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Brexit: HMRC to take 'sympathetic' customs approach from 1 January
Posted: December 2nd, 2020, 1:36 pm
by AsleepInYorkshire
HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) has told businesses trading across the Irish Sea it will take a "sympathetic" approach to new customs rules in JanuaryAlternatively give HMRC, I'm assuming the VAT Department the additional resources to move forward? I know we have to leave and I accept it's well overdue but this seems to smack a little of leaving the fox to run the henhouse even though we've known for 4 years it was to change.
Anyway I feel a few booze trips coming on
AiY
Re: Brexit: HMRC to take 'sympathetic' customs approach from 1 January
Posted: December 2nd, 2020, 2:43 pm
by JohnB
Duty free allowances for alcohol rising. 42 litres of beer (and of course I'll be buying Belgian beer duty-paid, not the tinned rubbish that will be available in Duty Free itself)
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/duty ... nuary-2021
Re: Brexit: HMRC to take 'sympathetic' customs approach from 1 January
Posted: December 2nd, 2020, 4:02 pm
by odysseus2000
So what happens to the pubs and hospitality industry if they have to pay duty while others bring in lots of duty free booze?
Regards,
Re: Brexit: HMRC to take 'sympathetic' customs approach from 1 January
Posted: December 2nd, 2020, 4:05 pm
by PeterGray
So "Global Britain welcomes smugglers"? I can see it on the side of a bus.
Re: Brexit: HMRC to take 'sympathetic' customs approach from 1 January
Posted: December 2nd, 2020, 4:08 pm
by AsleepInYorkshire
odysseus2000 wrote:So what happens to the pubs and hospitality industry if they have to pay duty while others bring in lots of duty free booze?
Regards,
I wonder if they will fall prey to some new extremely wealthy tycoons who made a fortune shipping booze to and from NI
. If I recall wasn't that how Richard Branson got started - shipping booze to France and back to make a margin on vat? I know he got into a little hot water in his early days on something like this and I believe his Dad bailed him out?
AiY
Re: Brexit: HMRC to take 'sympathetic' customs approach from 1 January
Posted: December 2nd, 2020, 4:17 pm
by odysseus2000
I wonder if they will fall prey to some new extremely wealthy tycoons who made a fortune shipping booze to and from NI
. If I recall wasn't that how Richard Branson got started - shipping booze to France and back to make a margin on vat? I know he got into a little hot water in his early days on something like this and I believe his Dad bailed him out?
AiY
Thought it was pre-recored music, but yes.
According to his biography customs just wanted their money back and after he paid them the case was dropped.
Regards,