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GENERAL INFORMATIONS
Value Added Tax (VAT) - is a tax which is added to all products sold to
private individuals (companies too, but they may claim a refund).
It is already added to the price tags (unlike in USA) so the price you see is the full price you
are to pay.
The regular rate is 22% but some of the products have lower rates as 7%. This is also the case of
Polish pottery as it belongs to the category of "hand made craft".
However to get 7% VAT on the Polish pottery is not so easy to obtain - all your products have to be
shown to special commission for qualification. Sometimes the smaller pottery workshops do not even
apply.
VAT AND FOREIGNERS When you come to shop as a private person and buy pottery for 100$ - the vat is 18$ (as 100$ has a VAT included - in this case real pottery value is 82$).If an US company buy from a factory in Poland for export - they pay only 82$ for the equivalent pottery as you are obliged to pay the tax when you buy and take it away. Of course the US based firm have to pass the Polish customs clearance when exporting. When a private person shops it may theoretically claim for VAT refund too. We are not sure what is the procedure, but two things are certain:
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