When the Coalition of Hope (Pakatan Harapan) unveiled its first ever budget as Malaysia’s new ruling coalition, one of the key points that caught the attention of Malaysians was the taxing of imported services, including online services.In November 2018 – when Malaysia’s 2019 budget was tabled – the country’s Finance Minister Lim Guan Eng revealed that the government would impose and remit a tax on online services such as software, music, video and digital advertising beginning January 2020.