More Brexit of small things.

News came over the weekend that small value selling platforms like Etsy and Ebay are going to have real trouble with Brexit.

It seems new UK tax rules puts the onus on the seller to pay the "Brexit tax" on items below about £145, meaning registering with the HMRC with a tax number and so on, the tax is paid oon the value of the item and the postage, which can be double or triple of the value of the item.

Most sellers look at the process and give up. Money is refunded, but the sale is lost.

Just as bad going the other way as a tax declaration must be put on packages.

The same is true for transactons between NI and Britain, many UK companies have just given up shipping to the EU and NI, and the same the other way too.

Meaning that for Britains, the supply of many things, including spare parts for EU manufactured cars, motorbikes and so on will be difficult and more expensive. Same is true for car retailers and repair shops, they can no longer have stock sent simply from an EU warehouse or central store.

Things can still be done, but will involve an extra step and/or extra cost.

People are finding that they have been stopped from boarding a plane to Spain to stay in their holiday home as they don't have the right paperwork or visa. These are some of the people who were told Brexit would not affect them.

Pet passports have been stopped, and instead each trip with a pet will have to be applied for, a cost of about £140 each trip.

Although International Drving Permits will not now be needed, an insurance green card will, and travel insurance, once your EU card 111 has run out. We could have carried on being members of the scheme, but Brexiteers imagined health tourism in the NHS, so stopped EU citizens from using it, so we lose that right too.

Bastards.