Did you have to pay import tax and how much was it?

[Foxchild]

@Luke
Since the austrian customs couldn't get any information from pine64 they now sent a letter to me (3 weeks later). Now I have to proof what the phone's cost really is. THis is a really tedious procedure don't you think?

Same happened to me. Fortunately, my phone only stuck for a couple of days before I received the letter, where I was asked to send the receipt and proof of payment.

Austria:

import VAT: 27,05 €
+ 10 € for the postal service

It finally arrived!
Had to pay the same as Nieral. Which makes sense. Since both of us are from Austria.

[miaegaal]

@Luke
Since the austrian customs couldn't get any information from pine64 they now sent a letter to me (3 weeks later). Now I have to proof what the phone's cost really is. THis is a really tedious procedure don't you think?

Same happened to me. Fortunately, my phone only stuck for a couple of days before I received the letter, where I was asked to send the receipt and proof of payment.

Austria:

import VAT: 27,05 €
+ 10 € for the postal service

It finally arrived!
Had to pay the same as Nieral. Which makes sense. Since both of us are from Austria.

Had to pay more, because... Austria!

VAT: 30,05€ + 10€ handling fee (austrian Post) + 1,3€ letter

[El_Quentinator]

Received my pinephone on March 3 2020 in Vancouver, Canada after it was held at the customs (no tracking update or reply from the customs after I sent proof of purchase).
Paid around 24$ CAD (17.50$ USD) of taxes + 10$ CAD (7.29$ USD) for the handling fee.

[oaklarch]

Roughly $20 for Belarus (15% of the price minus 22 euro tax-free limit). 

I was ready for that. What I wasn't ready for was the Hong Kong shipping team labelling it as a gift with $25 value, which resulted in our customs and post playing passive-aggressive with me for three weeks over misfilling the import forms. Not that I'm angry or anything but several of my acquaintances do plan to order the PinePhone when production batch is out, so if possible ask the Hong Kong team to fill out the real value. Our customs doesn't believe in brand new $25 smartphones unfortunately.

[vinnie]

@Luke
Since the austrian customs couldn't get any information from pine64 they now sent a letter to me (3 weeks later). Now I have to proof what the phone's cost really is. THis is a really tedious procedure don't you think?

Same happened to me. Fortunately, my phone only stuck for a couple of days before I received the letter, where I was asked to send the receipt and proof of payment.

Austria:

import VAT: 27,05 €
+ 10 € for the postal service

It finally arrived!
Had to pay the same as Nieral. Which makes sense. Since both of us are from Austria.

I answer late but these days have been very busy for me, I am also in Austria so the course of my expedition was identical to that of foxchild (which I have to thank for keeping me up to date).

[lupine]

Yes - UK - about £12, most of which was fees.

In general, I'd rather pay the right amount of tax for things, rather than the least amount of tax. The packaging had "gift" marked on it, which was blatantly a lie. Let's do the right thing next time ^^.

[someGermanGuy]

CH:
Shipped with "Die Post",
Courier: 16 CHF +3% of Value: 20.45
7.7% VAT: 12.95
Total: 33.40 CHF eq. 30 €
correctly labeled (150$ value)

[Zeddi]

German (DE)
Yesterday my Parcel was simply put into our letterbox by our postman.
No Payments required so far.

[Dedik]

German (DE)
Yesterday my Parcel was simply put into our letterbox by our postman.
No Payments required so far.

Same here . Postman just dropped it infront of the door. Glad i was the first who came along....!
No further Payments. Germany

[Boern]

Germany, I had to pay 28.67 Euros.