, No one can beat those odds and because that nice Mr Stalin had an agreement with Japan unlike Mr Hitler, he felt safe from attack on his rear and so could concentrate every thing to the West, Well that is until The USA had all but beaten the Japanese and Germany had surrendered and then the Soviet Union declared war on Japan and thereby won lots of territory from China, There has yet to be an official end to war between Japan and the Soviet Union by the way.
Shaun.

[Jake79]

Hey Simon Looking forward to seeing your JS-2 in show off section mate... looks like your nearly there

[jackalope]

I'm not sure if they could have flat out beaten them but I'm sure they could have fought them to a stand still. Russia just had more men to throw into the fight then Germany did. Same with us just more men to throw into the flames. Germany was burning through men and resources like a wild fire in Canada. All the US did was speed up the outcome, Germany couldn't have won, less population, fewer resources. Sure they were kicking ass in Poland and France but (not to sound rude and no disrespect intended) look what they were up against.

Speaking of a war that never ended, Korea. That little wack a do in the north is begging to have a late night meeting with seal team 6!

[jarndice]

Jack here is a statistic that should have terrified Mr Hitler, In 1942 there was approximately 40 million men in the USA aged between 18 and 40 and in the whole of WW2 the total number of men who served in all arms of the USA armed forces was 16 million.
With those figures neither Germany or Japan stood a chance and having an industrial powerbase that never suffered one military attack (Apart from a few Papier Mache balloons launched from Japan carrying incendiary bombs that started fires in an Oregon Forest and was responsible for the deaths of three citizens, Who have to be counted as the unluckiest casualties of the war) throughout WW2,
Add to that figure the combined military forces from Canada, Australia, New Zealand, India, South Africa the UK, Brazil, the Soviet Union and the escaped and re-equipped forces from occupied Europe. You don't need to be a mathematical genius to work out who had the edge
Shaun