Tax Refund or return the tax paid in the countries of Europe

Eugene Yasakova sent an interesting article on how to properly return the tax when buying goods in the euro area. The fact that the stores we are paying a tax that foreigners supposed to return, and therefore, with the help of simple actions, I returned the 13% Apple TV cost purchased in Hamburg.

1. It is not even board a requirement. In total there will be two.
Before you go into the customs area, you need to check in and get your boarding pass.

2. Printing on tax free checks put in the customs area. The second requirement - for custom printing is also required to present the customs officer the goods themselves, for which you want to recover the tax. Better to be in the packages in which they are sold.

Therefore, if you are going to carry the purchased items in luggage, I think we need to do in the following sequence: to check in, but do not take luggage → immediately go into the customs area → → produce goods to get printed on receipts tax free → remove the box in a suitcase → their luggage.

3. It should arrive at the airport half an hour earlier than you had planned. Sometimes finding the customs area of ​​the airport is really easy.

4. store employees will be required to advise you to enter your data in advance checks. But I would advise not to rush into it. The checks are required to enter a name, passport number, address, and sign, it will take quite some time, and this can be done directly with the Customs officials. But if something goes wrong, for example, you accidentally purchase will pack in a suitcase and will hand luggage or will be late for your flight, your money will be able to get any person who is going abroad in the coming months.

5. Yes, money can be received within three months from the purchase in any country of the European Union, and not only there, where they purchased. And to do this can be the person whose data are listed in the check (customs officer checks them with the data in the passport).

6. After the customs officer will put the print on your tax free checks, you can go to the bank for the money. As well, the airport has a bank, zaimayuschegosya tax refunds. But the money you can get at home (for example, in Moscow is engaged in SMP Bank). So if you are late for your flight, you do not have to spend time on the refund at the airport.

If all goes well, and you returned the money at the airport, you can spend it immediately to the Duty Free :-)