DSI to press charges against unscrupulous importers of luxury cars

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DSI to press charges against unscrupulous importers of luxury cars

 

 

BANGKOK: -- The Department of Special Investigation will press charges with public prosecutors against importers of knock-down luxury cars who falsely declared them as car spare parts in order to avoid higher import taxes.

 

DSI deputy director-general Pol Maj Suriya Singhakamol said Tuesday that the DSI would not wait for tax assessment results from the Customs Department regarding the imported luxury cars, but would press charges of falsifying official documents and using falsified documents against the importers.

 

Of some 7,000 plus cars being examined by the DSI, several hundred of them were falsely declared as car spare parts instead of knock-down automobiles.

 

Full story: http://englishnews.thaipbs.or.th/dsi-press-charges-unscrupulous-importers-luxury-cars/

 

-- © Copyright Thai PBS 2017-05-18

[ezzra]

Ok, you don't really have to be a DSI to know that this racket of importing

' spare parts " are actually a whole car in parts waiting to be reassembled

and sold on a market as a legitimate car, and that this has been going on

for many years now with everybody making money but the government,

so it seems that we will see hundreds of those cars being auctions soon?....

[clockman]

What about the customs department, Must have some powerful friends. Never investigated!

[steveyinasia]

Might be a good idea to block the importing of luxury cars as this was the main cause of the red bull brat running over a policeman and doing a coward run away act.  If he did not have access to the car, it would not have happened so not really his fault.  Good to see the DSI having their priorities sorted out.

[rosst]

Don't confiscate the vehicles, reassess the duty and charge them double. 

Give them 30 days to pay or confiscate AND BILL THEM. 

[Cadbury]

28 minutes ago, rosst said:

Don't confiscate the vehicles, reassess the duty and charge them double. 

Give them 30 days to pay or confiscate AND BILL THEM. 

Appropriate penalty! That will teach them to make sure they grease the important wheels next time.

[johng]

Why not lower the import tax to sensible levels or even the levels set in multiple trade agreements but somehow ignored ?

Then the incentive for the smugglers would be much reduced.

 

 

[fruitman]

This story is so old...There were hundreds of topmodel cars waiting for their owners to pick them up (and pay all duties) but they never came to get them. 

 

Why are they so slow? Just confiscate/sell them and tell them. How many years this story has to continue? They are so soft.

 

When a tourist feeds the fish the authorities can also be superhard, why not against the carimporters who don't have papers?

[Phuketboy]

If the duty wasn't so high they wouldn't have this problem in the first place.  Therefore, they caused it and now they are pissed because people found a loophole in their system.