Thats not the truth. I am from germany and import taxes are the same as usual taxes 19%. Thus it makes no difference. The only thing you probably pay more is the international shipping.
Edit: Found out there are some EU countries with harsch custom fees (not taxes). Well hope MD will get some kind of EU proxy someday.
Yea, that's confused me in the past too - Portugal also has fairly high import taxes (not VAT), however I have not paid them for Massdrop products a single time yet (caps, keyboards, headphones, amplifiers, even watches, you name it) - in fact, I received my RAMA M10 pad last week and I didn't even pay VAT for it, more often than not the products I get sent from MD actually bypass customs due to the fact that DHL sends them to Germany first before their arrival here meaning the re-brand probably confuses our less than observant staff and they just assume it is a German package rather than American.
It's an extremely strange phenomenon, guess some other country's customs are just more competent than yours and mine.