When did you retire? You've been remain "employed in SG" all along? Last year gov notified all agencies to stop charging me PR contribution like medical insurance I guess it would be harder for me to go back

My guess is that #3 simply means applicant has to prepare a letter indicating they are currently employed with the company (with some employment details), then let their HR to sign and acknowledge/certify. So... could someone share their experience under what situation HR refuses to sign EP152 form but OK to sign the letter?

If memory serves me correctly, I didn't even tell HR about my PR application (I think ICA/MOM did notify employer), and straight submit proof #1, #2 without #3, when I applied many years ago. This could be risky though, better don't follow what I did .

This post has been edited by Find The Way: Dec 18 2021, 11:21 PM

@[LinkZ]
Thanks for sharing the official link

@Everyone
Need help to clarify my understanding on the official announcement docs... I have very limited experience dealing with Malaysia income tax. TIA.

Does "pemastautin Malaysia" refer to resident or tax resident?

Old incomes earned between 2019-2021 also subjects to this tax? Besides that, how do we prove our saving is generated from which year's income?

Answering my own question... the term refers to Malaysian resident. In most cases, residents are also classified as tax residents.

Anyway, better contact LHDN to confirm if your scenario is subject to this new rule.

Mind to share your concern if many colleagues are Indian?

For tech jobs in SG, especially software development related jobs in large org, having many Indian colleagues are common right?

This post has been edited by Find The Way: Feb 12 2022, 11:51 PM

I'm surprised. Which country is your company from? Company in tech sector?

This post has been edited by Find The Way: Mar 11 2022, 10:57 AM

I would say it depends on management culture of the company or your team.

Used to work as engineer with a US tech company in SG and got chance to work in 3 out of 4 different product divisions in SG:
- Division A: beyond 8 hrs a day is neither rare nor frequent.
- Division B: beyond 8 hrs a day is rare.
- Division C: pretty often we worked 10-11 hrs for two to three days randomly, out of the 5 days/week, so can't tell which day we will be free after office hour. We had a joke in the division, we don't have the concept of peak season/month, instead each year we have three months of non-peak season when we seldom work after office hour.

From my conversations with those managers, their views about employee working hours are quite different among themselves.

Feeling jealous sia

What VinluV means by "frontend/backend" is related to IT software development jobs.

Recently many tech companies around the world started hiring freeze, major retrenchment, or business downsizing. I believe that's the reason VinluV suggests to stay cautious with tech companies for the moment. I believe Sea/Garena/Shopee is one of them. Try to search online to see if there's any news related to your interested company.

Since 100% remote, work in Malaysia, receive salary in AUD, pay double tax, spend AUD net income in Malaysia... I wonder will this work especially the net savings

For typical kind of developer jobs, I can't think of any advantage contractor has over permanent position. The latter is better in all aspects I aware of, at least for those well funded tech companies in SG.

This post has been edited by Find The Way: Jan 11 2023, 09:15 AM