Traders criticised high taxes, poor law and order, and business ... of VAT collection especially in Mohammadpur and adjacent areas has increased by about 15-20% this year and 98% of the small ...

Malaysian dollar-store chain Eco-Shop is targeting a $1.60 billion valuation as it launches what is set to be the country’s ...

On Jan. 13, 2025, Bill 11-38 was introduced in the Guam Legislature, proposing a reduction of the business privilege tax, BPT, from 5% to 4%. This proposal deserves serious consideration ...

Swiss parliamentarian Thomas Aeschi says Malaysia has several plus points over China, Singapore and Vietnam that partners in the EFTA can take advantage of. Thomas Aeschi (centre), head of the ...

National Treasury and Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana’s early morning announcement, made through a media statement, that he was reversing his decision to increase the value-added tax (Vat ...

ISLAMABAD: A parliamentary body on Thursday recommended Ministry of Interior to conduct a comprehensive review of the Family Registration Certificates (FRCs) to cleanse the national database of ...

Malaysia’s updated PDPA takes effect June 2025—be ready for DPOs, breach alerts, and data portability requirements.

If you're thinking of moving from the old to the new tax regime in India, and you’ve accumulated business losses in the past, it’s natural to wonder what becomes of them. The good news is that ...

Government could find the money by cutting in areas where there is a lot of fat and wastage, but not in health, police or education. Now that Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana has decided to scrap ...

While South Africa has been shaking its head at Trump’s whiplash tariff announcements, we seem to be watching a similar scene roll out locally with the controversial VAT increase. The latest ...

The treasury announced shortly after midnight on Thursday that the VAT rate will remain at 15%, bringing to an end a two-month political battle over an imminent unpopular increase to the tax.