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True that... on a slightly unrelated subject, is it true that Apple deduct VAT refund down to 15% or thereabout? A friend visited London few monhts back and she wanted to buy an iPhone with Pounds being shit (she was literally laughing) and the effective 20% discount... Apple Covent Garden says that they would take a 5% handling fee to process her VAT refund, so effectively VAT refudn is only 15%. Isn't VAT refund sort of just done at the airport with showing receipts and maybe items?
I challenged them about what does their 'processing' entail, do we get the money back on the spot, and they said all they'd do is give us a VAT receipt so we get our money bakc at the airport, isn't that kind of the same as the till receipt?
ExTra
Not even that, we are not allowed to buy direct from Apple anymore...