Comment: Local Architects will suck salt when the foreigners move in. Local Architects pay 17% VAT on fees, and 35% local corporate tax. While the foreign ones will pay NO VAT, NO Work Permit (fly in fly out), NO 10% Withholding Tax. So it will be a LOT cheaper for a Client to use a foreign Architect. The Client will save over 20% using the foreign Architect. No Architect Registration Law is going to help. Where is the Government help and protection in looking after its citizens? |