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Taxation

Tax change to benefit employees

The government’s tax collection body has extended the fringe benefit tax exemption to several new industries, removing the 20-percent tax that employers were previously required to pay on the benefits they offered to their workers. ... ...

Kali Kotoski and Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/tax-change-benefit-employees

Non-taxpayers targeted

The government will not increase the rate for income tax and other taxes for the next two years, but will instead concentrate on expanding the base for tax collection, taking into account that there are still many individuals and businesses that do not pay tax ...

Sok Chan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/30034/non-taxpayers-targeted/

For ‘police’ vehicles, no tax, no problem

Prime Minister Hun Sen has quashed an attempt by the Ministry of Finance to collect back taxes owed on 470 police vehicles, granting them tax-exempt status after a request from the Ministry of Interior. The request, dated September 8, was approved on Tuesday. ... ...

Mech Dara and Andrew Nachemson
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/police-vehicles-no-tax-no-problem

Nagaworld reaches tax deal

NagaWorld, a subsidiary of a Hong Kong-listed NagaCorp, reached a deal with the Ministry of Economy and Finance to pay a new tax rate on their non-gaming operations, said a ministry official. ... ...

May Kunmakara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/29693/nagaworld-reaches-tax-deal/

Joint online tax system

The Ministry of Commerce and the Ministry of Economy and Finance’s general taxation department plan to jointly operate an online business tax registration system in a bid to strengthen tax collection in the country and root out corruption. Sok Sopheak, under-secretary of state of the Ministry ...

Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/29545/joint-online-tax-system/

Rubber producers want export taxes scrapped

A group of private sector rubber producers have petitioned the government to drop export taxes on rubber products, arguing that by scrapping the tax the sector would attract foreign investment into processing factories. ...ក្រុមអ្នកផលិតកៅស៊ូចង់នាំឱ្យពន្ធនាំចេញត្រូវលុបចោលក្រុមអ្នកផលិតកៅស៊ូឯកជនមួយបានដាក់ញ្ញត្តិទៅរដ្ឋាភិបាលដើម្បីទម្លាក់ចោលពន្ធនាំចេញផលិតផលកៅស៊ូ ដែលលើកឡើងថា ការមិនយកពន្ធនាំចេញនៃវិស័យនេះអាចនឹងទាក់ទាញវិនិយោគិនបរទេសមកដំឡើងរោងចក្រកែច្នៃ។ ... ...

Post Staff
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/rubber-producers-want-export-taxes-scrapped

Ministry explains tax hikes on heavy transportation vehicles

The Ministry of Economy and Finance on Monday sought to explain a recent hefty increase in taxes imposed on heavy transportation vehicles, saying it was prompted by a need to support infrastructure maintenance expenditures and cover the elimination of taxes on vehicles smaller than 150cc. ...

Lay Samean
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ministry-explains-tax-hikes-heavy-transportation-vehicles

Police asked to pay vehicle tax

The owners of vehicles sporting police number plates must pay vehicle taxes by the end of the month or face having their vehicles impounded, according to the Ministry of Economy and Finance. In a letter to Interior Minister Sar Kheng, Economy and Finance Minister Aun Ponmoniroth ...

Pech sotheary
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/29374/police-asked-to--pay-vehicle-tax/

Drink a beer to save the planet

As a way to possibly boost funding for environmental protection in the Kingdom, Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday floated the idea of an extra tax on cigarettes and alcohol. Speaking at a forum on the protection and conservation of natural resources in Phnom Penh, the prime ...

Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/28792/drink-a-beer-to-save-the-planet/

Tax revenue rises 20%

Tax revenue in the first seven months of the year was $955 million, an increase of 18.91 percent over the same period last year, according to a report from the General Department of Taxation (GDT). ... ...

Sum Manet
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/28505/tax-revenue-rises-20-/

Call to revise rubber tax

As the price of natural rubber tumbles due to a slowdown in the global economy and falling demand for the commodity, the Kingdom’s hard hit rubber industry investors are now calling on the government to revise export taxes. ... ...

Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/28028/call-to-revise-rubber-tax/

Profit-tax revenue leads first half surge

Cambodia's tax department collected $829 million in tax revenue during the first half of the year, 18 per cent more than during the same period a year earlier, led by surge in profit-tax revenue, according to government data released late on Tuesday. ...   ...

Revenue from customs and excise up 20 per cent

Revenue collected by the customs and excise department jumped nearly 20 per cent during the first six months of the year, compared with the same period a year earlier, figures released yesterday show. ... ...

Post Staff
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/revenue-customs-and-excise-20-cent

New tax payment center

The Ministry of Economy and Finance in partnership with Cambodian Public Bank Plc. signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) yesterday, establishing the bank as the Ministry’s prime tax collecting institution nationwide. ... ...

Sok Chan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/26108/new-tax-payment-center/

Tax collection goes up by 21.6 percent

The government’s tax revenue collection rose to about 21.6 percent in the first five months of this year, compared with the same period last year, with some $708.2 million filling state coffers, according to the Ministry of Economy and Finance’s General Department of Taxation (GDT). ...

Sok Chan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/26024/tax-collection-goes-up-by-21-6-percent/

Tax revenue fills coffers of the state

The government’s tax revenue saw a sharp increase of about 22 percent in the first five months of the year, compared with the same period last year, with some $763 million collected by the General Department of Customs and Excise. ... ...

Sum Manet
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/25916/tax-revenue-fills-coffers-of-the-state/

Royal Group head Kith Meng urges tax rate revision

Private sector representatives argued yesterday that Cambodia’s outdated taxation laws do not accurately reflect the Kingdom’s current business climate, urging the General Department of Taxation (GDT) to revise the legal framework to promote private sector growth. ... ...

Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/royal-group-head-kith-meng-urges-tax-rate-revision

Customs pressures exporters to register with GDT

Cambodia's Customs Department announced on May 27 that it would stop processing paperwork for import and export companies, and halt cross-border activity if they fail to meet today’s deadline for online tax registration. ...  ...

Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/customs-pressures-exporters-register-gdt

Singapore, Cambodia sign tax treaty

Singapore and Cambodia have entered into a double taxation avoidance agreement to boost cross-border trade and investment between the two countries. ... ...

Mary Swire
http://www.tax-news.com/news/Singapore_Cambodia_Sign_Tax_Treaty____71308.html

Nearly half of 2016 tax target already collected

In the first four months of the year, the government collected nearly half of its tax revenue target for all of 2016, local media reported yesterday, citing Kong Vibol, director of the General Department of Taxation (GDT). ...  ...

Post Staff
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/nearly-half-2016-tax-target-already-collected

Gov’t ready to ink tax treaty with Singapore

Cambodia and Singapore have finalised an agreement on double taxation and are set to sign it into effect soon, state news agency AKP reported yesterday. ... ...

Post Staff
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/govt-ready-ink-tax-treaty-singapore

Customs revenue up by 30 pct in first quarter

Revenue from customs duties and excise tax grew by around 30 per cent to $472 million during the first quarter of the year ... ...

Post Staff
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/customs-revenue-30-pct-first-quarter

Tax registration deadline pushed back

The tax department issued a notice yesterday extending the deadline for businesses to finish their tax registration until May 31, the latest in a long string of delays that followed the introduction of strict new rules on tax registration in 2014.​​ ... ...

Jonathan Cox
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/23887/tax-registration-deadline-pushed-back/

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