Smartphone imports in South Africa: what you should know

Governments - emptying your wallets for hundreds of years. Seriously, in this day and age of Globalisation you'd think we could remove some of these barriers to international commerce.
 
When is this ***** going to end. This goverment is raping us in it's m0er.

Let the masses talk and overthrow this guavamint
 
Since when is a phone a "luxury item"? :wtf: :confused:
 
Many sellers are not too worried about what values they put on the invoice in the little envelope on the package...
 
This something new? Never paid taxes on items I bought on Dhgate. Or well, they charged me R80 one time for a tablet, but the other stuff they never bothered.
 
Goddammit!!! It never ends,every turn cough up.Did I see 3 taxes on one item?I'd understand if it were to protect some form of local manufacturing..but we don't invent nor manufacture these goods here. Yep,Legalised theft it is, and heartbreaking when you read from the auditor-general's report that R30bn is wasted or unauthorised expenditure.
 
Allin said:
Since when is a phone a "luxury item"? :wtf: :confused:
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I figure anything that you could buy locally but choose to import instead qualifies as a luxury item.

If it's wasn't a luxury you would buy it from the closest shop.
 
Whole world is moving for decades now to remove duties, those morons here all that they are capable of thinking and implementing. More and more taxes, that they can steal more and more. Car duties, chicken duties, Cell phone duties. I mean FFS how the hell the phone is a luxury if any kid in the school has one.
 
But you guys, if they didn't charge you a third of the cost of the phone when importing how would the local scumbags be able to make the huge profit margins they need to keep the gravytrain rolling? Does nobody consider the poor business owners anymore :D

If they were imported as is everyone would be doing it....
 
DHL should be explaining their clearance service charges and why they apply it arbitrarily and why it costs so much more than the Post office for that same clearance service.

The Raspberry Pi thread shows that those shipped through DHL were costing different people up to R200 more in charges to what others had to pay. Not customs or tax, a lot were clearance "service" charges.
 
R10,000 + TAX = R13,915
R3,915 in Tax
39% in Tax.
Almost cheaper to fly to Dubai / Hong Kong and buy.
 
:wtf: Is there a list somewhere of what SARS considers to be "luxury items"?
 
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Its a bit vulgar judging something someone is buying as "luxury". Screw all these taxes. I get taxed on my salary and then with what is left, I have to pay VAT on everything I buy.

Government should place carbon tax on cars on hold until they can reduce their own carbon footprint. Why do I need to update my address at 14 different government institutions when I move. And then fill a 5 page document at each. Its absurd. Until they make an effort to use less paper, this whole carbon tax story is nothing but another government money-making scheme.
 
Unlike the actual devices, cellphone parts and accessories only attract VAT and no additional duty. Similar to cellphones, SARS also adds the 15% luxury item mark-up for accessories before calculating VAT, FedEx said.
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15%? Not from what I have seen. My cellphone accessory imports (and everything else I have ever imported for that matter) gets jacked by 10% in value before they whack on the VAT. Never seen this 15% ... and I always double check their calculations.
 
As for TVs and bigger monitors - Customs codes 8528.72.90 and 8528.51.90 - 7% Ad Valorum + 14% VAT + 25% Duty = about 47% Taxes. 47% tax on monitors that should be one of the cheapest and easiest ways to improve the productivity of almost anyone working with a PC. Of course the ANC would rather blame the white man, the imperialists and the West for the country's ****ed up economy.

ld13 said:
15%? Not from what I have seen. My cellphone accessory imports (and everything else I have ever imported for that matter) gets jacked by 10% in value before they whack on the VAT. Never seen this 15% ... and I always double check their calculations.
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+1 Never heard of this 15% thing. IIRC, it was 10% on everything, not just luxuries.
 
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