Transactions exempted from incurring service tax are:

  1. Corporate Action fees
  2. CDS Share Transfers fees

III. All service charges except for brokerage fees

If you are unsure whether your transaction is taxable, please get in touch with us.

Brokerage fees range from RM1 to a maximum of RM100 depending on the transaction amount. A surcharge of RM30 is applied on all assisted trades. 

 

Click here for the full list of fees.

Interest on outstanding transactions are at 7.80% per annum.

It is calculated daily after T+2, at the end of each day. The interest on outstanding balance will be realized at the end of the month.

Rollover fee is calculated at flat rate 0.5% of each principal buy outstanding amount at the expiry of each rollover period. Rollover period for RakuMargin is 3 months. For example, if you have outstanding purchases with amount of RM10,000, the rollover fee will be RM50.00.

It’ll be auto deducted from the available cash balance in your RakuMargin trading account at the end of the 90th trading day. If there is no cash balance to offset, the rollover fee will remain as an outstanding amount.

Effective from 1st March 2023, for all statement request that are more than 12 months old will incur a charge of RM5.00 per statement.

Disclaimer : Rakuten Trade only issued statement in monthly basis for Account Statement and daily basis for Trading Statement.

A rollover is when a position is extended beyond the end of the trading day without settment.

RakuMargin account holders are charged a flat rate of 0.5% on the principal buy outstanding amount on the expiry of each rollover period.

For example, if you have outstanding purchases with amount of RM10,000, the rollover fee will be RM50.00.

A stamp duty is a required tax charged for the transfer of assets, in this case shares in a company.

It’s charged on transactions through Bursa Malaysia at RM1.00 at maximum cap of RM1,000 for the selective type of stock traded.

It is also charged at RM1.00 at maximum cap of RM 200 for the selective  type of stock such as rights, warrants, REIT/Trust and close ended fund.

Exemption of Stamp Duty for Exchanged Traded Fund (ETF) until 2025.

New Stamp Duty

Only brokerage fees can be offset using RT points or if part of a special promotion. Other fees such as the clearing fee of 0.03% and stamp duty fees cannot be waived. Please refer to our fees webpage for more information. 

Please be informed that we are not the right person to advice you on Income tax-related inquiry. This inquiry can only be answered by the LHDN as the declaration of income tax is beyond our jurisdiction.

We charge a brokerage fee and standard charges for buy/sell transactions that varies depending on the type of stock traded. Please refer to our "Fees" webpage.