hi guys, can anyone tell me how much football jerseys will be taxed? i tried looking it up, but i found it to be not taxable. however, i've heard of many, many stories of football jerseys bought online that got stopped by kastam.

so, how should i go about looking it up? i think i might've typed the wrong keyword or looked in the wrong place.

can anyone answer my question or guide me on where to look? i've looked in ATHN Duties Order 2004 and Customs Duties Order 1996 but i can't find it. but i do know for a fact that football jerseys get taxed.

small amounts usually won't get taxed.

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Added on January 23, 2008, 4:08 pmpolyester and cotton. anyway, i got taxed and the UPS people told me that clothings usually will get taxed 20% duties and 10% sales.

This post has been edited by subpar: Jan 23 2008, 04:08 PM

it was not for profit, it's personal. a bit unlucky lar :/

but to be very very safe, make sure it is not heavy...anything not more than 1kg for expensive clothes. if this is for personal use lar, for sale then i'm sure it's not a very economical way.

mine was 1.2 kg, and worth about RM450. but, as usual, kastam use a higher exchange rate and estimated my cost at RM520+! so 20% duties is calculated from their esitimation of the value of my items.

and the 10% sales tax is calculated from the sum of the 20% duties tax and their estimation of my items. sigh........

also, if you can bear the risk of losing the items, you could always choose normail airmail. at least you get to nego with the kastam. with UPS and other courier services, they will blindly pay for you first and then claim the tax money from you. so if you don't pay up, you don't get the item.