I'm a buyer – do I have to pay any Taxes or Customs Fees?

When buying from a business seller in your country, you may be charged sales tax/ vat depending on your country’s requirements for online purchases.

When buying from another country, you may be charged additional fees depending on the import taxes and/or customs duties of your home country. You may need to pay the charges once you receive your order.

Regardless of the country/state, if the seller is required to charge any Tax type, the seller can use our default tax system and apply it to their local or international shipping to the country/state, the tax amount will show on the details page and is automatically calculated at checkout.

Seller can't include any type of sales tax after the item has been purchased. Before any buyer processes the payment the buyer can view the invoice and choose additional options provided by the seller.

Customs fees:

Customs fees are placed on physical goods that are imported from one country to another country/state.

As a buyer, when ordering items from our community of sellers for delivery to your destination country you may be subject to import duties and taxes, these charges must be borne by you the importer. 

Your privacy is important to us and international customers should be aware that cross-border deliveries are subject to opening and inspection by customs authorities.

Note: that when ordering from our community of sellers, you are considered the importer of record and must comply with all laws and regulations of the country in which you are receiving the products.

Contact your local customs office for further information.

Who collects these Customs Fees?

When a business seller uses BNSBids to ship items internationally, they must use a tax agent to help and fulfil their tax requirements in the destination country/state.

When business sellers use our default tax system to apply tax to items in destination countries/states selected, these taxes will be included in the price and paid to the seller,

the seller is responsible for collecting and paying those taxes to the destination country/state tax authorities.

Sellers can use Taxback International, it's a third-party global Vat service provider, that we are committed to working closely to help all our sellers fulfil their legally requirements in relation to VAT.

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