is vat charged on a parcel coming into the eu and how much are we talking
#eu 2025-10-06
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- amsterdam_aliquot — in germany the split is privat versus kasse. a private prescription means you pay the pharmacy price yourself and when i checked last year that was a lot 16:41
- nordic_price_nils — a swedish member put their monthly cost at roughly double what a polish member was paying, as of last year 16:42
- warsaw_vial — a german member reported paying around 300 euros a month privately in 2024. one person, one dose, one pharmacy 18:17
the cheapest eu route a member found was a local pharmacy with a local prescription, which is no help if you have neither
in germany the split is privat versus kasse. a private prescription means you pay the pharmacy price yourself and when i checked last year that was a lot
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a swedish member put their monthly cost at roughly double what a polish member was paying, as of last year
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nordic prices look brutal, is that real or is that just what gets reported
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i had one pharmacy in another eu country refuse a foreign prescription and one accept it, same month, same paperwork
send both languages
write simple english
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follow up the price for the same dose in two eu countries differed by about forty percent in the one careful comparison i have seen in here
the language thing improved a lot when i stopped using idioms, and that was the actual fix, for what its worth
a member reported reimbursement under a national scheme for diabetes and flatly not for weight, and that was the pattern across several countries
check the date on that
a prescription from one member state is meant to be recognised in another under the cross border rules. whether the pharmacist knows that is another matter
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amsterdam_aliquota member reported reimbursement under a national scheme for diabetes and flatly not…
spain, is it pharmacy only and what does it come to
privat means you pay
varies by pharmacy
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translate your message and send both versions. that got me answers when english alone had not
has anyone crossed a border specifically to buy it
right so ema approval is a licence, not a payment decision. every member state decides reimbursement separately and they do not agree with each other, someone check my working
vat on imports from outside the eu applied from a very low threshold when i last imported, and the carrier handling fee was bigger than the vat
i order about six weeks ahead because a customs delay inside the eu still cost me 9 days once
parcels entering the eu get assessed at the first point of entry rather than at your own border, which caught me out badly
statutory insurance in germany did not cover it for weight when i last read about it. for the diabetes indication it was a different conversation
a german member reported paying around 300 euros a month privately in 2024. one person, one dose, one pharmacy
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a member in spain said their pharmacy price was lower than germany when they compared in 2024, and i cannot verify that
nordics are brutal
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transit inside the eu was 24 days for me door to door, which is faster than anything i have had from outside it
any figure in this channel should be read as the month somebody typed it, not as the price today
cross border in theory
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sorry to jump in anyone in sweden or denmark want to compare notes
three working days
handling fee is worse than vat