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UK VAT

Would I have a VAT bill to pay the UK government or to shipping company after receipt of books here in the uk . I would be ordering 200 at once at a cost of around £5800? I dont want to be hit unwittingly with a huge tax bill and wondered if anyone is clued up on such things?

No. Books are zero rated for VAT in the UK.  And as they will be printed in, and shipped from, The Netherlands there will be no import duty either.

And, as far as I know there, is no import duty on books anyway, so even if they were printed in the USA or elsewhere you wouldn’t get a bill. I have had many books from Amazon in the US, never a hint of taxes of any sort to pay to the shipping company.

.......Tony

oops soz that never worked ..

for Ups standard shipping.. approx £123.29

The UK VAT must be irrelevant here, or am I missing something?

In the EU VAT is always payed to the country where the charge has originated. If the bill comes from the Netherlands it is their VAT that will be applied.

 And there are some other very nasty VAT rules in the EU. I purchased books from Amazon UK and had them mailed to my home in Sweden. And since the UK charges 0% VAT on books, Sweden interprets the VAT rule to say that they must apply their own VAT. So they did, and I was charged 25% Swedish VAT.

 Please do some more research on the VAT issue or you may be in for an expensive surprise.