Wednesday, October 18, 2006

E-Filling in Malaysia - Latest updates

Very soon, we can check our income tax records from home by using the e-Filling from next year onwards. (Source: TheStar, 18th October 2006)

Among the available information will be:
  • Information on the income tax paid last year, and where and how it was paid, will be available online
  • online tax return “form” will have the taxpayer’s personal particulars like identity card number, address and the names of the spouse and children.
A taxpayer will be able to get the PIN and security code online via the IRB website (www.hasil.gov.my) from next year unlike the current year practice which required he/she to collect the PIN from the IRB branches.

E-Filling which was introduced this year did experience some problems such as:
  • Some people had Internet access, but lacked the proper software, and the system did not work
  • There was also congestion when many taxpayers filed in their tax forms at the same time.

I didn't use it this year but I may want to try it next year.




2 comments:

Anonymous said...

It's a good news to everyone. But since it still new in our country, what government really need is to build up confidence among taxpayers by proving how secure their system and software is and how competent their staff in handling taxpayer's doubt before they can move on to settle tax via credit/charge card next year.

Anonymous said...

It is good for goverment who want to use the online systems to pay tax but in order to get more taxpayers go online to pay may be goverment can encarage them by giving some insentive to those payers a little bit more diduction when they pay online then it will increase perple to follows and try to learn up. In the other hard it can make the tax pay and refurd more faster and least workers will be employ to do the filing job as traditional.