In bold is not a good statement, bro,....

Legally,... if you have spare cash in your wallet since you travel up and down between SG and JB, this is more acceptable,....

In bold above is more acceptable, because there is no reference for LHDN to impose penalty on. A file has never been started because the individual has never worked in Msia before. But I think,... if this individual starts to send money back to a Msian bank account, this will be remittance,... and other steps need to be fulfilled.

But then,... if the same individual uses a foreign credit card to pay for his expenses in Msia, then that is NOT a remittance. No further steps required.

This statement is very wrong. The employer is in Singapore, he is working in Singapore, it is only reasonable that he pays income tax to Singapore government even if he travels between Malaysia and Singapore daily.
There is a DTA (Double Taxation Agreement) between Malaysia and Singapore. It is to prevent people and businesses from being taxed twice on the same income. CPF is KWSP in Malaysia. It has nothing to do with Tax (LHDN).

TS just needs to show the IRAS statement to LHDN that he already paid the tax to Singapore government, then the case should be settled.

I am tax resident of Singapore. I stay in Singapore since day 0. I don't have income in Malaysia, hence if I am required to file e-BE form, I would put "0" in every section or I need LHDN to suspend/pause my tax account temporary just like everyone mentioned here, so I dont have to do income tax e-filing every year just to put everything "0".


So what will you do now? pay the tax and penalty or ignore it? I have emailed lhdn under enquiry section because I cannot reach my state lhdnm extensions or general hotline through phonecall.

This post has been edited by customer2: May 28 2025, 11:37 PM

Thanks to lackadaisical way of giving out goodies. Some ppl have the mind to curse those that try to better manage it.

Fools!

Malaysia dont have double tax, if your income is oversea, not credited into Malaysia bank account, no salary slip, no company, no epf, no need to worry.

Just need to send the proof working in Singapore and pay taxes in Singapore

Thus, no tax resident. Tax resident and Malaysian tax is your income that is in Malaysia.

JB just across Singapore, please make your way to LDHN in JB, faster and easier

A few scenarios here :-

Using cuddly's statements,...........

(a) if your income is oversea, not credited into Malaysia bank account, no salary slip, no company, no epf, & added : no coming back to Msia regularly, ie not staying in JB AND never having opened LHDN File previously - NO PROBLEM. But,........ again, IF LHDN sends a letter to the parents' hse, then some explaining needs to be done to clear the matter and not to raise a file.

(b) if your income in oversea, not credited into Malaysia bank account, no salary slip, no company, no epf, & added : staying in JB, appoint a tax consultant. Follow his advice.

© if your income in oversea, no salary slip, no company, no epf, & added : partially or fully credited into Malaysia bank account, fill-in the e-BE Form properly.

Above are the only scenarios I can think of till now,....

OK,.. I shld add something to part © above : if you do not have a BE or an e-BE sent to you in hardcopy form or emailed to you by LHDN, and you have NEVER filed a BE Form nor an e-BE Form previously in life, then see part (a).

This post has been edited by Hansel: May 29 2025, 04:47 PM

If I read your earlier input correctly, the problem here is : you had income once in Malaysia, have started a file and paid tax , but, today you have no more income in Malaysia and you don't stay in Malaysia anymore.

You will need to find a way to close this file properly. You are not a resident anymore, hence, you do not need to file anything anymore, not even the funds that you remit back to Malaysia into a bank account under your own name. But, it's better if you shld send any funds back to Malaysia, send it to another name whom you can trust.

Emm,... the mistake here is : there was no follow-up in filing tax declarations, and this caused the estimation and penalty to kick-in.

I told my children not to start any income-generating activities at all in Malaysia, not stay in Malaysia at all and not to start a file at all. But,..... if LHDN does come knocking on my door one of these days, I will still need to explain everything to them.

If your kids are raised overseas, 99% wont come back live, stay or retire in Msia lah. No attachment and its just fathers kampung.


Like how we see Chua lah, grand father from there. So wat ? Does it motivate you to stay, work or retire in China?

I dont think so. I log ticket for general enquiry in LHDN wesbite, they respond on next day. They ask me to contact LHDNM Penang customer care.

This post has been edited by customer2: May 30 2025, 07:28 PM

duplicate

This post has been edited by customer2: May 30 2025, 07:29 PM

its actually lazy way to do it (not legal too)
correct way is to fill BE form, in income section,
fill in income as 0
then
fill in "TAX EXEMPT INCOME FROM SOURCES OUTSIDE MALAYSIA RECEIVED IN MALAYSIA"
because even if your salary paid in SG acc, you still brought it into Msia
in the end, tax paid is still RM0

unless u say u nvr brought the money in, money stay in SG, spent in SG.
take supporting documents, then go LHDN to settle
such as:
Payslips,
Singapore tax assessments (e.g., IRAS Notice of Assessment),
Proof of remittance (if applicable).






edit: just remembered, the method you found from Reddit is it telling you to close your LHDN account? that would exempt your yearly tax declaration.

This post has been edited by jmas: May 30 2025, 09:31 PM