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Tax law in Malaysia

Tax administration, corporate taxation, duties, reporting, and statutory liabilities. These records come from release legal-2026.07.26-907 and link directly to stored legal text.

233 matching statutes

  • Malaysia

    791 - *AKTA CUKAI PELANCONGAN 2017

    3 provisions

    This Act sets up a tourism tax on tourists staying at accommodation premises, with registration, collection, invoicing, recordkeeping, return, and payment duties for operators and digital platform providers.

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  • Malaysia

    701 - *CENTRAL BANK OF MALAYSIA ACT 2009

    4 provisions

    This Act sets up Bank Negara Malaysia as Malaysia’s central bank and gives it powers and duties over monetary policy, financial stability, reserves, currency, reporting, and governance.

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  • Malaysia

    365 - AKTA PENCULIKAN 1961

    1 provisions

    This Act criminalizes kidnapping for ransom and related ransom-handling conduct, and gives the Public Prosecutor and police several investigative powers.

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  • Malaysia

    171 - *LOCAL GOVERNMENT ACT 1976

    5 provisions

    The Act sets out how local authorities are created and run, how meetings and contracts must be handled, and what councillors must do when they have a financial interest in a matter.

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  • Malaysia

    393 - *SERVICE COMMISSIONS ACT 1957

    1 provisions

    This Act protects certain Commission communications, creates offences for false information, unauthorized disclosure, and improper attempts to influence a Commission, and sets out Commission member remuneration and allowances.

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  • Malaysia

    97 - PROBATE AND ADMINISTRATION ACT 1959

    2 provisions

    This Act sets out how probate and letters of administration are granted, how executors and administrators may act, and when the court can impose conditions, require security, or revoke grants.

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  • Malaysia

    399 - *TITLES OF OFFICE ACT 1949

    1 provisions

    This Act lets certain public office titles be replaced by matching titles in the First Schedule, and lets the Yang di-Pertuan Agong update that schedule by Gazette notification when title changes occur, subject to stated territorial limits and concurrence requirements.

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  • Malaysia

    327 - *AKTA PENGGALAKAN PELABURAN 1986

    6 provisions

    This part lets companies apply for R&D status or pioneer status, and gives the Minister powers to approve, extend, define, or withdraw status subject to stated conditions.

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  • Malaysia

    A1633 - AKTA CUKAI PELANCONGAN (PINDAAN) 2021

    1 provisions

    This amendment adds rules for digital platform service providers handling tourism tax on online accommodation bookings, including registration, collection, returns, invoices, records, and offences.

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  • Malaysia

    384 - POOL BETTING ACT 1967

    1 provisions

    This Act sets up a licensing and Board-based system for pool betting, imposes pool betting duty, regulates betting operations, and creates offences and enforcement powers.

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  • Malaysia

    609 - PERBADANAN LABUAN ACT 2001

    1 provisions

    This Act establishes Perbadanan Labuan and gives it powers to run its functions, manage funds, appoint staff, borrow money, make regulations, and acquire property.

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  • Malaysia

    512 - GENEVA CONVENTIONS ACT 1962

    8 provisions

    This Act makes grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions an offence, sets trial safeguards for protected prisoners of war and protected internees, and restricts use of Red Cross-related emblems and words without the Minister’s authority.

  • Malaysia

    815 - *TRADEMARKS ACT 2019

    6 provisions

    This part of the Trademarks Act sets up trademark registration, defines key terms, and gives the Registrar powers to examine applications and refuse marks that fail the statutory tests.

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