That sounds wrong.Save the vat and buy from heathrow on way out.
Less warranty challenges and no duty on the way back in.
It would be even cheaper if he stole it.Could you not just wear it home .who's gonna know where it was purchased.
That sounds wrong.
If you don’t pay duty out, you surely have to pay it to get it back in?
I’ve no doubt you can buy them duty free on your way out, but you have to declare them on the way back in.Nope, if you are traveling outside EU, you can buy duty free watches airside on departure @ Heathrow
https://www.heathrow.com/at-the-airport/shops-a-z/watches-of-switzerland
I bought JLC Reverso that way. 3 years ago.
I was going to say this, and if it was an everyday cheapish watch, say <£k with no real investment or resale value, I'd just wear it home and dump the boxes and paperwork and any other incriminating evidence. The problem is, if it's expensive like say a Rolex or Zenith or whatever, and you want to sell it later, buyers will want all the tags, boxes and paperwork, so you run the risk of Customs finding them if they search you. The way out of that is to plan ahead and get someone to post them on to you.Could you not just wear it home .who's gonna know where it was purchased.
Just say you were repatriating the ancestors who’d taken a musket ball during the first opium wars while serving in the army of the East India Company and you had to get some appropriate caskets made because the old ones had rotted after 250 years in the church yard at Palashi. An overzealous customs officer might ask where you were intending to plant them when you got home.Are Tannoy Westminster Royal SEs available in Dubai’s duty-free shops? I’d love a pair of those babies, though I think the difficult part would be constructing a believable story why you just happen to have a pair of them in your carry-on.
Joe
I’ve no doubt you can buy them duty free on your way out, but you have to declare them on the way back in.
If that were not the case, it would allow evasion of VAT.
That sounds wrong.
If you don’t pay duty out, you surely have to pay it to get it back in?
I was going to say this, and if it was an everyday cheapish watch, say <£k with no real investment or resale value, I'd just wear it home and dump the boxes and paperwork and any other incriminating evidence. The problem is, if it's expensive like say a Rolex or Zenith or whatever, and you want to sell it later, buyers will want all the tags, boxes and paperwork, so you run the risk of Customs finding them if they search you. The way out of that is to plan ahead and get someone to post them on to you.