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Born Free, Taxed to Death - a personal importy story...
Posted by JohnC (more from JohnC) on Mon, 12 Mar 2001 18:23:46
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Not that its relevant to anything...
Well, finally, my old '69 99 is sitting in the garage at home. What a Nordic Saga its been...
From the northern hemisphere to the southern, it survived the journey in a container across oceans, managing not to fall off, and the 'care' of guys 'throwing' the container around wharfs in England and Australia. Was it worth it? Ask me again in 6 months when I recover!
The easy part was buying it sight-unseen and arranging transport across England and storage for 14 months waiting for the garage (woops, I mean house) to be built, then arranging shipping. The difficult bit was dealing with all the paperwork out here:
Charges for getting it off the ship, wharf charges, charges for sending out a bill...
Charges for moving the container to a Customs Bonded container park, charges to lift the container onto the ground, charges for unpacking that I did myself anyway...
Customs tax on the shipping cost as well as the car, Quarantine inspection charges, steam cleaning charges 'coz the guys in England didn't do it, Quarantine re-inspection charges... [I hope they sleep at night] Imagine: a car load of spares spread in the ground 40 degree heat, no shade...
The bargain was transport from the terminal to my home... only $55
Total costs just over AU$7000, which is about US$14,000. Whew!
I better wait awhile to bring in a Sonett!!
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