From: kr-lund@nogarbage.online.no   
      
   DaveG wrote:   
   > On Fri, 02 Feb 2007 00:52:50 +0100, Knut Roll-Lund wrote:   
   >   
   >   
   >>It won't weigh much (thin manual I think) so I think the biggest worry   
   >>the Norwegian cutoms officers would have is; if I should pay VAT (sales   
   >>tax).   
   >   
   >   
   > Just mark it "gift - no monetary value" :-)   
   >   
   It is kind of a not good to be caught doing that. They do random checks,   
   so they ask me to document without telling me what documentation that   
   came on the package. So I send them a pdf of the auction, paypal etc...   
   Of course they can't give me trouble for something I didn't do myself   
   but they could start checking every package I get.   
      
   Anyway below a rather low limit (200 NOK) it goes trough without VAT.   
   Our present finance minister told us, before the election, that she   
   would raise this limit to something more sensible but now that she is   
   the finance minister she has come to understand why this limit have to   
   be this low... This limit has been exactly same since I started getting   
   computer things from abroad. The Video Genie came from UK early 1981.   
   Inflation since then is at least a 10 factor. Isn't that typical, a   
   limit that is to your disadvantage stay fixed while limits that are to   
   your advantage are moved every year to compensate inflation.   
      
   The VAT is 25% on this kind of things, on import by post even used   
   things. It is of course what pays for our welfare-state so we should pay   
   gladly... so I don't really object. What I don't like is the fee the   
   post charge me for collecting the VAT.   
      
   And I did win!!! :-) If we manage to get the disk here intact I hope I   
   can fix several old TRS-80 drives. Only one of the really old drives   
   work well and several of them work but not well. Of my own old drives   
   DS80 types only one is good too.   
      
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   Knut   
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