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Don't understand why VAT? I want to pay taxes in my country, I know there is always a possibility to buy stuff from EU without VAT (like Thomann or something else)

Something is wrong with the setup at PayPal I think, and everybody is getting charged VAT at Hungary's rate (27%).

For transactions within the EU, VAT should be charged at the rate set in the consumer's country (Invalid Link Removed) which for me in the UK would be 20%, but I got charged 27%.
 
I mean, a refund on VAT doesn't seem to unreasonable for those countries that don't apply. I wasn't sure how many of these there would be in the first batch so I thought I'd just ensure that I have one and worry about the VAT refund later.

Thats what I figured too...just secure my purchase now, sort the vat refund after.
 
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just a thought about paypal and vat and stuff:

since panda is a small company (and the paypal link looks like the one from a private person, gabor) it is maybe easier to do the vat refund "by hand". this basically means once they get the order, they see what the shipping address is and will refund accordingly. big companies like thomann have an automated system that recalculates prices based on your country selection in the shop. just a guess though.
 
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just a thought about paypal and vat and stuff:

since panda is a small company (and the paypal link looks like the one from a private person, gabor) it is maybe easier to do the vat refund "by hand". this basically means once they get the order, they see what the shipping address is and will refund accordingly. big companies like thomann have an automated system that recalculates prices based on your country selection in the shop. just a guess though.

I'm surprised PayPal isn't dealing with this on their behalf. It's a long time since I worked on payment systems and never had much to do with PayPal but VAT rules in the EU are horribly complicated now for small businesses and I would have thought PayPal would do all the work on behalf of their customers to be honest.
 

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