Personal Tax
Do I still need to pay tax if I am paying PCB every month?
A lot of people get confused when they thought that the income tax has already been taken care of by the deduction of PCB from their salaries. They have assumed that taxes have already...
Get your tax refund within 30 days if you use e-Filing
TAXPAYERS using e-Filing will be getting their refund credited directly into their bank accounts within 30 days after the declaration is made.
Inland Revenue Board (IRB) public relations officer Masrun Maslim said the refund would...
Budget 2015: New Personal Tax Rates for Individuals (YA2015)
As it was announced in Budget 2014 & proposed in the latest Budget 2015, individuals income tax rates will be reduced by 1% to 3% with effective from the year of assessment 2015.
Technically, families with total...
Malaysia Personal Income Tax Rates & Table 2010
Every individual is subject to tax on income earned in Malaysia or received in Malaysia from outside Malaysia. Income earned in oversea remitted to Malaysia by a resident individual is exempted from tax.
A non-resident...
Malaysia individual tax deduction – Broadband subscription fee for YA2010 to YA2012
Malaysia Inland Revenue Board (IRB) on 12 April 2011 issued a Technical Guideline on personal tax relief or deduction on the broadband subscription fee. It clarifies that individual (employee) who receives benefit on using...
If you claim tax reliefs, make sure you keep all the receipts (for 7...
Every tax payers are allowed to claim tax reliefs to set-off against their employment or business income when calculating their personal tax.
However, based on our experience, most of the tax payers have easily believed...
Budget 2014: Personal tax reduced in 2015
Upon the implementation of GST in April 2015, the Government is committed to provide various forms of assistance to the rakyat during and after the GST implementation. One of the significant measure is to...
4 Tips to help keep you on correct path to income tax filing
IT'S tax season again!
Unfortunately, however, the filing procedure tends to end up being a truly “taxing” period for many individuals.
We've all heard the horror stories of people failing or forgetting (be it willingly or...
Most favourite tax questions from taxpayers
Customer Service Centre of Inland Revenue Board of Malaysia summarised below the Top 5 most favourite asked questions from Malaysian taxpayers:-
1. How do I register an Individual income tax reference number?
There are 2 methods...
Budget 2014: Special personal tax relief RM2,000
As announced in Budget 2014 and to increase the disposable income of the middle income group, a special one-off personal tax relief of RM2,000 will be given to resident tax payers earning up to...