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Cambodia collects $3B in tax revenue in H1

The government generated $2,909 million in revenue from tax and customs in the first half of 2024, representing 46 percent of the target set for 2024, a report from the Ministry of Economy and Finance showed on Monday. ...

Chea Vanyuth
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501540290/cambodia-collects-3b-in-tax-revenue-in-h1/

Tax obligations explained to car dealers

The General Department of Taxation (GDT) held a meeting to discuss the provision of tax services, promotion of tax registration and fulfilment of tax obligations with regard to vehicles, according to an announcement made by the GDT. ...

Mon Sokeo
https://kiripost.com/stories/cambodia-tax-obligations-explained-to-car-dealers

Cambodia collects $1.8 billion in Tax Income for first 5 months of this year

The General Department of Taxation (GDT) of the Ministry of Economy and Finance collected over $1.8 billion worth tax income in the first five months of this year, about 51 percent against the annual target. ...

Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501309834/cambodia-collects-1-8-billion-in-tax-income-for-first-5-months-of-this-year/

Tax income collection accounts for 44% of yearly plan as of April

The General Department of Taxation (GDT) at the Ministry of Economy and Finance collected almost $ 1.6 billion as tax income in the first four months of this year, accounting for 44 percent of the yearly target. ...

Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501293298/tax-income-collection-accounts-for-44-of-yearly-plan-as-of-april/

GDT allows taxpayers to adjust annual tax online

The General Department of Taxation (GDT) of the Ministry of Economy and Finance (MEF) has issued an instruction on procedures to enable taxpayers who are owners of registered businesses to make online adjustments of their online filing on annual tax on income (ToI E-Filing), a ...

Kang Sothear
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501290817/gdt-allows-taxpayers-to-adjust-annual-tax-online/

$20.91m in VAT collected in three months

Cambodia’s General Department of Taxation (GDT) collected $20.91 million in value-added tax (VAT) on e-commerce transactions in the first quarter of 2023. ...

Seng Mengheng
https://kiripost.com/stories/2091m-in-vat-collected-in-three-months

Cambodia collects $300 million as tax income in January 2023

The General Department of Taxation (GDT) of the Ministry of Economy and Finance collected some $300 million as tax income in the first month of 2023, up 4.29 percent compared to that of December 2022. ...

Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501240951/cambodia-collects-300-million-as-tax-income-in-january-2023/

$3.4b collected in taxes in 2022

A total of $3.4 billion was collected in taxes in 2022, marking a 23.96 percent increase from 2021. ...

Seng Mengheng
https://kiripost.com/stories/cambodia-34b-collected-in-taxes-in-2022

GDT changes VAT rules for e-commerce transactions for taxable persons who are non-resident taxpayers

The General Department of Taxation (GDT) of the Ministry of Economy and Finance (MEF) has changed its instruction on implementing the value-added tax (VAT) on e-commerce transactions ...

Kang Sothear
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501229020/gdt-changes-vat-rules-for-e-commerce-transactions/

Tax revenue passes target amid money laundering cases

The General Department of Taxation (GTD) of the Ministry of Economy and Finance (MEF) has collected more than $2.94 billion of tax revenue for the period of first 10 months this year, which passes the amount set in the budget law 2022 and increases 26.96 ...

Kang Sothear
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501186161/tax-revenue-passes-target-amid-money-laundering-cases/

GDT’s tax collection target for 2023 up by $750M

The General Department of Taxation (GDT) has been given a stiff tax collection target of $3.5 billion for next year, $750 million more than the current year’s budget target, said Kong Vibol, Minister attached to the Prime Minister and Delegate of the Royal Government in ...

Manoj Mathew
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501175487/gdts-tax-collection-target-for-2023-up-by-750m/

Kingdom hops on BRI digital taxation wagon

Cambodia is committed to harnessing digitalisation for better coordination in tax administration, as a jurisdiction that subscribes to China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), according to a General Department of Taxation (GDT) press release issued on September 12.   ...

Thou Vireak
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/kingdom-hops-bri-digital-taxation-wagon

Prakas on tax debt management issued

The Ministry of Economy and Finance on November 20 issued Prakas No 962 SHV BrK on Tax Debt Management. The new prakas sets forth rules and procedures relating to tax debt management and aims to ensure a more efficient, effective and transparent collection process. ...

Thou Vireak
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/prakas-tax-debt-management-issued

Tax, customs revenue hits $1.68B this year

Cambodia collected some $1.68 billion in revenue from customs and taxation during the first three months of this year, said Prime Minister Hun Sen. Speaking recently at the 18th Government-Private Sector Forum, he said revenue from the Kingdom’s customs fees accounted for about $668 million ...

Hor Kimsay
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/tax-customs-revenue-hits-168b-year

Register now or miss out on tax breaks, ministry says

Government officials and private sector leaders on Friday reiterated their calls for all small and medium-sized enterprises to join the regulatory fold. Public officials and representatives of employers’ organisations assured business owners that the recently announced tax incentives are not a “trap” and that registering ...

Sok Chan
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50549752/register-now-or-miss-out-on-tax-breaks-ministry-says/

Revenue for Ministry of Land on the increase

In 2017, the Ministry of Land Management, Urban Planning and Construction (MLMUPC) collected about 371 billion riel (about $ 92 million) in revenue last year, according to a report from the ministry. The income from taxes on property transfers alone collected by the General Department ...

Sum Manet
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5099644/revenue-ministry-land-increase/

Soaring VAT collection boosts tax revenue

The General Department of Taxation collected $1.54 billion in tax revenue during the first nine months of the year, a 29 percent increase compared to the same period last year, it said in a press release yesterday. ...

Post Staff
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/soaring-vat-collection-boosts-tax-revenue

Daily founder claims liability

The founder of the now-shuttered Cambodia Daily, Bernard Krisher, has told Prime Minister Hun Sen in a letter that he will travel to the Kingdom to take on any tax liabilities of his daughter, Deputy Publisher Deborah Krisher-Steele, stemming from the paper’s dispute with the ...

Niem Chheng and Ananth Baliga
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/daily-founder-claims-liability

Daily trio face tax department charges

The Tax Department yesterday escalated its attack on the Cambodia Daily by filing a legal complaint accusing its founder and two directors of obstructing the tax process and tax evasion, which could see them face up to six years in prison. ...

Niem Chheng and Ananth Baliga
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/daily-trio-face-tax-department-charges

More condemn shutdown of Daily

International condemnation of the government’s aggressive pursuit of a tax dispute with the Cambodia Daily continued to pour in yesterday, with the US Embassy in Phnom Penh calling the closure of the hard-hitting newspaper a “sad day for the press and for Cambodia”. ...

Ananth Baliga
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/more-condemn-shutdown-daily

Daily silenced after 24 years

After 24 years of fiercely independent journalism, the Cambodia Daily will publish their final edition today due to an “exorbitant” $6.3 million tax bill levelled at them last month – an outcome critics say threatens Cambodia’s free press ahead of next year’s crucial national election. ...

Ananth Baliga and Niem Chheng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/daily-silenced-after-24-years

NGOs to meet deadline

Prominent NGOs yesterday said they are trying to comply with the new law on organisations and will meet the Interior Ministry’s deadline to submit reports by the end of September. ...

Khuon Narim
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5079234/ngos-meet-deadline/

Cambodia Daily given till Sept 4 to pay taxes

The Tax Department’s Kong Vibol on Saturday said English-language newspaper the Cambodia Daily faced shuttering and the seizure of its assets if it failed to pay back taxes it allegedly owes by September 4 – a seeming escalation in the government’s recent targeting of NGOs and ...

Ananth Baliga and Niem Chheng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cambodia-daily-given-till-sept-4-pay-taxes

Tax Department reaches out to NGOs

At least three local NGOs have been called for questioning by the Ministry of Economy and Finance’s Taxation Department to clarify their tax payments, amid an aggressive tax collection campaign that has recently gone after media outlets the Cambodia Daily, Voice of America and Radio ...

Leonie Kijewski and Niem Chheng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/tax-department-reaches-out-ngos

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