My UK company is not yet VAT registered and I purchase supplies from a Swiss company which is also not VAT registered in their country (their VAT threshold is 100 000CH apparently and this is relativeley common).
There is no declaration nor import document nor duty on the goods i have received. I was told that this could be because the goods are actually shipped from an EU country and this is not a problem as far as HMRC is concerned.
I was surprised to find this out as i had a company in Spain a few years ago and you would always need to have the import document matching the purchase invoice in value and description, otherwise you had a big problem and simply couldnīt be able to file those invoices. You couldnīt even buy from a supplier who was not VAT registered, period.
So can anyone confirm there is nothing unorthodox in the current situation i find myself in?
It seems strange that if I used the same argument for buying goods from Canada, letīs say, and there was no record of entry or import duty, that HMRC would buy the fact that goods are shipped from EU. Perhaps with Switzerland, this is simply a more common practice and is more accepted?
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