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 Author: StarBrick View Messages Posted By StarBrick
 Posted: May 30, 2023 14:41
 Subject: When tax becomes governmental theft
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 Topic: Technical Issues
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StarBrick (7064)

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If this is right, something must be very wrong....

2.100 USD tax on a 32 USD order
Wonder what the shipping fee will be on this. 12.000 USD I guess. Anyone else?
 
 Author: Nubs_Select View Messages Posted By Nubs_Select
 Posted: May 30, 2023 14:44
 Subject: Re: When tax becomes governmental theft
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In Taxes, StarBrick writes:
  If this is right, something must be very wrong....

2.100 USD tax on a 32 USD order
Wonder what the shipping fee will be on this. 12.000 USD I guess. Anyone else?

 Author: 1974 View Messages Posted By 1974
 Posted: May 30, 2023 15:11
 Subject: Re: When tax becomes governmental theft
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1974 (744)

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That headline is very uncool ... and quite political to boot

Either it's a (BL?) glitch or a seller manipulating

It's _NOT_ the "government" (whatever that might be) robbing you


Cheers,

Ole

In Taxes, StarBrick writes:
  If this is right, something must be very wrong....

2.100 USD tax on a 32 USD order
Wonder what the shipping fee will be on this. 12.000 USD I guess. Anyone else?
 Author: UTLF View Messages Posted By UTLF
 Posted: May 30, 2023 15:15
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 Author: Nubs_Select View Messages Posted By Nubs_Select
 Posted: May 30, 2023 15:18
 Subject: Re: When tax becomes governmental theft
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In Taxes, UTLF writes:
  This sounds like something the government would say...

 Author: StarBrick View Messages Posted By StarBrick
 Posted: Jun 1, 2023 04:05
 Subject: Re: When tax becomes governmental theft
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StarBrick (7064)

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In Technical Issues, UTLF writes:
  This sounds like something the government would say...

+1
 Author: iprice View Messages Posted By iprice
 Posted: May 31, 2023 02:45
 Subject: Re: When tax becomes governmental theft
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In Taxes, StarBrick writes:
  If this is right, something must be very wrong....

2.100 USD tax on a 32 USD order
Wonder what the shipping fee will be on this. 12.000 USD I guess. Anyone else?

I posted something similar in April - https://www.bricklink.com/messageThread.asp?ID=337609&nID=1403718

Yours is a tad harder in the pocket than mine though!
 Author: Stellar View Messages Posted By Stellar
 Posted: May 31, 2023 03:57
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In Taxes, StarBrick writes:
  If this is right, something must be very wrong....

2.100 USD tax on a 32 USD order
Wonder what the shipping fee will be on this. 12.000 USD I guess. Anyone else?

This happens sometimes when a seller has set up a shipping method that doesn't
show the estimated cost to the buyer cart, in this case the seller is probably
using a 10.000 USD value as a default that manually changes when invoicing after
placing the order.

(10,000 + 32.06) x 0,21 (VAT %) = 2106,73
 Author: StarBrick View Messages Posted By StarBrick
 Posted: Jun 1, 2023 04:06
 Subject: Re: When tax becomes governmental theft
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StarBrick (7064)

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That would explain the flawed AI behind it.....