Fanatec purchase - tax?

[Get Karter]

Looking to buy a Fanatec wheel and pedals set. Getting confused by their pricing at checkout. It has a 19% ‘vat’ charge at checkout.
Then it looks like I’ll incur a further 20% vat charge when it passes customs.
Anyone else navigated a transaction with them that could clarify this for me?
Thanks

[RichTT]

Last I heard they remove the 19% charge, or refund the 19% for UK customers and then you have to pay the 20% vat + handling on import. Would be worth getting in touch with them.

Is there no UK stockists?

[Terry Tibbs]

Yes they remove the vat when you checkout and then the courier charges you the uk rate when it enters the country.
I recently bought my fanatec stuff from Simtech racing here in the uk. It cost me a little more but was all in stock and came next day and there was no faffing around with customs charges.

[Get Karter]

Thanks both.
Yeah, think I’ll wait for uk store simtechracing to get their back order delivered.

[Slackline]

I ordered from Fanatec this week and am expecting delivery Thursday. I can confirm the VAT at their end was removed.

They have despatched in many packages though with different tracking details. Out of the 9 notifications I have, some of them may slip through or be under the limit for duty adding...

Edit - What have you ordered? I went for the DD2 and inverted pedals, amongst other bits

Edited by Slackline on Saturday 1st October 20:50

[Get Karter]

I’ve not ordered yet. It’s the DD Pro base with McLaren GT 3 wheel…because it’s for my son to use on a PS4 (with a possibility of moving to pc at a later date).

The thing that is stopping me pulling the trigger on the purchase is I’ve read I would need to plug the DD Pro into a pc to download the latest drivers from Fanatec.

Not having a pc, that’d be difficult :-(

[Slackline]

Maybe they'd update before shipping for you?

https://fanatec.com/us-en/forms/index/sFid/40

[ten200]

Tax works as others have said - Fanatec remove the 19% VAT, and you are charged 20% + a processing fee (£11.50?) by UPS. Having a credit card that doesn't add a currency conversion charge makes a difference if you're buying a whole Fanatec system.

UPS's system for handling the VAT and fees is quite cumbersome, they send an email that can easily be mistaken for a phishing message, then you call a phone line to pay and are given a payment reference and send that back by email. Or they turn up at the door and can only take cash.

[Terry Tibbs]

Simtech racing may well update it for you - it’s worth an ask, they are friendly guys.