Snus tax

[gopherbob]

Yea something is wierd with it... I'm not used to buying snus so I went ahead with it but next time I will probably go with buysnus.

[gopherbob]

Ahh I just noticed...

Using Fire Priority Mail (taxes)
Price of all items $51.20
First Priority Mail $18.60
Tobacco Tax 2007, loose snus 50g $15.86
Tobacco Tax 2007, loose snus 45g $4.40
Tobacco Tax 2007, portion snus 24g $0.59
Total in US Dollars $90.65


Using ups express saver (no taxes)
1-2 Business Day(s) Delivery
Price of all items $51.20
UPS EXPRESS SAVER $31.00
Tax Free
Total in US Dollars $82.20


So northerner taxes US customers who use first priority...

[chainsnuser]

After checking the prices of both companies (for E.U.- and U.S.- customers) again, I more and more tend to say (also regarding Zero's second posting), that, maybe both have major administrative problems to get a tax-exemption for exports outside the E.U.

The prices, at least for single cans, differ so much, that probably Buysnus has counted the tax in, while Northerner has this confusing checkout-scheme.

Since Buysnus has just recently added the UPS-shipment-option, I guess that only UPS can provide the certificates, needed for a tax-exemption from the swedish finance office. Only Buysnus seems to have a "mixed calculation", which means, that customers, who choose UPS or the swedish postal service, both pay the same price for the snus.

So, shortly said, both companies seem to simply have different types of calculation or, so to say, different types of communicating their calculation to the customers. I must say, that Northerner's scheme is a bit irritating.

Another point is, and I wonder, if anybody else has noticed this, is, that until the end of 2006, U.S.- and E.U.-customers paid the same price at both vendors, although the tobacco tax is not new, only doubled. If it would be easy to get a tax-exemption, then the prices should have differed already in 2006 and before.

To give my short 2 cents to the whole theme, I simply would check all options and choose the cheapest vendor for every order, regardless of the checkout-scheme.

[gopherbob]

sounds like wise words