VAT tax paid by non-Europeans?

[Chowderhead1972]

Please help me understand why I have to pay VAT tax in the USA? The US does not tax or tarrif exports to your or any other country for that matter. Why would you tax us? We don't use your roads nor fill your schools yet you tax us as if we do. You are the only company that seems to do this that I have found anyhow.

Based on the research that I have done the VAT is only supposed to be charged in the case of European consumption. I would figure we would have paid our debt for that little Boston incident a few hundred years ago by now.

In the US Constitution article 1 Section 9 states:"No Tax or Duty shall be laid on Articles exported from any State."

 

[Chowderhead1972]

Apparently I have answered my own question with this:HM Revenue & Customs

IT's NOT LEGAL See article 2.2 in the link.

 

[Lisaf01]

You're not being penalised or singled out - all our prices include VAT.
Her Majesty's Customs & Excise (HMRC) will not accept our Royal mail postage receipts as acceptable proof of export and if acceptable proof of export is not provided, the VAT cannot be deducted from the sales price. Until their system changes, or our system changes, we are unable to deduct the VAT for non-EU purchases.