hi all,

does The Edge publication subscription falls under newspaper? or it can be deducted under "Purchase of books/ magazines/ journals/ etc.?

thanks

Hi!,

I was at the LHDN yesterday & made enquiries with the Tax Officer on 2 items:-

1. Tax Relief for "Purchase of Sports Equipment"
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I asked the officer whether the Ogawa ezTone can be claim for Tax Relief. He wasn't sure so he called his boss & CONFIRMED that can be claim.

My worry is if I claimed for Tax Relief BUT after a few year they may reject & impose a penalty of 45%.
2. Tax Relief for "Medical expenses for serious illness (incl. full medical examinations up to RM500) for spouse.
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My wife (full-time housewife) was admitted to hospital for "acute gastritis".
Expenses incurred incl. medical examinations (imaging, X-ray & laboratory tests) plus treatment/procedure/wad.

Question:
Can I claim for the TOTAL EXPENSES incurred? If NO, then can I claim just for the medical examinations (imaging, X-ray & laboratory tests) COST which is subjected to a max. of RM500. I did not claim the medical examination for myself so the RM500 relief is still unused.
I have made "online" enquiry via LHDN website becos' I need a black & white answer from them before I claim for the Tax Reliefs. Worry that they may change their mind on the intepretations & impose a penalty on me at a later date.

Any comments will be appreciated. Thanks!

I am not too sure about this....

But I saw this link on the first page of this thread.

http://www.hasil.gov.my/goindex.php?kump=5...1&cariw=penalti

It is stated somewhere that the tax penalty is 1,000 to 10,000 and 200% of tax undercharged.

Perhaps expert here can verify.

Depends on who is the LHDN officer, her mood when you visit them and reason that you given to them.

I have deal with one old chinese lady LHDN staff who was not so nice.

Can't agree more, why is it that when they are in the civil service, they acted like that.

use to it other word biasalah

you must write in before due date.

there will be a penalty imposed cos late payment for the balance

im still able to view n submit for 2012 BE. BTW, my 2012 is submitted using paper

dont hope for it bcos base on system. late one day consider late no grace period unless you inform them before due date.

P.S : proof n reason why installment

irb kl?

KANGAR BRANCH SAY CANNOT MUST SHOW PROOF OR DOCUMENT TO SUPPORT YOUR APPEAL

if I earned less than 17k and no income tax has been deducted in 2013, do I have to fill in the BE_2013 form, which will due on 30th APR 2014?

Hi. I really need help and advise on this one. 

I’m a legal tax payer. However, I never look as submitting forms is important every year because to what I understand, since my payslip had deducted the amount of tax to the govt. it should be fine. Like what is there to declare if I did not owe government anything? So I was totally wrong about it and misunderstood. I even misunderstood the EPF and tax part. My colleagues do make noise everytime submitting tax, and the impression they gave me they just wanna claim some money back. To me, I am fine, it's better the govt. had the money from me than I owe them plus I really hate paperwork. You may ask why my HR/Admin never brief or at least tell me? I do not want to put the blame to my HR/Admins though I’ve asked some several people that they do have responsible to at least explain the importance of submitting tax forms every year when my salary had reach the certain tax amount.

Now after I acknowledged the importance I am actually gathering all my EA forms and other documents to file to the tax. I checked with Hasil and my Tax No. also existed (my tax no. never appear in my EA form because it's under pending but they still receive tax from my earning every year). And I just registered to e-filing. So my questions is that according to my pay I should have start submitting my tax forms since 2009 but I did not do that. If I plan to do it and submit it now, will I go to jail? I am not even doing a full time job anymore and trying to do my own business but I've decided it's better I do my tax now since it's important.

Should I really go ahead submitting my tax? The fine is RM200 (min) to RM2,000 (max) or spend some time squatting in prison (not exceeding 6 months). I've calculated that from my tax I might can redeem from 700-a thousand every yr. If it's penalty judge by every year I guess I need to really eat wind. I don't plan to buy any property in this few years though.

Please advice. 

@J_pandapuppet, you can put back-dated incomes from previous years at first page under "Pendapatan Tahun Kebelakangan Yang Belum Dilaporkan".

Since you have actually paid the tax via monthly PCB deduction and if you don't have any business income, I don't see the big deal. In the case of being audited, you can bring along the previous EA forms to support your case.

The EA form will have each of the details including OT and taxable fixed allowance. This is the only proof or paper work for employment income and I did mention in my post "if you don't have any business income".

If you have business income, this will be out of scope.

For filing back dated incomes, you're not allowed to claim for relieves.

Let the tax officer perform the assessment, he or she may be called for a coffee session at the tax office.

Do you think that I'm THAT stupid and not aware of those things?

I'm talking about "Pendapatan Tahun Kebelakangan Yang Belum Dilaporkan" and NOT about current year of assessment. How many times that I have been stressing this.

Under "Pendapatan Tahun Kebelakangan Yang Belum Dilaporkan" section, you can only put "Jenis Pendapatan", "Bayaran Pada Tahun", "Amaun Kasar" and "Caruman Kumpulan Wang".

As I mentioned earlier that, when you're filing for un-filed back dated or previous years income, you're not allowed to claim for relieves.

If you have BUSINESS INCOME, that is another separate different discussion.

Thanks for the hints and advise.

If your advise is to submit the previous year the last year would be 2012. My last full time job and ended on year 2012. I would need to submit the form manually since e-filing only up to 2013.

No I do not have business income between 2009-2012, only bonus during my serving in this previous company.

- <a href='http://<referral link removed>/my/news/last-minute-guide-to-filing-your-taxes-malaysia' target='_blank'>http://<referral link removed>/my/news/last-minute-guide-...-taxes-malaysia</a>

Q1. My file opened in the year of 2009, but my total income for that year is less than that abovementioned amount. Only in the year of 2010 it exceeds that amount. Do I go ahead and file it from the year 2009 if they requested?

Q2. Technically, I do not have any income in the year of 2013 because am not attached with any company. So year 2013 I can put it into rest or still submit it with no income?

I am ready with the EA forms and documents just in case anyway.

Q3. So I should go ahead filing from the year 2009 or 2012 instead?

Thanks all sifu. 

Will we face slow connection on the e filling website towards the few days before closing date?

There are several ways to do it, if just 1-2 years, normally will just lump up all the gross income into "Pendapatan Tahun Kebelakang ..."

But in your case ... 2009 - 2013 are 5 years to assess.
What to do:
1) Bring all documents, receipts, EA form, PCB, etc. to LHDN
2) Ask to speak to officer, get number.
3) They will give you 5x same BE or B form, and use pen to struck out the YA2013 and write each year.
4) So you will fill up year by year, i.e. do filing for 5 years.
5) So, the PCB whether is extra or not enough, is calculated yearly.
6) Then summarize up all, whether there is balance or need to pay.
7) This whole thing may take up several tries/trip to LHDN, or may email/call the office involved.
8) Keep all the forms and docs forever.

If they penalise you for late or no submission, ask for leniency or waive (talk nicely, you know govt dept).
If still need to pay, just pay. Nothing much can do, unless you go legal/court/challenge LHDN.
Remember, there are two things in life that can't avoid: death and tax.

Even though it is messy now, if you don't sort it out now, in future, it is even more messy. And you still need to sort it out.

Hi guys,

Just curious about doing my e-Filing this year, as some circumstances have changed. Have tried calling LHDN support line for 3 days and keep getting the 'harap maaf...' line. 

Anyhow, I got married last year, but my spouse is working and earning overseas, so no money is transferred to any accounts in Malaysia.

1. As per this condition, do I qualify for the 'Diri Sendiri; Pasangan Tiada Punca Pendapatan' option under 'type of assessment', as this would instantly give a MYR3,000.00 deduction. From my reading of the taxation manual, you can choose this option if your spouse is either not working, or has non-taxable income.

2. Secondly, can we add up the premiums we pay for insurance, for medical (I know you can do it for life insurance)?

Thank you for your time, and looking forward to your replies

Do I needa file income tax if I didn't get any tax deduction for the past year 2013? But I received the EA form from my company (without income tax no.)