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Will i get my VAT back when i leave UK?

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I am a tourist, and I want to buy something online using a UK resident's credit card (this UK site does not accept any other countries' credit cards). So the name on the receipt is not my name for sure. I wonder if i could get my VAT back when i leave. Or if there any other ways to get my VAT back? I can't pay by cash online and the site does not have physical store.

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You can only get VAT back if you get the store operates the Tax Free Shopping schemes and gives you a tax refund form.

I suspect, in the circumstances you detail, that you won't get one.

How about seeing if the online store will deliver overseas? They should then not charge VAT.

For details of the Tax Free Shopping scheme see http://www.visitbritain.com/vb3-en/pract...