1. Contact a vehicle exporter in the exporting country and get the per-forma invoice.
2. Take the per-forma invoice to the bank and open a Letter of Credit. Bank will normally hold 110% of the CIF value mentioned in the Per-forma Invoice.
3. Once you successfully opened the LC exporter will be asked to submit the necessary documents through his bank in exporting country. Please wait till your bank receives document and after thorough checking bank will release documents required for clearing process.
4. Then get the TIN and VAT Certificate from Inland Revenue Dept. in Sir Chittampalam A. Gardiner Mw, Colombo 2
Form
http://www.inlandrev...rms/VATtemp.pdf
http://www.inlandrev...k/forms/tin.pdf
You'll need two sets of photocopies of following document
- Bill of Lading
- Commercial Invoice
- NIC/ Passport/ Driver's Licence
Also if you are PAYE tax payer you can save the visit to information branch. However you have to produce T10 certificate of PAYE tax payement or get a letter from employer that you are PAYE tax payer.
5. Then get a FORM FOR THE REGISTRATION OF IMPOTERS & EXPORTERS IN TERM OF SECTION 115 OF THE CUSTOMS ORDINANCE and fill it and submit to the ADP branch in Customs headquarters. You need TIN and VAT and form needs to be signed by Grama Niladhari and needs to paste stamp size photo and signed by JP. Also needs get certificate from bank in which you opened LC.
http://www.customs.g...Reg_Imp_Exp.pdf
6. Contact a good clearing agent with experience and he will handle rest of the process for you.
All the good luck
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