{"id":123101,"date":"2018-01-04T12:03:05","date_gmt":"2018-01-04T05:03:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/setkab.go.id\/?p=123101"},"modified":"2018-01-05T13:05:01","modified_gmt":"2018-01-05T06:05:01","slug":"government-of-saudi-arabia-to-impose-5-vat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/setkab.go.id\/en\/government-of-saudi-arabia-to-impose-5-vat\/","title":{"rendered":"Government of Saudi Arabia to Impose 5% VAT"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_123102\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/setkab.go.id\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Menag-300x200-1.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-123102\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-123102\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-123102\" src=\"https:\/\/setkab.go.id\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Menag-300x200-1-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Minister of Religious Affairs Lukman Hakim Saifuddin\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/setkab.go.id\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Menag-300x200-1.jpg 300w, https:\/\/setkab.go.id\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Menag-300x200-1-150x100.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-123102\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Minister of Religious Affairs Lukman Hakim Saifuddin<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Starting 1 January 2018, the Government of Saudi Arabia imposes 5 percent Value Added Tax (VAT) on food, clothes, electronics, gasoline, phone, water, and electricity bills, as well as hotel reservation.&lt;<!--more-->&gt;<\/p>\n<p>Therefore, the Ministry of Religious Affairs is now analyzing the impact of this policy to the cost of 2018 Hajj. \u0093We are now reviewing the cost for 2018 Hajj. Of course the cost will increase because the 5 percent VAT apply to all components of accomodation, food, and transportation,\u0094 Minister of Religious Affairs says after leading the Commemoration of Ministry of Religious Affairs\u0092 Charity Day in Jakarta, on Wednesday (3\/1). This review is conducted to ensure that the increase of Hajj cost is not too high.<\/p>\n<p>The Minister received confirmation about this 5 percent policy two weeks ago when he visited Saudi Arabia to discuss and sign the MoU on Hajj Pilgrimage 1439H\/ 2018M. <strong>(Humas Kemenag\/ES)<\/strong> <strong>(MMB\/YM\/Naster)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Starting 1 January 2018, the Government of Saudi Arabia imposes 5 percent Value Added Tax (VAT) on food, clothes, electronics, gasoline, phone, water, and electricity bills, as well as hotel reservation.&lt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":123103,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[77],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.1 (Yoast SEO v26.1.1) - 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