Greetings and welcome to the fourth and final instalment of the ASEAN Investment & Tax News for 2021.The COVID-19 pandemic continues to affect ASEAN countries’ growth plans. Based on the Asian Development Outlook 2021 Update (September 2021) by Asian Development Bank, the 2021 growth rate for...

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As part of the effort to improve the preparation process of the nation’s annual budget and to enhance Malaysia’s position in the Open Budget Index, the Ministry of Finance (“MOF”) has published its first Pre-Budget Statement (“PBS”) on 31 August 2021. The PBS is published to increase transparency...

Greetings and welcome to the third instalment of the ASEAN Investment & Tax News of 2021.It has been more than 18 months since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic. ASEAN is still in the recovery process. The path remains precarious with new variants driving recent surging infections and causing a...