Handwritten invoices OK until end Sept: Customs

Kota Kinabalu: Handwritten invoices to charge the Goods and Services Tax will be allowed in the State until the end of September. State Customs Director Datuk Dr Janathan Kandok said, Monday, it is compulsory for these invoices to comply with certain requirements. "For simplified tax invoices, businesses must have their full address, GST registration, tax invoice number, date, description of the goods being sold, GST rate and quantity among others," he said.

More than 18,000 companies in the State registered under the GST which was implemented in Malaysia at a standard rate of six per cent from April 1 this year. It was recently reported that the Customs Department GST Division Director Datuk Subromaniam Tholasy announced that traders are allowed to use their handwritten, pre-printed invoices to charge the GST until the end of September.

However these invoices would have had to be printed before the tax was implemented, and it only applies to hardware shops, restaurants, mini markets, grocery and sundry shops, book stores, pharmacies and places of entertainment. Tholasy said beginning October, all the mentioned businesses would be required to produce invoices which comply with the GST, at the 'Point-of-Sale' system or the GST- compliant cash registers.

Daily Express had been receiving many calls lately from businesses that State Customs personnel have been rejecting such invoices despite Customs headquarters having assured that they would be entertained till end September.

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They said the confusion was causing a great inconvenience among the business fraternity, adding that conflicting advice from Customs personnel should not arise as this showed even these personnel were unclear about the GST mechanism.

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