BeastX,

I have been following this thread from begining till the end and must say kudos for the very good info but for the life of me cannot understand the workings of our malaysian customs.

Import Tax - is a boundrary tax levied on stuff brought in
Excise Tax - is a hate tax levied on abusive stuff that hurt the country(this i understand is to protect our proton)
Sales Tax - For items sold by vendor as a taxation to the goverment.

Having stated that, how in gods name have our wonderful KASTAM managed to charge tax in a compounded manner and not by the basis of individual taxes to be subjected to the principal amount i.e. the price of the car? What i mean here is after they attain the Import tax, they + the import tax to the value of the car to get the excise tax and then + Import & Excise to the value of the car to get the sales tax.

This is compounded taxing whereby your tax is taxed again!

To add spice to this arguement - what in the hell is sales tax? Where was there any sale taken place in this entire process?

For those few that have posted stating "do they pay tax in 2 countries" yes you do if the country of origin has impose a tax on the car at original purchase. In some civiled country you can request for a tax rebate to the customs when you have deregister your car and have exported it. This is should be done at the country of origin and the would have a list similar to the depreciation value like we have working backwards. Nobody will tell you this and there is no forms to fill. You have to write an appeal letter for consideration.

rgds//

BeastX

From you statement i guess you agree that the tax computation are compounded values that have been provided?

I think the sales tax should only apply to vendors i.e. NAZA, BERMAS etc as they bring in the cars for the sole purpose of immediate sale.
While we as citizen are bringing back the car for personal consumption to which we cannot resale immediately due to AP stipulations and furthermore they are personal effects from country of origin.

What is this sales tax? Is our KASTAM job being taxed for their sales & services?
Are we as citizens being conned here just because we don't ask what we are paying for???????

rgds//