Timeline for Crossing a border several times to increase duty free allowance
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| Aug 15, 2016 at 17:24 | vote | accept | Fiksdal | ||
| Jul 29, 2016 at 8:49 | comment | added | Tor-Einar Jarnbjo | @chx It has not so much with borders, taxes, or even cars to do, that merchants charge for their products, what the nearby market is willing to pay. Especially for cars, and perhaps even more so for second-hand cars, you can find relatively large variations in market prices even within a single country. | |
| Jul 29, 2016 at 8:28 | comment | added | Ian Ringrose | @chx, this can still make sense as the car companies update the prices in different EU counties as different times and don't respond to curanacy movements quickly. | |
| Jul 29, 2016 at 0:20 | comment | added | user4188 | Tangential to this: before the EU it made sense to buy say a VW Golf in country X for a client in country Y. I knew a British gentleman who made good money out of this, my brother was the market researcher finding the deals. It's not exactly what you asked but it shows how stupid borders are. | |
| Jul 28, 2016 at 22:25 | comment | added | Fiksdal | Yeah, what both of you say makes sense @Aganju . | |
| Jul 28, 2016 at 22:23 | comment | added | Tor-Einar Jarnbjo | Strictly speaking, it is your responsibility to prove that you have been abroad more than 24 hours to bring tax-free goods into Norway. The enforcement of the 'once every 24 hours' rule is of course not very easy, but many land border crossings now have video surveillance with licence plate recognition. I am not sure if the customs actually do so, but it is technically feasible to detect if e.g. the same vehicle crosses the border with only short intervals. | |
| Jul 28, 2016 at 22:19 | comment | added | Aganju | The amount of value you make that way results in such a low hourly rate that it's not worth the time - that's the whole trick. If you want to spend your days (and gas) driving back and forth, they probably would just laugh and enjoy the show. | |
| Jul 28, 2016 at 22:14 | comment | added | Fiksdal | Oh, so you're not eligible for tax free if you've been outside for less than 24 hours? And you can only take your allowance over once a day? How is that enforced, though? How can they keep track of how long someone has been out? And whether they have already brought something in on a given day? (Do they keep records? What if the person didn't get stopped the first times?) | |
| Jul 28, 2016 at 22:03 | history | answered | Tor-Einar Jarnbjo | CC BY-SA 3.0 |