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  1. That's interesting, sounds like the seller is responsible in my case for not warning me of French Customs charges at Ebay checkout (I too will make a point of asking in advance next time). Although the jiffy bag has a Royal Mail Customs Declaration CN22 sticker completed by seller, it just gives details of the item, no payment was made. I have contacted him, awaiting reply. But I'm putting it down to a loss as the item was only £12 it will not be worth paying postage - and maybe reverse Customs to return it.
  2. I just collected my Jiffy Bag from the post office, I had to pay €9 Customs charge in addition to the £4.40 VAT stated on the Ebay checkout for the item. I'm a bit peeved that Ebay don't highlight this when they state at checkout "Any supplementary tax will be indicated prior to payment". I did call 3631 before going to La Poste, but was kept on hold too long on 'Option 5 Customs enquiries', not that it would have made any difference in the end. Lesson learned - Don't use Ebay UK in future.
  3. Thanks Dave Lister. Looks like this is a license to print money by French couriers. I'll defo give the number a call if La Poste insist I pay.
  4. Yes its showing TVA on my French Ebay purchase details, is the extra payment La Poste are charging something different? It says this on Ebay - "If additional tax applies to your eBay purchase, it will be indicated on the Item Page and the tax amount will be displayed on the purchase completion page before payment." The Seller says the code number on the parcel proves all taxes/Customs duty are pre-paid at Ebay checkout under 'Tax'.
  5. A couple of times recently I have bought things on Ebay.UK. I pay postage, and "Tax". Ebay say all of these charges are the responsibility of the Seller to highlight at the Ebay checkout. Yet, when La Poste deliver the item they want several euros in addition, "TAV" it is called. The UK seller tells me he conforms to the Ebay rules and it's French Import or Customs at fault because the parcel states a code number that proves tax has already been paid at purchase. Has anyone experienced this annoying nuisance?
  6. .... All the HD one's are working too. Looks like the Search function sorted everything.
  7. Savoie .... Just sorted it. I have a Humax box and did a 'Manual Search' ... found 370 channels (incl Radio). I've now got 6 or 7 BBC 1 non HD channels. I previously had all the regional one's until they went HD, so maybe a few of these will be regional.
  8. Yes I imagined from your posts you didn't have a Tax Office near you. Fortunately mine is just a 15 minute drive. "Rentes viager" could be right. In fact the woman at the Tax Office was keying in 'Legal & General' to get a French code number for it I think, and she couldn't find one. On the paper Declaration page 3, I see it is headed Salaries, Pensions, Rentes.
  9. I've lost all my BBC channels on Freesat because they've upgraded to HD and now there's a weak signal for them all. Is there nothing I can do to solve the problem?
  10. Thankfully my one UK bank account didn't cause me any probs, I think it sails through year on year. But this year a new problem with 'Pensions/Retraites' on Stage 2, the tick/amount box was grey and couldn't be filled in 🤔. I wanted to submit my new annuity income. Ended up making a face-to-face appointment at Hotel des Impots. But she couldn't complete it either, she tried to key in the name 'Legal & General' but computer said 'no'..... So she printed off a paper Declaration and filled in the amount in box 1AS on page 3. She said I'll be sent a paper Declaration from now on.
  11. Not related to your post Chocfish, but concerning L&G. I just tried to Log into my Annuity account with them. Hadn't done so in the year since it was set-up. It wouldn't accept my details, I was going around in circles, tried New Password, Virtual Assistant, Chat, after about an hour I called them to be told foreign account holders can no longer access their accounts online ! 😮 He said " ...we're hoping to remedy the issue sometime this year or next year." What? Unbelievable. It's no great problem, I can verify the payments entering my French bank account but just found the fact they've stopped this facility for those who live abroad, very strange.
  12. Taxes? I have to go there to collect the parcel my mate sent, if they try to charge me anything I'll do 180 and walk out.
  13. Ooh la la what a faff! 2 manhours and immeasurable stress for one small parcel. Post Brexit sending stuff to UK is a nightmare. Every christmas I send some produits locale and in return my mate sends me xmas puds and mince pies. An hour trying to navigate La Poste website filling in their boxes to obtain and print the all important barcode to ... take to the local Poste where they print the parcel stickers. Except when the barcode doesn't work at the post office 😠. She looked at me blank, "There's no point in me going home and trying again I said, that's the barcode it gave me." So kindly she input all the info again at the desk, luckily only one other customer came in because this took another 30 minutes to do. And €19 to send a 500g tub of Savoie honey 😑. At the end she said "Alors, you must have forgot to put something down on your form." Em no, all the info she asked me was the same as I used to obtain my barcode. Then finally I had to sign 4 FOUR labels, one of which was my copy. That's the last time, next year I'll just do without my xmas puds and mince pies 😭
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