taking extra liquor to BC Canada

[Imagone]

I was wondering if you take extra liquor above your limit do you end up paying duty on all your amount or just the 2 extra bottles into BC. I know you pay 100% over the price of the bottles
Thanks for any information

[Mootpoint]

Gruffy wrote:
Duty??? I think not. We have free trade.

Unless it was liquor from a foreign source you pay EXCISE TAX, then sales tax. In the case of some provinces, Ontario, for example there is a "border crossing fee" .... in Ontario's case $15.00 a bottle.

Might want to check that. It should be close to the same across the country I would think.

[Wrong_Lane]

You only pay on the excess above your duty free limit.

The amount you pay varies from province to province. In some provinces part of the import fee includes a provincial liquor fees and that varies depending on each jurisdiction.

Here in my neck of the woods you pay an extra $1.00 for each 12 oz can or bottle of beer. 12 beer pay the border guy $12.00

The rule of thumb for wine is you will pay taxes equal to the original price of the bottle. So if you pay $7.00 for a jug of wine, the border guys will collect about $7.00 in fees. That is a rough rule and actual results will vary by a few percentage points depending on alcohol percentage and country of origin.

Hard stuff (Rum, vodka etc) is a different kettle of fish!! I our case it is not even worth considering. A 1.5 liter bottle of fire water attracts $42.00 in fees at the border, over and above what you paid at the store. I can by a 1.5 here for under $40.00.

Next time you cross the border stop in the office and they will be glad to work out the amounts for you based on real world pricing.

[John___Angela]

Just crossed with 24 extra bottles of wine and it cost us an extra 1.91 per bottle on the two dollar Walmart variety. Seems to me there was three separate taxes on the slip.

Happy trails.

[silversand]

Very few countries have REAL free trade.

....except for the ENTIRE EU (that is: MOST of Western Europe): border crossing formalities have vanished entirely. THAT is "free trade". What we have in North America (the NAFTA: Mexico, USA, Canada) is utter BS. There IS NO free trade in North America entre the countries actually making up North America. We never had it. It will NEVER exist.

Imagine being able to drive from Saskatchewan to the Guatemala border without seeing a border station? That is what Europe has; this will never happen here on this side of the Pond. Never. Not in 10 years, 50 years, or in a Century.

Silver-

[moisheh]

There are still hudreds if not thousands of items from the USA that are subject to duty. Sometimes they are countervailing duties and sometimes just very minimal duties. But they exist. There are also items that are not allowed due to marketing boards. Free Trade is like Reality Show. Very few countries have REAL free trade. Heck , in Canada we do not have free trade between provinces. Milk cannot cross borders without permits. Wine cannot be taken from one province to another.

Moisheh

Moisheh

[Gruffy]

kaydeejay wrote:

Gruffy wrote:
Duty??? I think not. We have free trade.

Unless it was liquor from a foreign source you pay EXCISE TAX, then sales tax. In the case of some provinces, Ontario, for example there is a "border crossing fee" .... in Ontario's case $15.00 a bottle.

So why are the stores at the border called "Duty free" then :@

Because the carry products NOT MADE IN THE USA ....

It costs money to change the sign and as this thread proves most of us don't understand that the concept of "free trade" applies to us, as well as business.

[kaydeejay]

Gruffy wrote:
Duty??? I think not. We have free trade.

Unless it was liquor from a foreign source you pay EXCISE TAX, then sales tax. In the case of some provinces, Ontario, for example there is a "border crossing fee" .... in Ontario's case $15.00 a bottle.

So why are the stores at the border called "Duty free" then :@

[Imagone]

Thanks for the quick answers-when I phoned a few years ago they told me it came to 150% of the price of the bottle for BC. but I wasn't sure if included all your liquor when over the limit. Nice to know it doesn't.

[Gruffy]

Duty??? I think not. We have free trade.

Unless it was liquor from a foreign source you pay EXCISE TAX, then sales tax. In the case of some provinces, Ontario, for example there is a "border crossing fee" .... in Ontario's case $15.00 a bottle.

[kaydeejay]

Imagone wrote:
I was wondering if you take extra liquor above your limit do you end up paying duty on all your amount or just the 2 extra bottles into BC. I know you pay 100% over the price of the bottles
Thanks for any information

Duty is payable on the excess.
A word of caution - don't even THINK about not declaring - I watched a family car get confiscated when an extra undeclared bottle was discovered during a secondary inspection.

[mamestra]

My bill was only on the amount that I was over and duty ran at 50% of the declared value.

[danoren]

My logic says -Only on the extra ,unless you do not declare....