Hello, can someone help understand how they calculate import fees on ebay?
Why when I look at the estimated fees on an item from the UK (I live in Italy) a 120£ item has like a fee of around 7euro, while another at 90£ has a fee of like 20euro [same item/category].
What they use to calculate the estimated fee? Thanks
Just a guess but check if both users are registered as businesses as I have a feeling if a seller is a registered business then it charges you extra import tax upfront. Could be wrong here but it wouldn’t surprise me
The funny thing is that I checked the ite that I bought and now it says that the estimated fee is 9,30£ while when I bought it over 1 month ago it was and I paid 9,81£. It says that the shipping cost if more or less half what I paid though. (The seller is registered as a professional seller)
Why for the same exact item the estimated fee fluctuates -.-
Guess I’ll try to see what I can find on ebay’s site. Probably it varies from the carrier and other little things. Still the fact that an item that costs half of a similar item but has double the import fees is quite strange :l
Ostensibly, it appears like the appropriate Imposta sul valore aggiunto-rate of 22% have been applied to the £90 purchase but not the £120. Only thing I can think of is that the GSP mistakenly applied the 5% reduced UK tax rate.
www.agenziaentrate.gov.it/portale/ ,if you want to learn why you saved import percentages on the £120 purchase when you technically shouldn’t have.
For purchases outside of EU eBay automatically calculates the VAT on check out according to your country’s customs tax percentage (24% for me for example). Last time I bought something with GSP was from the UK and it went the same way on check out
Thank you both for your reply (@xzini, @c0ll3ct0r). Yes, in Italy VAT is at 22% and I know there are tresholds that determine the import fees (e.g.: if the item value is over 150euro they apply another set of excise/duties and so on).
Also on eBay I found this, so it seems that there’s more fees than just VAT applied (like for example the Third party brokerade fees):