The system of "tax-free shopping " (TFS) is built-up on that in the European Union hold up made rule: if you constantly live outside of the European Union, leaving EU, you can wholly have back the sum of the tax on appended cost (VAT), which you have remunerative at purchasing of the goods.



The procedure of VAT return is exceedingly simple. At purchasing of the goods in TFS shops the special check has to be given to you, at going away from the country the stamp of customs house has to be put on it, and then you can receive money by this check.

To use TFS system is required to know some details.

The essentials at fulfillment of buy

At purchase in shop of TFS system require the seller to fill in the remarkable check - Tax Free Shopping At Cheque. Look carefully after, that the seller has come in your last name, name and address proper in the check, as it is in your passport. You can, naturally, to fill it in by yourself. In the check also have to be published down: the sum of purchase, the sum up of the paid VAT and the sum of refund (that is VAT minus the commission), which you should have at exit from EU. It is necessary to know that the VAT and the commission in the different EU states are various. In the whole the sum of repayment vary from 10 % up to 19 % from the price of purchase.

You should know that in a number of EU states to receive the proper on VAT refund is needed to buy the goods for the sure sum in TFS shop. The several shops also have specificity: in some stores is essential to do shopping for the particular sum in all departments, in others - only in one department (for case, video recorder and video tapes, but not a video and costume). Remember it, as best as that sometimes marketers choose to not touch with tax-free system, even if their shops are included in it. In this case you instead of the tax-free check can be offered the additional discount just about for the same sum. Agree, all is the said for you, isn't it?

Formalnesses at transit of customs duties house

At leaving you should show to the customs officer tax-free check, passport and goods. In some EU countries is required to represent the good find out as well. If you pass through the several EU countries you should point tax-free conditions and taken goods, to receive a customs duty house stamp for the sequent VAT refund, in the last country on your way.

In some states, for example, in Holland and Sweden, functions one more protecting rule: the stamp of traditions house should be impressed on not later on than 30 days from the date of purchase. In Germany and Sweden the stamp is put only in the example when the goods were not used - it should be sealed. All these rules are necessary to know beforehand.

The process of refund

When the custom house stamp is on your duty-free checks, you are placed to the particular VAT refund office at the Overseas Airport. In some countries these offices are placed behind the passport control boundary, therefore money can be received already passing on embarkment. And in those countries, where VAT refund office is located in a concourse, you can stay on without money, if you think of about them when you assured in already ? you are not provided to return back to a concourse. Therefore you had easier to learn about VAT refund office location earlier.

But there is no problem, if you had no time to receive your money at the airport. You can make it in any other VAT repayment office - their network covers whole world.

Whether is executable to get the VAT refund without tax-free check

It is possible, but under one condition - if you are getting to return to the area, where have got the goods. So, in Holland you can get the VAT refund, having made buy in any shop even if it is not included in TFS system. You buy the goods, then take them out of EU and imprint a customs house stamp on the usual commodity check. Operation and confinements are the same: show the check, passport and goods, the stamp of custom house should be put on the see not later than 30 days after purchase of the goods.

Tax-free and untaxed

If you moved abroad, at the airports for certain you saw shops and stalls under the badge "duty-free". The duty-free swap is incorporated also in sheets making the world-wide flights, on ferrying plying between two areas, on cruise ships. The prices of goodnesses are lower here, than in common shops. Besides that, what is important and remarkable, the duty-free shops are open not only for the foreigners, but also for the citizens of the country who giving abroad. The main thing - that the goods shouldn't be established back into the same state. Therefore at the airport you can get the goods only by presentation of the ticket on exit from the state.