News & Reviews:   sst

Transport Minister Anthony Loke Siew Fook has revealed that the Cabinet will discuss maintaining the service tax for domestic flights at 6% instead of 8% as per the new service tax rates. He added that his Ministry will also discuss the matter with the Finance Ministry (MOF) since taxes fall under the latter’s purview.

As of 1 March 2024, Sales Service Tax (SST) has gone from 6% to 8%. Although not all items are affected, this is a different case for the telecommunication service which is a category that Astro falls under. 

Recently, we mentioned how Lazada Malaysia introduced an 8% SST tax. Now, Pos Malaysia has follow suit and announced a new tax policy for its deliveries. That said, what should you know about it?

As announced by the Malaysian Ministry of Finance on 13 October 2023 during the Budget 2024 speech, the Sales and Service Tax (SST) rate will be increased from 6% to 8% effectively on 1 March 2024. With this, Shopee Malaysia will revise the SST rate on its platform. 

If you are subscribed to Google-related services such as Google Drive, YouTube and so forth, this news might surprise you. Recently, the tech giant announced that the SST rate for its services will rise from 6% to 8%. So, what should you know about it?

Shopee has announced the Shopee 11.11 Big Sale which will be happening on the 25 October 2018 until 11 November 2018. The sale will feature SST absorbed deals from brands such as L’Oreal, Universal Traveller, Siti Khadijah, Vivo, Tefal and Maybelline with up to 1000 products to choose from. Not only that, there is also up to RM1.1 million worth of Shopee coins from the Shopee Shake mini-game in the Shopee app which is available on either Google Play Store or Apple App Store.