Strana 5
you go to E-day to get the S-199s and the MiGs,
you will definitely not be disappointed.
In my editorial in the last newsletter,
I promised you that the sale of the book for the
100th BG would start in June, and unfortunately
I am not able to keep this promise. The reason,
I would say, is administrative. It turned out that
we do not have the option to set synch the VAT
for books in our data transfer system from the
e-shop to the accounting and invoicing system.
It may seem like an easily solved issue to you,
and it probably is a relatively easily solved issue,
but it is precisely these types of issues that can
cause significant damage. Here in the Czech
Republic, this is not a fundamental problem,
we have zero VAT on books. At least for now,
I am afraid that sooner or later some minister
of finance will think that something needs to
be done about it and make some money from
it. The current problem is in the ingenious OSS
system, which is the charging of VAT from sales
in the e-shop to EU countries. This means that
when selling to individual EU countries, we
have to charge customers the VAT of the given
country, and in each country, customers, their
citizens, have to pay the charged VAT to each EU
country once every 3 months. Payment is made
through the clearing center, and a statement is
sent showing how much money is to be sent to
each country. Just to ensure that it is not all to
easy and to ensure that all countries report this
properly, we have thirteen different rates for
books in the EU, starting with the zero Czech rate
and ending with the 18 percent as the Hungarian
rate. When this madness broke out years ago,
we made a mistake and had the option of setting
only one VAT rate for each country programmed
into our two interconnected systems. We
somehow overlooked the possibility of multiple
rates at the time, and now we have caught up
on that oversight. We ordered the modifications,
but don't ask how much it will cost, and I don't
know when it will be ready, debugged and
initiated, I hope it might be ready by August.
I hereby apologize for my mistake, and I promise
that we will start selling immediately as soon as
this precarious situation is resolved. You know,
regulations must be followed, order must be
maintained!
It's like those little swastikas. In some
countries they are allowed to be in pictures,
and in others they are not. We have already
explained how we deal with this - to some
customer displeasure, we do not put them on
our boxart at all. But now something unpleasant
has happened to us. The author of the box art
on the Bf 110 D painted swastikas on the tails
of both flying Bf 110 Ds. Nice, double-lined,
really precisely done. A joy to look at. The
product manager who was supposed to catch
it didn't, and about eight other people who
could have noticed it, didn't, which is quite
unlikely, but unlikely things just happen, and so
we have boxes with a total of eight swastikas
on them. Which is ripe for throwing the boxes
away and reprinting them. Of course, this is
bad for the environment and uneconomical,
so my colleagues decided to cover the
hackneyed boxes. Katka made up stickers, nice,
camouflaged ones, and our gentlemen covered
the boxes that are supposed to be sold in the
EU with stickers covering the offending symbols.
The boxes that are supposed to go to countries
outside the EU, or rather to countries that have
not completely banned the representation of
the symbol, are not covered. I'm looking forward
to someone in the warehouse changing them
over, sending the covered boxes to Japan, and
the uncovered boxes to Germany. And you, my
friends, especially don't tear off the stickers.
On the one hand, you'll be breaking the law, and
on the other hand, you'll be depriving yourself of
a future rarity. You know how it is with stamps
or coins. The most valuable ones are those that
someone once printed with a mistake, and then
reprinted it as best they could. There's a certain
probability that something similar will happen
with building kits. So consider these painted
Bf 110 Ds as a great and amazing investment
opportunity! Of course, they won't be easy to get,
as you probably remember from the introduction
to this article, Bf 110 Ds are currently sold
out and unavailable, and when they become
available again, they’ll be gone very soon.
If this sounds like a Donald Trump crypto-
savvy move, no, it really isn't. You can't make
that kind of money on hackenkruezes, even
if you piled eighty-eight of them onto that box.
Happy Modelling
Vladimir Sulc
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IN JUNE, OUR RANGE OF 3D PRINTERS WAS SIGNIFICANTLY EXPANDED.
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July 2025