Doing best man for my best friend next year and he has asked me to help with an aspect of the wedding.
A friend of his fiance who is in America and who cannot make the wedding wants to buy the wine as a present for them. She wants to purchase the wine in America and ship it over.
I have done a search and it seems 4 litres is the max you can bring in on a flight and after that things move into a different area.
The amount would be 50 bottles.
Can anybody explain to me the how the tax and import duty works in this situation, and also can I get a friend who is a restaurant owner and also a pub owner to accept the items on our behalf and does that have any tax implications etc for him..
Any advice is greatly appreciated as I am a bit lost as to how to sort this issue out, or even if somebody has another suggestion on how to get the wine in, legal of course. :0).
Many thanks, Conor.
A friend of his fiance who is in America and who cannot make the wedding wants to buy the wine as a present for them. She wants to purchase the wine in America and ship it over.
I have done a search and it seems 4 litres is the max you can bring in on a flight and after that things move into a different area.
The amount would be 50 bottles.
Can anybody explain to me the how the tax and import duty works in this situation, and also can I get a friend who is a restaurant owner and also a pub owner to accept the items on our behalf and does that have any tax implications etc for him..
Any advice is greatly appreciated as I am a bit lost as to how to sort this issue out, or even if somebody has another suggestion on how to get the wine in, legal of course. :0).
Many thanks, Conor.