Funny how this topic is now about not paying thousands of dollars of tax, vat, on a watch from 1960, for which no-one actually knows a precise market value. I guess we are all holier than the Pope. Or just moral crusaders.
Anyway, I hope you get in contact soon @TS.
Funny how this topic is now about not paying thousands of dollars of tax, vat, on a watch from 1960.
for which no-one actually knows a precise market value
I am not judging here
don't go blabbing about it on a public forum
So funny, but this not seems the case.
We know very well that there are some ways to avoid custom duties declaring the false at the time of shipment.
Arrange a face to face it's not among them.
no, definitely not
In your country? In Germany I have to file a declaration when exporting valuable items outside the EC worth more than 1000 EUR... and have to declare cash of more than 10,000 EUR when entering Germany again... beside that... how you wanna make sure to receive genuine cash and not fake money? How you smuggle that cash in your country? Hiding it in your underpants???
Exactly... but let's assume you want to sell a 20k EUR watch from a country within the EC to the US via a f2f deal and you file all the documents you need to export the watch. No problems so far... but you have to declare with US customs that you are importing such a valuable item... 1st problems occure... then you return with 20k EUR of cash and you have to declare it. Don't you think you will get in trouble then?
Do US Customs make a note of every watch that every visitor is wearing, and then check that they are wearing the same watch when they leave? I think not.
