Some of my international customer requested us to under declare their purchase to avoid heavy import tax.
Is there a way to allow them to select the option during checkout so that the purchased value in the printed invoice will automatically change to the desired value.
e.g
[COLOR=“Red”]Divide my Custom Declaration value by 10 → [ ] (Only for International Shipments)[/COLOR]
If the customer select the option, all the pricing will reduce by 10 times.
Any help would be much appreciated.
thanks
Would be careful before you progress with this, if Customs find out you could be liable for the duty “unpaid” by customer, abroad or not.
[quote name=‘BarryH’]Would be careful before you progress with this, if Customs find out you could be liable for the duty “unpaid” by customer, abroad or not.[/QUOTE]
Thanks for the advice. BarryH. But this is what the customer want.
Any ideas how to create a field for this right after the “Select payment method” in the “Shipping / Payment page” (I’m using mutli-page checkout)?
To make it simple, I will adjust the pricing manually.
Thanks
[quote name=‘BarryH’]Would be careful before you progress with this, if Customs find out you could be liable for the duty “unpaid” by customer, abroad or not.[/QUOTE]
Every second seller in ebay got a line if anyone wants sent as “gift” write it in checkout…
[QUOTE]Thanks for the advice. BarryH. But this is what the customer want.[/QUOTE]
Of course they don’t want to pay for their customs/duties tax, I don’t want to pay for business, personal or sales tax either! 
Only problem is that they are also asking you to take the full liability for mis-representing the details entered in the customs forms in order to save them some money on taxs, because it is you, or your company that is preparing/signing these forms. If you operate a legitimate business you are foolish to take on this liability… 
[quote name=‘Casey L.’]Some of my international customer requested us to under declare their purchase to avoid heavy import tax.
Is there a way to allow them to select the option during checkout so that the purchased value in the printed invoice will automatically change to the desired value.
e.g
[COLOR=Red]Divide my Custom Declaration value by 10 → [ ] (Only for International Shipments)[/COLOR]
If the customer select the option, all the pricing will reduce by 10 times.
Any help would be much appreciated.
thanks[/quote]
I have worked within an organization that procured these techniques.
#1 - You are individually responsible as customs are a federal matter.
#2 - Writing gift will result in an inspection very quickly depending on volume.
#3 - Customs will pickup on you quickly enough, whether they have the resources to bother with some ‘small-fry’ is at their discretion.
#4 - If they do, they are eligible to review all exports/imports in the past 12 months (minimum) and they have the power to make you pay all duties that you may have ‘missed’ from declaration form abuse.
#5 - ‘Commercial Sample’ will normally get you better results than ‘gift’ does as (a commercial company whom seeks to make a profit) - your customers will bitch - screw them.
#6 - Yes I mean #5 quite literally.
An Example: $10k order, sent as ‘$2k’ and they will bitch about a $200 customs duty. Normally $2k in the industry.
#1 - I sell education tools
#2 - they are student / academic from 3rd world country
#3 - a 30% tax of US$200 purchase can be their 0.25 monthly income
#5 - not everyone in their country need to pay tax, usually the top few percent pay no tax or much less tax.
#6 - can they source locally? Yes, but the price is 30% to 100% higher than us
#7 - we are not big enough to get notice by their custom officer.
I have 300millions neighbor living in 3rd world with less than US$200 monthly income. Their country will not get poorer if the value is under-delcare but it will certainly benefit my customer.
[quote name=‘Casey L.’]#1 - I sell education tools
#2 - they are student / academic from 3rd world country
#3 - a 30% tax of US$200 purchase can be their 0.25 monthly income
#5 - not everyone in their country need to pay tax, usually the top few percent pay no tax or much less tax.
#6 - can they source locally? Yes, but the price is 30% to 100% higher than us
#7 - we are not big enough to get notice by their custom officer.
I have 300millions neighbor living in 3rd world with less than US$200 monthly income. Their country will not get poorer if the value is under-delcare but it will certainly benefit my customer.[/QUOTE]
In Lithuania minimum monthly salary is ~250$ proud European Union member
[quote name=‘Darius’]In Lithuania minimum monthly salary is ~250$ proud European Union member :D[/QUOTE]
Other than $250, any social welfare? I don’t think any country in Asia has the social welfare scheme.
[quote name=‘Casey L.’]Other than $250, any social welfare? I don’t think any country in Asia has the social welfare scheme.[/quote]
You are joking right?
Start with Japan and probably many other countries…
Socialized medicine, retirement pensions, labor laws and so on…
[quote name=‘Traveler’]You are joking right?
Start with Japan and probably many other countries…
Socialized medicine, retirement pensions, labor laws and so on…[/quote]
cough Australia cough
[quote name=‘Traveler’]You are joking right?
Start with Japan and probably many other countries…
Socialized medicine, retirement pensions, labor laws and so on…[/QUOTE]
Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippine, Singapore, Thailand, Vietname, Cambodia,…, the list go on.
Japan and Australia are the first world countries, and some people in these two countries don’t consider themselves as ASIAN. 
[quote name=‘Casey L.’] Japan and Australia are the first world countries, and some people in these two countries don’t consider themselves as ASIAN. ;-)[/quote]
It’s caused Australasia for a reason 
[quote name=‘JesseLeeStringer’]It’s caused Australasia for a reason :P[/QUOTE]
First time hear of this term.
[quote name=‘Casey L.’]Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippine, Singapore, Thailand, Vietname, Cambodia,…, the list go on.
Japan and Australia are the first world countries, and some people in these two countries don’t consider themselves as ASIAN. ;-)[/QUOTE]
The Japanese are certainly Asian, and Thailand certainly is a socialized country, social security, free or inexpensive health care, strong labor laws and so on…
I don’t know about the other countries on your list.