yeah you can put an effective from and an effective to. But it would be better (for me, at least) if you could keep the same tax code but have the rate vary over time. Fundamentally it's very rare that a new tax is introduced (e.g. Malaysia SST), it's normally just the rate changes from a particular date (e.g. RSA VAT change, UK VAT changes, etc etc).
For the end user, they just should be picking Standard VAT rather than a choice of two standard VATs. Just my 2 cents