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Or fly to the US, get a hotel and meal for two for the night, and fly back with change for just one laptop purchase.

When VAT incentivises people to essentially take their holidays outside the EU - not even incentivises, subsidises(!) - VAT's too high.




It is not easy to do this. A friend learned the hard way. She was visiting the US and needed a laptop. Their online shop doesn't take foreign cards, probably to prevent price arbitrage. Lots of Reddit posts confirm the problem. You can always go to a bricks-and-mortar but model selection is more limited, especially in case of exotic SKUs.


Oh FFS! Round up the US cost, converted to Euros, to 1000. What's 21% on top of that? I refuse to believe that's a difficult calculation for anyone.

The additional cost is obviously not just from VAT.




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