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    UE per imporre una tassa di € 2 su articoli a basso costo in Blow a Temu e Shein

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    1. WeirdKittens on

      Can we like… not?

      If the issue is the burden on customs, maybe return to the previous status where everything under some value was exempt and there were random checks? All major platforms already collect and pay the VAT anyway.

    2. Weak_Individual6474 on

      >The proposal was presented to the EU’s college of commissioners last week by its budget chief Piotr Serafin as one of multiple options for additional revenues to the EU budget.

      >The commission is under pressure to find direct funding streams, as opposed to money from member state governments, to pay off the joint borrowing used to create its €800bn post-Covid economic recovery fund.

      >The package levy “is not going to raise an enormous sum of money but every little helps”, according to a person briefed on the college discussion. “And it shows initiative and deals with an issue many are concerned about.”

      Yes, let’s penny-pinch the poor that try to get some good deals instead of taxing the rich or closing tax haven loopholes. What a horribly regressive tax.

    3. LotKnowledge0994 on

      Very nice. The “de minimis” loophole is absolutely lawless and allows for fraud to occur at mass scale. Plus this will hurt the microplastics business.

    5. Aces115 on

      They already plan on removing the duties exemption and now they are also adding 2€ per parcel? Lovely work taxing the average person even more. I’m sure the people will love this.

    6. Strikingly-Mediocre on

      Damn. I use AliExpress for all those great low-cost cables, plugs and repair components that cost 8x more in the shops here.

    8. eddieltu on

      Fuck Temu, fuck everyone buying from that shithole. I’ve seen the amounts of parcels these people order, and it’s not a good thing to look. I am glad they will be taxed to hell.

    9. Thelaea on

      So it’s going to be a tiny bit less cheap to import unneccesary chinese crap? And they’ve come up with a simple way to do this? Seems like a good idea to me. 2€ is incredibly cheap though, I wonder if it will even cover the cost of customs dealing with the packages. Nor will it really discourage ordering, though it might make people think twice about placing a fuckton of separate orders for single items as this is per package.

    10. xiaopewpew on

      Great change but 2 euros flat fee is too much for poorer parts of EU and too little for richer parts of EU.

    11. fnv_fan on

      So, we already pay VAT on goods from AE, Temu and Shein and now we have to pay an additional €2?

    12. BMP83 on

      Let’s face it, packing and shipping a single 20 cent screw from China is not the most sustainable thing.

    14. Senes_ on

      time to open some Ireland HQ to avoid taxes in EU market i guess.

    15. Dr_Chack on

      Long overdue, even tho I often ordered from AliExpress from China. The manpower required in customs is unsustainable checking millions of parcels for fraudulent labels at just a few cents each.

    17. BalianofReddit on

      What’s the tax actually levied on, though?

      Can’t just be “because low cost”

    19. Unbreakable2k8 on

      It’s essentially 2 EUR fee per package for inexpensive items. Hard to see how that will make a difference.

    20. Flames57 on

      so, basically the same idea as the Trump tariffs on China/asian cheap products

    21. Beneficial-Unit-7780 on

      a new tax, later many will wonder why I oppose the EU government

    22. gramcounter on

      >”The European Commission draft proposal, seen by the Financial Times, says the €2 fee would apply to purchases sent to consumers, but that items sent to warehouses would be taxed at €0.50.”

      “rise in complaints by EU retailers of unfair competition.”

      This is anti-consumer and pro-business (pro-importer) legislation. Do not let the European Union trick you.

      And notice “EU retailers” not “EU manufacturers”. This is about middlemen being upset that people can order things directly from China instead of making the middleman rich in the process.

      This is a regressive tax.

    23. cookiesnooper on

      Even on those that have no European alternatives? It’s just a money grab from the poorest…again.

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