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Import Tax Slashed By 50%


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Unfortunately and naturally as expected, I can again see the trends of market manipulation of imported cars. If you have closely followed the price of Toyota AXIO, predictably the most popular option, one can clearly see the collective agreement aomng the leeches. Perhaps they have lots of overheads to cover, when they import an AXIO but not when they do same for Axela!!!!

I think the best way is to form a group of people, who wants to buy cars and send someone to Japan to select cars and share the cost of journey among group members. perhaps 5 or 10 people. I think that would have a considerable effect on shipping cost as well.

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Unfortunately and naturally as expected, I can again see the trends of market manipulation of imported cars. If you have closely followed the price of Toyota AXIO, predictably the most popular option, one can clearly see the collective agreement aomng the leeches. Perhaps they have lots of overheads to cover, when they import an AXIO but not when they do same for Axela!!!!

I think the best way is to form a group of people, who wants to buy cars and send someone to Japan to select cars and share the cost of journey among group members. perhaps 5 or 10 people. I think that would have a considerable effect on shipping cost as well.

:lol: :lol: a very nice idea. That someone should not be a :ninja: though.

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and again... a friends of mine told me that the government is going to change the tax of reconditioned vehicles to earlies system and only brand new vehicles will get the new tax system.i dont know this is true or not.

anyone knows abt this ??

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and again... a friends of mine told me that the government is going to change the tax of reconditioned vehicles to earlies system and only brand new vehicles will get the new tax system.i dont know this is true or not.

anyone knows abt this ??

Hey dont poke the agents, if they see this they will try to increase the value some more. :lol: Anyway As far as i know the tax wont change until next budget in November.

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Unfortunately and naturally as expected, I can again see the trends of market manipulation of imported cars. If you have closely followed the price of Toyota AXIO, predictably the most popular option, one can clearly see the collective agreement aomng the leeches. Perhaps they have lots of overheads to cover, when they import an AXIO but not when they do same for Axela!!!!

I think the best way is to form a group of people, who wants to buy cars and send someone to Japan to select cars and share the cost of journey among group members. perhaps 5 or 10 people. I think that would have a considerable effect on shipping cost as well.

Great Idea... I'm in for the team...Any body in the forum who can coordinate this???????

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Great Idea... I'm in for the team...Any body in the forum who can coordinate this???????

Mr. Arunajn,

Please pardon me for posting this some of the members will not come back as it is difficult to get Visa to Japan.

I have no problem Visiting to Japan from Expo 70 till 1996.

Wijesinghe.

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Getting a VISA to Japan, for that matter to countries like UK or USA, Is not difficult if you can show that you are a respectable citizen here, with assets and life here, which you would not give up to pump petrol as an illegal citizen in these countries.

Perhaps the best way of arranging this forward is to post and form a group here first.

For example I will be the first in the group

  1. kaushama: Vehicle: AXIO or CIVIC 2007/2008

When there are sufficient numbers perhaps we could discuss and meet up to discuss how to proceed. Some people may have some contacts in japan, whom can help us.

This kind of group buying systems are very much common and popular in international forums.

We could perhaps lay down guidelines and find a trustworthy person whom can be sent to Japan.

I see this as the best way of defeating the unreasonable local car vendors. When it comes a common practice getting VISA would be easier too.

Obviously the first group will have a bit of problems and would have to do lots of research. But we could share the experiances with the members, in a sticky here like " Recon group buy thread". With the time it would be easier to do.

I have already got couple of friends who like to join such a group outside the forum.

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Mr Sylvi,

May I respectfully ask sir, as I am who suggested this first in the forum, do you imply to say that I belong to a kind of members, who try to go to japan as an illegal immigrant?

It is nice to know that you can get a VISA easily and have such helping mind to alert us. And guide us to get things done correctly. Unless you are an affected car importer, if we do this group buying, perhaps you would volunteer to go to Japan for us. We would provide you first class comforts and share the cost. I am sure you would return back with very good cars for us.

Kaushama

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Hey dont poke the agents, if they see this they will try to increase the value some more. :lol: Anyway As far as i know the tax wont change until next budget in November.

lol.... no i didnt mean to do that.. u know.. i am also going to import a vehicle from japan so i am very concerned about ax changes.since my swift will take more than a month to arrive.. hope u understand :)

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Getting a VISA to Japan, for that matter to countries like UK or USA, Is not difficult if you can show that you are a respectable citizen here, with assets and life here, which you would not give up to pump petrol as an illegal citizen in these countries.

Perhaps the best way of arranging this forward is to post and form a group here first.

For example I will be the first in the group

  1. kaushama: Vehicle: AXIO or CIVIC 2007/2008

When there are sufficient numbers perhaps we could discuss and meet up to discuss how to proceed. Some people may have some contacts in japan, whom can help us.

This kind of group buying systems are very much common and popular in international forums.

We could perhaps lay down guidelines and find a trustworthy person whom can be sent to Japan.

I see this as the best way of defeating the unreasonable local car vendors. When it comes a common practice getting VISA would be easier too.

Obviously the first group will have a bit of problems and would have to do lots of research. But we could share the experiances with the members, in a sticky here like " Recon group buy thread". With the time it would be easier to do.

I have already got couple of friends who like to join such a group outside the forum.

i think a more practical proposition would be to get together and approach a few dealers and ask him to offer a bulk price for the whole team. mazdaspeed, zerocool and a colleague of mine, all are interested in a 2007 axela and i am going to approach my dealer tomorrow and ask him to offer a very attractive price for all 3 of them. if we can reach about 3 mil a piece then i think all are to stand a chance to gain. i will keep this forum on the progress of my proposition.

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i think a more practical proposition would be to get together and approach a few dealers and ask him to offer a bulk price for the whole team. mazdaspeed, zerocool and a colleague of mine, all are interested in a 2007 axela and i am going to approach my dealer tomorrow and ask him to offer a very attractive price for all 3 of them. if we can reach about 3 mil a piece then i think all are to stand a chance to gain. i will keep this forum on the progress of my proposition.

OK I am in too. I want to buy either a AXIO or CIVIC. Is this the same dealer you previously told me about?

But the way car trade dealers act, I doubt whether they will reduce their cut significantly.

But my solution is not that impractical too. I have a person who is going to Japan soon. He is going there on 20th. I have some of my personal friends in that group outside the forum. I do not want people here to get involved in it as it will be misinterpreted as my own business. So please do not ask to get involved in that group. I just wanted to introduce the concept here and perhaps help to coordinate and lay down guidelines. I am very much eager to defeat these intermediates, who suck our money.

The simple logic is this. Now if the person in Japan tells us the FOB there with specifications of the vehicle, when we import and open an LC we know that there wont be any other overheads and additions to the price by third parties. For example person who goes to Japan agreed that he would keep maximum 100000 to 150000 per vehicle for his services. He is a well known person to us. If you all see the prices this online auction site the price of a G grade AXIO (condition 4.5) varies from 10000US$ to 13000US$. Probably we still can buy a car online but there is a drawback that we would not see that car. In addition there is a risk of doing online transaction and communication. So person who goes to Japan can act as the intermediate liaising the trade. I am sure if we have people who can help the person, who goes to Japan there will be cars for much lower prices than those in online auction sites.

I have another suggestion. Shall we all get together and do this? I reallydo not know exactly how to calculate the total cost of the vehicle. Shall we all get together and calculate rough estimate of the price of an import of popular models? We can calculate the average FOB of a car if we go through online auctions. We could get a quote of the depreciated CIF from agents. Then we all will know h ow much we can gain by direct importation.

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Mr Sylvi,

May I respectfully ask sir, as I am who suggested this first in the forum, do you imply to say that I belong to a kind of members, who try to go to japan as an illegal immigrant?

It is nice to know that you can get a VISA easily and have such helping mind to alert us. And guide us to get things done correctly. Unless you are an affected car importer, if we do this group buying, perhaps you would volunteer to go to Japan for us. We would provide you first class comforts and share the cost. I am sure you would return back with very good cars for us.

Kaushama

Mr.kaushama,

Sir,

You need not go to Japan TO BUY VEHICLES can buy from Auctions on the web if you want to be sure what you buy get a international certified Automobile appraiser to certify the condition of the vehicle you will have to pay the cost of same then stipulate on the L/C all terms get the vehicle down inspect on the port before you accept the documents from the bank.

If you find any discrepancy according to L/C on the Vehicle you can reject the documents which I have done number of times.Once 5 Rosa buses BY A JAPANESE DID NOT SHIP IN TIME HE SHIPPED SAME TO A ANOTHER IMPORTER IN SRILANKA FOR EXTRA 50000.00 YEN. SHIPPED MY 5 BUSES 5 DAYS LATER.AS THIS WAS BOOKED TO A TOURIST PROVIDER IN SRILANKA MUST COME HERE BEFORE 31ST MARCH TO GET THEIR TAX BENEFICIAL.

There is no need to go to Japan my experience is Japanese are more trust worthy than any other Asian exporters in Japan even Japanese exporters I have rejected documents due to C/R alterations bank detect then request from the L/C opener for further instructions.

IF A GROUP OF MEMBERS WANT TO GO TO JAPAN TO BUY VEHICLES THIS IS THE BEST CLIMATE TO GO THERE.

I AM OLD NOW IT IS DIFFICULT TO TRAVEL.

Wijesinghe.

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TO FORUM MEMBERS,

I THINK BUYING A IMPORTED VEHICLE IN SRILANKA FROM A REPUTED DEALER YOU CAN INSPECT THE VEHICLE IF YOU WANT CAN DO A TEST DRIVE.

IMPORTER IN SRILANKA WILL HAVE AS THEIR CHARGES MINIMUM R50000.00 TO 150000.00 FOR A GOOD VEHICLE. YOU CAN FIND OUT BY REQUESTING FOR DOCUMENTS THEN COST VAT WHAT THEY HAVE PAID WILL REVEAL THEIR PROFIT NOT ONLY THAT IF THEY HAVE ADJUSTED THE MILEAGE BECAUSE EXPORT JAPANESE INSPECTION CERTIFICATE WILL GIVE ALL DETAILS OF KMs DONE.

SOME IMPORTERS UNDER INVOICE VEHICLES TO GET IMPORT TAX REDUCTION.

Wijesinghe.

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My Sylvi,

Interesting! Could you please name few trustworthy internationally certified Automobile appraisers?

Sir,

This has to be done by the exporter

Internationally certified Automobile appraisers There are appointed in all over japan for legal matters on Vehicles this has to be arranged by the exporter.

This appraisers cannot be bribed to do according to the request of the exporter.

Wijesinghe.

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