Well I'm gutted!
Posted by JossAmbrose 11 years, 7 months ago to The Gulch: General
Two weeks ago I paid my usual monthly visit to hollandcigarhouse.com to buy a shed load of duty free cigars - from Holland (obviously!).
While at work this afternoon, my wife phoned to inform me I'd received a letter from the Home Office UK Border Agency informing me that MY purchase had been seized (looted): the only way to get my hands on what I had paid for (100 half coronas for £60) was to either pay the extortionate £112.00 duty (sixty quid for the cigars, a hundred and twelve quid TAX!), or contest the theft at the Magistrates court at a cost of £1500.
I shall do neither of course. I have contacted the sellers informing them of my misfortune.
While at work this afternoon, my wife phoned to inform me I'd received a letter from the Home Office UK Border Agency informing me that MY purchase had been seized (looted): the only way to get my hands on what I had paid for (100 half coronas for £60) was to either pay the extortionate £112.00 duty (sixty quid for the cigars, a hundred and twelve quid TAX!), or contest the theft at the Magistrates court at a cost of £1500.
I shall do neither of course. I have contacted the sellers informing them of my misfortune.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jGjpOKhF...
I've never had imported cigars seized before. They are for personal use so there shouldn't be any problems.
A pack of 5 half coronas costs £8.50 (about $13.16) in UK shops. When you consider nearly two thirds of that is tax... Need I say more.
Time to kick it??
From what I've been reading (stunts Obarmy's been pulling), America's more screwed than we are... This morning I finished reading Oleg Atbashian's 'Shakedown Socialism'. The appendix at the back is quite disturbing.