India taxes partly-assembled auto parts by up to 100%, while unassembled components are taxed at 10%, a measure meant to encourage local manufacturing.
The person said tax authorities were looking into allegations that BMW had imported partly-assembled auto parts into India but declared to customs they were unassembled to avoid paying higher taxes.
Mr Cundall has spent the last 17 years trying to discover the truth of claims that unused, unassembled Spitfires were packed into crates and buried by the RAF at sites in Burma on the orders of Lord Mountbatten at the end of the war in 1945.
British campaigner David Cundall has spent the last 17 years trying to discover the truth of claims that unused, unassembled Spitfires were packed into crates and buried by the RAF at sites in Burma on the orders of Lord Mountbatten at the end of the war in 1945.