is there any restriction in bringing a car back to malaysia, like its make say a holden (australian car) or year of car....

Seems a lot has changed since I bought back my car in 2003....

Getting an AP was very easy. Got mine in a day. As long as you have all the documents you should be fine. Same conditions like now, 9 months ownership, studying overseas for at least a year, etc. They'll also want to see your road tax and insurance overseas.

Customs was a headache though. At the time, my 1.8L Lancer was taxed at 170%!!! To compound the problem further, the customs will value the car THEMSELVES, not the value that you bought the car! They kept insisting using the Japanese price of a Lancer instead of the price of my Australian-assembled Lancer which was much cheaper. You can show your receipt, invoice, whatever, and they'll still ignore it and use their price.

Luckily though, the value of the car is negotiable. They'll consider depreciation, and of course deduct the value of the tax you paid overseas. I ended up paying about 90% of the value of the car for the customs duty, which is still quite high but better than paying 170%.....   

want to ask you guys if you know about this...is it posibble for Custom Department to give discount on import duty?..let say car above 3000cc the tax only is about 200% but they calculate only 150%...I asked somebody in other forum,he said posibble..

Bro (not sure u still reading this thread), u said u end up paying only 90%. Did custom reduced the import/excise/sales tax from 170% to 90%, but still maintain the value of the car as they valued it themselves?
OR, they still maintain the import/excise/sales tax but reduced the value of the car, which effectively will reduce the tax percentage?
Anyone else knows how custom works?

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Added on September 27, 2008, 6:39 am
yup, looking for the same feedback. ... the best is to call custom and ask. But, not sure if they are willing to declare that they can give discount. Maybe I'll try call next week ... if not everyone is on Eid holiday

I have a question. Is it really necessary to have a job waiting for you in Malaysia before you can export your car from overseas? And must you be permanently in M'sia before you can do so?

Can i just ask, if i buy a proton from the UK and bring it back home to malaysia, will the tax still be high since it is a malaysian car ? 

I just need a second hand Proton to start working and in the UK it's really cheap. So you are not really sure if there is tax on Protons from UK then?

want to ask you guys if you know about this...is it posibble for Custom Department to give discount on import duty?..let say car above 3000cc the tax only is about 200% but they calculate only 150%...I asked somebody in other forum,he said posibble..

is there any restriction in bringing a car back to malaysia, like its make say a holden (australian car) or year of car....

I have recently purchased an Evo X in Australia, could anyone please give me an idea how much tax I need to pay if I bring the car back next year. I paid AUD70,000 which approximately RM170,000 with current currency rate.

Cheers

Woooo ! 

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Added on October 25, 2008, 7:43 pm

Australia where got Evo X ? 

I have recently purchased an Evo X in Australia, could anyone please give me an idea how much tax I need to pay if I bring the car back next year. I paid AUD70,000 which approximately RM170,000 with current currency rate.

Cheers

Rough estimates...

Assuming that your car would be 1 year old (more than 12 months, 24% depreciation, more than 9 mnths, 20% dep.).

FOB val. (depends on custom list)... AUD60k -24%= AUD45.6k

CIF val. = AUD45.6k+ AUD684+RM1200 = roughly AUD46.8k

Tax = CIF x 157.4% = AUD 73.6k

or should be around 130% (instead of 157.4%) for... AUD 60.8k...

Woooo ! 

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Added on October 25, 2008, 7:43 pm

Australia where got Evo X ?