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Astrodada

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Sorry guys....I have a question. Any problems with the customs when HI sends khukris to Canada ? My brother-inlaw is into hunting. Thinking of getting him a khuk for his hunting trips. Thanks.
 
If you are talking about through the border boys as in duty paid ? Nope . I was paying on various things I bought either after by request or as a payment made to the post office and then nothing for the past little while .
 
Astrodada said:
Thank you Kevin ! Any tax paid ?
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5 bux for handling fees plus pst and gst then any applicable duties for the item. If you send the item USPS, he'll pay the fees when he picks up the item. :barf:
 
There is one thing about our border boys . They are not consistant . If that package rolls through when they are on a Tim Hortons sugar donut high anyrthing is possible . My package was left for me under my doormat .(Not the wisest of moves in my neighborhood .)
 
Through USPS: sometimes they'll notice it and ask you to pay the GST and a small handling fee, sometimes they won't notice it at all.

Through UPS: the recipient's wallet will be raped by 'brokerage fees'. Never, and I mean NEVER send something across the border using UPS. They hand items over to a third party company, which carries them five feet across the border, and then sends the recipient a bill for 30-60% of the estimated value.:mad: :barf: :thumbdn:

In canada, UPS is also known to deliver packages late, and on rare occasions even lose them. This is both my personal experience and that of my friends. Don't send to Canada using UPS!
 
I havnt had any problems with the border, I didnt get any additional charge from customs either. The thread title got my hopes up, thought you meant the Vancouver Canucks.

Gordon
 
Hey you guys in the Deep North...
You don't have to pay any duty when something is marked as a gift do you? :confused:

It seems like I remember a good friend sending a few like that but I don't remember to where.;) ;) ;) ;) :D
 
You're generally right Yvsa - if it's marked as an 'unsolicited gift' then technically you don't have to pay anything for it. Unfortunately, it doesn't work that way with UPS since you're paying 'brokerage fees'.

If it's sent through regular mail then 'gifts' are supposed to be untaxable.
 
Yvsa , we have a thing called a gift tax . I think it mostly applies to people trying to get around the inheritance tax . We also have G:S:T: Goods and services tax . Any goods except for food any services even clandestine ones ! When I send a gift stateside I mark no commercial value . That lets you get away with as much as you can . Like someone said . it depends on how it is shipped . I once had a cutoms broker tell me I had to pay em 13 bucks . I refused telling them I did not contract with them for the service . They backed off to the extent I only had to pay 6 bucks . Now if there is a charge you don,t receive the goods until paid . Free trade Forever !
 
I hadn't heard of the gift tax, but as for inheritance tax avoidance, that one's easy. Just sell all property and other items of large value to your children for one dollar a pop, and get it all duly notarized as a sale. Then you just pay a couple of cents. ;)
 
Okay, in that case does the gift tax apply to all the Provinces or just a couple of select ones or are all the Provinces the same according to law? :confused:

Maybe now with the Conservative Party being voted in and the head honcho reportedly wanting to better relations with the US maybe things will get better in some areas, maybe this one? ;)
Y'all will have to forgive me, I'm not much up on other countries law's or political parties so if I don't know what I'm talking about it is entirely due to ignorance on my part.:o It's hard enough to try and keep up with the laws written down here in a timely manner.:(

I generally only ship USPS as does HI and for good reason I also only pay with a Cashier's Check or a USPS Money Order, in the US of course as I understand there's a problem with them in other countries.
The only reason I ship UPS is if the weight or size factors in. I have also used Fed Ex a couple of times with excellent results.
 
Yvsa you might not know whats going on . It doesn,t have much to do with being ignorant of certain laws . There is proabably not as vast a diversity of peoples in Canada as the U:S: .The cultures we do have tend to keep to our own a bit more . This may have to do with distances between population centers . I,ve been lucky enough to live in three provinces and hope to live in at least a couple more before I decide its time to move on . Interpetation of laws may be slightly more creative here . Local cultures tend to have a blind eye towards different transgressions . (If thats what we choose to call them ) What works in one province won,t fly fifty miles down the road . I have traveled Quebec from Shefferville to sherrington . You might not believe what a quiet man can here in some backwaters . My long winded point is while I could say with a fair amount of certainty what passes for law in my neck of the woods but over in B:C: it is a different kettle of fish .
 
Yvsa said:
Maybe now with the Conservative Party being voted in and the head honcho reportedly wanting to better relations with the US maybe things will get better in some areas, maybe this one? ;)
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It's a minority government, which means it's very, very difficult for them to implement any kind of major change unless they can get another one of the parties to back them.
 
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