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Old Jan 22, 2007 | 6:44 pm
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Originally Posted by oliver2002
dear dp,

rr can't write an invoice for you. He has to go back to the vendor and fill the form I mentioned above. Then when he/she leaves the country he has to show the phone and his passport (that has a non EU address in it) along with the same day BP to the customs officer and get a certification of export. This cert he then carries back to the vendor to get the refund.

If he doesn't have the required passport, you need to go to the german consulate in china and get a certification from them by showing your docs.

http://www.peking.diplo.de/Vertretun...st__seite.html

Oh, BTW, you have to do this within 90days of the original purchase.

RR writing an invoice doesn't work, unless he has a USt number for his business.

the probem is that the person who bought is, it not exporting the item.
person A bougth it and got the invoice one month ago. it will be exported next month so within the 3 month time period.

the question is, how can this be done, i think that if person A who bought it in germany, is selling it to me, than it is a EXPORT .
if you export something than you get the tax back. person B who is bringing it to me to shanghai is just the transporter, so the question is if a tax refund is allowed even if someone else is bringing the goods out of germany.

from my other post

The mobile phone was bought at a Eplus shop in germany.
it was bought bei Riegel Ruedi , invoice name is riegel ruedi
he did sell the phone to me
my friend peter pan will now take the phone to china for me

thats the tricky part. a normal cash refund is not difficult.

hope you can help !

dp
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