Originally Posted by TacoMama
When shipping fabric, etc overseas/international, if you will check "gift", the receipent will NOT have to pay taxes on it is what I have been told.
In Vanuatu (not that anyone would ship there, but---), our post office allows $50.00 value as free of duty for a gift, but they also add in the postage to that $50.00-so, if the item is declared at $35.00, and postage was $25.00, the total value is $60.00 and over the gift limit, so they charge duty on the WHOLE amount!!But then again, this is Vanuatu, and they have no income tax, so they rip you off anyway they want.