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Among the measures announced in Budget 2007 is the reduction of the corporate tax from 28% currently to 27% next year and to 26% the following year.

Incidentally, Malaysia’s 28% corporate tax level has not changed since 1998.

 

However, our current Malaysia’s corporate tax rate is still one of the lowest among Asian countries – lower than Thailand (30%), Australia (30%) and even India (33.6%) – but higher than Singapore (20%), Hong Kong (17.5%) and Taiwan (25%) ( refer table).

 

Snapshot of Corporate Tax rates in Asia Pacific (%)

Sorted by Lowest to Highest %

Country

Year 06

Year 05

Hong Kong

17.5

17.5

Singapore

20

20

Taiwan

25

25

Vietnam

28

28

Malaysia

28

28

Australia

30

30

Bangladesh

30

30

Thailand

30

30

Papua New Guinea

30

30

Indonesia

30

30

Fiji

31

31

Sri Lanka

32.5

32.5

China

33

33

New Zealand

33

33

India

36.6

33.7

Philippines

32

35

South Korea

35

35

Pakistan

35

35

Japan

40.1

40.7

(Source: KPMG corporate tax rate survey 2006)

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