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March 14th, 2006 11:07 PM #11I read another article that says it is still legal to import a car to subic since it is a free port. However, the car can not leave subic base's designated free port area. This lets the importers get cars from Japan and take them to Subic to be converted to left hand drive or instalation of emmisions and safety equiptment while taking advantage of cheap Filipino labor. Then these cars are then shipped to neighboring countries like Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia, maybe even South America to make a large profit.
I had a chance to look at cars in a Subic importers lot last year and the agent mentioned to me that the cars that they had in front of the lot are the last batch avialable for the Philippine public because they were tax paid before the government deemed grey market cars illegal. I saw a bunch of nice SUVs in the back and asked about them. The agent mentioned that they are just here to be converted then they will be shipped away to another country.
In a way feel bad because i want to buy a car that i normally cant afford through a regular dealership brand new. At the same time I can understand the rational, that this law was necessary to give the local automotive manufacturing community a boost to improve our economy.
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March 14th, 2006 11:30 PM #12
Altec, what starting letter did your sportage have? How did they know it was an import? Pajeros, LCs, Bighorns are obvious targets; but a Sportage?
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March 15th, 2006 01:53 AM #13
so it's true then na pag binili sa Subic ang surplus vehicle, dapat sa Subic lang gagamitin?
yari ngayun mga nakapaglabas hanggang dito sa Maynila, kotong all the way hangga't
d sila nagbabayad ng tax. in another sense, too good to be true naman talaga
yan imported vehicles from Subic mas mura pa kaysa local cars eh suppose to be
pag nag-import ka parang ka na din bumili ng bago sa tindi ng tax.
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March 15th, 2006 02:00 AM #14Originally Posted by altec
ano ba maging proseso pag in-impoung ng TMG ang mga hot cars na ganyan. i-fofoward ba yun name of owner sa BIR and Customs. kasi technically, they are tax evaders.
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March 15th, 2006 02:13 AM #15Originally Posted by scalpel
1. Invoice of original sales
2. customs certificate of payment
3. copy of promissory note of mortgage
4. invoice of engine and chassis
5. deed of sales first owner to the last registered owner
6. pnp clearance for original registration
7. confirmation of certificate of engine and chassis
8. certificate of plate assignment
9. confirmation of certificate of registration
10.Motor vehicle pertinent documents
Talo pa ang brand new car documents sa hinihingi ng tmg. With this new ruling, lalong tatapang ang mga mokong na yan para hulihin ang mga tumatakbo na sasakyan sa kalye na duda nilang imported. And yes, nabasa ko rin yun na although they exclude subic, it meant that subic can import but should also be reexported and not sold in the Philippines. I doubt it if TMG really wants to check that even those coming from subic really paid taxes in full.
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March 15th, 2006 02:17 AM #16take note when you buy a car, whether brand new or surplus imported, no one provides you the figures on the amount of taxes that they actually paid, nor do you get a certificate for your permanent plates (they just give it to you and write it manually into our certificate of registration), or the pnp clearance. We just rely on the dealer, brand new or 2nd hand, to take care of those things.
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March 15th, 2006 12:47 PM #17
i suppose the law is not being implemented fully since there are plenty of cars on the road with plates that begin with r (?)
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March 15th, 2006 01:04 PM #18Originally Posted by scalpelSignature
the triumph of man over... man!, using the crudest of implements (by modern standards).
Traffic!