GST when exporting goods or services out of Malaysia

Must a Malaysia company collect GST when exporting goods or services out of Malaysia?


No. Export goods and services are called zero rated supplies and GST tax is not applicable.

GST registered

If a Malaysian company is not GST registered, can it collect GST tax?


No. Goods and Services Tax in Malaysia can only be collected by GST registered entities.

claim back from the tax authorities

When paying GST tax collected from customers, can your company offset the GST tax charged by its suppliers?

Yes. The GST charged by a company to its customers is known as output tax whereas GST paid by the company to its suppliers is called input tax. What you pay to (or claim back from) the tax authorities is difference between your output and input tax.

are your company need to register go GST ?

Are your companies required to collect GST tax?

unless your company is mandated to register for GST if your annual turnover exceeds RM500,000.00

General Accounting Discussions: DEVELOPMENT OF CHART OF ACCOUNT

Basically there are two approaches to prepare the chart of account of a company.


1) In the first approach, cost heads are separately opened for the cost of goods, administrative expenses,
.marketing and business promotion expenses. In this case grouping of chart of account is kept in mind at the time of data entry and the list of chart of account also becomes lenghty.

2) In the second approach, cost heads are not repeated. A generic list of cost heads are prepared and these are linked with the departments and products / projects. Software itself pick the relevant department and product / projects to prepare the desired grouping. In this approach data entry operator is not required to look at the groupoing because it is processed by system itself.

Kindly provide your comments that which one of the approach is the best one with its justification.
And which one approach is being used in the current scenartios by large organizations.

VIvienna