Highlights
- Issue HKD5,000 electronic consumption vouchers to each eligible Hong Kong permanent resident and new arrival aged 18 or above
- Reduce profits tax, salaries tax and tax under personal assessment for 2022/23 by HKD6,000 max.
- Increase tax deduction for voluntary contributions for the Mandatory Provident Fund made by employers for staff over 65 years of age from the current 100% to 200% in respect of such expenditure
- Increase basic child allowance and additional child allowance from HKD120,000 to HKD130,000
- Provide rates concession for non-domestic and domestic properties for 2023/24 capped at HKD1,000 per quarter in the first two quarters
- Adjust value bands of the ad valorem stamp duty payable for sale and purchase or transfer of residential and non-residential properties
- A subsidy of HKD1,000 to each residential electricity account
- Increase duty on cigarettes and other tobacco products by HKD0.60 per stick
- Introduce a patent box tax incentive for patents generated via research and development activities
- Conduct consultation and submit legislative proposals in 2023/24 to introduce a mechanism to facilitate companies domiciled overseas, particularly companies with a business focus in the Asia Pacific region, for re-domiciliation to Hong Kong
- Introduced legislative amendments in December 2022 to profit profits tax exemption for qualifying transactions of family owned investment vehicles managed by single family offices in Hong Kong.
- Enhance listing rules in order to strike a balance between market development and regulatory needs, including relevant arrangement in share buy-back by issuers.
- Work with regulators to refine tax arrangements for wealth management sector and to review existing tax measures applicable to funds.
- Introducing a bill in 4th quarter 2023 to enhance the aircraft leasing tax regime
- Keep profits tax and salaries tax rates unchanged
- Impose football betting duty of HKD2.4 billion for 5 years starting 2023/24
- Plan to issue no less than HKD50 billion of Slver Bond and HKD15 billion of retail green bond in the next financial year
- Expand the scope of Government Green Bond Programme to cover sustainable finance projects
- Plan to apply global minimum effective tax rate on large multinational enterprise groups and implement minimum top-up tax starting from 2025 onwards
- Put forward an enhance proposal in mid-March to provide a better guideline on whether onshore gains on disposal of equity interests are subject to tax
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