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For my French customers.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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I will have to suspend all sales to France from next week due to the French Government implementing a per item tax for small parcels from outside the EU from March 1st.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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The fee will be 2 euro per item<\/em>.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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This is a huge departure from what was expected and what has already been introduced by Italy and Romania (per parcel tax in both cases).<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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At the moment I have no way of calculating that in my cart software, so I would have to remove France from the tax-inclusive system for orders up to 150 euro. However if I just do that and take sales to France without collecting VAT, La Poste will be responsible for collecting the VAT and the new tax. La Poste will add a handling fee for the privilege. (This is not supposition – Royal Mail have confirmed this)<\/div>\n
I will keep my opinion on this to myself, however I suspect this is not something well publicised in France and do not want customers to receive a bill for handling fees that they were not expecting. Not to mention the potential of significant taxes on small value items. Once again – 2 euro per item.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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I will look into how I can set up my cart to restrict sales to France to orders over 150 euro value, however it may take some time.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Apologies, but international commerce is changing again, and not for the better I fear.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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