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The Royal Malaysian Customs Departmt (Jawi writt: جابتن كستم دراج مليسيا; abbreviated: RMCD) is a governmt departmt body under the Malaysian Ministry of Finance. RMCD functions as the country's main indirect tax collector, facilitating trade and forcing laws. The top managemt of JKDM is led by the Director Geral of Customs (Turus III) and assisted by 3 deputies, namely, the Deputy Director Geral of Customs forcemt/Compliance Division (Jusa A), the Deputy Director Geral of Customs Customs/Inland Tax Division (Jusa A) and the Deputy Chief Director of Customs Managemt Division (Jusa B). The Royal Malaysian Customs Departmt consists of several divisions, namely the forcemt Division, the Inland Tax Division, the Compliance Division, the Customs Division, and the Technical Services Division.
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Before any Western powers ever set foot in this land, a tax administration system had existed, that is during the heyday of the Malacca and Johor-Riau Sultanate.
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In the era of the Malacca Sultanate, maritime and harbour laws existed along with matters pertaining to a tax structure involving the foreign and local merchants. During that period the tax collector and all tax-related matters were the responsibility of the Chief of the Exchequer (Pghulu Bdahari):
... the Chief of the Exchequer. (He) controlled all the revue and Customs Officers and looked after the palace building and equipmt. (R.J.W. Wilkinson The Melaka Sultanate. JMBRAS VOL. XIII-Pt. 2, 1935, p. 31).
The portfolio in charge of tax collection was the harbour master (syahbandar). He was trusted by the king with the power to force rules and Harbour Laws (Undang-Undang Pelabuhan). There were four harbour masters that used to handle traders from all over the world that harboured at the Malacca port:
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With the establishmt of the Straits Settlemts (which consisted of Singapore, Pang, Malacca, Labuan and Dinding in Perak) in 1826, tax administration were supervised by a Governor and a Council directly answerable to the Governor Geral in Calcutta, India who was in turn controlled by the Board of Governors of the East India Company.
Ev though the Straits Settlemts had be established, a few tax structure and practices applied by the Malay chieftains were retained, for example the Tax Farming system. In this system, a lessee with the highest bid had the authority to collect tax. The lessee was giv a licse and was subject to specific rules. This facilitated the process of obtaining Excise Duty revues.
Ev though a Customs and Excise Departmt had yet to exist, all customs activities were operated by a body called the Governmt Monopolies. This body was authorised to grant import licse and process and sell certain goods such as opium, tobacco, arrack, cigarettes and matches.
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At that time, excise duty were imposed on such goods as rice-wine (samsu), toddy and locally made opium whilst customs tax was imposed on opium imported from China, tobacco, cigarettes, liquor and fire crackers.
Governmt Monopolies, the body that controlled these customs and excise activities existed until 1937 whereby in that year the Straits Settlemt Customs and Excise Departmt was officially launched as H.M. Customs and Excise. Following that, a Revue Collection Branch and a Prevtive Branch were set up to oversee customs and excise activities until 1937.
A station called the Coast Post was set up to place Customs Officers (at that time called Revue Officers) who will collect tax and monitor commercial / trading activities. The Customs Departmt collaborated with the Harbour Master, Post Master and Immigration Departmt to sure a smooth day-to-day operations.
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H.M. Customs and Excise continued until 1948 up to the extant of the Malayan Union era whereby the Federation of Malaya Customs and Excise Departmt were th established, covering the tire Malay Pinsula (except Singapore).
Before British intervtion in the Malay States and before the Residt System was introduced, there existed a tax administration in Pahang, Perak, Selangor and Negeri Sembilan managed by the Malay chieftains. At that time, the Malay States were divided into several provinces or districts with a chieftain authorised to collect tax over the people. Among the taxes imposed were:
The British had tak over tax collection from the local chieftains with the introduction of the Residt system from 1870 to 1880s. Before the formation of State Councils in the states governed by the Residt System, tax collection relied on the discretion of each Residt who is also the Sultan's Advisor. The State Council subsequtly would determine all matters related to Customs tax in the states. Among the functions of the council were:
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... Connection with the Governmt of the country influtial natives and others with whom the Governmt may consult, regarding proposals for taxation, appointmts, concessions, the institution or abolition of laws and other matters ...;
Tin mines lease system with an export tax of $15.00 per bahara and 1/10 for other metals. Farming revue -2.5% tax. Tax on imported opium. Systematic tax administration activities in the Malay States led to the establishmt of the Customs Departmt. Customs stations were situated at river estuaries and state borders and were in charge of collecting duties on agricultural products, mining, alcoholic beverages, opium and gambier. The managemt system of the Customs Departmt varied from state to state.
The managemt of the departmt and tax collection were carried out by the clerks in the District Office and State Treasury Office; therefore the Customs Departmt did not fully manage customs and excise duty. For example, in Telok Anson, Taiping and Kuala Lumpur, tax were collected by the Governmt Treasurer, whilst at the ports, river estuaries as well as the borders of Perak, Selangor and Negeri Sembilan, tax collection were done by Customs Clerks who were directly responsible to the District Officers in those areas. In Selangor import tax on opium were collected by the Chinese People Affairs Protection Officers.
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Customs Union in the Malay States had not existed th. This led to complication in forcing tariff on goods and differing tax rate in the differt states. As a consequce there was a need to form a federation betwe the Malay States and this basically had be approved by the British Foreign Secretary and Straits Settlemts Governor.
With the formation of the Federated Malay States, there were efforts to integrate Customs matters betwe states. As an outcome, in 1904, a new legislation called the Goods Revue actmt Number II was acted, with the purpose of controlling all Import tax revue on alcoholic beverages. Under this legislation, the retailer was giv a special licse to import alcoholic beverages with a fixed rt paymt.
On 1 January 1907, a new post of Inspector of Trade and Customs was created. On the same date, a legislation called The Customs Regulations actmt was introduced with the approval of all four States Legislative Board. In 1908 the title of Inspector of Trade and Customs had be changed to Commissioner of Trade and Customs.
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With the existce of this actmt, import and export tax schedules became uniform in the Federated Malay States. A complete integration occurred in 1920 with the establishmt of one uniform Customs actmt for the Federated Malay States.
With this integration, Customs stations at the borders were abolished and no tax was imposed if the goods brought from a state to another were from the union. To collect export duty on goods that were brought out by trains, tax collecting stations were established in Singapore in 1918, Prai (1919) and Malacca (1922). The stations were also tasked with collecting duties on imported goods.
The establishmt of the Customs Union in the Federated Malay States had harmonised all Customs regulations betwe the states. In fact, all Customs offices under the Trade Commissioner and Customs Departmt were responsible directly to the Chief Secretary of the Federated Malay States.
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In 1931 during the Federated Malay States Rulers Conferce or Durbar in Sri Manti, Negeri Sembilan, the British High Commissioner, Sir Cecil Clemti proposed an expansion of the union. The proposition was based on the annual increase of import tax.
Until the year 1932, Customs Tariff had already compassed a majority of goods and prefertial duty had to be created for goods coming from the British empire. The heavy reliance on import duty as a source of revue for the Federated Malay States led Sir Cecil to opine:
Like the rest of the British Empire, the Malay States had become increasingly depdt on Customs import duties as their main source of revue, and it was on this score that he strongly recommded the creation of a customs union embracing the whole of the Malay pinsula if trade is not to be intolerably cramped, and the interdepdce of one territory upon another in matter of commerce .(C.R. Emerson, Malaysia a study in Direct and Indirect Role, Out 1979, p. 190).
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Hceforth he suggested an establishmt of a Customs Union for the whole of the Malay Pinsula. This was so that the tariff growth in the Federated Malay States would not disturb the smooth trade