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Maldives President Announces Tax Relief and Funding Access for Small Businesses

1 report, 1 independent Updated Oct 22
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What happened

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President Mohamed Muizzu announced several measures to support small and medium businesses in the Maldives. These measures include raising the threshold for mandatory Goods and Services Tax (GST) registration from MVR1 million to MVR1.5 million starting in January. Additionally, import duty will be waived for five years on a list of raw materials imported by small businesses.

From maldivesindependent.com

Why it matters

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The policy changes aim to ease the operational costs and improve the financial access for small and medium businesses within the Maldives. Furthermore, small businesses will be able to receive US dollar payments from overseas through BML’s payment gateway starting November 1 and use those funds for international payments.

From maldivesindependent.com

Who's involved

  • Mohamed MuizzuPresident of the Maldives, who announced the business support measures.
  • MaldivesThe sovereign state where the new tax and import duty policies were implemented.

Who could feel it

Possible knock-on effects

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  • MaldivesSpeculative

    Small and medium businesses in the Maldives could see reduced costs and improved access to international funding.

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