Duty taxes on packages

Be careful if you receive a lot of packages coming in from outside of the European Union, because it appears that in order to bring in more money to pay off the government debt, they have decided to charge a duty tax on almost every single one of these packages.  Before there was always a small chance you would have to pay the duty tax, but now that chance has gotten much higher.  It looks like the charge is 18% of insured value plus the shipping cost, although it doesn't look like there is much rhyme or reason to which packages they are charging or how much right now.  So everybody watch out!