{"id":543315,"date":"2026-07-10T20:38:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T20:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/543315\/"},"modified":"2026-07-10T20:38:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T20:38:09","slug":"new-online-charge-now-triggering-a-e10-cost-doherty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/543315\/","title":{"rendered":"New online charge now triggering a \u20ac10 cost &#8211; Doherty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Donegal Deputy Pearse Doherty has claimed online shoppers are being hit with a \u20ac10 charge on small items.<br \/>The Sinn F\u00e9in spokesperson on Finance, said the \u20ac3 tax on small parcels is triggering an additional \u20ac7 charge.<\/p>\n<p>Teachta Doherty said \u201cAt the start of the month online shoppers were hit with a new EU-wide \u20ac3 customs charge.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis has been a nasty shock for many people since it came in.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt has been even worse than expected as instead of \u20ac3 people are being hit with a \u20ac10 charge.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is because for many items the \u20ac3 customs charge is triggering a \u20ac7 An Post admin fee.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is not the fault of An Post as they are being asked to take on more and more work collecting taxes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAn Post opposed the introduction of the initial charge saying it would have a \u2018severe impact\u2019.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Deputy Doherty said the EU \u20ac3 small parcel tax puts all the burden and responsibility on ordinary people and postal services member states while letting online giants like Shein and Temu off the hook.<\/p>\n<p class=\"font-sans font-semibold text-xl md:text-[30px] leading-9 text-primary w-full\">\n        You may also be interested in\n    <\/p>\n<p>            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.donegaldaily.com\/news\/liffords-oldest-resident-eileen-mcdevitt-celebrates-106th-birthday-641270\" class=\"block w-2\/5 shrink-0\" aria-label=\"Lifford&#039;s oldest resident Eileen McDevitt celebrates 106th birthday\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>        <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/lifford-039-s-oldest-resident-eileen-mcdevitt-celebrates-106th-birthday.png\" class=\"max-w-full w-full h-full object-contain relative z-10\" width=\"150\" height=\"84\"  alt=\"Lifford's oldest resident Eileen McDevitt celebrates 106th birthday\" \/><\/p>\n<p>            <\/a><\/p>\n<p>            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.donegaldaily.com\/sport\/donegal-under-20s-ladies-seek-all-ireland-glory-against-galway-641187\" class=\"block w-2\/5 shrink-0\" aria-label=\"Donegal Under 20s Ladies seek All-Ireland glory against Galway\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>        <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/donegal-under-20s-ladies-seek-all-ireland-glory-against-galway.jpg\" class=\"max-w-full w-full h-full object-contain relative z-10\" width=\"150\" height=\"84\"  alt=\"Donegal Under 20s Ladies seek All-Ireland glory against Galway\" \/><\/p>\n<p>            <\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf this charge was applied at source, it would not trigger the extra \u20ac7.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInstead of holding these corporations to account the EU is dumping all the responsibility on ordinary people by applying badly designed taxes on individual items.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSinn F\u00e9in have raised serious concerns with the government before the introduction of the \u20ac3 charge.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe European Commission needs to go back to the drawing board and suspend this charge. We need to see the Irish government actively using their influence to make this happen.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Donegal Deputy Pearse Doherty has claimed online shoppers are being hit with a \u20ac10 charge on small items.The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":543316,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,61,60],"class_list":["post-543315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=543315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543315\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/543316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=543315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=543315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=543315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}