DARE DUTY FREE WITH COCOBLANC!
If you are not a resident of French Polynesia, you can take advantage of tax-free sales under certain conditions. You will then benefit from the 16% VAT exemption on all your purchases at COCOBLANC, and will only pay the amount of your purchases excluding tax.
All you need to do is follow a simple procedure and meet a few conditions:
- Non-residents of French Polynesia
- Achieve a minimum purchase of 15,000 xpf (incl. VAT) of merchandise
- Present us with your passport and your plane ticket proving your departure within a maximum of 6 months.
- Undertake to complete the compulsory formalities required to validate the complete tax-free process (see below).
On the day of your departure from French Polynesia, the formalities are as follows:
- Keep your purchases with you, not in your suitcase, so that you can present them when asked by customs at Tahiti International Airport.
- After passing passport and security checks, time-stamp the 2 copies of the Bordereau de Vente à l'Exportation (export sales note) you received and completed when purchasing from COCOBLANC using the self-service time-stamping machine.
- Simply slip pink copy no. 2 into the stamped envelope provided by COCOBLANC, and drop it in the nearby letterbox. The second copy (yellow) should be kept with you in case of a customs check before boarding.
Your departure from the territory is then official, and you are exempt from any taxes due on your purchases.
ATTENTION: if you do not complete these formalities, you will be liable for taxes amounting to 16% of the amount excluding VAT of your purchases from COCOBLANC and will have to regularize.