From: JF 
Newsgroups: uk.finance
Subject: Re: Reclaiming VAT on US online purchase
Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2005 18:45:22 +0100

In message <7v78c197moo37fjfeil8ieg375rsie02rp@4ax.com>, Marcel Cook 
 writes

>If I am UK VAT registered, and purchase some software from a US online
>store - can I claim it back? When I go to the checkout it certainly
>says I'm going to be taxed 17.5% on top of the base price.

I've never even bothered to try. AFAIA, the USA does not operate a 
VAT/IVA system and US retailers certainly don't issue VAT receipts 
showing their VAT number etc.
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James Follett. Novelist. (G1LXP) http://www.jamesfollett.dswilliams.co.uk