Under gift permit, those who work overseas under valid visa can gift a vehicle to blood relative or a family member. A foreign worker can send a vehicle which is not older than 10 years to his/her mother, father, brother, wife and children. It could be a car, van, Jeep or a cab. A petrol car not exceeding 1800 cc, Diesel car not exceeding 2300 cc, A petrol Jeep, Van or Cab not exceeding 2800 cc, A Diesel Jeep, Van or a Cab not exceeding 3000cc. The benefit is that you can purchase the vehicle at a lower price and give it as a gift to a resident relative. One gets this opportunity once in 5 years. The donor should be a foreign worker and cannot donate it once s/he comes back to Sri Lanka. Cannot donate vehicles which are older than 5 years or driven left. Application obtained from the import and export controller, 2 photos of the vehicle from front and rear view, registration certificate, documents proving that the owner has earned foreign exchange, photocopies of the passport and the visa pages, certificate of foreign employment ( 1 year service completion certificate for vehicles not older than 5 years and 3 year certificate for vehicles less than 10 years ) documents proving the relationship, fitness certificate of the vehicle etc. should be produced.

A fee of 5% of the value of the vehicle if the vehicle is used 3 1/2 to 5 years and 10% if the vehicle is used for 5 – 10 years. The duty and other taxes should be paid for the vehicle. The permit owner should be present; to clear the vehicle from the customs and the registration should be done on his name. The vehicle cannot be sold for 3 years.

1. Type of vehicles allowed to be imported under this scheme

Cars, Jeeps, Vans, or Cabs not older than 10 years. There is no restriction of models and makes.

(Engine Capacity)
	Petrol	Diesel
Car	1800	2300
Jeep, van, cabs	2800	3000

2. Type of vehicles that are not allowed to be imported under this scheme;
1. Vehicles are older than 10 years.
2. Left hand driven vehicles.

1. Duly completed CIE 06 Form.
2. Two photographs of the vehicle (Two Dimensions)
3. Bank Statements as evidence that the applicant has earned foreign exchange.
4. Photocopies of the Visa pages, photograph page of the applicant, and the page having endorsement of leaving the country / arrival to the country of the pass port.
5. Vehicle inspector certificate.

A license fee of 15% of CIF value of the vehicle should be paid to the Department.

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For more Details : Import & Export Contorl Department Sri Lanka

Normally, we can import a car within 3.5 years. But if we have a permit it can go up to 5 years.

When vehicle age is close to the 5 years, the CIF is less than the 3.5 years vehicle.

Apply the normal Duty / Tax Structure (doest apply any duty concession). But Duty / Tax Calculation mainly based on the year of manufacturing. When age is close to the 5 years, Duty / Tax amount automatically goes down. In addition to that, they will charge 15% Gift Tax.

Documents

If you are expecting to get permit then you have go to the Import Export Control Department (I/E Dept.) at No. 75 1/3, 1st Floor, Hemas Bldg, York Street, Colombo 01. (www.imexport.gov.lk) and ask for two set of applications. One for abroad person and other for you.

After that, you need to get Performa Invoice (P/I) and CR (Cancellation of Registration of vehicle) from exporter (carkade.com) in Japan.

Next, you should attach the evidence of relationship like birth, marriage certificates etc (what ever ask from I/E Dept.)

Selecting a Vehicle

Log on to the www.carkade.com (Our own company) web site and select a vehicle or contact our officer for more vehicle from Japanese auctions. Immediately (within two days) pay 20% of an advance from the CIF value (Without any advance, we don't reserve the vehicles). Payment could be paid to our Sri Lanka office (carkade.com head office). Then we can issue the P/I, CR and do the reservation for you.

Getting Permit

1. Completed two application sets
2. P/I and CR
3. Relationship Original Documents

Hand over all these documents to I/E Dept. and after few weeks you can get the permit (Customer has to follow it).

Getting Vehicle

After obtaining the permit, you must open a Letter of Credit (LC) for the full CIF. After open the LC, we will ship the vehicle and it will reach within three weeks. At the time of clearing, our clearing agent will do the rest. Customer should pay the clearing charges (15,000 Rs) and extra option tax (depend on options) as final payment to the clearing agent.