Sailing things right

15 November 2023

13:11 · original post in Telegram https://y-b.one/boat-life/93/

Short update:
I've sent all the money to the seller but have generally fucked up the process by choosing the wrong payment type which resulted 25% tax appied to the money at the border. So seller got 75% of them.

There are about 200 payment types available to me and about 30 are about "transferring personal money to another person". And the one I chose was actually about «I am a person doing business in Israel but not having «center of my life» in Israel, transferring funds abroad» which is a taxable transfer and taxes were applied. The name of the payment according to the Google Translate was «personal funds transfer». Literally. How in the world I could know the rest — idk.

So I came to the bank, explained situation and we started working on the resolution. Now the bank has to get approval from Tax Authority to refund me with these taxed money and send them the same way. Dunno how long it may take tho. Bank clerk told me that it may happen before my departure to the Spain which is planned to Nov 30.