Buying from Germany - WTF is "MwSt"?

[wurlycorner]

Might have found a hose for my Xantia in Germany...

The cost breakdown is like this;
Sub-Total: 73,70 €
DHL (1 x 0.3 kg): 11,90 €
incl. 19% MwSt: 13,67 €
Total: 85,60

WTF is the "19%MwSt"?
It can't be an import duty or anything like that, because it's from inside the EU (thank heaven for us being part of that )
And;
The main listing for the part says that the advertised 73,70 € "incl. 19 % Tax", so it can't be that, surely?
Otherwise, it says it includes it, but then it charges the 19% again a second time, after adding on the delivery charge???

Or is it something else?

[indigolemon]

Let me ask a German

[W1ggz]

It just states it's including doesn't add it again

[Donald]

It's just the German word for their tax.

Mehrwertsteuer 19%.

Like here VAT 20% or whatever it is.


Also if you look at the price 73.70 and the delivery 11.90, you get your total 85.60. As W1ggz says, it isn't added a second time.

[Sailor]

Donald's right: it means 'more value tax'.
That is, it's a downright lie, just as vat is - more money = less value.
Still, at least it's a shade less than we pay here.

(For the dedicated accountants, Wikithing has a list of other countries' terms and abbreviations:-
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_U ... _added_tax)

[batkosio]

VAT, or Value Added Tax. State money from thin air in other words...

[wurlycorner]

Ah yes, I see now... too drokking tired at work this afternoon and fed up chasing round the globe for a poxy little bit of rubber to read it correctly first (or second) time round!

Reckon I'll give that one a go then. (how much does that work out in real money )

[W1ggz]

About £70