Tuesday 22 December 2020

Malaysia's Indirect Tax - What's new

The following bills have been passed in Parliament: 

  • Tourism Tax (Amendment) Bill
  • Service Tax (Amendment) Bill
  • Sales Tax (Amendment) Bill
  • Customs (Amendment) Bill
  • Free Zones (Amendment) Bill
  • Excise (Amendment) Bill


The Tourism Tax (Amendment) Bill  seeks to make the following changes:
  • Tourism tax will be levied on accommodation premises made available through online booking.
  • The tourism tax shall be collected from a tourist by the digital platform service provider who made the accommodation premises available through online booking, and pay this tax to the Director-General.

The Service Tax (Amendment) Bill seeks to clarify:
  • That any registered person who ceases to carry on the business of providing any taxable service should notify the Director-General in writing within 30 days from the date of cessation. 
  • The Director-General will refund any balance in the amount of the refund after a registered person has made a deduction.

The Sales Tax (Amendment) Bill seeks to: 
  • Empower the Director-General to direct any registered manufacturer to deduct the amount of refund from the amount of sales tax to be paid from the return. 
  • Empower the Director-General to withhold any amount of refund to be credited to any following or subsequent taxable period.
  • Empower a proper officer of sales tax to seal goods that cannot be removed due to their nature, size or quantity.
  • Provides creditability of an agent provocateur's evidence. 

These bills: Customs (Amendment) Bill, Free Zones (Amendment) Bill and Excise (Amendment) Bill
  • Empowers a senior officer of  customs in relation to enforcement, investigation and inspection.
  • States that the evidence of an agent provocateur is admissible.
  • States that under the Customs and Excise (Amendment) Bill, the Director-General may authorise nine-tenths of the paid duties to be repaid as a tax return if the goods are re-exported after the duty has been paid.








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