Thursday, July 1, 2021

New German Tax-Fee for Deliveries to Your Home?

 Yes.  Roughly six Euro per package.

The deal is if this package comes from beyond the EU, you pay the fee.  The countries that we might be talking about....triggering the fee?  US, China, Switzerland, and the UK.

Likely to peeve a number of folks?  If you order regularly from Amazon, I'd take a guess that more than 50-percent of the items originate from China.  If you add the 6-Euro fee....it's not the cheapest product anymore.

I sat and pondered over this.  Maybe once a year, I buy something from the UK....maybe forty-percent of what I buy via Amazon is Chinese-produced.  

More tax revenue?  Oh, that's very obvious....it'll shock some Germans and they will start to evaluate the Chinese product more closely.  

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