I got friend who lives in nearby area to help me though. It just look like this seems to be conspiracy between kastam and poslaju

What's the last status?

That hotline rarely not busy. Maybe you need to call KK post office. Or KK kastam

No need detail. Kastam just need document that says how much the item value. You can just print the shipping notification email they sent.

Try Nendomoe Figure Marketplace (Malaysia) FB group

Uh oh you might have problem later then. From the looks of it, if custom here ever open the packaging and check, most probably the figurine will be confiscated, with little to no chance of ever recovering it (custom here won't even send back to the sender). Usually to avoid custom open the packaging and check, the parcel usually will have the value under-declared; safest is item value + shipping is less than RM 500. Custom will open parcel that was declared to be more than RM 500 in value.

One more reason custom will open your parcel and check the item is when they're suspecting something about the item; usually when item's declared value seems to be too cheap compared to the packaging size. This bring us to the second problem; those Non-Virgin figures were 1/4, and with standing position the box will be big (or at least very tall). If you're unlucky, custom will get suspicious about the parcel and proceed to open them, in which the NSFW figure will be confiscated.

Custom tax is only 6%, but the figure being NSFW might resulted in them getting confiscated if custom ever open the package to check. I guess the safest way to circumvent this is having someone cover the tits and genital, with maybe bra and panties for dolls of the same scale then only ship to you.

Definitely yes. Although they don't pad the shipping box as much as amiami.

If you can underdeclare the value, most of the time it will pass.

I kena something like this before. Basically when using DHL, the shipping cost was calculated according to certain table, regardless of what you actually paid for the shipping. And the value inside the table was much more expensive than what actually paid. That's the only and last time I'm using DHL to ship stuff from Japan.

If kastam checked your parcel before 1 june then kena maybe.

What item you bought actually? Last time when I bought bunch of keychains together with figures (total over rm 500), the keychains were taxed at 20% while the figures 6% (GST)

In my case last time Amiami charged me around 2k yen for DHL. When the item was detained by kastam and taxed, the tax receipt shows shipping cost was quoted as more than RM 200. Anyway squall_12, from which kastam they tax you for this?

This post has been edited by Exiled_Gundam: Jun 1 2018, 03:31 PM

He's in Penang. Though one of my friend who worked in kastam in Klang Valley area told me toys shouldn't get taxed since before this toys were taxed under GST only. And since GST is zero-rated there shouldn't be tax anymore. Actually can anyone show where it stated that import tax for toys is 20%? Can't find it so far when I checked.

I have one shipment from Amiami (7 actions figures and 1 model kit) worth 51k yen in transit, using EMS to KL. Will see how kastam deal with it.

Currently I have parcel with total worth of 51k yen from Amiami. Tracking status already "Departure from inward office of exchange" since yesterday but I'm yet to receive the item. If I safely receive it, at least in KL somewhat safe. But then again the items were action figures and model kits, which according to my friend who worked in kastam shouldn't get taxed by tax other than GST,;since GST is actually still in effect, just the rate is 0. Not sure PVC figure falls under same category. But different state might employ different protocol, so maybe for Penang instead of treating GST still exist (thus should apply the 0% rate), they treated it as GST have been abolished, and so applied the import tax instead.

This post has been edited by Exiled_Gundam: Jun 6 2018, 01:25 PM

Update

The 51k yen shipment arrived today. So at least shipped to KL by EMS, collectables over RM 500 that were taxed with 6% GST back then should be tax free until September. Not sure about DHL

Hmm from my observation so far (this apply to in-stock items, send using EMS)
First, you go to Hobby Search ( http://www.1999.co.jp/eng ) then look for the item. In the item page you scroll down abit until can see the weight. Then, add 60% to the weight, then compare with EMS rate table (the next highest) http://www.post.japanpost.jp/int/charge/list/ems_all_en.html (see Asia column)

For example, consider this Play Arts : http://www.amiami.com/top/detail/detail?gcode=FIGURE-036288
In Hobby Search the page is: https://www.1999.co.jp/eng/10513773
Scroll down that page and you can see the weight is 584g, so add 60% to weight will make it around 934g. Compare it to EMS rate table, the next highest rate that is close to 934g is 1kg, which is 2,100yen. This is the price amiami quoted me for EMS for the Play Arts Kai Tina Branford. Japan EMS seems to use actual weight for the shipping cost. If your figure box is big but it doesn't weight much, what will contribute to the shipment weight later is the weight of the shipment box (bigger box will weight more)

Might not be accurate but shouldn't be far from the actual shipping cost (maybe few threshold lower or higher)

This post has been edited by Exiled_Gundam: Jun 8 2018, 04:43 PM

From what my friend told me the table was given by courier

put the tracking code on pos malaysia tracking and see. If there is result came out then yes

Usually it takes 24hours for the record to appear on tracking

He actually didn't keep all the figures he photographed lol. Bulk of his spending was on something else haha

Most probably same rules apply; above RM 500 including shipping

Actually during the 0% GST period not even once I kena import tax, even when the declared value was over RM 2k (KLIA custom)