Catpiano

Yes .. but .. then .. it is also kind of useless ..

Everytime I go HK ..  I will declare my lao top .. camera .. etc ..

So .. I did it as usual last time .   but then the LADY said " do you have RECEIPT TO PROVE THAT YOU BOUGHT THEM IN CANADA ? "

I said " no .  who will BRING ALL RECEIPTS with himself??   They are OLD CAMERA ..  how can I keep ALL RECEIPT, and ALWAYS WITH ME, now you see it, wrote down the serial number ..  so which mean it is FROM Canada"

She said " no .. what if you bought this from OUTSIDE CANADA before?? if you cannot PROVE that was purchased in CANADA, custom can still tax you, no matter it is new or not, first time you bring it OUTSIDE of CANADA or NOT"

Then I asked her again " so why do I do the declare then? and why it askes for the serial number? "

She said again " well .. it is just the process, it won't help you ANYTHING, and custom can still charge you DUTY and TAX on the items you ALREADY declared"

I was ............

Anyway ..  I did it ..  but I have heard so many stupid story from stup_d Canadian Custom ..   

Friend of my .. his omega ... is still in Custom's hand .. he bought it in Canada many many year ago .. but custom wanted to charge him duty+tax, and he refused .. so they took his omega ...   

Catpiano

Actually ..   "ebay" is a good answer ..

Again .. it PURELY depend on your luck .  if the custom wants to tax u . what can u do??

Flight with him? argue with him? you will be the one who will lose ..  

When I did declare for my electronic ..  ( with my wife )  my wife said she has the receipts at home etc ..    then that lady gave her tough time .  and then I told her, I got all my stuffs from ebay, ( ebay.ca )  then she was ok, and said " oh .. cool, good stuff from ebay! "

well ..   what can i say??

And how hard to make a receipt for second hand item??