A lot of folks have inquired of us about customs and additional VAT charges post Brexit as we carry several UK based online stores on onsalenow.ie.

Most of our International merchants, have Irish based companies and ship from Ireland or where they are UK based - they have set up EU distribution hubs or they are shipping duty and taxes prepaid and thus there is no impact.

We have set out the impact where there is one per merchant below:

Summary

Merchant	Shipped From	Additional VAT / Custom Duties	Shipping / Delivery Charges
Acer	Ireland / EU	NONE	FREE Standard delivery - 3-4 working days. EXPRESS Delivery - 1-2 working days @ €14.99.
AllBeauty	EU*	NONE. Shipped duty and taxes prepaid.	FREE Standard Delivery for orders over €60. €4.50 tracked delivery as standard.
Aosom.ie	UK	NONE. Shipped duty and taxes prepaid.	FREE Standard Delivery.
Armada Deals	UK	NONE. Shipped duty and taxes prepaid.	Shipping from €0.99c
Baker Ross	UK	NONE. Shipped duty and taxes prepaid.	Shipping costs €5.99 for orders under €39.99 and €4.99 for orders over €40.
Beauty Expert	EU*	NONE	FREE Standard Delivery on all orders. Tracked delivery available at additional cost.
Blank Canvass Cosmetics	UK	NONE. Shipped duty and taxes prepaid.	Standard Delivery €4.95 and FREE for orders over €40.
Chemist Direct	UK	No VAT on orders under €22. Orders under €150 carry no additional custom charges.	Standard Delivery from €4.95. Items requiring an Irish prescription and other restricted medicines cannot be shipped to Ireland and this will be flagged at checkout.
CotswoldOutdoor.ie	UK	NONE. Shipped duty and taxes prepaid.	FREE Delivery on orders over €75, €8 otherwise.
Currys/PC World	Ireland	NONE	FREE order and collect minutes later. FAST delivery from €5.95. For large household appliances, expect to pay €24.95.
eglobalcentral	EU*	NONE	FREE Standard Delivery on all orders. Tracked delivery available at additional cost.
GoGroupie	EU/Ireland	NONE, Shipped duty and taxes prepaid.	Delivery from €2.99.
IdealWorld	UK	NONE. Shipped duty and taxes prepaid.	Approx €11 per package
IWOOT	EU*	NONE	€3.25 Standard Delivery on all orders.
Komplett	EU/ Holland	NONE	Standard delivery charge of €9.95 for all orders under €400.00. For orders over €400.00 a discount shipping rate of €3.95 applies. Shipping is via DHL with standard lead-time of 3-4 business days.
Look Fantastic	EU*	NONE	Standard Delivery is €1/€1.20. Tracked delivery available at additional cost.
Mankind	EU*	NONE	FREE Standard Delivery on all orders. Tracked delivery available at additional cost.
Price Right Home	UK	NONE. Shipped duty and taxes prepaid.	Delivery based on weight and is calculated at checkout.
PrettyLittleThing	UK	NONE. Shipped duty and taxes prepaid.	FREE Standard Delivery. PrettyLittleThing Unlimited Express Delivery costs €9.99 and is valid for a 12 month Shipping / Delivery Charges.
Samsung	EU/Ireland	NONE	FREE Delivery on most items. Next Day Delivery available on most items.

 

*the majority of products are shipped from merchant's EU hub; where shipped from UK, merchant will cover any additional costs - merchant guarantees no additional cost to customer. UK VAT may be charged at checkout. Differential paid by merchant on customer's behalf.

Custom Duties

For those merchants that continue to ship from the U.K. - the first thing to remember is that any product under the value of €150 is not subject to any additional custom duties. That's a great many products!
For items greater than €150 in value, import duties may be payable depending on the class of product; however many products do not attract custom duties and any product manufactured in the U.K (more than 50%) is not subject to additional customs duty due to the Free Trade agreement between the EU and the U.K.

VAT

Packages under €22

From January 2021 to July 2021, if the value of your package delivered from the UK to Ireland is less than €22 (including delivery charges) - then it will be exempt from Irish import VAT and you may see reductions at the checkout - i.e. no UK VAT or Irish VAT payable which would Additional VAT / Custom Duties to a 20% saving. That said many UK sites will not pass on this saving (up to €4.40) to counterbalance the 1% charge (difference in VAT rates between Ireland and UK) for products above €22 which several of them are absorbing - see above.

Packages over €22

For merchants who continue to ship from the U.K., they have two options - they can export it to Ireland VAT free as Irish customers should not pay UK VAT as it is an export and thus customers should see a reduction in VAT at the checkout OR they can charge the Irish VAT rate (of 21%) i.e. an additional 1% charge versus the UK VAT rate (of 20%) at the checkout. For the merchants included on onsalenow.ie, all those we have surveyed so far have said they will settle the difference in VAT rates (1%) with their couriers and EU/Irish customers will not be impacted or charged. 

Where the retailer exports to Ireland VAT free, you will need to settle the VAT due with An Post or the courier company (DHL, Fedex, UPS, DPD etc.) at delivery. Delivery companies will charge a processing fee to do so (€10 with An Post).  Thus our advice is that you should only order from UK retailers where it is clear they are collecting the EU/Ireland VAT as per the table set out above.