Can customs access PayPal payment data
After buying an item internationally customs intercepted the package and was asking in its declaration form for the PayPal receipt if applicable. Falsifying such a receipt would be beyond easy, so, PayPal being an officially registered money service, does that mean they can next easily check with PayPal whether the provided information is valid (e.g. look up the transaction number in question)?
I presume that if they can this will likely be internationally handled to some extend as part of the greater international financial system that allows for international transactions, but if it's not then a distinction can be made between the US government and any government in general.
Just for the record: I am not interested in falsifying anything, I am just from a privacy point of view interested whether customs could access this kind of data.
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The answers depends from country to country. Custom's duty / declaration etc is specific to the country of export and country of Import.
If its physical goods being purchased, then the shipment has to have an invoice from the seller. This should would show the value of the goods being imported.
PayPal is one of the mechanism to settle the payment ... the invoice may have one or more way prescribed to make the payment. PayPal will not generate an Invoice.
Every country has regulation that can ask entities like PayPal to provide details of the payment. PayPal may or may not have the underlying transaction [i.e. knowledge of exchange of goods for the payment]. They can definitely provide the information if requested by the right authorities.
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