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Old Jan 23, 2007 | 3:15 am
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Originally Posted by derpelikan
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
As I said in the other thread it will not work. The first buyer of the phone got a proper tax invoice. He/she is entitled to a tax refund, either domestically when buying the phone (simplified) for business purposes or internationally when exporting it. From what I understood he did neither of this but sold sold the phone to a third party without being entitled to show the VAT portion on any invoice. The phone was originally bought by a consumer and this consumer kept the phone domestically before he sold it to another consumer. No VAT portion included in the purchase price.
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