Go to Europe and fill your car boot or van up with whatever you want and come back to UK with it.
Go around bars and off-licences and see if anyone wants it. (ie you are not selling it at this point)
If you do get any interest start taking orders. eg 50 bottles from each one. Have a reasonable minimum.
Import straight into a bonded warehouse (duty is not paid until it leaves the warehouse, ie only once you have made a sale. So if you brought in 1000 bottles you may pay on 100 once sold and left then 50 then 250 etc etc rather than the duty on 1000 all in one go before any sales have been made. Obviously you pay to store in a bonded warehouse but nothing like paying the tax up front and finding you can't shift it. It is almost like pay as you go tax)
Dan
Bonded warehouses are often at ports and they take delivery straight off the ship into the warehouse. These are like mini Free Trade Zones
Go around bars and off-licences and see if anyone wants it. (ie you are not selling it at this point)
If you do get any interest start taking orders. eg 50 bottles from each one. Have a reasonable minimum.
Import straight into a bonded warehouse (duty is not paid until it leaves the warehouse, ie only once you have made a sale. So if you brought in 1000 bottles you may pay on 100 once sold and left then 50 then 250 etc etc rather than the duty on 1000 all in one go before any sales have been made. Obviously you pay to store in a bonded warehouse but nothing like paying the tax up front and finding you can't shift it. It is almost like pay as you go tax)
Dan
Bonded warehouses are often at ports and they take delivery straight off the ship into the warehouse. These are like mini Free Trade Zones
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