{"id":92718,"date":"2021-10-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-10-29T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.motac.gov.my\/budget-2022-for-the-tourism-arts-and-culture-sector\/"},"modified":"2021-10-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-10-29T16:00:00","slug":"budget-2022-for-the-tourism-arts-and-culture-sector","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.motac.gov.my\/en\/budget-2022-for-the-tourism-arts-and-culture-sector\/","title":{"rendered":"Budget 2022 for the Tourism, Arts and Culture Sector"},"content":{"rendered":"<ol style=\"list-style-type: lower-roman;\">\n<li>RM600 million for the Wage Subsidy Program Implementation Initiative which will benefit more than 26 thousand employers and 330 thousand employees;<\/li>\n<li>RM600 million in specific financing for the tourism sector under the PENJANA Tourism Financing and BPMB Rehabilitation Scheme;<\/li>\n<li>RM85 million Special Assistance to more than 20 thousand tourism operators registered under MOTAC;<\/li>\n<li>RM50 million for the maintenance of tourism infrastructure with allocations including the Sultan Abdul Samad Building and Bujang Valley in Kedah;<\/li>\n<li>RM30 million in matching grants for repairs to 738 budget hotels as well as repair grants to homestay owners registered under MOTAC;<\/li>\n<li>RM50 million in matching grants to companies that organize arts and culture-related programs;<\/li>\n<li>RM60 million in incentive funds for promotional activities and the promotion of domestic tourism;<\/li>\n<li>Special individual income tax relief for domestic tourism expenses of up to RM1,000 extended until the year of assessment 2022;<\/li>\n<li>Extension of several tax incentives including income tax exemptions for organisers of arts and cultural activities as well as international-level sports and recreational competitions until the year of assessment 2025;<\/li>\n<li>Exemption from entertainment duty on entertainment activities including theme parks and cinemas in all Federal Territories and tourism tax exemption extended until 31 December 2022;<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RM600 million for the Wage Subsidy Program Implementation Initiative which will benefit more than 26 thousand employers and 330 thousand employees; RM600 million in specific financing for the tourism sector under the PENJANA Tourism Financing and BPMB Rehabilitation Scheme; RM85 million Special Assistance to more than 20 thousand tourism operators registered under MOTAC; RM50 million&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motac.gov.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motac.gov.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motac.gov.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motac.gov.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motac.gov.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.motac.gov.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92718\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motac.gov.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motac.gov.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motac.gov.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}