Today we were discussing this issue in my father’s in law house, yes how come our airport got a duty free shops and our country doesn’t apply taxes?! i went to Wikipedia and double checked “Duty free” definition and came out with this:
Duty Free shops: Duty-free shops (or stores) are retail outlets that do not apply local or national taxes and duties.
Can anyone clarify this to me?!
as far as i know in kuwait there is a 5% charge for customes
Duty Free is more of a concept .
it is located only in airports<<from what i’ve seen.
and it’s just a brand name just like WALMART.
their prices are high anyways so they end up paying taxes to countries that force it and they don’t for the ones that don’t .
it’s well known world wide .. so the expansion to non-taxed countries was just business not a necessity
that’s it.
yup exaclty like lfc mentioned .. a 5% charge is added to goods sold in kuwait .. so perfumes and make-up is cheaper to buy in the airport
Hmm .. well i never thought of it, but now that u mentioned it i do know that they take customs duties in Kuwait as lfc-q8 mentioned ! so the goods that are bought at duty free do not attract the usual government customs duties
I think they’re just put a duty free because the other airports have one or because most people buying from the duty-free usually buy from it because of taxes, they dont(?) know that Kuwait doesn’t have taxes…does the 2nd part make sense?
nice issue that we didn’t think of ever :p
well I believe that DutyFree shops in q8 are so expensive in general .. and they are not duty free at all even from the 5% mentioned .. but it’s LIZOM EL KASH’7A
Do you even call the duty free in Kuwait a Duty Free.
On my last trip i wanted to buy a magazine to read during my flight and they told me they dont sell it IN the duty free you should have bought it from OUTSIDE (before the security thing)
Overall i think the kuwait duty free is like a baqalla compared to Hethrow duty free or even dubai duty free.
The goods are sold minus 5% import duties. You can buy stuff only on the way out…and not on the way in…at least that’s what they told me the one time I tried it..
hahahaha … you know what … i never thought about it … and you are right …. but hey some friends told me that u get cheaper stuff there, whatever they r doing it is getting u cheaper stuff
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