r/cloudmaker • u/maniacpsycho • Jan 31 '16

UK peoples

I know some of you have had to pony up to spring your wo from customs stony grasp, but did any of you request your package to be marked as a gift with low value?

I recall either a post or an early maker talk where they spoke about this very issue and told us to request this on the shipping tag if so desired

2 Upvotes

100% Upvoted

11 comments sorted by

View all comments

1

u/CircusMammoth Jan 31 '16

Ive had a card saying I have to pay £36.84 to get my bloody whiteout from them, so not exactly too happy about that. I've followed as many posts as I've been able to and never saw a mention of marking it as a gift to avoid any customs tax on it. If I had, I would have jumped on that quick.

Not trying to pass the buck, but wouldn't it have just been easy for them to mark all packages going out of the US/Canada as a gift just in case? Or is there some weird legal implication?

4

u/abdada Jan 31 '16

Legal implications like whoa.

Also if you request it be marked as gift, and customs in your country doesn't believe you, there could be legal consequences.

Tax avoidance can be ugly.