CD arrived - need to pay excise duty- confused
Hi all, Did any group in India received the package yet ? Yesterday the courier guy called and told me that package has arrived but need to pay around Rs.850/- also as excise/Customs duty !! Did any one in India recieved such message courier service provider, I am bit confused. Last year I received the package with out any issues like this. The name of the Courier service is TMT Courier Thanks n regards Prinson Ernakulam http://sfd2009.fireflies.in
Yes we need to pay that , i am from Tamil Nadu(Salem). our India Gov. dont know any think ,simply there will charge . On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 11:35 AM, Prinson <prinsonj@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi all,
Did any group in India received the package yet ?
Yesterday the courier guy called and told me that package has arrived but need to pay around Rs.850/- also as excise/Customs duty !!
Did any one in India recieved such message courier service provider, I am bit confused. Last year I received the package with out any issues like this.
The name of the Courier service is TMT Courier
Thanks n regards
Prinson
Ernakulam
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On 20 August 2010 11:35, Prinson <prinsonj@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi all,
Did any group in India received the package yet ?
Yesterday the courier guy called and told me that package has arrived but
need to pay around Rs.850/- also as excise/Customs duty !!
Hi, You could convince them that Its Free Software and to be distributed for FREE. Then they might not charge. They think its a Commercial Software/OS. I had the same issue last year and they had got stuck in the Indian Post. I collected it after explaining to the wat is Ubuntu, FOSS and other related concepts. Thanks!
Did any one in India recieved such message courier service provider, I am bit confused. Last year I received the package with out any issues like this.
The name of the Courier service is TMT Courier
Thanks n regards
Prinson
Ernakulam
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The box has a notice from Canonical explaining that the CDs are free promotional materials and there should be no customs due. Unfortunately not every country sees things the same way and every year someone somewhere has to pay, or at least argue with customs, before they can get their CDs. I don't think any of the New Zealand teams have ever had this problem though... On 20 August 2010 18:56, Mohammed Sanaulla <sanaulla123@gmail.com> wrote:
On 20 August 2010 11:35, Prinson <prinsonj@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi all,
Did any group in India received the package yet ?
Yesterday the courier guy called and told me that package has arrived but need to pay around Rs.850/- also as excise/Customs duty !!
Hi,
You could convince them that Its Free Software and to be distributed for FREE. Then they might not charge. They think its a Commercial Software/OS. I had the same issue last year and they had got stuck in the Indian Post. I collected it after explaining to the wat is Ubuntu, FOSS and other related concepts.
Thanks!
Did any one in India recieved such message courier service provider, I am bit confused. Last year I received the package with out any issues like this.
The name of the Courier service is TMT Courier
Thanks n regards
Prinson
Ernakulam
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On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 1:14 PM, Bruce Kingsbury <zcat@wired.net.nz> wrote:
The box has a notice from Canonical explaining that the CDs are free promotional materials and there should be no customs due. Unfortunately not every country sees things the same way and every year someone somewhere has to pay, or at least argue with customs, before they can get their CDs.
We, in Nepal, also have had the same problem. Cheers, Subir -- Subir B. Pradhanang FOSS Nepal Community http://www.fossnepal.org Mobile: +977-9841268738
Very odd. We got our package at Manipal, Karnataka without any of that. On 20 August 2010 13:21, Subir Pradhanang <subirbp@gmail.com> wrote:
On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 1:14 PM, Bruce Kingsbury <zcat@wired.net.nz> wrote:
The box has a notice from Canonical explaining that the CDs are free promotional materials and there should be no customs due. Unfortunately not every country sees things the same way and every year someone somewhere has to pay, or at least argue with customs, before they can get their CDs.
We, in Nepal, also have had the same problem.
Cheers, Subir -- Subir B. Pradhanang FOSS Nepal Community http://www.fossnepal.org Mobile: +977-9841268738
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On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 12:26 PM, Mohammed Sanaulla <sanaulla123@gmail.com> wrote:
You could convince them that Its Free Software and to be distributed for FREE. Then they might not charge. They think its a Commercial Software/OS. I had the same issue last year and they had got stuck in the Indian Post. I collected it after explaining to the wat is Ubuntu, FOSS and other related concepts.
yes, and also tell them that the custom duties valuation do not make sense. Rs 850 would mean you ordered about 1500 CDs as per the value declared In my case, I told them that it was to pass without any duty and it did eventually. Best A. Mani -- A. Mani ASL, CLC, AMS, CMS http://www.logicamani.co.cc
YES, out CD has arrived in airport and TNT charge 200 taka (<$3.00) per CD for customs duties. Totally they asked 17000.00 taka ($ 246.37) to release the CDs. What can we do now? masud Participatory Research& Action Network-PRAN House # 05, Road # 30 l Maijdee Housing Estate l Maijdee l Noakhali-3800 l Bangladesh. Phone: 88 0321 61920, 88 01727 231 722, Fax :880 321 62236 E-mail: info@pran-bd.org l Cell:88 01919 231722 l Skype : masud_noa www.pran-bd.org __________________________________________________________ Before printing, think about the environment! On 8/20/2010 8:51 PM, A. Mani wrote:
On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 12:26 PM, Mohammed Sanaulla <sanaulla123@gmail.com> wrote:
You could convince them that Its Free Software and to be distributed for FREE. Then they might not charge. They think its a Commercial Software/OS. I had the same issue last year and they had got stuck in the Indian Post. I collected it after explaining to the wat is Ubuntu, FOSS and other related concepts.
yes, and also tell them that the custom duties valuation do not make sense. Rs 850 would mean you ordered about 1500 CDs as per the value declared
In my case, I told them that it was to pass without any duty and it did eventually.
Best
A. Mani
On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 10:23 PM, PRAN-BD.ORG <info@pran-bd.org> wrote:
YES, out CD has arrived in airport and TNT charge 200 taka (<$3.00) per CD for customs duties. Totally they asked 17000.00 taka ($ 246.37) to release the CDs. What can we do now?
I do not know about Bangladesh Custom duties Tell them that 1. the valuation is wrong. 2. the cds should be (almost) duty free 3. For 100cds the declared value is 17 Euro and also mention the things in the previous posts With $240, you can produce about 12,00 custom DVDs with labels :) Best A. Mani -- A. Mani ASL, CLC, AMS, CMS http://www.logicamani.co.cc
Hi friends, Finally I got my CD Package without paying any money: I dont know what happend, but earlier i had told the courier guys that you have to deliver me the CD- it is for educational purpose not for any commercial use. Apparently they made some correspondence with their head office also, and finally gave me the CD package without making me pay any money Glad about that Wishes to everyone who are preparing for the Big Day ! prinson http://sfd2009.fireflies.in On 21 August 2010 05:22, A. Mani <a.mani.cms@gmail.com> wrote:
On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 10:23 PM, PRAN-BD.ORG <info@pran-bd.org> wrote:
YES, out CD has arrived in airport and TNT charge 200 taka (<$3.00) per CD for customs duties. Totally they asked 17000.00 taka ($ 246.37) to release the CDs. What can we do now?
I do not know about Bangladesh Custom duties
Tell them that 1. the valuation is wrong. 2. the cds should be (almost) duty free 3. For 100cds the declared value is 17 Euro
and also mention the things in the previous posts
With $240, you can produce about 12,00 custom DVDs with labels :)
Best
A. Mani
-- A. Mani ASL, CLC, AMS, CMS http://www.logicamani.co.cc
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