Ken,
Where I am from we call it a GST and PST, or Brian's Tax. So I buy
in the states, use it for a while re crate the stuff and rent a truck and
drive for 12 hours. It's house hold goods then.
Your MP really does have a different view on his position in the
world. If it wasn't for the "Yanks" he would be doing social reforms and
restoration of the crown.
While a member of the CF, I learned a deep dark secret. If the
Russians came over the North Pole, we were to instruct our troops to point
south and say "you want them not us, eh?" :->
There is one of those gun platforms still intact or more or less
intact, they are offer citizenship, play music that may not be in good
taste and have a major Internet connection. I am looking for the web site
at the moment.
Jerry
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At 12:28 AM 12/29/2002 +0000, you wrote:
Hi Jerry,
The ones in the Thames estuary are largely dismantled except for a
couple of girders with navigation lights on them, and the ones in the
Solent (built in Napoleonic times) are now homes/hotels/deserted, and
are not tax exempt.
It is possible to import cheaper - and I do - but it has to be on
a 'goods exchanged under warranty' basis. Not all suppliers well do
this. I don't mind the 17? % VAT too much, but I don't like paying
tax twice and the Customs adding a further fee for acting as my Agent
to take my money off me, which takes a $129 item up to $244.
I think a lot of the problems in getting stuff for the mini-lathe is
that the suppliers here depend too much on shop sales (although spare
parts are not in shop) and are not yet into ordering on-line so much.
I have tried all the major suppliers here for a simple belt and was
told in December that it would be January. Today I got a letter
saying it would be February... So I am importing a couple of them.
It's only Mr Bliar who thinks we are still a World power.
Regards
Ken
