To respond to all the recent questions regarding VAT and export, MMVapors has made the following statement:
In order to not pay VAT as a company in Greece to the Greek tax authorities, the company has to provide 3 documents to the Greek tax authorities proving that the products leave Europe. The first 2 documents are the invoice and the packing list. The last document however is a customs declaration form that can only be prepared (according to Greek law) by an official Greek customs office. This process costs us as a company 50 euro for every single package.
With the normal shipping of a package we try to keep the customer in mind and try not to declare the value of the contents to be over a certain amount (this varies per country, for the USA for instance this is 200 USD) because any shipment over a certain amount is automatically subject to inspection by the destination country’s customs resulting in customers having to pay extra in custom fees.
When sending a package as an export however, accompanied by the papers of the Greek customs office, we have no choice but to declare the complete value of the package. In other words the customer may end up having to pay even more in charges by their country’s customs office.
The Greek government however does not complain when we add (and pay them) VAT on our shipments even when they do leave Europe.
Because of this we as a company, saw this as the only way not to pay and charge for the expensive export costs since this is cheaper for the customer for any order that is below a certain value (roughly 250 euro depending on country).
http://www.taxheaven.gr/laws/circular/view/id/2424
The products are indeed fantastic. But I won't be making another purchase if I'm being charged VAT. They shouldn't be paying it either.
Had my first nice, non-clone mech for less than six hours and I managed to short the damned thing out! Off to shop for a replacement spring, I guess!
