Correos

Hello 

 Since Brexit , items sent from the UK to EU countries are subject to both VAT & Import tax if ordered online ( e.g. Amazon.co.uk) other people on the forum have posted that they have to pay  impor tax on items sent from UK & delivered by Correos &/or courier. My family send nothing now from the UK & order on Amazon. es to be sent to me , free of extra charges.

ID for deliveries usually needs to have your NIE number on it. Other posters might give you more examples

Cheers

Elinspain

I think I would have paid the money rather than have the inconvenience of going to a mail depot.

You will now likely have to go there and still pay the excess.

Thank you for your response and also realise now that the problem really lies with the fact that we are no longer in the EU and paying for it.

An opportunity for the Spanish government to make even more money from the UK expats  after approximately 300,000 have supported their economy for years and thats just in this area.

Into our fifth year in Spain but continue to become less impressed on a monthly basis, following the dream seems to be more of a nightmare these days.

My order from M & S es which arrived last week via DHL was subject to €26.01 duty, fortunately M & S refunded me the money. The value of the goods was €52 2 pairs of Jeans at €26, so the duty was in effect the value of one pair of jeans, yet my husbands order from Cotton Traders value €35 delivered by SEUR incurred no duty?? There seems to be no rhyme or reason to what is being charged.

We have been here for over half a decade and after going back to the UK recently I realise I really miss the convenience of things in the UK. The Spanish must be masochists why else do they like making everything so difficult and complicated for themselves.

This is absolutely nothing to do with the Spanish govt wishing to make more money from relatively trivial sums of money levied on goods imported from UK. It is one of the results of leaving the Customs union and electing to make ourselves a third country, outside this zone. Goods from anywhere not in the EU are subject to duties and import taxes. 

https://english.elpais.com/elpais/2016/02/18/inenglish/1455818883_222897.html 

This is an older article but explains why one order attracted taxes whilst the other didn't.

I have an issue with the figures quoted as my research shows roughly 20K in Orihuela Costa, 69K in Alicante Province, 81k in the  Valencia region and 300k in the whole of Spain.

I don't see my life here as supporting the Spanish economy, I see it as enjoying this beautiful country, food, people, culture and climate.

I see Brits (and possibly others) abusing the EHIC and living here illegally for many years using all the facilities but not paying Income Tax. 

Of course life here is not without its frustrations but to blame Spain for all our woes is unfair.

They wanted your email address to send you a receipt for the duty paid. Nothing sinister.