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Originally posted by Pib
By the way, Customs has 3 years to collect due taxes if they find out you that you didn't pay what you should have paid. I know MANY cases in which this has been done, it is not so rare.
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I did pay what I was supposed to pay, for how can I pay anything besides what the officials told me to pay. The customs officials ignored the paperwork and valued my stuff from their big book based on parts, which is all it was until I put it together (in the water, after which I take it back apart - it's a portable slalon course - just PVC pipes, rope on a reel, inflatable balls with elastic cords, and 2 anchors).
They didn't value it based on any paperwork (I'm not sure they would have anyway), which showed what I paid. I guess this collection of parts together as a whole was worth more than the sum of its parts. That's how the company selling it makes money. I think finished goods are taxed differently than parts, but it WAS parts until I put it together. Anyway, isn't what I paid for the parts irrellavent? They wouldn't lower my fee if I got a deal and paid almost nothing, why should they raise my fee if I paid more than their books say the stuff is worth? Does this argument pass muster in your eyes? Don't they have a copy of the original paperwork anyway?
They'll have send out a team to find me to get that $100 they should have charged me, as I never stop moving and I change my look everyday and I only move in shadows. And if they catch me, no more half eaten sandwiches for THEM! Ahh, they forgot about that little benefit from my frequent arrivals.