Mae West In Hollywood 1932-1943 (Indicator)

[The Hornets]

Originally Posted by UnionJackMix

What is IOSS payments and what country are you in, if you don't mind?
I have to say that rarely do Indicator titles sell for less on amazon but since they charge me tons for shipping now and the UK VAT is removed but my local one added, there is no reason for me to use them and I would anyway rather contribute to keeping Indicator alive, and I loathe amazon so luckily I rarely have to resort to using them now.

IOSS is the tax pre-payment system introduced by the EU post 1/7/2021 for non EU retailers to register and pre-pay VAT for their customers on items under €150. Over this and tax is paid on arrival as you need to pay import duty as well as VAT.

Without IOSS a package risks being stopped by customs in the EU when a package from outside arrives. The customer than has to pay the VAT but also the mail company's handling fees which in some circumstances can be very high. IOSS avoids those handling fees.

You can tell an IOSS package by a black circle with white text inside saying IOSS on the customs label. There are photos in the Zavvi thread here.

Edit: Here's the post showing what an IOSS customs label looks like. Credit to @Peschi
https://forum.blu-ray.com/showpost.p...postcount=1007

Zavvi and Eureka are now registered and sorting out VAT for EU customers. Not sure about other UK based retailers like PH, Arrow etc. Amazon have their own tax pre-payment system which appears to be independent of IOSS.