€3 import duty on books ordered from UK from 1st July 2026

[getting_on]

Just an FYI.
I was unaware of this until I got a message about it last week from the courier.
I ordered direct from the publisher, Amazon would have taken care of it automatically.
Hate this type of carry on.

 

[ClubMan]

Covered here I believe?

https://www.askaboutmoney.com/threads/how-do-i-know-whether-an-online-supplier-is-outside-the-eu-and-subject-to-vat-and-other-charges.244114/

 

[Corola]

The charges are increasing by €2 from 1st November, to €5 + VAT = €6.15 per distinct item

New handling fee for online shoppers on non-EU goods

Revenue has confirmed that from 1 November any goods bought from outside the EU will be subject to a new "union handling fee" of €2 per distinct item.

www.rte.ie

 

[getting_on]

The charges are increasing by €2 from 1st November, to €5 + VAT = €6.15 per distinct item

Giving me €3 for nothing just isn't cost effective, I'll have to charge you €6.15 from now on.

 

[getting_on]

No good deed goes unpunished.
I bought from the print-on-demand publisher to better support the author
The base price was higher to start off with and €10 for p&p and now €3 customs, a book I could have got for €29 from Amazon ended up at around €48.

 

[ClubMan]

Giving me €3 for nothing

Revenue said the new charge, which will not be refundable, is intended to cover increased costs incurred by customs authorities as a result of the huge growth of eCommerce over the last number of years.

 

[getting_on]

If etoll, or whatever they're called, raised their tolls citing a "huge growth in tolls received" as the reason that would be ridiculed I think.

 

[Fortune]

I'll have to charge you €6.15 from now on

Don't worry, the delivery company will charge a handling fee for collecting those charges

 

[Corola]

Yes, if customs duty is not paid at online checkout, An Post charge €6.95 to collect those charges.

€3 + VAT to discourage you from buying cheap goods from outside the EU
€2 + VAT to compensate Revenue for processing customs on all the cheap goods you buy from outside the EU
€6.95 to compensate An Post for having to collect the previous two charges to give to Revenue.

= €13.10

 

[getting_on]

No more "shop like a billionaire" for me

 

[MrEarl]

I wonder if it's time to form a syndicate, and buy a small property, in Newry, to have all our future Amazon goodies shipped to ?

We can then take turns driving up there, on a weekly basis, to collect "the goods" and bring them back to Dublin.

 

[patfert1]

= €13.10

Not likely to bother these lads

“Usually it’s in quantities of less than 5kg, and they are sending it back to Ireland in parcel post,” he said of smaller Irish drug dealers travelling abroad to countries where the drug has been legalised.

https://www.irishtimes.com/crime-la...ne-trade-as-supply-from-legal-markets-surges/

 

[gipimann]

Many Amazon UK items can be delivered to a post office in NI for collection. There are two close to Newry (Cloughoge and Dublin Rd, Newry).

They don't seem to take bulky items any more (I've collected a large bean to cup coffee machine in the past), but might be a useful alternative to buying property up there