Thursday, March 15, 2018

e-Filling BE Tax form submission Year of Assessment 2017 (YA) - LHDN Malaysia

This is a quick note on selective information on submitting YA 2017 BE, for individual without business income, specifically on e-Filling BE.  This is not a complete guide.

Scroll down this article to find where these HK-2 worksheets (Helai Kerja) are.

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Note that I'm not a tax agent so this is only a general advice from an individual who files his taxes every year since he started working.
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- Calculating your income (Pendapatan)
Add up all your income for your EA 2017 form issued by your employer.

Usually, the amount in the JUMLAH at the end of section C can be used, however, be sure that if you have an amount in item 6. Pampasan kerana kehilangan pekerjaan, you should deduct the RM10,000 for your every year of service with the company.  This amount is the loss of employment (aka retrencement) compensation.

As an example, if you receive RM60,000 as the amount in item 6., and your year of service with the company is 4 years and 10 months, you deduct RM10,000 x 4 = RM40,000 from that JUMLAH total.

Fill up the final figure into the field name "Pendapatan berkanun penggajian" in the e-filling BE form.

EA Form 2017



- Exemption on "Lifestyle"This is new in YA 2017, "Gaya hidup-Perbelanjaan untuk diri sendiri, suami/isteri, anak".  And it allows up to RM2,500 exemption on spending on books, magazines, sports equipment, computers, smart phones, tablet computers, and home broadband subscriptions.

By introducing the above, individual exemption per category (e.g. books category, computer category, etc.) in previous YA was removed.

- Baby feeding equipment for mother
Pembelian peralatan penyusuan ibu untuk kegunaan diri sendiri anak berumur 2 tahun dan ke bawah

If you have spend money in feeding equipment for your own baby under 2 years old, you can put up to RM1,000 in this field

- Fees for kindergarden or pre-school for children 6 years and younger
Finally there's this "Yuran penghantaran anak 6 tahun dan ke bawah ke taman asuhan bagi kanak-kanak / tadika yang berdaftar" which I'm not entire sure if it's new for YA 2017.  But this means you can also get tax-exemption for up to RM1,000 that you have spent for your chid(children)


Lastly I list some links of guides that you can download from LHDN

- Form download (choose BM or English)

Download LHDN Forms (http://www.hasil.gov.my/bt_goindex.php?bt_jborang=1&bt_tahunbor=2017&bt_kump=2&bt_skum=3&bt_posi=1&Submit=Cari)

In case you are looking for those HK forms (e.g. HK-2, HK-6, ..) you can download the B/BE Guidebook 2015.  All the worksheets (Helai Kerja HK-2, HK-6, HK-xx) are in there.  Strangely there are no 2017 Guidebooks.







That's it for now.   Thanks for reading.


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