I need to buy a cell phone and if I order it from USA online, do I have to pay any taxes?Since Im new in Germany and I dont really know about custom rules here.
I'll b thankful
2007-09-15 04:15:50 · 3 answers · asked by the g 1 in Business & Finance ➔ Taxes ➔ Other - Taxes
A quad-band GSM phone sold in the US will work fine in Germany -- I travel extensively and mine works fine. However you will have to pay VAT (Mehrwersteuer) plus any import duties. If you are traveling in the US and bring it home with you you'll probably side-step any tax or duties though that's probably not totally legal.
2007-09-15 10:20:31 · answer #1 · answered by Bostonian In MO 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ha, ha. Lets explore that further. Since more men are employed than women (many of us are contributing at home by raising healthy families), and men typically take in a higher salary (possibly due to the time women took out of their careers or education to stay home), you could say that on a whole, men already are paying more taxes and since welfare is funded out of the taxes, men (as a whole) are paying more for the lifestyle of the welfare queen than women. Living single and on welfare is no cake walk, but I know women who have the baby daddy living in the household, contributing TO the household, and they still collect welfare. They either lie about the dad completely and collect or pretend dad doesn't live there and let a huge child support balance accrue against him. I know a guy who works under the table so that his family can collect welfare checks. He owes about 20K in child support for children that he's lived with and supported since birth. They're making welfare money plus his salary and if the state ever garnishes his wage for the child support, it will go back into his household as a child support check. As long as he doesn't get busted for the welfare fraud, all is well. Why wouldn't I turn them in? I don't know...state probably wouldn't do anything useful anyways and I would end up with the hate from it. Point being is that men also benefit from welfare, directly and indirectly. They need to stiffen the penalties for fraud, make fraudsters public (embarrass and social stigma), make collection efforts against deadbeats, and require those who are owed child support to follow up with their claims.
2016-05-20 02:08:04 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't know about the custom rules ,
But from everything I've heard . . .
The made for the USA phones and the Euro phones do NOT operate on the same technology .
Are you getting it as a souvenir or did you actually plan on having it work on the Euro Net ?
But maybe there has been some major change recently ,
Check it out though .
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2007-09-15 04:21:35 · answer #3 · answered by kate 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋