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Message: <blockquote data-quote="nerraw" data-source="post: 195690" data-attributes="member: 1594">Sorry, but my blood isn't anywhere near royal <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /> Getting this under Malaysia My Second Home, which allows me one (and only one!) CKD car at tax free prices. I'm only allowed to sell if I pay the necessary taxes on the depreciated value of the car at point of sale, which basically means that I will be keeping this car for quite some time to come!Doing research from a tax-free perspective really shows how strange Malaysia's tax structure on cars is, and that results in BMW and Mercedes having to price models sometimes at below even German prices so that they can sell it here.For example, the 320i SE is at RM170k tax-free, and the standard 325i is at RM194k tax free. Which makes the RM9k to upgrade to the 325i Sports really a no-brainer.The quantum of tax that you pay for your full retail price models depends more on the cubic capacity of the engine, and less on the actual value of the car.In the case of the C-class (no, I wasn't really considering this!) this means that the C200K Elegance (1796cc)  that retails at RM238k is at RM178,591 tax free; compared to the C230 Avantgarde (2496cc) that retails at RM268k and is at RM178,538 tax free!This gap is not so pronounced with BMW at we're comparing a 2.0 and a 2.5, but I still believe they're very much "underpricing" the 325i Sports to make it  competitive.</blockquote>

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