How do they calculate the 300CHF limit on game? The ammo is less than €10...
Am I reading the Zoll regulations correctly - if I cross the border with game (~100kg, or two boars), then there are no taxes to pay on the meat?
I’m pretty sure they calculate it as a set price per kilo of meat.
Can’t remember how much it was though.i guess if it’s less than 30th per kilo you’ll be ok, or you could take another person with you and claim a boar each.
Pick up a hitchhiker!
Not sure what an extra person would do...
Two cleaned boars should be close to 100kg, not 10kg...
Correct, import is free and no limit on the value but 2.5% VAT will be due if you're above 300.- value for each grownup. 300.- is equivalent to "less than 43kg boar" according to the flyer at the bottom of this page by Grisons canton, hence the advice to have company.
I believe the limit is checked individually rather than on average, so if one boar is 40kg and the other 45kg they could act difficult for the heavier one with two grownups in the car (perhaps unless they live in the same household).
Hang on, so if you go out and kill something you can import more meat than if you bought it in a shop?
Only game. And I don't think you need to kill it yourself.
Amazing, thank you!! (edit - can't seem to see the referene to 43kg, am I blind?)
The boar(s) wouldn't be whole (SWMBO would put me in the freezer instead of the boar if I started butchering at home...
The hunting lodges usually butcher and vacuum seal for you... The largest piece would be the hind leg(s), which I usually ask to turn into ham
The way I understand it you need some sort of disease certificate a veterinary inspection if you want to task a domestic butcher. So you want to have *everything* done abroad.
As for the value per kg, you're right it's not on the flyer, and I don't recall where I saw that. But that's probably of little relevant anyways since you buy the meat (your "ammo costs €10" indicated to me that you'd hunt them yourself). When you buy, the total cost is what counts (including butchering, cost to dispose of the waste, etc). Make sure your official price is resonable, otherwise the authorities may apply what they deem fair if you get checked. For that I'd enquire with the Swiss border personnel anyways, e.g. on your way there or beforehand by email. Though 100kg clean is bound to be beyond the limit either way.
How do you prove it is game?
Sorry, I misread the 100kg as 10kg.
Is this thread going to go off-topic into one moaning about how small Swiss freezers are?
Not unless you start it going down that hill...