Western Arms GBB M4 CQB-R for sale in the UK!

[Stealthbomber]

FWIW, the easiest way to work out VAT is

 

Price x 1.175 or price / 1.175

 

[Rob15]

I prefer the other way, i've been using it in accounting for the last 3 years so i won't be using that method

[Angry]

That method being the easy one?

[McMadkat]

I picked mine up for £320 in Guernsey, they say with VAT and everything including postage it would be £385

 

You getting it posted to you? Current import fees are 25.5% from the channel islands which means that it will cost you £401.60

 

And you have to add at least £10 postage.

 

So you are looking at £410 shipped to the UK. Channel islands are not part of the EU, so you pay full import duties.

 

 

[Sale]

FWIW, the easiest way to work out VAT is

 

Price x 1.175 or price / 1.175

 

Umm... I didn't get what you meant with the smiley, so allow me to clarify:

 

Price / 1.175 gives you any UK price without the VAT. This is the correct way.

 

A common mistake is to deduct the VAT like this: Price x 0.825.

 

Price x 1.175 tells you nothing if you're comparing prices within the UK (all including VAT already). It's handy for calculating how much VAT you will pay if you're getting a parcel from outside of the EU.

 

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[Stealthbomber]

Price x 1.175 tells you nothing if you're comparing prices within the UK (all including VAT already). It's handy for calculating how much VAT you will pay if you're getting a parcel from outside of the EU.

A lot of retailers display pre-VAT prices. They do that so that a person who can claim VAT back can see how much they'll be paying. Course, it's also a slippery way to appear that you're offering cheaper prices as well.

 

I just meant that multiplying or dividing by 1.175 was a bit more straightforward than dividing by 117.5 and multiplying by 100 (or whatever ).

[Sale]

Ah, displaying pre-VAT prices in a normal retail store would be illegal in Finland. I didn't think of that.

 

-Sale