100% sales tax exemption on new CKD cars, 50% exemption for CBU until end of the year – PM

In his short-term economic recovery plan speech earlier this evening, prime minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin announced a host of measures to stimulate the country’s economy, which has been adversely affected by the Covid-19 pandemic. For the automotive sector, these involve measures aimed at boosting new car sales to keep the industry moving.

The relief measures are a 100% sales tax exemption on locally-assembled (CKD) models and 50% on fully-imported (CBU) models, starting from June 15 until December 31, 2020.

The current sales tax rate under the sales and services tax (SST) for both CKD and CBU passenger vehicles is 10%, so for CKD this will mean the complete removal of the 10% rate on all locally-assembled cars for the period, while for CBU it will be halved to 5%.

As such, expect car prices to go down in the same way as it was when the 6% goods and services tax (GST), which was introduced on April 1, 2015 was abolished in June 2018. The result was a three-month “tax holiday” (until SST was reintroduced in September 2018) in which there was zero sales tax imposed on all new car sales. Of course, CKD vehicles will benefit more from this round of the tax holiday.

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