I was dealing with Roan and Jeffrey Peeters Roan van Diepenbeek.
It's coming to the crunch now though. I have received the delivery notification and forms to complete from Gerlach who I think operate on behalf of DHL for customs clearance. Not that I appointed them or asked for that.
They are asking for a lot of info I don't know how to supply and have a ridiculous sheet of charges I have to agree to, which will total more than the VAT and duty. So I'm questioning them on that because it seems unreasonable - with using their deferment account could be some ~250.
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I currently have a cash CDS account, I did not sign up for a deferment account because it takes 30 days with various financial paperwork with a wavier. Import declarations elsewhere seem to be £15-20 not 75. Does anyone have experience with this part? I had planned to use someone else but this has all happened without me requesting.
The HMRC website is very disjointed for this and appears to offer no way to do an import declaration without using specialist software. The only declaration you can make on HMRC directly is for when you are bringing it with you over the border (
https://www.gov.uk/bringing-goods-into-uk-personal-use/declaring-goods). When I called HMRC, they didn't have a clue, and scheduled a call back which I never received.
The whole whole thing seems to be missing a simple route for one-off individual imports.