Two months after the new shipping order, the buyer is outraged: he has to pay taxes twice

More than two months have passed since the entry into force of the new issuance procedure from third countries, as of July 1. All incoming shipments are subject to import duties and declared. However, there are still problems with data transmission.

You have to pay a second time for shipping.

Chinese products email woman AliExpress bought a product that the seller shipped from an Estonian warehouse. It points out that the VAT to be paid on third-party goods was paid at the time of purchase, since it was included in the price of the goods. When she arrives in Lithuania, Greta is asked to do it a second time.

He also sent documents proving the VAT paid.

“The day after shipment, the package was ‘marinated’ at Estonian customs for 6 days, after which it was sent to Lithuania. Here, I am asked to pay VAT again, although all AliExpress sellers, regardless where they ship from from the EU or China, they have automatically increased prices by around 21% for all products about a month ago.After July 1, it was only counted in the basket.

There is an invoice with exclusive VAT. There is a receipt for payment, which shows that after payment, the goods were at Estonian customs the next day, so the shipment left Europe, passed through Estonian customs and arrived at the Lithuanian postal border ”, says the reader.

Based on the tracking number of the package, it can be seen that the package has been stuck in the Vilnius logistics center of the Lithuanian Post since Saturday. Additional information is requested.

Lithuanian Post: very few items of this type arrive

Lithuanian Post representative Monika Pivoraitė notes that this is one of the cases where a package arrives at Lithuanian Post without a systematic feature called IOSS code that states that import VAT is paid at the time of purchase.

“There are very few such shipments from Aliexpress – they are typically flagged and declared in a simplified way, without additional recipient involvement,” he says.

According to her, in this case the recipient has several options:

– contact the seller of the goods to systematically transmit the required code;
– pay the taxes again and then request a refund from the seller;
– refuse the shipment, that is, do nothing and it will be automatically returned to the sender at the end of the storage period.

“In the beginning, there were many more shipments arriving without a systematic indication that import VAT was paid at the time of purchase, but now this problem is not so common anymore.

This problem is international, so to solve it we actively collaborate with the post offices of other countries, the main emails. sales platforms and the Customs of the Republic of Lithuania ”, comments M. Pivoraitė.

Delphi Remember that as of July 1 New rules for shipments from third countries (USA, China, United Kingdom, etc.) have come into force throughout the European Union (EU): All shipments to the EU, including those of low value (up to € 22), which have previously benefited from the import deduction, are subject to VAT.