okey, thought of sharing some info about this..as i have now already imported a vehicle under this permit, one of my brothers are actually in japan, but we used him only to get the permit, car was chosen, taken from auction and sent down to SL, all were done by a dad's close friends car sale (which is in front of CR&FC grounds)
its a 2002 Allion, it was bit expensiver from japan it self, as for its color(Black), original wheels, and the HDD-TV setup it had, below are the costs that what we had to pay:
Supplier: 13.40
Import & Export department:
Initially: 32000/-
Debiting the Permit: 52,000/- (it was a penalty charge, but dunno why was it, wasnt interested to look in to that, just wanted to
clear the car out soooooooooner, so just paid it off)
TAX: 17.20 (believe me, for the alloys they've taxed 75K, damn!! if i knew that earlier )
Clearing Agents: 30K
Final Cost: almost 32 lakhs
it was some great hassle getting the TIN's, VAT's and the TAX clearence's and all that..but then, i wont complain..its a superb car with low milage, of course u can buy such a car for around 36-37 but then(as i think), at least we have saved 5 lakhs from this, and thats a quite lot for us
if anybody needs any clarification, i would love to help and BTW now they have changed the no. of years old, and now u can import a car which is 10 years older..