Incorporation of Goods into Buildings eg Built In
Cabinets/Curtain Walls of Buildings etc. Exempted from Sales Tax when
manufactured?
Sales Tax (Exemption from Registration) Order 2018 includes
the following two processes as exempted:
3. The incorporation
of goods into buildings.
12. The reduction of
size and/or changing of the shape of taxable materials without changing the
nature of such materials, provided that the sizing and/or shaping is not part
of the normal process in the manufacture of a separate article.
An Example
1.
Building have unique architecture that
requires a Contractor to undertake Cutting of Profiles, tubes, Rods of Aluminium or Iron/Steel at a factory,
packed into pallets for ease of transport and do further fabrication at site in
the process of installing as a permanent feature of building prepared for use in structures. Profiles, Tubes, and Rods of Aluminium or
Iron/Steel cut to sizes (tariff code 76
10 90 000* –for Aluminium material, 7301 20 000* of Iron or Steel, 4418 90 900*
of Wood, *previous tariff code, could have been changed) is subject to 5% Sales
tax.
2. For Example for construction
of Mullion and Transome and Sleeves.
-At factory ‘Notching’. Notching is a metal-cutting
process used on sheetmetal or thin barstock, sometimes on angle sections or
tube. A shearing or punching process is used in a press, so as to cut
vertically down and perpendicular to the surface, working from the edge of a
workpiece
- When
leaving factory the cut pieces of Iron or Aluminium Profiles cannot be
distinguished as Mullion or Transome as further fabrication need to take place
according to specifications of building.
- Item 12 in the Order specifies a
condition : “provided that the sizing and/or shaping is not part of the normal
process in the manufacture of a separate article”.
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In the case of a factory cutting rods and
profile shapes which are later fabricated further to produce Mullion, Transome
and Sleeves and to be used to install Glass Curtain Walls, ought to be
considered “Manufacturing” and subject to registration and charge of Sales Tax.
Glass Curtain Walls do not have the characteristics upon leaving Factory and
are likely not taxable but Mullion and Transome and Sleeves although not fully
formed would qualify as taxable as further process to do modifications is done
at site as part of the process.
4. If sub-contractors at site are appointed by
the same factory to undertake the fabrication
with further cutting, drilling of holes
and fabrication of Sleeves, then the earlier cutting at factory level would
qualify as part of the process of fabrication of Mullion and Transome.
However in case subcontractors are appointed by building owners and don’t have
a permanent premises to operate a business of manufacturing, they should be
required to charge sales tax on workmanship.
The job at a project site to cut, fabricate and install is a part of the
manufacture of taxable products and No Exemption as item 3 in the Order be
considered despite the final product is incorporated in Buildings.
Below are some decisions made on such a matter
Bahasa Malaysia
PERUNDANGAN
3. Penggabungan
barang ke dalam bangunan.
12. Pengurangan saiz
dan/atau perubahan bentuk bahan bercukai tanpa mengubah sifat bahan tersebut,
dengan syarat bahawa ukuran dan/atau bentuknya bukan sebahagian daripada proses
biasa dalam pengilangan suatu barang yang berasingan.
1. Isu mengenai pengenaan cukai jualan keatas
barangan yang dipasang secara tetap pada bangunan selalu bangkit kerana
kontraktor atau subkontraktor dan juga
pengilang berdaftar mengambil peluang daripada pengecualian yang ditetapkan
dalam Undang-undang: Perintah Cukai Jualan (Pengecualian daripada Pendaftatran)
2018.
2. Pengecualian yang sama ujud dalam
Perundangan dahulu: Perintah Cukai Jualan (Pengecualian daripada Pelesenan)
1997 dan beberapa keputusan telah dibuat di bawah ini yang didapati tidak
selaras dengan kehendak undang-undang untuk penguatkuasaan cukai jualan sebagai
cukai seperingkat. Ini mengakibatkan pengecualian diberikan kepada pihak yang
tidak sepatutnya diberikan dan Jabatan tidak dapat mengutip hasil cukai jualan
tempatan daripada kontraktor/subkontraktor . Penafsiran dibuat yang sangat sempit
dimana apa-apa aktiviti ‘pengilangan’ yang dijalankan di tapak pembinaan yang
menghasilkan barangan bercukai jualan dan barangan kemudian dipasang secara
tetap pada bangunan dianggap bukan pengilangan. Satu kemusykilan yang dihadapi
berkaitan pengilangan yang dijjalankan di tapak pembinaan ialah tiada premis
tetap untuk dilesenkan dan aktiviti tersebut dijalankan sementara iaiatu
sehingga projek siap, dengan itu tidak dilesenkan.
3. Berikutnya dijelaskan contoh serta
pendekatan yang sepatutnya diambil
-Mullion, Transome dan Sleeves dihasilkan dengan memotong Profile Tubes atau Pipes of Aluminium/
Besi/Keluli kepada saiz tertentu. Mullion dan Transome adalah bentok bentok
tertentu yang merupakan products : ‘Profiles, tubes, Rods prepared for use in
structures’. Oleh itu sesuai
diklasifikasi di bawah kod tariff 76 10 90 000 yang adalah tertakluk kepada
cukai jualan 5%
-Bentok bentok profile adalah berbeza dan potongan dilakukan dalam ukuran
tertentu mengikut kehendak supaya kepingan kaca akan dapat di masukkan dalam
ruang pada dinding bangunan untuk menghasilkan ‘curtain walls’
-Setelah
menjalani proses’Notching’ (pemotongan) dan sewaktu keluar dari kilang bentok
profil tidak sesuai dianggap sebagai Mullion atau Transome dan Sleeves kerana
untuk digunakan sebagai Transome atau Mullion dan Sleeves pada bangunan ianya
perlu proses selanjutnya di tapak seperti pemasangan sleeve dan pemasangan pada
bracket.
-Perhatian perlu diberi kepada butiran 12:
12. Pengurangan saiz dan/atau perubahan bentuk bahan bercukai tanpa mengubah sifat bahan tersebut, dengan syarat bahawa ukuran dan/atau bentuknya bukan sebahagian daripada proses biasa dalam pengilangan suatu barang yang berasingan.
Di perenggan
bawah dimuatkan keputusan yang pernah dibuat atas pengilangan seperti
ini. Semoga menjadi panduan.
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