From Tax to Bailouts

Senthuran Elalingam, Asia Pacific Financial Services Indirect Tax Leader, Deloitte

10-Apr-19 07:15

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00:00 - The government may inject as much as RM6.2 billion into Felda. The Economic Affairs Minister Dato’ Sri Azmin Ali is scheduled to table the White Paper on Felda in Parliament today to explain the reasons behind Felda’s poor financial performance.

04:47 - The government is planning to impose a tax of six percent on foreign digital services from January 1st 2020. With this new ruling, foreign service providers have to levy this tax on customers in Malaysia. We speak to Senthuran Elalingam, Asia Pacific Financial Services Indirect Tax Leader at Deloitte to provide more details on this new bill.

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Tags: Felda, FGV, Felda White Paper, Economic affairs, digital service, tax,

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