Customs Charges

To share my experience regarding tax duties: for a delivery in Belgium, on an order of an advent calendar of 120€, I had to pay 80€ in tax duties… I understand that masterofmalt can’t do anything about it but, in my opinion, they should communicate even more transparently about it. This post should be linked directly in every page product or in the order summary. It is great that this page exists but in my opinion, it is hidden too much in the Q&A sections. If I had this information initially, I must admit that I would not have ordered…

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Well if I was in the UK buying my products and then flew to Switzerland I would have to pay no duty as we have a tax free allowance. If these were shipped by post with a declaration sticker giving the worth I may not have to pay anything or they may charge a handling fee but only if they decide to check the parcel and the once they let through are for free (nothing illegal here) The problem is DHL, they are cashing on it.

I think this blog post is in dire need of updating; the examples seem overly optimistic. I just got an invitation to pay a 52.59 EUR Duty/Tax charge on a 64.68 EUR order (46.72 EUR bottles + 17.96 EUR shipping) That’s a 81.3% surcharge – way more than I calculated it would be. Even worse, in the end, I will have paid 151% on top of the price of the bottles to get them to 320 km from their place of origin… The main cause of this issue is that the items I bought were heavily discounted; for duty/tax purposes, Master of Malt made a separate “Export Invoice”, which I didn’t get to see when I agreed to pay for my order, but which listed the items at full price. After my initial shock, I did some research and it is indeed the seller’s obligation to make an Export Invoice on which everything is listed at “proper value”, which means without discounts. So it seems Master of Malt simply followed the applicable laws. My beef is that during checkout, they should make the customer aware of the number that appears on the Export Invoice; few people would think that the charges are calculated on a different (higher) amount that what was actually paid for the goods, which makes for a nasty surprise. Also, I understand the logic of the authorities to calculate duties on the “proper value”, but it seems that they also want me to pay VAT on the “proper value”, which is absurd; if I buy a discounted product in a store, I pay VAT on the discounted price, not the pre-discount price. This might be out of Master of Malt’s hands, but it greatly aggravates the problem and should probably be mentioned in the examples on the blog post. Another (smaller) contribution to the higher-than-expected charge is that not only the “DHL customs clearance administration fee” was never lowered to 5 GBP (as mentioned in the blog post), but additional VAT is raised on the 15 GBP fee (which they now cryptically call “PaymentDefermentRisk”), increasing it to 18.15 GPB (or 20.6 EUR). I guess I should consider myself lucky that they stopped raising taxes-on-VAT-on-fees at some point so that the charge didn’t go up to infinity, but this was a nasty surprise nevertheless. I know there’s a warning about “crazy charges” with a link to this blog post, but reality is even much worse, so I think it should be updated.

How would the advent calendar be taxed as it has 24 x 30 mill bottles? And can you put it in Australian dollars not pounds Thanks, Shane

any cost sample for shipment to Hong Kong?

20241003 product: Hennesy XO .75L, value £177, Charges from DHL: import tax CHF0.8, VAT CHF20.10, other fees CHF8.10, Presentation tax CHF39.50, Presentation fee CHF3.00, printed invoice CHF1.00. TOTAL CHF72.82 for bringing one bottle cognac into Switzerland. Impressive!

On the 30/07/24 I had 3 bottles of Barti delivered to New Zealand. I had to pay $141.85 in custom charges

what would the charges be for 4 bottles of spirits sent to New Zealand?

Thanks Brexit – was going to place a 6-bottle order but on doing a little research, it’s just not worth it. Sorry Berkshire Botanical. Love your dry gin but will have to go without…

Guernsey does exist!

once again I am informing you I do not live in Australia! I live in Guernsey in the Channel Islands. which have no VAT.I have informed you of this fact. Guernsey needs to be added to your drop down list.

I would like to know if you have shipments by boat since I want to buy by boxes since I am a retail seller, is it possible? Thank you

What the hell has the custom price in Uganda got to do with me!

Hi how much will it cost for 2 bottles to send to Belgium?

How much will all the fees for importation to the Czech Republic be?

How much it cost to israel…after all the payments? 1 bottle

I want to know what the possibility on taxes will cost when shitting to Australia in aus dollars on the macallan concept 3

Is this basically an update to the blog post from 2019 where you announced you will temporarily not be able to ship to the EU? From what I understand, at least shipping to Germany is possible again now – how about other EU countries? Would be great to get an update on that!

I think this is OK.