Tax Alert, 2 July 2020

This issue is focused on the Twenty Sixth Amendment to the GST Regulation (Regulation Number 2011/R-43).

Key topics covered in the Amendment, and detailed in this issue of Tax Alert, are:

1. specific rules on what constitutes a charter of a tourist vessel;
2. no prior authorisation required to claim a deduction on irrecoverable debts;
3. amendment of the definition of goods and services exported from the Maldives;
4. specific rules on transfer, and personal consumption of imported goods;
5. removal of requirement to return GST certificate upon de-registration.

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