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.

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.