Hi there,

Generally, any income that you earned and derived from Malaysia (regardless your employer is registered in Malaysia or not, or your salary is in which currency) shall be declared as income and tax in Malaysia.

Back to your question, I will say that you should declare your income although the amount is immaterial. You know, IRB officer have the right to impose penalty nowadays if they found out that you submit incorrect return

Since your income relate to your job in Msia, it is considered as derived from malaysia and therefore taxable.

Location of of payer, currency and method of payment is not relevant in this case.

Foreign derived income is not taxable.

Paid by foreign company, task performed outside Malaysia soil.

That's all.
Unless the law changed.

Not so sure about it but what i heard even income from paypal is taxable. correct if im wrong.

Income from PayPal ?

Are money sent from Msia company to ur PayPal ?

You heard of it, have you confirmed with any tax friend?

if you eanr your income in malaysia you pay malaysian tax, thats the law. unless you are talking about income earn outside malaysia, but judging from your word 'send money for surival' that doesnt seem to be the case.

I thought abt this too,... to be more specific, I think the best way to describe this would be : if the income-generating activities are being performed in Msia, then such income MUST be declared to the Msian tax collection authorities, irregardless of who pays us the income, and where it is paid into,... yeah,...Yes, then must declare already,..

The statement 'sending money for survival' actually does not matter, and is beside the point to this argument. For example, one could be performing the income-generating activity outside Msia, ie working in Sgp, but at times, he could be staying in Msia, then he can always send money back to Msia for his survival activities, without needing to declare his income to the Msian tax collection authorities.

A lot of people mis-interpret the foreign income definition as "paying by foreign company", this is incorrect and out of context.

Foreign income in tax term is  the income generated at foreign place, aka you work at foreign place and being paid.

Tax exemptions is also stated on Page 48 - Income Exempt From Tax

Since i'm free i shall cut out and put it here

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Yeah I declared too...Are we subjected to further checks? Now you are making me worried.

I submitted 1st Mar noon and declared 'Yes' on foreign account ownership, got my refund 13th Mar

Dang, mine submitted 2 March, no sign till now.
Is that because I have Sg accounts?

Anyone ever kena audited before? My 2017 relief kena claw back and I was requested to make the revised tax payment and make an appeal by providing supporting documents

How long do they take as I have heard nothing from LHDN and what are the chances of getting the refund back

My friend kena about 5k, but that from 2005 until last year.