The Malaysian Prime Minister has announced that GST will be implemented in Malaysia on 1 April 2015 at the rate of 6% in his budget speech. The threshold for mandatory registration will be RM 500,000.
Income Tax rate will be reduced between 1 % to 3 %, effective from assessment year 2015. Corporate Tax rate will be reduced by 1% from 25% to 24% (SME rate from 20% to 19%) effective from assessment year 2016.Read More »
The French tax authorities have reconfirmed in the recent Finance Bill that the VAT rate changes will take effect on 1 January 2014. The standard rate will increase from 19.6% to 20%. The intermediate rate will be increased from 7% to 10%. This rate will apply to various goods and services including restaurants and meals for immediate consumption, passenger transport, hotel accommodation, pharmaceutical products not reimbursed by social security and transfers of copyrights. Read More »
Under the current EU law suppliers, who are not established within the EU, providing electronic services to non VAT registered customers (BtoC), have to account and pay VAT at the VAT rate of the member state in which the service recipient is domiciled. As from 2015 this rule will also apply to suppliers established within the EU which until 2015 can apply the VAT rate of the member state of their establishment.Read More »
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Michaela Merz 