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Originally Posted by kleykenb
From my little experience in this area I think that :
1) People in France will have to add VAT to that price but they will pay little for shipping and no importing rights.
2) People elsewhere will pay extra for shipping and importing rights
3) people living in the EC will benefit from the Schengen deal, those outside will not.
Ironically I think those that will be worst off will be those outside EC and outside the VS, they might not even get access to the device because it's really not all that high-tech a device and therefor pricepoint is definately important.
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That's not entirely correct. If you are selling a product within the European Union, you have to charge your own local VAT rate to all customers within the EU. Everyone in the EU will, therefore, be charged the French VAT rate of 19.6% (but will not have to pay any import duty). Customers outside the EU will
not be charged VAT, but will have to pay the appropriate local taxes when they take delivery of the product.
Whether you are "better" or "worse" off being outside the EU therefore depends on whether your local taxes are higher or lower than the French VAT rate of 19.6%.