SST – Updates For Implementation Requirements

09 Sep, 2025, CONCORDE HOTEL KUALA LUMPUR

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TAN KOK TEE
DBA, MBA-Finance, FAIA, MIPA, MCCS, ACTIM,
International Accountant (UK),
Public Accountant (Aust.)
Certified Company Secretary.
HRDF Certified Trainer
Registered GST Agent.

 

MR. TAN KOK TEE has 40 years of working experience in Accounts & Financial, Strategic and General Management field. He has held a variety of leadership and senior management roles in various organizations, starting in the Accounts & Finance Department until CFO level and the last being Group Chief Executive Officer. More than half of these times were spent in the Manufacturing, Marketing & Distribution and Services organizations.

 

He is a Fellow member of the Association of International Accountants, UK; Member of the Institute of Public Accountants, Aust.; Certified Commercial Accountant, (M); Member of the Chartered Tax Institute of Malaysia; Member of the Malaysia Associations of Company Secretaries (M) and a Gold Mastery Holder in Reinventing Strategic Planning and Management from the Haines Centre for Strategic Management, sponsored by University of San Diego, USA.

 

He is also a Certified Trainer with PMSB’s (HRDF) Train The Trainer Certificate since 2009, a GST Agent registered with MOF & Holder of the GST MyGCAP certificate from RMCD and a Life Member of the Malaysian Institute of Directors.

 

Mr. Tan has been involved in Advisory, Training and Facilitation since beginning 2009. To-date he has conducted about 400 training workshops throughout Malaysia on topics on Budgeting & Cashflow Planning; GST; SST; Practical Accounting for Accounting Staffs; Reading, Analyzing and Interpreting Financial Statement; Accounting and Finance for Non-Finance Managers; Customers Credit Evaluations and Collection Strategies; Incoterms, LC Operations and Trade Financing; Reinventing the Strategic Planning and Management and Financial Statement Hands On Application to MBRS, for both in-house as well as public.

 

Among the organizations that Tan Kok Tee has been providing training for, include Government Authorities, Chamber of Commerce, Government Link Companies, Banks, Malaysian Institute of Accountants, Chartered Institute of Management Accountants, CPA Australia, Malaysian Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators, Selangor State Human Resource Development Centre (SHRDC), Negeri Sembilan State Skills Development Centre (NSSDC), Penang Skill Development Centre (PSDC), NGOs and many others public training providers.

 

His other clients include Shin Yang Group, MIRI, Bintulu Port, Deleum Bhd., Boustead Plantation Bhd., Takahata, FBK Manufacturing, Brothers Industries, Integrated Logistics, Mega Logistics, Chung Hwa Picture Tubes, Ohara Melaka, Safran Aerospace, NEC Corp. of Malaysia, Kobe Precisions, Tecktronic & Sons Holdings, Julie’s Biscuits, Ornapaper Melaka, Sunway University, Sime Darby Properties, Lion Group and many more.

 

To-date Mr. Tan has trained more than 15,000 Executives. He combines a wide range of practical and hands-on training experience in lively and challenging interactive training sessions.

 

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FOCUSING ON
  • Service Tax Updates And Its Implementation Mechanism
  • Other Normal General Service Tax Exemptions
  • Sales Tax Updates And Its Implementation Mechanism
  • Other Normal Categories Of Sales Tax Exemptions
  • SST Administrative Matters
  • Implementation Health Check
OBJECTIVES

Sales and Service Tax (SST) since implementation w.e.f. 1/9/2018, has also undergone various updates constantly with the latest major updates to take effect from 1/7/2025.

While on the Sales Tax it expanded the scope of taxable products, the Service Tax saw the expansion of adding 3 new groups such as Group K covering rent or leasing, Group L covering construction services and Group M covering education services. Other existing groups also saw expansions like Group H restructuring financial services and Group I expanded to cover private health care services. As a result of these expansion and restructuring, certain taxable services in certain groups also got redefined.

Hence this training course is to provide an insight on its updates for implementation purposes and to assist participants in achieving the following objectives from these updates:
1. To be up-to-dated with their implementation requirements.
2. To avoid pitfalls / issues in the implementation.
3. Understand the Exemptions available.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND
  1. Business Owners and Company Directors
  2. CEO, COO, CFOs, Financial Controllers and Finance Managers
  3. Accountants, Accounts Executives, Accounts Assistants
  4. Business Advisors, Auditors and Internal Audit Staff
  5. Freelance Accounting Professionals
  6. Procurement/Purchasing/Sales/Logistics and other functional Managers
  7. Other functional staff engaged in SST implementation matters
METHODOLOGY
  • Interactive Lectures
  • Discussion
  • Questions & Answers
COURSE CONTENT
9:00

SERVICE TAX UPDATES AND ITS IMPLEMENTATION MECHANISM

 

Expansion And Redefinition Of Services
Tax Scope:

  • - Redefined taxable services in Groups A to E and G,
    - Restructuring of Group H with scope expansion covering Financial Services
    - Expansion of Group I cover Private Health Care Services
    - Expansion of 3 more Groups:
  • Group K covering Rental and Leasing Services
  • Group L covering Construction Services
  • Group M covering Education Services
10.45

•Implementation Mechanism Of Each Updated Categories

  • - Registration Requirement and Thresholds
    - Transitional Rules
    - SST treatment on different transaction scenarios
    - Materials usage in Construction Work – SST treatment.
    - Non-Taxable services
    - Business to Business Exemption and its Documentation Requirements.
    - Group Company’s Relief.
    - Micro-SME’s exemption
    - Treatment of SST payment on Construction Retention Money
    - E-Invoice Treatment for Retention Money.
    - SST treatment for Non-Reviewable contract
    - Treatment of implementation mechanism within and between Designated Areas and Special Areas.
    - Treatment of implementation mechanism between Malaysia and Designated Areas and Special Areas and vice versa.
    - Treatment of imported services under the expanded scope and its exemptions
    - Penalty grace period
 

OTHER NORMAL GENERAL SERVICE TAX EXEMPTIONS

  • Person exempted from paying service tax facilities criteria.
  • Claiming refund of SToDS (Service Tax on Digital Services) incurred by local digital tax service provider.
  • Treatment of imported services requirement by all businesses including Non-SST register companies and its exemptions.
  • Service Tax treatment on Inter-Company Professional Services and definition of group companies AND when are these services taxable also to Group Companies.
10.45

SALES TAX UPDATES AND ITS IMPLEMENTATION MECHANISM

  • Transitional mechanism on sales tax rate change.
  • Treatment of your current AME Scheme
  • Treatment of exempted goods in stock that are exempted under Schedule B
  • What remains to be not subject to sales tax
  • Items that will be subject to 5%
  • Items that will be subject to 10%.
  • Rate determination.
1:00 Lunch
2:00

OTHER NORMAL CATEGORIES OF SALES TAX EXEMPTIONS

  • Types of exemptions under the exemption orders:
    - Goods exempted from charging sales tax
    - Persons exempted from paying sales tax – terms and conditions:
  • Schedule C –
    - Registered Manufacturers (RM) purchase direct,
    - Registered Manufacturers (RM) purchase through 3rd parties
    - Registered Manufacturers (RM) sub- contracting work out:
    o Between RM to RM in PCA areas
    o Between RM and non-RM in PCA areas
    o From Special Areas and Designated Areas to PCA Area
    o From PCA areas to Special Areas and Designated Areas
    o Criteria MUST meet to qualify for exemption under C5.
  • Schedule B – Non- Register Manufacturer
    on their production of 4 specific sales tax
    exempted goods.
  • Major Exporter Scheme
  • Schedule A – Other categories of person and
    its conditions requirements.
  • Procedures on sales tax treatment on scraps at different stages of production and finished goods.
  • Sales Tax Credit Systems.
  • Sales Tax drawback facilities vs Schedule A item 57 exemption.
3:00

SST ADMINISTRATIVE MATTERS

  • Bad Debt Relief criteria
  • Refunds
  • Invoicing particulars requirements
  • SST payment basis – Accrual, Collection and Deemed Collect basis
  • Accounting for Imported Service mechanism for Non-SST Register Business.
  • Service Tax contra system
3:45

Implementation Health Check

  • Key common areas to look for errors for
    Sales Tax and Service Tax.
  • Audit coverage and awareness
  • Appeals
5:00 End of Course