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12.10.2019, 18:37
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I’m looking to get a Ducky One 2 TKL RGB with US layout, and it seems that ordering from US or UK is the only way. Along with a wooden Onyx Glorious wrist-rest the cost (including shipping) is about $200. Is it still going to be taxed in customs and if yes, how much?
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12.10.2019, 18:45
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| | Re: Customs for keyboard overseas | Quote: | |  | | | I’m looking to get a Ducky One 2 TKL RGB with US layout, and it seems that ordering from US or UK is the only way. Along with a wooden Onyx Glorious wrist-rest the cost (including shipping) is about $200. Is it still going to be taxed in customs and if yes, how much? | | | | | Yes. And: https://www.englishforum.ch/search2.php?q=customs
Just type in customs in the right hand box or check this: https://www.ch.ch/de/schweizer-zoll/ | The following 2 users would like to thank roegner for this useful post: | | 
12.10.2019, 19:09
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Thanks for the heads up although I did do a quick forum search, but I couldn’t find anything about keyboards in particular, closest threads were about laptops. Which I regarded as irrelevant, because a laptop costs more than 300 CHF, and i thought you can import goods up to 300 CHF of value without being taxed (limits on quantities apply for food/drinks); is this not true anymore?
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12.10.2019, 19:21
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| | Re: Customs for keyboard overseas | Quote: | |  | | | i thought you can import goods up to 300 CHF of value without being taxed (limits on quantities apply for food/drinks); is this not true anymore? | | | | | If you bring it yourself. Not if you have it shipped. Always been this way.
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12.10.2019, 19:58
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| | Re: Customs for keyboard overseas | Quote: | |  | | | If you bring it yourself. Not if you have it shipped. Always been this way.
Tom | | | | | Ah, now I see why it’s recommended to send it somewhere near the boarders - so that you pick it up yourself.
Tbh I can’t say I understand the underlying logic, but it wouldn't make any difference anyway.
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12.10.2019, 20:06
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| | Re: Customs for keyboard overseas | Quote: | |  | | | Ah, now I see why it’s recommended to send it somewhere near the boarders - so that you pick it up yourself.
Tbh I can’t say I understand the underlying logic, but it wouldn't make any difference anyway. | | | | | Even that makes no sense. 20%+ foreign VAT vs. 7.7% Swiss VAT.
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30.10.2019, 20:47
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| | Re: Customs for keyboard overseas | Quote: | |  | | | If you bring it yourself. Not if you have it shipped. Always been this way.
Tom | | | | | Sorry to bring back the post, but i thought to go the extra mile(s) -literally- and buy the keyboard from a shop in Germany. It costs about 150 euros. Would declaring it at the customs get me ~17 Euros back from the taxes (i.e. the difference 19 - 7.7 = 11.3%) ?
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30.10.2019, 21:21
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| | Re: Customs for keyboard overseas | Quote: | |  | | | Sorry to bring back the post, but i thought to go the extra mile(s) -literally- and buy the keyboard from a shop in Germany. It costs about 150 euros. Would declaring it at the customs get me ~17 Euros back from the taxes (i.e. the difference 19 - 7.7 = 11.3%) ? | | | | | Why don't you just ask Digitec if they can import it for you. I once did that with a printer and they added it to their Sortiment.
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30.10.2019, 21:27
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| | Re: Customs for keyboard overseas | Quote: | |  | | | Sorry to bring back the post, but i thought to go the extra mile(s) -literally- and buy the keyboard from a shop in Germany. It costs about 150 euros. Would declaring it at the customs get me ~17 Euros back from the taxes (i.e. the difference 19 - 7.7 = 11.3%) ? | | | | | You tell the shop when you buy the keyboard you wish to export it to Switzerland. They fill in a form, and you pay the full amount. You fill in your details on the form. You get the form stamped by the German customs on the German side of the border. There will be queue. You will need your residency permit. You then import the keyboard. If it is value, without MWST, at more then 300CHF, then you must declare it to Swiss customs, and pay Swiss MWST.
On return to the shop, you present them with the stamped form, and they give you the German MWST back.
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