{"id":97582,"date":"2021-02-02T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-01T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.motac.gov.my\/response-to-the-issue-of-projected-average-accommodation-rates-in-malaysia-raised-by-yb-lim-guan-eng\/"},"modified":"2021-02-02T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-02-01T16:00:00","slug":"response-to-the-issue-of-projected-average-accommodation-rates-in-malaysia-raised-by-yb-lim-guan-eng","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.motac.gov.my\/en\/response-to-the-issue-of-projected-average-accommodation-rates-in-malaysia-raised-by-yb-lim-guan-eng\/","title":{"rendered":"Response to the Issue of Projected Average Accommodation Rates in Malaysia Raised by YB Lim Guan Eng"},"content":{"rendered":"
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  1. PENJANA Tourism Financing Scheme for Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) and Micro Enterprises in the tourism sector;<\/li>\n
  2. tourism tax exemption for foreign tourists staying at business premises registered under the Tourism Tax Act 2017 for the period of stay from 1 July 2020 to 30 June 2021;<\/li>\n
  3. service tax exemption on accommodation services from 1 September 2020 to 30 June 2021;<\/li>\n
  4. SME assistance initiatives such as the PENJANA SME Financing Scheme and the SME Digitalisation Matching Grant;<\/li>\n
  5. extension of the deferral of monthly income tax installment payments for 3 months, starting from 1 October 2020 until 31 December 2020, by travel agencies, hotel operators, travel agents and airlines;<\/li>\n
  6. expansion of the scope of tax deductions or capital allowances for prevention and Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) expenses for COVID-19 which covers screening expenses and other related PPE equipment starting 1 March 2020 and extension of the period starting 1 January 2021;<\/li>\n
  7. extension of the tax period on renovation and renewal expenses of business premises carried out limited to RM3,000 in the period from 1 January to 31 December 2021; and<\/li>\n
  8. extension of targeted loan payment deferral or moratorium offers.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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    1. improvements to the Wage Subsidy Plan (PSU) 3.0 which allows all employers operating under the MCO to apply regardless of sector. For a period of 1 month, employers are eligible to receive a wage subsidy of RM600 per employee earning less than RM4,000. The employee limit has been increased from 200 people to 500 people; <\/li>\n
    2. Additional Special Caring Grant (GKP) of RM1,000 for SMEs in MCO states and RM500 for SMEs in other states;<\/li>\n
    3. 10% electricity bill discount for 6 selected sectors (including theme parks, convention centers, shopping malls, local airlines & travel and tourism agencies) for the period January to March 2021; and<\/li>\n
    4. Employer levy exemption (HRDF) for companies that are not operating during the MCO & MCO.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      PENJANA Tourism Financing Scheme for Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) and Micro Enterprises in the tourism sector; tourism tax exemption for foreign tourists staying at business premises registered under the Tourism Tax Act 2017 for the period of stay from 1 July 2020 to 30 June 2021; service tax exemption on accommodation services from 1…<\/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-97582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motac.gov.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97582","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=97582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.motac.gov.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97582\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motac.gov.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motac.gov.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motac.gov.my\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}