Government departments are rushing to manage and regulate e-commerce for tax purposes, according to the Ministry of Commerce (MOC) and Internal Revenue Department (IRD). Currently, e-commerce businesses mostly use Facebook to promote or trade products. Meanwhile, other online platforms created specifically for online shopping are growing quickly in the local market, according to the Myanmar […]
Read MoreThe Central Statistics Agency (BPS) announced on Wednesday that the July inflation rate stood at 0.28 percent, safely within the 2018 state budget projection. The figure brings the year-to-date (ytd) inflation to 2.18 percent and 3.18 percent year-on-year (yoy). July inflation was slightly higher than the inflation figure in the same month last year, which […]
Read MoreThe government policy to cut the income tax for small and medium enterprises (SMEs) from 1 percent to 0.5 percent has been in effect since July 1, and a tax official has said the facility can be enjoyed starting Aug. 1 on the previous month’s sales. The reduced income tax facility applies to SMEs with maximum annual sales of […]
Read MoreFinance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati has said the ministry would study a request made by Tourism Minister Arief Yahya, to revise down the minimum amount tourists would need to spend in a store to get a tax refund. “We will study the request for a revision of the tax refund regulation,” Sri Mulyani said in Jakarta on […]
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