European shopping tax refund process:

1. Before deciding to purchase, just check whether there are the following marks on the door and window of the store and ask whether the store can issue a tax refund. one. This is a receipt printed by a professional tax refund company with their company name on it.

2. After getting the tax refund form, fill in your name, home address, nationality and passport number. The product name, amount and shopping date will be filled in by the store staff.

3. When leaving the country, submit the purchased unopened items and the tax refund forms filled with personal information to the customs office for review. Be sure to confirm that each tax refund form has a customs stamp. This is The steps are very important;

4. At the airport, you can see the "GLOBAL Blue" counter. Customers can use the tax refund form stamped with customs and their passport to apply for credit cards or cash rebates at the final checkpoint of departure. , if you are in transit or in transit, you cannot apply for tax refund (note: when you go to the customs for tax refund, you need to show the purchased items and cannot open them before you can apply for tax refund).

Extended information:

Tax refund method 1. In the store. In a store with a TAX FREE SHOPPING sign, show your passport to the salesperson

to prove your non-EU resident status. Simultaneous purchases in the same store for no less than 40 euros. Request a Global Refund Check.

2. Pass through customs. When leaving the EU from Finland, it will be stamped at the airport tax refund point to make it effective. When leaving the country in other EU countries, please present your passport, purchase receipt and tax refund check to the customs officer in the country of final departure. The customs officer will stamp your tax refund check to make it valid.

3. Get tax refund. When leaving the EU country, collect tax refunds in cash (such as euros, renminbi, etc.) at the airport cash refund counter (CASH REFUND); or send the stamped global tax refund check back to the branch of the Global Return Group at the shopping destination. The tax refund will be sent in the form of a bank check to the detailed address stated on the tax refund check, or directly to a designated international credit card account.

Notes

1. If you put the purchased items in your checked luggage, please present your tax refund check to the staff when checking in and ask for a stamp.

2. If you do not get a tax refund at the departure airport for some reason after completing the check-in formalities, you will still have the opportunity to do so in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and other places after returning to China.

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