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How to obtain a Travel Insurance Tax Invoice for GST Purpose

Details: Category: GST System Changes Articles; Published: 14 October 2017; Hits: 679

The traveler will usually purchase a travel insurance when he/she wishes to buy an air ticket. However, the airlines are collecting the travel insurance premium on behalf of the travel company. As such, it will not show the GST breakdown in the tax invoice issued by the airlines.

When you purchase a travel insurance within Malaysia. The travel insurance is standard rated. When you purchase for outbound travel insurance outside Malaysia, it is zero rated. The screenshot below is Malaysian Airlines Air Ticket and Travel Insurance is not shown at all.

This article highlights the following:

1. Travel Insurance by MH Insured and Air Asia

2. Email to request tax invoice

3. GST impact of the travel insurance

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As the cover note includes the clause for personal accident and medical benefits, the travel insurance is a block input tax under Regulation 36 GST Act 2014. Tax Code is BL.

Read the articles attached to get on how to obtain travel insurance tax invoice from MH insure and Tune Protect. Second article is shaded with white.

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Travel Insurance Tax Invoice - MH	[Document]	536 kB
Travel Insurance Tax Invoice - Tune	[Document]	441 kB

GST on Digital Economy

Details: Category: GST System Changes Articles; Published: 07 October 2017; Hits: 366

Australian Taxation Office has started to apply GST on digital economy. It is possible that Malaysia will start to amend and introduct new GST laws on digital economy as soon as the coming budget announcement and Parliament season. The following is some points after initial research is done on how Australian Taxation Office adopts GST on digital economy and Malaysia may adopt the same concept.

There are 7 components to look into the definition of digital economy. Please click the image to see enlarge view.

Offshore and overseas business identification: Malaysia requires a business to register with a threshold of MYR500,000. As such, any non-resident businesses which make supply to Malaysia are liable to register when the threshold is reached. Tax authorities may use big data analytics and third party sources such as credit card transactions to identify those business entities. Tax authorities may communicate via email, phone and letter to the businesses to inform the liability to register for Malaysian GST.
Registration of Non-Resident Businesses: It shall either direct register via GST Portal or engaging a local licensed GST agent to handle GST registration. Licensed GST agents may render GST submission on behalf of these overseas businesses that make supply into Malaysia. Alternatively, overseas businesses may appoint local distribution agent for its supply within Malaysia.
Definition of Digital Services - It includes all forms of download, ebooks, entertainment related such as movie, songs, gaming, application, mobile and others. Currently GST is unable to track the purchase by consumer who pays to overseas businesses.
Definition of Low Value Goods - Businesses will pay duties and GST upon collection by freight forwarder. However, if consumers purchase low-value goods from e-commerce sites, it is now charged by the merchant for GST instead of border control when the goods reach Malaysia. The threshold for low value goods may be MYR500. Any accumulation that is more than the threshold shall subject to GST upon consumption by consumer.
Target Audience - Tax authorities are targeting consumers instead of businesses. As the consumption of goods is reasonable belief to be made by the consumer, the business operator shall charge GST on the prevailing rate of 6%. As for the business who acquires digital goods and services, it shall indicate GST Registration No to the vendor so that GST is not applicable. Overseas vendor may hook up the "Look Up for GST Status" in tax authorities web site to verify the status of the business.
Compliance on Non-Residents - It maybe difficult to ensure compliance on non-resident businesses as they belong to a country other than Malaysia.Therefore grace periods shall grant for the registration of non-resident businesses who provide supply into Malaysia. Once the grace period is lapsed, the enforcement shall take effort to make the businesses for GST compliance. If the non-resident businesses refuse to co-operate, penalty and assessment will impose to these businesses. Tax authorities may go through double taxation agreement and any multi-lateral agreement with overseas tax authorities to collect GST from the businesses in their origin country.
Abolishment of Reverse Charge Mechanism for Digital Products - Since the digital services shall focus on consumers, then the reverse charge mechanism for imported services for GST registered business will be redundant. It may exclude from the disclosure as deemed supply and input tax credit in GST-03. At the same time, for those non-GST registered businesses in Malaysia, it shall not account for output tax via GST-04. Section 13 of GST Act shall amend to de-activate for digital services.

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Managing GST Audits

Details: Category: GST Training; Published: 04 November 2016; Hits: 2273

RMCD may perform GST Audits on selected GST regisrants. National Blue Ocean Strategy stated that RMCD is targeting 200,000 GST registrants to perform GST Audits in 2017. It is the GST registrant's resonsibility to provide information to the officer in duty. This training focuses on the likely patterns that trigger GST Audits and prevent yourself to make such mistakes unintentionally.

You will get the following insights:

Matters that trigger GST Audits
GST Analytics in GST-03 and GST Audit File - Free Template
Update on the GST Audit Findings in GST Conference 2017

Join this seminar on Oct 27, 2017 by clicking the attached PDF. Please call us at 012-981 9390 for more information.

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Managing GST Audits	[GST Training]	982 kB

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GST System Changes

About GST System Changes

Goods and Services Tax (GST) has implemented in Malaysia since April 1, 2015. Businesses and corporates are now adopting themselves for GST mechanism with better understanding and thorough knowledge. However, GST has too wide in its operation and its knowledge domain can classify as GST Registration, GST Operation, GST for Special Industries, GST Laws and many other specific topics.

SW Project Consulting Sdn Bhd created GST System Changes as a term to be used in GST knowledge domain. GST System Changes is a framework for GST compliance, GST Review and GST Audit. It changed how the businesses were doing from the point of tax mechanism and system mechanism. When most of the businesses are being asked to be GST compliance, it shall look into the mechanism compliance and software compliance.

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What is Mind Mapping?

When we talk about mind mapping, we have to salute the inventor of mind mapping. He is Tony Buzan. He is such a great mind to invent and introduce the concept of mind mapping and how our brain functions to the world that has benefitted more than millions of people worldwide since 1970s. It is the ultimate thinking tool that has transformed the life of many individuals from the pre-school children to the corporate giants.

“Mind Mapping is a creativity and productivity enhancing technique that can improve on learning and efficiency of individuals and organizations. It is a revolutionary system for capturing ideas and insights horizontally over the paper.”

- Anthony J. Mento and Raymond M. Jones, Loyola College, and Patrick Matinelli, Johns Hopkins University, on their executive MBA program

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It is in the past that people who work for information technology on behalf of accounting department were called system accountants and finance project managers. These professionals are working on the part time basis in addition to their main job description. As the job scope is not clearly defined between Finance and IT division, it is always bringing out many disagreements between two divisions on the tasks to be delivered and what can they do and not. One typical example is finance professionals expecting that a button can solve all their issues while ignoring the problems that IT would face in order to bring out such amazing practice.

There is lack of a direction to give a unique name and definition for the piece of work done by the system accountants and finance project managers. I would like to bring out the definition of Finance IT. Finance IT is a new profession that shall recognize in every modern finance and information technology divisions. Finance IT shall refer to the profession for those finance professionals who are handling information technology systems or IT professionals who are handling finance application management.

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