farnz Posted May 16, 2007 Share #1 Posted May 16, 2007 Advertisement (gone after registration) Has anyone in the UK received their free IR filters and if so have they been asked to pay VAT or any other additional charges by the delivery company? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advertisement Posted May 16, 2007 Posted May 16, 2007 Hi farnz, Take a look here Filters and VAT. I'm sure you'll find what you were looking for!
tashley Posted May 16, 2007 Share #2 Posted May 16, 2007 Has anyone in the UK received their free IR filters and if so have they been asked to pay VAT or any other additional charges by the delivery company? NO and therefore no. Am getting mildly peed off on the basis that by the time my filters arrive (therefore completing the functionality of what I originally purchased, save for the fact that my Leica mid wides don't work) I will be, oohh, seven months into my one year warranty. :-((( t Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sam3k Posted May 17, 2007 Share #3 Posted May 17, 2007 Has anyone in the UK received their free IR filters and if so have they been asked to pay VAT or any other additional charges by the delivery company? Yes, received my E46 & E49 on Tuesday (ordered the beginning of April), and no FedEx did not ask for any VAT or anything else apart from a signature. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
stunsworth Posted May 17, 2007 Share #4 Posted May 17, 2007 As Germany is in the EU (as is the UK) VAT will be paid at the German rate when the goods are 'sold'. So there won't be any VAT to collect. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlancasterd Posted May 17, 2007 Share #5 Posted May 17, 2007 Has anyone in the UK received their free IR filters and if so have they been asked to pay VAT or any other additional charges by the delivery company? Yes - mine arrived 3 days ago, and No - I wasn't asked to pay anything. As they are coming from one EU country to another any VAT that is due will be paid in the country of origin - Germany. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cocker Posted May 17, 2007 Share #6 Posted May 17, 2007 Yes - arrived last week - and no VAT - as Steve and John noted should be no VAT to pay - so no chance to grumble about Gordon Brown or the EU:) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
matt736 Posted May 17, 2007 Share #7 Posted May 17, 2007 Advertisement (gone after registration) Has anyone received a single filter delivery as I am waiting on a 49mm UV/IR and the number that I was given by Leica at Milton keynes just keeps ringing.( 0049-644-2208-165) ,this is supposed to be the M8 support number in Germany. I'm sure that I read somewhere that they would ship a single filter before waiting for the other to become available,which is the 55mm UV/IR in my case, Any ideas chaps as I need the 49mm for johns adapter for the WATE and I am off on holiday in 4 weeks time, Cheers Matthew. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cornbarn Posted May 17, 2007 Share #8 Posted May 17, 2007 My two filters (E39) delivered by FedEx this week - also no request for VAT. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
george_b Posted May 17, 2007 Share #9 Posted May 17, 2007 My two black E39 filters arrived this week via Fedex, ordered end of March btw. I wondered what the enomorous envelope was at first for two filters. The Proforma-Invoice inside said in large block capitals "PLEASE DO NOT PAY" and a quoted Total Invoice Value for Customs Purposes Only of 100,00 EUR, curiously Country of Manufacture = Japan. George. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wlaidlaw Posted May 17, 2007 Share #10 Posted May 17, 2007 My 43 and 46 arrived last week. Bought a 39 in the UK two weeks ago. Got another 46 waiting for me at my local Leica dealer in Lewes when I get back to UK next week. When I spoke to them this morning, they said they had the 60mm I need on back order but they knew a big shipment of all sorts of stuff had arrived at Leica UK today. Now all I need is a 26.5 x 0.5mm to fit in the back of my Zenitar fish-eye (filters fit over the exit pupil). I suspect I will be getting my 43mm 486 cut up and fitted in a spare holder. I am hoping my local optician might do it for me. Wilson Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim B Posted May 17, 2007 Share #11 Posted May 17, 2007 I received my 39mm yesterday by FedEx - ordered at the end of February. No payment was required - indeed I was urged most emphatically by the paperwork NOT TO PAY. I await my 55mm. Recent emails between me and Leica UK would lead me to believe that the 55mm filters should begin shipping at the beginning of June - just in time for my 21mm Elmarit-M ASPH that I am picking up at the weekend. I am interested to know that others here in the UK are receiving their filters about now, because for one weird moment I thought my e-mails on the subject had actually made a difference! As if .... Tim Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wlaidlaw Posted May 17, 2007 Share #12 Posted May 17, 2007 I just got the Leica 43mm out of the box to replace the B+W 486 I have been using - quality control - what quality control? There is a blob of black paint on the edge of the filter from where the logo milling has been painted but worst of all the thread has not been properly cut on the lens side and jams after 3/4 of a turn. The B+W, which fits perfectly, measures 42.771mm across the thread, the Leica one 42.823mm with a digital micrometer. That is one that is going back. I don't suppose for some weird reason, the 43mm filters have a different thread from the modern industry standard of 0.75M. I know some older Leica filters are 0.5M. Wilson Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
farnz Posted May 17, 2007 Author Share #13 Posted May 17, 2007 Thanks for all your replies. FedEx is playing hide-and-seek with me at the moment but I'm hoping they're trying to deliver my filters. I'm concerned because I've had stuff delivered by FedEx in the past and been invoiced for VAT weeks afterwards. I ignored it the first time (because the item didn't qualify for VAT according to Customs and Excise) so they sent in the debt collectors. Not a particularly friendly gesture which left me slightly wary. Hope springs eternal, as they say. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
wlaidlaw Posted May 17, 2007 Share #14 Posted May 17, 2007 Thanks for all your replies. FedEx is playing hide-and-seek with me at the moment but I'm hoping they're trying to deliver my filters. I'm concerned because I've had stuff delivered by FedEx in the past and been invoiced for VAT weeks afterwards. I ignored it the first time (because the item didn't qualify for VAT according to Customs and Excise) so they sent in the debt collectors. Not a particularly friendly gesture which left me slightly wary. Hope springs eternal, as they say. I had a series of nasty letters from debt collectors in France six months after I had received a Fedex parcel last summer. I only have my mail forwarded once a month from France when I am in the UK and there were six increasingly unpleasant letters in a month. I had never had a tax request from Fedex. I complained to Fedex but they did not even bother to respond. Wilson Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
farnz Posted May 17, 2007 Author Share #15 Posted May 17, 2007 It came as quite a shock at the time; I'm used to paying VAT and duty on delivery but this was the first time I was 'tapped up' after the fact and with no warning at the time of delivery. Pete. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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