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Old Nov 6, 2025 | 9:01 am
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Originally Posted by slickvik
After Global Blue took its cut and plus dynamic currency conversion for returning funds to a credit card, I got back 14.21469% in Norway. Out of 25% VAT. So Global Blue's cut was 43.14123%.
Yeah, pretty big rake. For France it was about the same . . . got ~ 56% of the VAT back. Still worth doing, but there sure is a high effective processing fee.
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