Is it illegal to help people buy?

If purchasing goes through normal procedures and pays normal taxes and fees, it is not illegal and will not constitute the crime of smuggling ordinary goods and articles. If online buyers deliberately evade customs inspection, or pass customs inspection in the name of their own use, but are actually used for sales, strictly speaking, they are all acts of evading customs duties and are suspected of smuggling. Those who constitute this crime are generally sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years or criminal detention, and a fine of not less than one time but not more than five times the tax payable.

Generally speaking, purchasing is to find someone to help you buy the goods you need. The reason can be that the goods can't be bought locally, and the price of local goods is more expensive than other regions. It can also be to save personal time and cost and ask someone to buy it for you and deliver it to your door.

Criteria for determining the crime of smuggling:

1, the object of infringement is the state's supervision and management system and tariff collection and management system for the entry and exit of ordinary goods. Violation of customs supervision and inspection system and evasion of customs duties are the characteristics of the crime of smuggling ordinary goods and articles.

2. Objectively speaking, the behavior is that the perpetrator violates customs regulations, evades customs supervision, smuggles ordinary goods, and evades paying a large amount of customs duties.

3. The subjects of crime are individuals and units.

4. Subjectively, it is direct and intentional, with the purpose of evading tariffs.

Whoever conspires with the criminals of the crime of smuggling ordinary goods and articles to provide them with loans, funds, account numbers, invoices and certificates, or to provide them with convenient conditions such as transportation, storage and mailing, shall be punished as the * * * offender of the crime of smuggling ordinary goods and articles.

Legal basis:

People's Republic of China (PRC) Customs Law

Article 82

Violation of this Law and relevant laws and administrative regulations, evasion of customs supervision, evasion of tax payable, evasion of entry and exit management prohibited or restricted by the state, in any of the following circumstances, is a smuggling act:

(1) transporting, carrying or mailing goods and articles prohibited or restricted by the state or goods and articles subject to tax according to law;

(2) Selling bonded goods, goods with tax reduction or exemption, other goods and articles under customs supervision, and means of transport entering or leaving the country without customs permission, without paying the tax payable and submitting the relevant license documents;

(3) Other acts that evade customs supervision and constitute smuggling.