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Tax on foreign investment?

Posted at: 2014-12-05 
Probably one for a tax accountant!!

There will be witholding tax on US investments. Possibly 30% or 20% if you can sign a W8-BEN as nonus citizen (and hold the shares in the States).

Find out whether there is double taxation agreement between US and Malaysia.

There will be corporation tax to pay by Malaysian company which possibly could be off-set against the W/H tax.

You talk about funds, these may have different tax treatment either within the fund or for fund holders. You need to research this a bit more

Hi,

I would like to ask given a scenario where a Malaysia company were to invest in a asset/fund management company in a foreign country such as US. Is there any Malaysia regulation tax charge on the amount that the Malaysia company invested? So it means the malaysia company will have less funds to invest in.

Thanks.