If you receive a parcel from a member state of the EU, there is no need for you to pay VAT or customs duty. Yet, at the same time, you have to be prepared for dealing with one of the numerous autonomic regions inside different countries of the EU, like for example the Channel Islands in Great Britain and Aland in Finland, in which case VAT will be added in very much the same way it is done with consignments coming from third countries.

Also for the sending of parcels to these autonomic regions, the same customs procedures which apply for destination countries outside of the European Union need to be followed.

• Autonomic regions of Spain
  Ceuta, Melilla, Canary Islands


• Autonomic regions of France
  French Guyana, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Reunion, Mayotte, Saint Pierre and Miquelon


• Autonomic regions of Great Britain
  Anguilla, Bermuda, British Territory in the Indian Ocean, British Virgin Island, Caiman Islands, Falkland Islands, Gibraltar, Channel Islands (Guernsey, Jersey, Alderney, Herm and Sark), Isle of Man, Montserrat, Pitcairn Island, Saint Helena, Southern-Georgia, Turks and Caicos


• Autonomic regions of Denmark
  Faroe Islands and Greenland


• Autonomic regions of the Netherlands
  The Netherlands Antilles


• Autonomic regions of Italy
  Administration units of Livigno and Campione d’Italia and the part of the Lake of Lugano which belongs to Italy and which is located between the national border and the shoreline between Ponte Tresa and Porto Ceresio


• Autonomic regions of Germany
  The Island of Helgoland and the Territory of Büsingen


• Autonomic region of Finland
  Aland

It does not make a difference, from which country you buy your goods from an internet shop, what counts is from which country the consignment is sent to you. For example, if you bought your merchandise from an internet shop with a .uk ending, whose operating enterprise, however, is registered on the Channel Islands, then you will still have to pay VAT upon the receipt of the parcel, if its value exceeds 21.98 Euros.