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82A. Duty to keep documents for ascertaining chargeable income and tax payable

(1) Subject to this section, every person who is required to furnish a return of his income for a year of assessment under this Act shall keep and retain in safe custody sufficient documents for a period of seven years from the end of that year of assessment for the purposes of ascertaining his chargeable income and tax payable.

(2) Where a person referred to in subsection (1) has not furnished a return as required under this Act for a year of assessment, that person shall keep and retain the documents referred to in subsection (1) that relate to that year of assessment for a period of seven years after the end of the year in which the return is furnished.

(3) The Director General may waive all or any of the provisions of subsection (1) in respect of any income or deductions.

(4) Any person who is required by this section to keep documents and--

(a) does so electronically shall retain them in an electronically readable form and shall keep the documents in such a manner as to enable the documents to be readily accessible and convertible into writing; or

(b) has originally kept documents in a manual form and subsequently converts those documents into an electronic form shall retain those documents prior to the conversion in their original form. 

(5) All documents that relate to any income in Malaysia shall be kept and retained in Malaysia.

(6) For the purposes of this section, "documents" means--

(a) statement of income and expenditure; and

(b) invoices, vouchers, receipts and such other documents as are necessary to verify the particulars in a return. 

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83. Return by employer

(1) Every employer shall, for each year, furnish to the Director General a return in the prescribed form not later than 31 March in the year immediately following the first-mentioned year containing--

(a) the number of employees employed in the first-mentioned year;

(b) the number of employees subject to deductions under the Income Tax (Deduction From Remuneration) Rules 1994 [P.U.(A) 507[#8260]1994] for the first-mentioned year;

(c) the number of new employees employed in the first-mentioned year;

(d) the number of employees who have resigned in the first-mentioned year;

(e) the number of employees who have resigned and left Malaysia in the first-mentioned year; and

(f) such other particulars as may be required by the Director General. 

(1A) For the purpose of subsection (1), every employer shall, for each year, prepare and render to his employee a statement of remuneration of that employee on or before the last day of February in the year immediately following the first-mentioned year containing the following information:

(a) the relevant particulars of the employee;

(b) the full amount of the gross income falling within section 13 paid, payable or provided by or on behalf of the employer to that employee in respect of the employment;

(c) pension, annuity or periodical payment falling under paragarph (4)(e);

(d) total deductions under the Income Tax (Deduction From Remuneration) Rules 1994 paid to the Director General in the first-mentioned year;

(e) the compulsory contributions made by the employees to the Pension Fund or Employees' Provident Fund, or any approved fund pursuant to section 150;

(f) details relating to the payment of arrears and others for the years prior to the first-mentioned year;

(g) tax exempt allowances, perquisites, gifts and benefits for the first-mentioned year; and

(h) such other particulars as may be required by the Director General. 

(2) Where an employer commences to employ an individual who is or is likely to be chargeable to tax in respect of income in respect of gains or profits from the employment, the employer shall not later than one month thereafter give written notice to the Director General stating the full name and address of the individual and the terms and date of commencement of the employment.

(3) Where an employer is about to cease to employ an individual who is or is likely to be chargeable to tax in respect of income in respect of gains or profits from the employment, the employer shall not less than one month before the cessation give written notice thereof to the Director General stating the full name and address of the individual and the expected date of cessation:

Provided that, where he is satisfied that it is reasonable to do so in the circumstances, the Director General may accept for the purposes of this subsection a notice given less than one month before the cessation or a notice given on or after the cessation:

Provided further that an employer shall not be required to give the written notice under this subsection in respect of an individual--

(a) where the income from the employment of that individual is subject to deduction under any rules made pursuant to paragraph 154(1)(a); or

(b) where the total monthly remuneration from the employment of that individual is below the minimum amount of income that is subject to deduction under any rules made pursuant to paragraph 154(1)(a), and where it is known to him that the individual is not retiring from any employment.

(4) Where an individual chargeable to tax in respect of income in respect of gains or profits from an employment is to the knowledge of his employer about to leave or intending to leave Malaysia for a period exceeding three months, the employer shall not less than one month before the expected date of departure give written notice of the individual's departure to the Director General:

Provided that--

(a) where he is satisfied that it is reasonable to do so in the circumstances, the Director General may accept for the purposes of this subsection a notice given less than one month before the departure or a notice given on or after the departure; and

(b) where he is satisfied that an individual is required to leave Malaysia at frequent intervals in the course of his employment, the Director General may waive the application of this subsection as regards that individual. 

(5) Notwithstanding the provisions of any written law to the contrary, where an employer has in his possession any moneys whatsoever which are or may be payable to or for the benefit of an employee who has ceased or is about to cease to be employed by him or who is about to leave Malaysia for a period of more than three months with no intention of returning, he shall not, without the permission of the Director General, pay any part of those moneys to or for the benefit of the employee until ninety days after the receipt by the Director General of the notice required to be given under subsection (3) or (4), as the case may be, and if at any time the Director General directs him to pay the full amount or a portion of those moneys towards payment of the tax payable by the employee, he shall pay as directed.

(6) For the purposes of this section and subsection 107(4), any person to whom or for whose benefit a service is rendered or performed by another person shall be deemed to be an employer whether or not he employs that other person or is responsible for paying remuneration to that other person.

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83A. Duty to furnish particulars of payment made to an agent, etc

(1) Every company shall for each year prepare and provide to each of its agent, dealer or distributor a copy of the form prescribed by the Director General containing--

(a) particulars of payment (whether in monetary form or otherwise) made during that year of assessment to that agent, dealer or distributor;

(b) name and address of that agent, dealer or distributor; and

(c) such other particulars as may be required by the Director General.

(2) For the purpose of subsection (1), the prescribed form shall be provided to the agent, dealer or distributor not later than 31 March in the year immediately following the year mentioned in that subsection. 

(3) The company shall keep and retain the prescribed form in safe custody and shall make it readily accessible to the Director General. 

(4) In this section, "agent", "dealer" or "distributor" means any person who is authorised by a company to act as its agent, dealer or distributor, and who receives payment (whether in monetary form or otherwise) from the company arising from sales, transactions or schemes carried out by him as an agent, dealer or distributor.

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84. Return concerning persons other than the maker of the return

(1) Every person who in whatever capacity is in receipt or has control of any money or property (being income of the kind mentioned in section 4) of or belonging to any other person who is chargeable to tax in respect thereof shall, if required to do so by a notice under the hand of the Director General, deliver to the Director General within a period to be specified in the notice (not being less than thirty days from the date of service of the notice) a return in the prescribed form containing particulars of the income and a statement of the name and address of the person to whom it belongs.

(2) Every person who sells any goods in Malaysia on behalf of a person who is not resident for the basis year for a year of assessment shall, if those goods are sold in the course of carrying on a business of that second mentioned person, deliver to the Director General within thirty days after the end of each quarter of that year of assessment a return showing the gross proceeds from any such sales made during that quarter.

(3) In subsection (2) "quarter", in relation to a year of assessment, means any period of three months ending on the last day of March, June, September or December.

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85. Return by occupiers

The Director General may by notice under his hand require the occupier of any land or premises situated in Malaysia to furnish within a time to be specified in the notice (not being less than thirty days from the date of service of the notice) a return containing--

(a) the name and address of the person registered (under any law relating to the registration of title to land) as the proprietor of the land or premises, or the name and address of the person to whom he pays rent therefor; and

(b) a statement of any rent or other consideration payable in respect of the occupation or in respect of furniture enjoyed in connection with the occupation. 

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86. Return by partnership

(1) Where a business is carried on by a partnership--

(a) the precedent partner, that is to say, the partner who, being an acting partner present in Malaysia--

(i) is first named in the partnership agreement; or

(ii) if there is no partnership agreement, is specified by name or initial singly or with precedence to the other partners in the usual name of the firm; or

(b) if no acting partner is present in Malaysia, any attorney, agent, manager or factor of the partnership in Malaysia, shall for each year of assessment furnish to the Director General a return in the prescribed form not later than 30 June in the year following that year of assessment.

(2) For the purposes of subsection (1), a return for a year of assessment shall--

(a) specify the divisible income or the divisible loss as ascertained under the appropriate provisions of sections 55, 56, 57, 58 and 59 in relation to the partnership for that year;

(b) contain such information as is necessary to determine the statutory income from all sources of the partners of the partnership; and

(c) contain such other information as may be required by the Director General. 

(3) If a partnership has been dissolved as to all its partners, this section shall continue to apply in relation to the dissolved partnership, and those persons who were partners of the partnership immediately before the dissolution shall be deemed to continue to be partners for the purposes of this section.

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87. Power to call for further return

The Director General may give notice in writing to any person whenever he thinks fit requiring that person to furnish within a reasonable time (to be specified in the notice) fuller or further returns respecting any matter as to which a return is required by or under this Act.

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88. Returns deemed to be made with due authority

A return purporting to be made pursuant to this Act by or on behalf of any person shall be presumed to have been made by that person or on his authority, as the case may be, until contrary is proved; and any person signing such a return shall be deemed to be cognisant of its contents.

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89. Change of address

Every person chargeable to tax who changes his address in Malaysia (being an address furnished by him to the Director General) for another address in Malaysia shall within three months inform the Director General of the change by notice in writing.

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Part VI ASSESSMENTS AND APPEALS

Chapter 1--Assessments

90. Assessments generally

(1) Where a person has furnished a return in accordance with section 77 or 77A to the Director General for a year of assessment, the Director General shall be deemed to have made, on the day on which the return is furnished, an assessment in respect of that person in the amount of tax on the chargeable income, the tax and the chargeable income being the respective amounts as specified in the return.

(2) For the purposes of this Act, where the Director General is deemed to have made an assessment under subsection (1)--

(a) the return referred to in that subsection shall be deemed to be a notice of assessment; and

(b) the deemed notice of assessment shall be deemed to have been served on the person on the day on which the Director General is deemed to have made the assessment. 

(3) Where a person for a year of assessment has not furnished a return in accordance with section 77 or 77A, the Director General may according to the best of his judgment determine the amount of the chargeable income of that person for that year and make an assessment accordingly:

Provided that the making of an assessment in respect of a person under this subsection shall not affect any liability otherwise incurred by that person by reason of his failure to deliver the return.

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91. Assessments and additional assessments in certain cases

(1) The Director General, where for any year of assessment it appears to him that no or no sufficient assessment has been made on a person chargeable to tax, may in that year or within five years after its expiration make an assessment or additional assessment, as the case may be, in respect of that person in the amount or additional amount of chargeable income and tax or in the additional amount of tax in which, according to the best of the Director General's judgment, the assessment with respect to that person ought to have been made for that year.

(2) Where the Director General discovers that the whole or part of any tax repaid to a person (otherwise than in consequence of an agreement come to with respect to an assessment pursuant to subsection 101(2) or in consequence of an assessment having been determined on appeal) has been repaid by mistake whether of fact or law, the Director General may make an assessment in respect of that person in the amount of that tax or that part of that tax, as the case may be:

Provided that no such assessment shall be made--

(a) if the repayment was in fact made on the basis of, or in accordance with, the practice of the Director General generally prevailing at the time when the repayment was made; or

(b) in respect of any tax, more than five years after the tax has been repaid. 

(3) The Director General where it appears to him that--

(a) any form of fraud or wilful default has been committed by or on behalf of any person; or

(b) any person has been negligent, in connection with or in relation to tax, may at any time make an assessment in respect of that person for any year of assessment for the purpose of making good any loss of tax attributable to the fraud, wilful default or negligence in question.

(4) Where in a year of assessment--

(a) any assessment made under this Act or the Real Property Gains Tax Act 1976 [Act 169] in respect of a person for any year of assesssment has been determined by the court on appeal or review; or

(b) any exemption, relief, remission or allowance granted to a person for any year of assessment pursuant to any provision of this Act or any other written law in respect of income of that person which is subject to tax under this Act has been withdrawn, revoked or cancelled for failing to comply with any condition imposed in granting such exemption, relief, remission or allowance, the Director General may in the first mentioned year of assessment or within five years after its expiration make an assessment in respect of that person for any year of assessment for the purpose of giving effect to the determination, revocation, withdrawal or cancellation, as the case may be.

(5) The Director General, where for any year of assessment it appears to him that no or no sufficient assessment has been made on a person chargeable to tax in consequence of the Director General's determination pursuant to subsection 140A(3), may in that year or within seven years after its expiration make an assessment or additional assessment, as the case may be, in respect of that person in the amount or additional amount of chargeable income and tax or in the additional amount of tax in which, according to the best of the Director General's judgment, the assessment with respect to that person ought to have been made for that year.

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91A. Deemed assessment on the amended return

(1) Where a person has furnished an amened return in accordance with section 77B for a year of assessment, the Director General shall be deemed to have made, on the day on which the amended return is furnished, an assessment or additional assessment in respect of that person--

(a) in the amount of tax or additional tax payable on the chargeable income; or

(b) in the amount of tax which has been or would have been wrongly repaid, the tax or additional tax and the chargeable income being the respective amounts as specified in the amended return.

(2) For the purpose of this Act, where the Director General is deemed to have made an assessment or additional assessment under subsection (1)--

(a) the amended return referred to in that subsection shall be deemed to be a notice of assessment or additional assessment; and

(b) the deemed notice of assessment or additional assessment shall be deemed to have been served on the person on the day on which the Director General is deemed to have made the assessment or additional assessment. 

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92. Advance assessments

(1) Subject to this section--

(a) where in a year of assessment a person ceases to possess a source consisting of a business the Director General may in that year make an assessment in respect of that person and income from that source for that year of assessment and the following year of assessment;

(b) where in a year of assessment a person commences to receive income in respect of income from an employment or in respect of any pension, annuity, or other periodical payments falling under paragraph 4(e), the Director General may in that year make an assessment in respect of that person and income from that source for that year of assessment and each of the subsequent years of assessment;

(c) where in a year of assessment the Director General is satisfied that a person who possesses a source is about to leave Malaysia and--

(i) that person is likely to cease to possess that source in that year of assessment or the following year of assessment; or

(ii) it is desirable for other reasons that an assessment be made in respect of that person, he may in that year make an assessment in respect of that person and income from that source or from any source for that year of assessment and the following year of assessment;

(d) where a person who has ceased to possess a source in a year of assessment receives income from that source after the end of that year (being income which has not been or does not fall to be included in the gross income of that person from that source for any preceding basis period) the Director General may in the year of assessment in which that income is received make an assessment in respect of that person and that income for that year of assessment;

(e) where in a year of assessment a person is chargeable to tax in consequence of the application of subsection 54(2) to a business, the Director General may at any time in that year make an assessment in respect of that person and any income from that business for that year of assessment; and

(f) where the basis period for a year of assessment in respect of a source or sources of a person is a period of twelve months ending on a day other than 31 December in a basis year the Director General, if he thinks fit, may in that year make an assessment in respect of that person and income from that source or those sources, as case may be, for that year of assessment. 

(2) Where an assessment is made under subsection (1) in respect of a person, it shall be made on the assumption that--

(a) all the provisions of this Act in force for the year of assessment in which the assessment is made will continue in force for the year of assessment for which the assessment is made; and

(b) if that person is an individual, the personal circumstances of that person will be the same in the basis year for the year of assessment for which the assessment is made as they were in the basis year for the year of assessment in which the assessment is made, and, if in the year of assessment for which the assessment is made it appears to the Director General that by reason of that assumption the assessment is more favourable or less favourable to that person than it would have been if it had been made under section 90, he may take such action under section 91 or make such repayments of tax as the justice of the case appears to him to require.

(3) Where--

(a) this section confers power to make an assessment in respect of a person;

(b) an assessment has been made in respect of that person in a particular year of assessment; and

(c) the Director General is of the opinion that an additional assessment ought to be made under subsection 91(1) in respect of that person in that particular year, subsection 91(1) shall apply as if the year of assessment referred to therein were that particular year.

(4) For the avoidance of doubt it is hereby declared that--

(a) the fact that an assessment has been made by virtue of subsection (1) in respect of a person and a source of his shall not prevent the Director General from making an assessment under this Act in respect of that person and any other source of his; and

(b) the fact that an assessment which would otherwise have been made by virtue of subsection (1) in respect of a person for a year of assessment has not been made because of an insufficiency of total income to produce chargeable income for that year shall not prevent the Director General from making an assessment under any other provision of this Act in respect of that person for that year of assessment or from taking an amount equal to that total income into account when doing so. 

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93. Form and making of assessments

An assessment, other than an assessment under subsections 90(1) and 91A(1), in respect of a person shall--

(a) be made in the appropriate prescribed form;

(b) indicate, in addition to any other material included therein, the appropriate year of assessment and the amount or additional amount of chargeable income and the tax charged thereon or the amount of tax or additional tax, as the case may be; and

(c) specify in the appropriate space in that form the date on which that form was duly completed, and, where that form appears to have been duly completed the assessment shall, until the contrary is proved, be presumed to have been made on the date so specified.

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94. Record of assessments

The Director General shall cause to be maintained in such manner as he thinks fit a record of all assessments made for each year of assessment.

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95. Discharge of double assessments

Where two or more assessments have been made with respect to a person on the same income for the same year of assessment, the Director General may discharge such of those assessments as need to be discharged in order to ensure that the income is charged to tax only once for that year.

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96. Notice of assessment

(1) As soon as may be after an assessment, other than an assessment under subsections 90(1) and 91A(1), has been made, the Director General shall cause a notice of assessment to be served on the person in respect of whom the assessment was made.

(2) Where the tax charged under an assessment is increased on appeal to the Special Commissioners or a court, then, so soon as may be after the appeal has been decided there shall be served on the person in respect of whom the assessment was made a notice of increased assessment.

(3) Where subsection 99(2) applies as regards an agent and another person, any notice to be served under subsection (1) or (2) shall be served both on the agent and on the other person.

(4) A notice served under subsection (1) or (2) shall be in the prescribed form and shall indicate, in addition to any other material included therein--

(a) in the case of a notice served under subsection (1), the year of assessment, the amount or additional amount of chargeable income and the tax charged thereon or the amount of the tax or additional tax, as the case may be;

(b) in the case of a notice served under subsection (2), the year of assessment and the amount of the increase in the tax charged; and

(c) in either case--

(i) the place at which payment is to be made;

(ii) the increase for late payment imposed by subsection 103(5), (6), (7) or (8); and

(iii) any right of appeal which may exist under this Act. 

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96A. Composite assessment

(1) Without prejudice to section 91, where a person--

(a) makes default in furnishing a return in accordance with subsection 77(1) or 77A(1);

(b) fails to give notice of chargeability in accordance with subsection 77(3);

(c) makes an incorrect return by omitting or understating any income of which he is required by this Act to make a return on behalf of himself or another person; or

(d) gives any incorrect information in relation to any matter affecting his own chargeability to tax or the chargeability to tax of any other person, for any year or years of assessment (that year or those years being referred to in this section as the relevant year or relevant years), the Director General and that person may come to an agreement in writing as to the payment by that person of a sum of money (in this section referred to as the total amount) being--

(i) the amount of tax which has been undercharged or not charged for that relevant year or those relevant years in consequence of such default in furnishing a return or failure to give notice of chargeability or making an incorrect return or giving any incorrect information; and

(ii) the amount of any penalty or penalties which that person may be required to pay for that relevant year or those relevant years pursuant to subsection 112(3) or 113(2) or both (or where such penalty is abated or remitted under subsection 124(3) so much, if any, of the penalty which has not been abated or remitted). 

(2) Where the Director General and a person have come to an agreement pursuant to subsection (1), the Director General may make a composite assessment in respect of that person in the total amount.

(3) As soon as may be after a composite assessment has been made, the Director General shall cause a notice of composite assessment to be served on the person in respect of whom the composite assessment was made.

(4) A notice served under subsection (3) shall be in the prescribed form and shall indicate in addition to any other material included therein--

(a) the relevant year or relevant years;

(b) the amount or aggregate amount of tax undercharged or not charged in the relevant year or relevant years;

(c) the amount or aggregate amount of any penalty imposed by virtue of subsection 112(3) or 113(2) or both (or where such penalty is abated or remitted under subsection 124(3) so much, if any, of the penalty which has not been abated or remitted); and

(d) the place at which payment of the total amount is to be made. 

(5) The total amount shall be collected as if it were part of the tax payable by the person in respect of whom the composite assessment has been made but shall not be treated as tax so payable for the purposes of the provisions of this Act other than sections 103 to 106.

(6) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act--

(a) a composite assessment made under this section shall be final and conclusive for the purposes of this Act; and

(b) no appeal shall lie against a composite assessment. 

(7) For the purposes of this section, references to sections of this Act in subsections (1), (4) and (5) shall be deemed to include references to the corresponding sections of the repealed laws, and references to year of assessment in subsection (1) shall be deemed to include a reference to pre-year of assessment; the repealed laws and pre-year of assessment having the same meaning as in subparagraph 1(1) of Part I of Schedule 9.

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97. Finality of assessment

(1) Where--

(a) no valid notice of appeal against an assessment has been given under section 99 within the time specified by that section (or any extension thereof);

(b) an agreement has been come to with respect to an assessment pursuant to subsection 101(2);

(c) an assessment has been determined on appeal and there is no right of further appeal; or

(d) a valid notice of appeal against an assessment has been given but the appellant dies before the hearing of the appeal by the Special Commissioners is commenced or completed and no personal representatives of the estate of the deceased appellant applies to the Special Commissioners within two years after his death to proceed with or complete the hearing, the assessment as made, agreed to or determined shall be final and conclusive for the purposes of this Act.

(2) Nothing in subsection (1) shall prejudice the exercise of any power conferred on the Director General by section 91, 95 or subsection 143(3).

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97A. Notification of non-chargeability

(1) Where in ascertaining the chargeable income of a person, it appears to the Director General that--

(a) no assessment shall be made in respect of that person for any year of assessment by reason of--

(i) absence of adjusted income, statutory income, aggregate income or total income of a person from any of his sources of income; or

(ii) exemption granted to that person under this Act or the Promotion of Investments Act 1986; or

(b) assessment has been made in respect of that person, but that person has no statutory income from a source consisting of a business, the Director General may notify that person in writing--

(i) in respect of paragraph (a), that no assessment shall be made for that year of assessment and provide a computation with regard to it; or

(ii) in respect of paragraph (b), the adjustment, if any, made in respect of that source consisting of a business and provide a computation with regard to it.

(2) Where a person is dissatisfied with the notification made by the Director General under subsection (1), he may within thirty days from the date of being so notified, appeal to the Special Commissioners as if the notification were a notice of assessment and the provisions of this Act relating to appeals shall apply accordingly with such necessary modifications.

(3) If no notice of appeal against a notification made by the Director General under subsection (1) has been given within the time specified under that subsection or any extended period thereof, the notification shall be final and conclusive for the purposes of this Act.

(4) Nothing in this section shall prejudice the exercise of any power conferred on the Director General by section 91.

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Part VI ASSESSMENTS AND APPEALS

Chapter 2--Appeals

98. The Special Commissioners and the Clerk

(1) For the purposes of this Act there shall be three or more Special Commissioners of Income Tax and a Clerk to the Special Commissioners.

(2) The Special Commissioners shall be appointed by the Yang di-Pertuan Agong.

(3) The Special Commissioners shall include such number of persons with judicial or other legal experience (that is to say, experience as an advocate, as a member of the judicial and legal service or as the holder of an office to which the Judges Remuneration Act 1971 [Act 45], applies) as may be necessary for the purposes of paragraph 1 of Schedule 5; and, if the Yang di-Pertuan Agong considers it expedient to do so, he may appoint from amongst those persons a Chairman and such number of Deputy Chairman of the Special Commissioners.

(4) Each Special Commissioner--

(a) shall hold office for such period and on such terms (including terms as to remuneration and allowances) as may be specified by the Minister; and

(b) shall be deemed to be a public servant within the meaning of section 21 of the Penal Code [Act 574]. 

(5) The office of the Clerk shall be a federal public office.

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99. Right of appeal

(1) A person aggrieved by an assessment made in respect of him may appeal to the Special Commissioners against the assessment by giving to the Director General within thirty days after the service of the notice of assessment or, in the case of an appeal against an assessment made under section 92, within the first three months of the year of assessment following the year of assessment for which the assessment was made (or within such extended period as regards those days or months as may be allowed under section 100) a written notice of appeal in the prescribed form stating the grounds of appeal and containing such other particulars as may be required by that form.

(2) Where an assessment has been made in respect of a person appointed under section 68 to be the agent of another person, the agent and that other person shall for the purposes of this section and the other provisions of this Act relating to appeals each be treated as the person in respect of whom the assessment was made and, if they both appeal against the assessment, their appeals shall if possible be dealt with together:

Provided that, in the case of a receiver deemed by subsection 68(4) to have been appointed under subsection 68(1) to be the agent of a court, this subsection shall not apply.

(3) Where in a case to which section 67 applies the principal has appealed against an assessment, the representative, whether or not he himself has appealed or is entitled to appeal against the assessment and without prejudice to any power conferred on him by subparagraph 14(c) of Schedule 5, may represent and act generally on behalf of the principal for the purposes of the provisions of this Act relating to appeals ("the principal" and "the representative" here having the same meaning as in section 67).

(4) This section shall not apply to an assessment made under subsection 90(1) or section 91A, except where a person in respect of such assessment is aggrieved by the public ruling made under section 138A or any practice of the Director General generally prevailing at the time when the assessment is made.

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100. Extension of time for appeal

(1) A person seeking to appeal against an assessment may at any time make to the Director General a written application in the prescribed form for an extension of the period within which notice of appeal against the assessment may be given under subsection 99(1).

(2) On receipt of an application under subsection (1), the Director General--

(a) if he is satisfied that for any reasonable cause the applicant was prevented from giving notice of appeal within the appropriate period provided by subsection 99(1), shall extend that period as he thinks proper in the circumstances and give written notice of the extension to the applicant; and

(b) if he is not so satisfied, shall forward the application to the Clerk, together with a statement of the reasons for his dissatisfaction and his address for the purposes of the application. 

(3) Where the Director General forwards an application and statement pursuant to paragraph (2)(b), he shall inform the applicant in writing that he has done so and shall furnish the applicant with a copy of the statement; and the applicant may, within twenty-one days of receiving the information and the copy, forward to the Clerk written representations as to the application and the statement.

(4) Any application and statement forwarded pursuant to paragraph (2)(b) and any representations forwarded pursuant to subsection (3) shall be brought by the clerk to the attention of one of the Special Commissioners, who shall decide whether or not to extend as he thinks proper in the circumstances the period within which the notice of appeal may be given.

(5) The decision of one of the Special Commissioners refusing an application or granting an extension under subsection (4) shall be notified in writing by the Clerk to the applicant and the Director General and shall be final.

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101. Review by Director General

(1) On receipt of a notice of appeal under subsection 99(1), the Director General shall, within twelve months from the date of receipt of the notice of appeal, review the assessment against which the appeal is made and for that purpose may--

(a) require the appellant to furnish such particulars as the Director General may think necessary with respect to the income to which the assessment relates and any other matter relevant to the assessment in the Director General's opinion;

(b) require the appellant to produce all books or other documents in the appellant's custody or under the appellant's control relating to any source to which the assessment relates or any other matter relevant to the assessment in the Director General's opinion;

(c) summon any person who in the Director General's opinion is able to give evidence respecting the assessment to attend before the Director General; and

(d) examine any person so attending on oath or otherwise. 

(1A) Where the Director General requires a period longer than twelve months to carry out the review under subsection (1), the Director General may apply to the Minister for an extension of that period not later than thirty days before the expiry of the twelve-month period.

(1B) On receipt of an application under subsection (1A), the Minister may grant such extension as he thinks proper and reasonable in the circumstances provided that such extension shall not exceed a period of six months from the date of expiry of the twelve-month period.

(1C) The decision of the Minister under subsection (1B) shall be notified in writing to the Director General and shall be final.

(2) Where as the result of a review under subsection (1) the Director General and the appellant come to an agreement in writing either--

(a) as to the amount of the chargeable income and the tax chargeable thereon or the amount of tax or additional tax; or

(b) that there is no chargeable income or tax, the assessment against which the appeal is made shall be treated as having been confirmed, reduced, increased or discharged in accordance with the agreement.

(3) Subject to subsection (5), where as the result of a review under subsection (1) the Director General and the appellant come to an oral agreement as to the matters mentioned in paragraph (2)(a) or (b) and the Director General serves a written confirmation of the agreement on the appellant, then, unless the appellant within a period of twenty-one days of being so served gives notice in writing to the Director General repudiating the agreement, the oral agreement as confirmed by the Director General shall be deemed to be an agreement in writing within the meaning of subsection (2) come to upon the expiration of that period between the Director General and the appellant.

(4) Subject to subsection (5), where as the result of a review under subsection (1) the Director General makes to the appellant proposals in writing that the assessment should be confirmed, reduced, increased or discharged and the appellant neither accepts nor rejects the proposals, unless the appellant within a period of thirty days of being served with such proposals (or within such further period as the Director General on the appellant's application may allow) gives notice in writing to the Director General rejecting the proposals, the proposals shall be deemed to have been accepted and to be an agreement in writing within the meaning of subsection (2) come to upon the expiration of that period or further period, as the case may be, between the Director General and the appellant.

(5) Where by the operation of subsection (3) or (4) there is deemed to be an agreement within the meaning of subsection (2) between the Director General and the appellant, one of the Special Commissioners on the application of the appellant made to the Special Commissioners within a period of thirty days after the agreement is deemed to be come to may, after giving the Director General an opportunity to make oral or written representations, set the agreement aside if he thinks it just and equitable to do so in the circumstances.

(6) The decision of one of the Special Commissioners on an application under subsection (5) shall be notified by the Clerk in writing to the applicant and the Director General and shall be final.

(7) References in this section to agreements come to between the Director General and the appellant and to confirmations and requests being served on the appellant include references to agreements come to between the Director General and a duly authorized person conducting correspondence or otherwise acting on behalf of the appellant in relation to the appeal and to confirmations and requests served on such a person.

(8) Where on an appeal against an assessment the tax chargeable under the assessment is increased by an agreement come to under subsection (2) or by an agreement deemed to be come to under subsection (3) or (4) and not set aside under subsection (5), the Director General shall serve on the appellant a notice in the prescribed form which shall--

(a) indicate, in addition to any other material included therein, the amount of the increase in the tax charged and the place of payment; and

(b) have the same effect for the purposes of Part VII as a notice of increased assessment. 

(9) The notice mentioned in subsection (8) shall be served--

(a) where an agreement is come to under subsection (2), as soon as may be; and

(b) where an agreement is come to under subsection (3) or (4) and is not set aside under subsection (5), as soon as may be after the expiry of the period mentioned in subsection (5) or, if there is an unsuccessful application to the Special Commissioners under subsection (5), as soon as may be after the application has been refused. 

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102. Disposal of appeals

(1) Subject to subsection (1A) or (3), the Director General may send an appeal forward to the Special Commissioners at any time within the twelve-month period from the date of receipt of the notice of appeal or, if an extension under subsection 101(1B) has been granted, within the extended period if he is of the opinion that there is no reasonable prospect of coming to an agreement with the appellant in accordance with subsection 101(2) in respect of the appeal and if subsections 101(3) and (4) are not applicable; and, where he sends an appeal forward under this subsection, he shall give the appellant written notice that he has done so.

(1A) Where a person has made an application to invoke a mutual agreement procedure pursuant to an arrangement made under section 132 and the ground in which the application is made is similar with the appeal filed under this Act--

(a) no appeal shall be sent forward to the Special Commissioners until the determination of the mutual agreement procedure;

(b) the person may within thirty days from the determination of the mutual agreement procedure request to the Director General in writing to forward such appeal to the Special Commissioners; and

(c) the Director General shall within three months after receiving the request send the appeal forward to the Special Commissioners. 

(2) (Deleted by Act 600).

(3) No appeal shall be sent forward to the Special Commissioners if the Director General and the appellant have or are deemed to have come to an agreement in respect of it in accordance with subsection 101(2), (3) or (4).

(4) Where an appeal is sent forward to the Special Commissioners pursuant to this section, the appeal shall be sent forward in the manner provided by Schedule 5 and that Schedule shall have effect for regulating the hearing and determination of the appeal and otherwise as provided therein.

(5) Where an appeal has been sent forward to the Special Commissioners pursuant to this section--

(a) the Director General and the appellant at any time before the hearing of the appeal by the Special Commissioners is completed may come to an agreement of the kind mentioned in subsection 101(2) with regard to the assessment to which the appeal relates; or

(b) the appellant may at any time withdraw the appeal. 

(6) Where the Director General and the appellant come to an agreement under paragraph (5)(a), the Director General shall and the appellant may, send a true copy of the agreement to the Special Commissioners.

(7) Where the Special Commissioners are satisfied that the Director General and the appellant have come to an agreement under paragraph (5)(a) with regard to the assessment to which an appeal relates--

(a) the proceedings before the Special Commissioners relating to the appeal shall abate;

(b) the agreement shall have effect as if it had been come to under subsection 101(2); and

(c) subsections 101(8) and (9) shall apply accordingly. 

(8) Where the Special Commissioners are satisfied that the appellant has withdrawn his appeal under paragraph (5)(b)--

(a) the proceedings before the Special Commissioners relating to the appeal shall abate; and

(b) the assessment to which the appeal relates shall be final and conclusive for the purposes of this Act, the Income Tax Ordinance 1956 of Sabah [Sabah Ord. 29 of 1956 ], the Inland Revenue Ordinance 1960 of Sarawak [Sawarak Ord. 13 of 1960] or the Income Tax Ordinance 1947 of West Malaysia [Ord. 48 of 1947], as the case may be. 

(9) In this section "appeal" means an appeal against an assessment.

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Part VII COLLECTION AND RECOVERY OF TAX

103. Payment of tax

(1) Except as provided in subsection (2), tax payable under an assessment for a year of assessment shall be due and payable on the due date whether or not that person appeals against the assessment.

(1A) Where an assessment or additional assessment has been made under section 91A, the tax or additional tax payable under the assessment shall be due and payable on the day the amended return is furnished whether or not that person appeals against the assessment or additional assessment;

Provided that where the amended return is furnished within a period of sixty days after the due date and the amount of tax due and payable has not been paid within the period of sixty days from the due date, so much of the tax as is unpaid upon the expiration of that period shall without any further notice being served be further increased by a sum equal to five per cent of the tax so unpaid, and that sum shall be recoverable as if it were tax due and payable under this Act.

(2) Where an assessment is made under section 90(3), 91, 92 or 96A, or where an assessment is increased under section 101(2), the tax payable under the assessment or increased assessment shall, on the service of the notice of assessment or composite assessment or increased assessment, as the case may be, be due and payable on the person assessed at the place specified in that notice whether or not that person appeals against the assessment or increased assessment.

(3) Where any tax due and payable under subsection (1) has not been paid by the due date, so much of the tax as is unpaid upon the expiration of that date shall without any further notice being served be increased by a sum equal to ten per cent of the tax so unpaid, and that sum shall be recoverable as if it were tax due and payable under this Act.

(4) Where the tax due and payable has been increased under subsection (3), any balance remaining unpaid upon the expiration of sixty days from the due date shall without any further notice being served be further increased by a sum equal to five per cent of the balance unpaid, and that sum shall be recoverable as if it were tax due and payable under this Act.

(5) Subject to subsection (7), where any tax due and payable under subsection (2) has not been paid within thirty days after the service of the notice, so much of the tax as is unpaid upon the expiration of that period shall without any further notice being served be increased by a sum equal to ten per cent of the tax so unpaid, and that sum shall be recoverable as if it were tax due and payable under this Act.

(6) Where the tax due and payable has been increased under subsection (5), any balance remaining unpaid upon the expiration of sixty days from the date of such increase shall without any further notice being served be further increased by a sum equal to five per cent of the balance unpaid, and that sum shall be recoverable as if it were tax due and payable under this Act.

(7) Where any tax is payable in accordance with subsection (2), the Director General may allow the tax to be paid by instalments in such amounts and on such dates as he may determine and in the event of default in payment of any one instalment on the date specified for payment the balance of the tax then outstanding shall be due and payable on that date and shall without any further notice being served be increased by a sum equal to ten per cent of that balance, and that sum shall be recoverable as if it were tax due and payable under this Act.

(8) Where the tax due and payable has been increased under subsection (7), any balance remaining unpaid upon the expiration of sixty days from the date of such increase shall without any further notice being served be further increased by a sum equal to five per cent of the balance unpaid, and that sum shall be recoverable as if it were tax due and payable under this Act.

(9) Notwithstanding the foregoing subsections, where tax due and payable is increased by a sum under subsection (1A), (3), (4), (5), (6), (7) or (8), the Director General may in his discretion for any good cause shown remit the whole or any part of that sum and, where the amount remitted has been paid, the Director General shall repay that amount.

(10) Where section 45(2) applies for a year of assessment, the portion of the tax charged for that year upon the husband or the wife in whose name the assessment was made which is attributable to the total income for that year of the wife who elects or the husband who elects, as the case may be, may, if necessary, be collected from the wife who elects or the husband who elects; and this Part shall apply (with any necessary modifications) as if, on the day on which a notice of assessment or a notice of increased assessment for that year is served on the husband or the wife that notice of assessment or notice of increased assessment had been served on the wife who elects or the husband who elects, as the case may be:

Provided that nothing in this subsection shall be construed as conferring on the wife who elects or the husband who elects, as the case may be, any right of appeal under section 99.

(11) For the purposes of subsection (10), the part of the tax charged for a year of assessment upon the husband or the wife which is attributable to the total income for that year of the wife who elects or the husband who elects, as the case may be, shall be determined in accordance with the formula--

where--

(a) in the case of the wife who elects--

A is that wife's total income for a year of assessment;

B is the aggregate of the husband's and that wife's or wives' total income; and

C is the tax charged for the year of assessment where paragraph 45(2)(a) applies; or

(b) in the case of the husband who elects--

A is that husband's total income for a year of assessment;

B is the aggregate of the wife's and that husband's total income; and

C is the tax charged for the year of assessment where paragraph 45(2)(b) applies.

(12) For the purposes of this section, "due date" means--

(a) in the case of a company, trust body, co-operative society or limited liability partnership the last day of the seventh month from the date following the close of the accounting period;

(b) in the case of a person referred to under paragraph 77(1)(a), 30 June in the year following the year of assessment; and

(c) in any other case other than the cases referred to in paragraphs (a) and (b), 30 April in the year following the year of assessment. 

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103A. Payment of tax

(Deleted by Act A1151).

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104. Recovery from persons leaving Malaysia

(1) The Director General, where he is of the opinion that any person is about or likely to leave Malaysia without paying--

(a) all tax payable by him (whether or not due or due and payable);

(b) all sums payable by him under subsection 103(1A), (3), (4), (5), (6), (7) or (8) or subsection 107B(3) or (4) or subsection 107C(9) or (10);

(c) all debts payable by him under subsection 107A(2) or 109(2), 109B(2) or 109F(2), may issue to any Commissioner of Police or Director of Immigration a certificate containing particulars of the tax, sums and debts so payable with a request for that person to be prevented from leaving Malaysia unless and until he pays all the tax, sums and debts so payable or furnishes security to the satisfaction of the Director General for their payment.

(2) Subject to any order issued or made under any written law relating to banishment or immigration, any Commissioner of Police or Director of Immigration who receives a request under subsection (1) in respect of any person shall take or cause to be taken all such measures (including the use of reasonable force and the seizure, removal or retention of any certificate of identity and any passport, exit permit or other travel document relating to that person) as may be necessary to give effect to it.

(3) The Director General shall cause notice of the issue of a certificate under subsection (1) to be served personally or by registered post on the person to whom the certificate relates:

Provided that the non-receipt of the notice by that person shall not invalidate anything done under this section.

(4) Where a person in respect of whom a certificate has been issued under subsection (1)--

(a) produces a written statement signed on or after the date of the certificate by the Director General or an authorized officer to the effect that all the tax, sums and debts specified in the certificate have been paid or that security has been furnished for their payment; or

(b) pays all the tax, sums and debts specified in the certificate to the officer in charge of a police station or to an immigration officer, the statement or the payment, as the case may be, shall be sufficient authority for allowing that person to leave Malaysia.

(5) No legal proceedings shall be instituted or maintained against the Government, a State Government, a police officer or any other public officer in respect of anything lawfully done under this section or subsection 115(2).

(6) In this section--

"Commissioner of Police"

includes a Chief Police Officer;

"Director of Immigration"

means the Director of Immigration in Sabah, Sarawak or West Malaysia;

"immigration officer"

means a public officer having official duties in connection with the control of immigration into Malaysia or any part of Malaysia;

"person"

includes any person who is a director within the meaning of section 75A.

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105. Refusal of customs clearance in certain cases

(1) Where tax payable by a person who carries on the business of transporting passengers or cargo by air or sea (or tax payable by an agent of that person) has remained unpaid for more than three months (whether that person has been assessed directly or the agent has been assessed on his behalf) the Director General may with the approval of the Minister issue to the customs authority a certificate containing the name of that person or the agent, as the case may be, and particulars of the tax in default; and the customs authority shall thereupon refuse clearance from any port, aerodrome or airport in Malaysia to any ship or aircraft wholly or partly owned or chartered by that person until the tax is paid.

(2) No legal proceedings shall be instituted or maintained against the Government, the customs authority or any public officer in respect of a refusal of clearance under this section, nor shall the fact that a ship or aircraft is detained under this section affect the liability of the owner, charterer or agent to pay harbour or other dues and charges for the period of detention.

(3) In this section "customs authority" means the Director General of Customs and Excise, and includes the Regional Directors of Customs in Sabah, Sarawak and West Malaysia and any other authority by whom customs clearance may be granted.

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106. Recovery by suit

(1) Tax due and payable may be recovered by the Government by civil proceedings as a debt due to the Government.

(2) The Director General and all authorized officers shall be deemed to be public officers authorized by the Minister under subsection 25(1) of the Government Proceedings Act 1956 [Act 359], in respect of all proceedings under this section.

(3) In any proceedings under this section the court shall not entertain any plea that the amount of tax sought to be recovered is excessive, incorrectly assessed, under appeal or incorrectly increased under subsection 103(1A), (3), (4), (5), (6), (7) or (8).

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107. Deduction of tax from emoluments and pensions

(1) Where any income in respect of gains or profits from an employment or in respect of any pension, annuity or periodical payment falling under paragraph 4(e) is payable to an individual, then, if the Director General so directs, the person by whom the income is payable shall make deductions out of the income on account of tax which is or may be payable by that individual for any year of assessment.

(2) Subject to any rules made under section 154, deductions under this section on account of tax shall be made at such times and in such amounts as the Director General may direct, whether or not the tax has been assessed.

(3) In relation to any case, nothing in this section shall prevent the collection of any tax (not being tax deducted in accordance with this section) in accordance with section 103 or the payment of that tax being enforced in accordance with section 106:

Provided that in any such case for the purposes of section 103 the Director General shall determine the period within which that tax shall be payable.

(4) An employer who fails to comply with subsection 83(2), (3), (4) or (5) or this section with respect to an employee of his shall be liable, in the case of a failure to comply with subsection 83(2), (3), (4) or (5), to pay the full amount of tax due from the employee and, in the case of a failure to comply with this section, to pay the amount of tax which he has failed to deduct, and such amount of tax shall be a debt due from the employer to the Government and shall be payable forthwith to the Director General:

Provided that--

(a) the Director General shall apply any amount paid to or recovered by him in pursuance of this subsection towards payment of the tax payable by the employee; and

(b) the employer may recover from the employee as a debt due to the employer any amount which has been paid to the Director General by the employer or recovered by the Director General from the employer in pursuance of this subsection. 

(5) Where a person by whom any income of the kind mentioned in paragraph 4(e) is payable fails to comply with this section with respect to a recipient of that income, that person shall be liable to pay the amount of tax which he has failed to deduct:

Provided that--

(a) the Director General shall apply any amount paid to or recovered by him in pursuance of this subsection towards payment of the tax payable by the recipient; and

(b) the person may recover from the recipient as a debt due to that person any amount which has been paid to the Director General by that person or recovered by the Director General from that person in pursuance of this subsection. 

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107A. Deduction of tax from contract payment

(1) Where any person (in this section referred to as "the payer") is liable to make contract payment to a non-resident contractor in respect of services under a contract, he shall upon paying or crediting such contract payment deduct therefrom tax at the rate of--

(a) ten per cent of the contract payment on account of tax which is or may be payable by that non-resident contractor for any year of assessment; and

(b) three per cent of the contract payment on account of tax which is or may be payable by employees of that non-resident contractor for any year of assessment, and (whether or not that tax is so deducted) shall within one month after paying or crediting such contract payment render an account and pay the amount of that tax to the Director General:

Provided that the Director General may--

(i) give notice in writing to the payer requiring him to deduct and pay tax at some other rates or to pay or credit the contract payment without deduction of tax; or

(ii) under special circumstances, allow extension of time for tax deducted to be paid over. 

(2) Where the payer fails to pay any amount due from him under subsection (1), that amount which he fails to pay shall be increased by a sum equal to ten per cent of the amount which he fails to pay, and that amount and the increased sum shall be a debt due from him to the Government and shall be payable forthwith to the Director General.

(3) Where in pursuance of this section any amount is paid to the Director General by the payer or recovered by the Director General from the payer--

(a) the Director General shall apply the amount paid or recovered under paragraph (1)(a) towards payment of the tax payable for any year of assessment by the non-resident contractor to whom the payer was liable to pay the contract payment to which that amount relates;

(b) the Director General shall refund the amount paid or recovered under paragraph (1)(b) to the non-resident contractor to whom the payer was liable to pay the contract payment to which that amount relates as and when the Director General deems appropriate; and

(c) if the payer has not deducted any amount in paying the contract payment with respect to which the amount relates, he may recover the amount from the non-resident contractor as a debt due to the payer. 

(4) In relation to any case, nothing in paragraph (1)(b) shall prevent the deduction of any tax (not being tax deducted in accordance with this subsection) in accordance with section 107.

(4A) Notwithstanding the foregoing subsections, where the amount due from the payer under subsection (1) is increased by a sum under subsection (2), the Director General may in his discretion for any good cause shown remit the whole or any part of that sum and, where the amount remitted has been paid, the Director General shall repay the same.

(5) In this section--

"contract payment"

means any payment made for services under a contract to the non-resident contractor or his agent or any other person acting on his behalf;

"contract project",

in relation to any non-resident contractor, includes any undertaking, project or scheme, being an undertaking, project or scheme carried on, carried out or performed in Malaysia;

"non-resident contractor"

means any person who is not resident in Malaysia within the meaning of section 7 or 8 and who, under a contract or a subsidiary contract (not being a contract of service or apprenticeship) or an agreement or arrangement undertakes (otherwise than as an employee) any services under a contract;

"person"

includes a partnership;

"professional service",

in relation to any non-resident contractor, includes any advisory, consultancy, technical, industrial, commercial or scientific service;

"services under a contract",

in relation to any non-resident contractor, means the performing or rendering of any work or professional service in Malaysia, being work or professional service in connection with, or in relation to, any contract project.

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107B. Payment by instalments

(1) Subject to this section, every person chargeable to tax for a year of assessment, other than a company, trust body, co-operative society or limited liability partnership to which section 107C applies shall make payment by instalments on account of tax, excluding tax in respect of gains or profits from an employment, which is or may be payable by that person for that year of assessment, at such times and in such amounts as the Director General may direct, whether or not the tax has been assessed.

(2) In determining the amount to be paid under subsection (1), the Director General may take into consideration the tax assessed, if any, in respect of the person for the year of assessment preceding that year of assessment:

Provided that the Director General may, upon an application made by the person not later than the thirtieth day of June in that year of assessment, vary the amount to be paid by instalments on account of tax and the number of instalments.

(3) Where any instalment amount due and payable on the date specified by the Director General pursuant to subsection (1) or (2) has not been paid within thirty days of the due date, the amount unpaid shall, without any further notice being served, be increased by a sum equal to ten per cent of the amount unpaid, and that sum shall be recoverable as if it were tax due and payable under this Act:

Provided that, where the amount unpaid is subsequently paid, the Director General may treat it as having been paid on its due date.

(4) In any case to which the proviso to subsection (2) applies, where the tax payable under an assessment for that year of assessment exceeds the total of the instalments payable and the difference is more than thirty per cent of the tax payable under the assessment, then, without any further notice being served, the amount of the difference which exceeds thirty per cent of the tax payable under the assessment shall be increased by a sum equal to ten per cent of that amount of the difference, and that sum shall be recoverable as if it were tax due and payable under this Act:

Provided that in the case of an individual whose income includes gains or profits from an employment, the tax payable under an assessment for that year of assessment shall be reduced by the amount of tax which is attributable to those gains or profits.

(4A) For the purposes of subsection (4), the amount of tax which is attributable to the income in respect of gains or profits from an employment of an individual shall be determined in accordance with the formula--

where A is his statutory income in respect of gains or profits from employment for a year of assessment;

B is his total income for that year of assessment; and

C is his tax payable for that year of assessment.

(5) Nothing in this section shall prevent the collection of any tax from a person to whom this section applies in accordance with section 103 or the payment of that tax being enforced in accordance with section 106:

Provided that in any such case for the purposes of section 103 the Director General shall determine the period within which that tax shall be payable.

(6) Notwithstanding the foregoing subsections, where the amount of instalments unpaid or the amount of the difference in tax is increased by a sum under subsection (3) or (4), as the case may be, the Director General may in his discretion for any good cause shown remit the whole or any part of that sum and, where the amount remitted has been paid, the Director General shall repay the same.

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107C. Estimate of tax payable and payment by instalments for companies

(1) Every company, limited liability partnership, trust body or co-operative society shall for each year of assessment furnish to the Director General an estimate of its tax payable.

(2) Except as provided in paragraph (4)(a) and subsection (4A), the estimate of tax payable for a year of assessment shall be made in the prescribed form and furnished to the Director General not later than thirty days before the beginning of the basis period for that year of assessment.

(3) The estimate of tax payable for a year of assessment shall not be less than eighty-five per cent of the revised estimate of tax payable for the immediately preceding year of assessment or if no revised estimate is furnished, shall not be less than eighty-five per cent of the estimate of tax payable for the immediately preceding year of assessment.

(4) Where a company, other than a company to which subsection (4A) applies, limited liability partnership, trust body or co-operative society first commences operation in a year of assessment and the basis period for that year is not less than six months--

(a) the estimate of its tax payable for that year of assessment shall be made in the prescribed form and furnished to the Director General within three months from the date of commencement of operations; and

(b) subsections (2) and (3) shall apply to the company, other than a company to which subsection (4A) applies, limited liability partnership, trust body or co-operative society beginning from the second year of assessment. 

(4A) Subject to subsections (4B) and (4C), where a company resident and incorporated in Malaysia first commences operation in a year of assessment, subsections (1), (2) and (3) shall not apply to the company--

(a) for that year of assessment and the immediate following year of assessment;

(b) where the company has no basis period for that year of assessment, for the immediate two following years of assessment: 

Provided that at the beginning of the basis period for the years of assessment referred to in paragraph (a) or for the two following years of assessment referred to in paragraph (b) , the paid-up capital of that company in respect of ordinary shares is two million five hundred thousand ringgit and less; or

(c) where the company has no basis period for that year of assessment and for the immediate following year of assessment, for that year of assessment and the immediate two following years of assessment: 

Provided that at the commencement of the operation and at the beginning of the immediate two following years of assessment the paid up capital of the company in respect of ordinary shares is two million five hundred thousand ringgit and less.

(4B) The provision of subsection (4A) shall not apply to a company referred to in that subsection if more than--

(a) fifty per cent of the paid up capital in respect of ordinary shares of the company is directly or indirectly owned by a related company;

(b) fifty per cent of the paid up capital in respect of ordinary shares of the related company is directly or indirectly owned by the first mentioned company; or

(c) fifty per cent of the paid up capital in respect of ordinary shares of the first mentioned company and the related company is directly or indirectly owned by another company. 

(4C) For the purpose of subsection (4B), "related company" means a company which has a paid up capital in respect of ordinary shares of more than two million and five hundred thousand ringgit at the beginning of the basis period for a year of assessment.

(5) Where an estimate of tax payable for a year of assessment has been furnished in accordance with subsection (2), that amount shall be paid to the Director General in equal monthly instalments determined according to the number of months in the basis period and each instalment shall be paid by the due date beginning from the second month of the basis period for the year of assessment in respect of which that estimate has been furnished.

(6) Where an estimate of tax payable for a year of assessment has been furnished in accordance with paragraph (4)(a), that amount shall be paid to the Director General in equal monthly instalments determined according to the number of months in the basis period and each instalment shall be paid by the due date beginning from the sixth month of the basis period for the year of assessment in respect of which that estimate has been furnished.

(7) A company, limited liability partnership, trust body or co-operative society may in the sixth month or the ninth month, or in both months of the basis period for a year of assessment furnish to the Director General a revised estimate of its tax payable for that year in the prescribed form and--

(a) where the revised estimate exceeds the amount of instalments which is payable in that year prior to that revised estimate, the difference shall be payable in the remaining instalments in equal proportion; or

(b) where the amount of instalments which is payable in that year prior to that revised estimate exceeds the revised estimate, the remaining instalments shall cease immediately. 

(8) Notwithstanding subsections (1), (3), (4), (5), (6) and (7) , the Director General may direct such company, limited liability partnership, trust body or co-operative society to make payment by instalments on account of tax which is or may be payable by that company, limited liability partnership, trust body or co-operative society for a year of assessment at such times and in such amounts as the Director General may direct and such account of tax shall be deemed for the purpose of subsection (10) to be the revised estimate of tax payable by that company, limited liability partnership, trust body or co-operative society for that year of assessment:

Provided that, where the direction is made before the ninth month of the basis period for that year of assessment, that company, limited liability partnership, trust body or co-operative society may furnish a revised estimate of its tax payable for that year of assessment in accordance with subsection (7).

(9) Where any instalment amount due and payable has not been paid by the due date or on the date specified by the Director General, the amount unpaid shall, without any further notice being served, be increased by a sum equal to ten per cent of the amount unpaid, and the amount unpaid and the increase on the amount unpaid shall be recoverable as if it were tax due and payable under this Act.

(10) Where the tax payable under an assessment for a year of assessment exceeds the revised estimate under subsection (7) or deemed revised estimate under subsection (8) whichever is later, or if no such revised estimate is furnished or there is no such deemed revised estimate, the estimate of tax payable for that year of assessment, by an amount of more than thirty per cent of the tax payable under the assessment, then, without any further notice being served, the difference between that amount and thirty per cent of the tax payable under the assessment shall be increased by a sum equal to ten per cent of the amount of that difference, and that sum shall be recoverable as if it were tax due and payable under this Act.

(10A) Where for a year of assessment--

(a) no estimate is furnished by a company, trust body or co-operative society and no direction is given by the Director General to make payment by instalment under subsection (8);

(b) no prosecution under section 120 has been instituted in relation to failure to furnish such estimate; and

(c) tax is payable by that company, trust body or co-operative society pursuant to an assessment for that year of assessment, such tax payable shall without any further notice be increased by a sum equal to ten per cent of the tax payable and that sum shall be recoverable as if it were tax due and payable under this Act:

Provided that if that company, trust body or co-operative society pays that sum or, where the sum is remitted under subsection (11). that company, trust body or co-operative society shall not be liable to be charged on the same facts with an offence under section 120.

(11) Notwithstanding the foregoing subsections, where the estimate of tax payable for a year of assessment is increased by a sum under subsection (9), (10) or (10A), the Director General may in his discretion for any good cause shown remit the whole or any part of that sum and, where the amount remitted has been paid, the Director General shall repay the same.

(11A) Nothing in this section shall prevent the collection of any tax from a person to whom this section applies in accordance with section 103 or the payment of that tax being enforced in accordance with section 106.

(12) For the purposes of this section--

"due date"

means the fifteenth day of a calendar month;

"revised estimate"

means a revised estimate made in the ninth month of the basis period or if there is no revised estimate made in the ninth month of the basis period, the revised estimate made in the sixth month of the basis period.

Unannotated Statutes of Malaysia - Principal Acts/INCOME TAX ACT 1967 Act 53/INCOME TAX ACT 1967 ACT 53,,/∗108.∗Non-deduction of tax from dividends

*108.^* Non-deduction of tax from dividends

Where a dividend is paid or credited by a company to any of its shareholders in the basis period for a year of assessment, the company shall not be entitled to deduct tax from such dividend paid or credited.

Unannotated Statutes of Malaysia - Principal Acts/INCOME TAX ACT 1967 Act 53/INCOME TAX ACT 1967 ACT 53/109B.Deduction of tax from special classes of income in certain cases derived from Malaysia

109B. Deduction of tax from special classes of income in certain cases derived from Malaysia

(1) Where any person (in this section referred to as "the payer") is liable to make payments to a non-resident--

(a) for services rendered by the non-resident person or his employee in connection with the use of property or rights belonging to, or the installation or operation of any plant, machinery or other apparatus purchased from, such non-resident;

(b) for technical advice, assistance or services rendered in connection with technical management or administration of any scientific, industrial or commercial undertaking, venture, project or scheme; or

(c) for rent or other payments made under any agreement or arrangement for the use of any moveable property, which is deemed to be derived from Malaysia, he shall, upon paying or crediting the payments, deduct therefrom tax at the rate applicable to such payments, and (whether or not that tax is so deducted) shall within one month after paying or crediting such payment, render an account and pay the amount of that tax to the Director General:

Provided that the Director General may under special circumstances allow extension of time for tax deducted to be paid over.

(2) Where the payer fails to pay any amount due from him under subsection (1), that amount which he fails to pay shall be increased by a sum equal to ten per cent of the amount which he fails to pay, and that amount and the increased sum shall be a debt due from him to the Government and shall be payable forthwith to the Director General.

(3) Where in pursuance of this section any amount is paid to the Director General by the payer or recovered by the Director General from the payer--

(a) the Director General shall, in the manner provided by section 110, apply that amount towards payment of the tax charged on the person to whom the payer was liable to pay the payments to which the amount relates; and

(b) if the payer has not deducted that amount in paying the payment under subsection (1) with respect to which the amount relates, he may recover that amount from that person as a debt due to the payer. 

(3A) Notwithstanding the foregoing subsections, where the amount due from the payer under subsection (1) is increased by a sum under subsection (2), the Director General may in his discretion for any good cause shown remit the whole or any part of that sum and, where the amount remitted has been paid, the Director General shall repay the same.

(4) In this section "person" includes a partnership.

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109A. Application of sections 109 and 110 to income derived by a public entertainer

The provisions of sections 109 and 110 shall apply mutatis mutandis to remuneration or other income in respect of services performed or rendered in Malaysia by a public entertainer.

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109B. Deduction of tax from special classes of income in certain cases derived from Malaysia

(1) Where any person (in this section referred to as "the payer") is liable to make payments to a non-resident--

(a) for services rendered by the non-resident person or his employee in connection with the use of property or rights belonging to, or the installation or operation of any plant, machinery or other apparatus purchased from, such non-resident;

(b) for technical advice, assistance or services rendered in connection with technical management or administration of any scientific, industrial or commercial undertaking, venture, project or scheme; or

(c) for rent or other payments made under any agreement or arrangement for the use of any moveable property, which is deemed to be derived from Malaysia, he shall, upon paying or crediting the payments, deduct therefrom tax at the rate applicable to such payments, and (whether or not that tax is so deducted) shall within one month after paying or crediting such payment, render an account and pay the amount of that tax to the Director General:

Provided that the Director General may under special circumstances allow extension of time for tax deducted to be paid over.

(2) Where the payer fails to pay any amount due from him under subsection (1), that amount which he fails to pay shall be increased by a sum equal to ten per cent of the amount which he fails to pay, and that amount and the increased sum shall be a debt due from him to the Government and shall be payable forthwith to the Director General.

(3) Where in pursuance of this section any amount is paid to the Director General by the payer or recovered by the Director General from the payer--

(a) the Director General shall, in the manner provided by section 110, apply that amount towards payment of the tax charged on the person to whom the payer was liable to pay the payments to which the amount relates; and

(b) if the payer has not deducted that amount in paying the payment under subsection (1) with respect to which the amount relates, he may recover that amount from that person as a debt due to the payer. 

(3A) Notwithstanding the foregoing subsections, where the amount due from the payer under subsection (1) is increased by a sum under subsection (2), the Director General may in his discretion for any good cause shown remit the whole or any part of that sum and, where the amount remitted has been paid, the Director General shall repay the same.

(4) In this section "person" includes a partnership.

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109C. Deduction of tax from interest paid to a resident

(1) Where any person (in this section referred to as "the payer") is liable to pay interest (other than interest exempt from tax under this Act or any order made thereto) accruing in or derived from Malaysia to an individual resident in Malaysia, he shall upon paying or crediting such interest deduct therefrom tax at the rate applicable to such interest, and (whether or not that tax is so deducted) shall within one month after paying or crediting the interest render an account and pay the amount of that tax to the Director General:

Provided that the Director General may under special circumstances, allow extension of time for tax deducted to be paid over.

(2) Where the payer fails to pay any amount due from him under subsection (1), the amount which he fails to pay shall be a debt due from him to the Government and shall be payable forthwith to the Director General.

(3) Where in pursuance of this section any amount is paid to the Director General by the payer and if the payer has not deducted that amount in paying the payment under subsection (1) with respect to which the amount relates, he may recover that amount from that individual as a debt due to the payer.

(4) In this section "person" refers to a bank or finance company licensed under the Banking and Financial Institutions Act 1989 [Act 372] or the Islamic Banking Act 1983 [Act 276], a registered co-operative society, Bank Simpanan Nasional, Bank Pertanian Malaysia, Lembaga Urusan dan Tabung Haji, Malaysia Building Society Berhad, or any other institution that may be approved by the Minister.

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109D. Deduction of tax on the distribution of income of a unit trust

(1) This section shall only apply to income of a unit trust which is exempt under section 61A.

(2) Where a unit trust (in this section referred to as the payer) distributes income to a unit holder other than a unit holder which is a resident company which is deemed to be derived from Malaysia, the payer shall upon distributing the income, deduct therefrom tax at the rate applicable to such income and shall within one month after distributing such income, render an account and pay the amount of that tax to the Director General:

Provided that the Director General may under special circumstances allow extension of time for tax deducted to be paid over.

(3) Where the payer fails to pay any amount due from him under subsection (2), that amount which he fails to pay shall be increased by a sum equal to ten per cent of that amount, and the amount which he fails to pay and the increased sum shall be a debt due from him to the Government and shall be payable forthwith to the Director General.

(4) Where in pursuance of this section any amount is paid to the Director General by the payer or recovered by the Director General from the payer--

(a) the Director General shall, in the manner provided by section 110, apply that amount towards payment of the tax charged on the unit holder to whom the payer distributes income to which that amount relates; and

(b) if the payer has not deducted that amount in distributing the income under subsection (2) with respect to which that amount relates, he may recover that amount from that unit holder as a debt due to the payer. 

(4A) Notwithstanding the foregoing subsections, where the amount due from the payer under subsection (1) is increased by a sum under subsection (2), the Director General may in his discretion for any good cause shown remit the whole or any part of that sum and, where the amount remitted has been paid, the Director General shall repay the same.

(5) Section 110 shall apply mutatis mutandis to tax deducted under this section.

Unannotated Statutes of Malaysia - Principal Acts/INCOME TAX ACT 1967 Act 53/INCOME TAX ACT 1967 ACT 53,,/109E.Deduction of tax on the distribution of income of a family fund, etc.

109E. Deduction of tax on the distribution of income of a family fund, etc.

(1) This section shall only apply to profits distributed or credited out of family fund, family re-takaful fund or general fund under section 60AA where such profits have been claimed as a deduction under subparagraph (3)(b)(ii), (4)(b)(ii), (5)(b)(vii) or (7)(b)(vii) of that section.

(2) Where a takaful operator (in this section referred to as "the payer") distributes or credits any amount of income to a participant other than participant which is a resident company which is deemed to be derived from Malaysia, the payer shall upon distributing or crediting the amount--

(a) deduct from the proportion of that amount, tax at the rate applicable to that proportion; and

(b) whether or not that tax is so deducted, within one month after distributing or crediting such amount, render an account and pay the amount of tax to the Director General. 

(3) The Director General may in relation to subsection (2) under special circumstances allow extension of time for the amount of tax deducted to be paid over.

(4) Where the payer fails to pay any amount due from him under subsection (2), that amount which he fails to pay shall be increased by a sum equal to ten per cent of the amount which he fails to pay, and that amount and the increased sum shall be a debt due from him to the Government and shall be payable forthwith to the Director General.

(5) Where in pursuance of this section any amount is paid to the Director General by the payer or recovered by the Director General from the payer and if the payer has not deducted that amount in distributing the income under subsection (2) with respect to which that amount relates, the payer may recover that amount from that participant as a debt due to the payer.

(6) The proportion of amount referred to in subsection (2) shall be ascertained in accordance with the formula prescribed by the Minister.

(7) Notwithstanding the foregoing subsections, where the amount due from the payer under subsection (2) is increased by a sum under subsection (4), the Director General may in his discretion for any good cause shown remit the whole or any part of that sum and, where the amount remitted has been paid, the Director General shall repay the same.

Unannotated Statutes of Malaysia - Principal Acts/INCOME TAX ACT 1967 Act 53/INCOME TAX ACT 1967 ACT 53,,/109F.Deduction of tax from gains or profits in certain cases derived from Malaysia

109F. Deduction of tax from gains or profits in certain cases derived from Malaysia

(1) Where any person (in this section referred to as "the payer") is liable to make payments to a non-resident in relation to any gains or profits falling under paragraph 4(f)which is derived from Malaysia, he shall upon paying or crediting such payments deduct therefrom tax at the rate applicable to such payments, and (whether or not that tax is so deducted) shall within one month after paying or crediting such payments render an account and pay the amount of that tax to the Director General:

Provided that the Director General may under special circumstances allow extension of time for the amount of tax deducted to be paid over.

(2) Where the payer fails to pay any amount due from him under subsection (1), the amount which he fails to pay shall be increased by a sum equal to ten per cent of the amount which he fails to pay, and that amount and the increased sum shall be a debt due from him to the Government and shall be payable forthwith to the Director General.

(3) Where in pursuance of this section any amount is paid to the Director General by the payer or recovered by the Director General from the payer--

(a) the Director General shall, in the manner provided by section 110, apply that amount towards payment of the tax charged on the person to whom the payer was liable to pay the payments to which the amount relates; and

(b) if the payer has not deducted that amount in paying the payment under subsection (1) with respect to which the amount relates, he may recover that amount from that person as a debt due to the payer. 

(4) Notwithstanding the foregoing subsections, where the amount due from the payer under subsection (1) is increased by a sum under subsection (2), the Director General may in his discretion for any good cause shown remit the whole or any part of that sum and, where the amount remitted has been paid, the Director General shall repay the same.

(5) Section 110 shall apply mutatis mutandis to tax deducted under this section.

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109G. Deduction of tax from income derived from withdrawal of a deferred annuity or a private retirement scheme

(1) Where a person (in this section referred to as "the payer") makes payment to an individual (in this section referred to as "the recipient") in relation to a withdrawal from a deferred annuity or a private retirement scheme before reaching the age of fifty-five (other than by reason of permanent total disablement, serious disease, mental disability, death or permanently leaving Malaysia) from a fund administered by that payer under a deferred annuity scheme or a private retirement scheme, the payer shall upon paying the amount, deduct from that amount, tax at a rate applicable to such payment, and (whether or not tax is so deducted) shall within one month after paying the amount render an account and pay the amount of that tax to the Director General:

Provided that the Director General may under special circumstances allow extension of time for the amount of tax deducted to be paid over.

(2) Where the payer fails to pay any amount due from him under subsection (1), the amount which he fails to pay shall be increased by a sum equal to ten per cent of the amount which he fails to pay, and that amount and the increased sum shall be a debt due from him to the Government and shall be payable forthwith to the Director General.

(3) Where in pursuance of this section any amount is paid to the Director General by the payer of recovered by the Director General from the payer and if the payer has not deducted that amount in paying the amount under subsection (1) with respect to which that amount relates, the payer may recover that amount from the recipient as a debt due to the payer.

(4) Notwithstanding the foregoing subsections, where the amount due from the payer under subsection (1) is increased by a sum under subsection (2), the Director General may in his discretion for any good cause shown remit the whole or any part of that sum and, where the amount remitted has been paid, the Director General shall repay the same.

(5) In this section, "payer" refers to--

(a) in the case of a deferred annuity, a life insurer or takaful operator licensed under the Financial Services Act 2013 or the Islamic Financial Services Act 2013;

(b) in the case of a private retirement scheme, a private retirement scheme provider as approved under section 139Q of the Capital Markets and Services Act 2007 to provide and manage a private retirement scheme. 

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109H. Appeal by the payer

(1) A payer referred to in section 109, 109B or 109F may, within thirty days (or any period extended by the Director General) from the date an amount is due to be made to the Director General under that section, appeal to the Special Commissioners by reason that such amount is not liable to be paid under this Act and the provision of this Act relating to appeals shall apply accordingly with any necessary modification.

(2) Where an amount is due from the payer to a non-resident person, this section shall not apply or cease to apply if--

(a) an appeal has been filed to the Special Commissioners by the non-resident person to whom the payer was liable to pay the amount of interest or royalty, or payment under section 4A or paragraph 4(f), of which the amount due under subsection (1) relates;

(b) such payment o the non-resident made by the payer is disallowed as deduction under section 39 in arriving at the adjusted income of the payer; or

(c) the amount due under subsection (1) has not been made to the Director General by the payer. 

Unannotated Statutes of Malaysia - Principal Acts/INCOME TAX ACT 1967 Act 53/INCOME TAX ACT 1967 ACT 53,,/110.Set-off for tax deducted

110. Set-off for tax deducted

(1) Any tax which is deducted from any interest or royalty under section 109 or from any payment for services, technical advice, assistance, or rental or other income under section 109B (including any amount recovered by the Director General pursuant to subsection 109(2) or 109b(2) but excluding any increase thereof) shall, when the interest, royalty, or payment for services, technical advice, assistance, or rental or other income is gross income of a person from a source of his for the basis period for a year of assessment, be set off against the tax charged on his chargeable income, if any, for that year.

(1A) (Deleted by Act 683).

(1B)-(1E) (Deleted by Act A1093).

(2) Subject to this section, where in relation to a year of assessment Chapter 3 of Part III has by virtue of section 41 applied to an accounting period as if it were the basis period for that year of assessment and any interest, royalty, services, technical advice, assistance, rental or other income has been included in the gross income of a person from a business of his for that accounting period, then--

(a) if that accounting period falls wholly within the basis period for that year of assessment, for the purposes of subsection (1), the interest, royalty, services, technical advice, assistance, rental or other income shall be treated as having been included in that person's gross income from that business for that basis period for that year and regard shall be had to the tax deducted from that interest, royalty, services, technical advice, assistance, rental or other income;

(b) if that accounting period overlaps the basis period for that year of assessment--

(i) the interest, royalty, services, technical advice, assistance, rental or other income and the tax deducted therefrom shall be apportioned in the manner provided by subsection 41(2);

(ii) the part of the interest, royalty, services, technical advice, assistance, rental or other income so apportioned to the overlapping part of that accounting period shall be treated for the purposes of subsection (1) as interest, royalty, services, technical advice, assistance, rental or other income included in that person's gross income from that business for the basis period for that year; and

(iii) in relation to that part of the interest, royalty, services, technical advice, assistance, rental or other income so included regard shall be had for the purposes of subsection (1) to the part of that tax so apportioned to the overlapping part of that accounting period. 

(3) Notwithstanding subsections (1) and (2), where any interest, royalty, services, technical advice, assistance, rental or other income is included in the gross income of a person from a business for the basis period for a year of assessment or, by virtue of section 41, for an accounting period as if it were the basis period for that year, then, if that interest, royalty, services, technical advice, assistance, rental or other income or a portion thereof is paid to that person after the end of that basis period or accounting period, as the case may be, that tax deducted therefrom shall be set off against any tax charged on his chargeable income for the year of assessment following that in which the interest, royalty, services, technical advice, assistance, rental or other income or the portion thereof was paid or, where there is no tax so payable, the tax so deducted shall be repaid to him.

(4) For the purposes of subsection (1), where by reason of any provisions of sections 55 to 59 any interest, royalty, services, technical advice, assistance, rental or other income is gross income of a person from a proprietorship or continuing proprietorship business of his for the basis period for a year of assessment, there shall be set off under subsection (1) only so much of the tax so deducted from that interest, royalty, services, technical advice, assistance, rental or other income as bears the same proportion to the amount of that tax as his share of the divisible income from that business for that period bears to the divisible income from that business for that period.

(5) For the purposes of subsections (1) and (2), where by reason of any provisions of sections 55 to 59 any interest, royalty, services, technical advice, assistance, rental or other income in gross income of a person from a proprietorship or continuing proprietorship business of his for an accounting period, then, with respect to the amount of the tax to which regard would be had under those subsections in relation to that person but for this subsection, regard shall be had only to the same proportion of that amount as his share of the divisible income from that business for that period bears to the divisible income from that business for that period.

(6) In any case to which subsection (4) or (5) applies, subsection (3) if applicable shall be modified accordingly.

(7) For the purposes of the foregoing subsections, where only a portion of any interest, royalty, services, technical advice, assistance, rental or other income is gross income of a person from a source of his for the basis period for a year of assessment or for an accounting period treated as if it were the basis period for that year, regard shall be had to that portion and to so much of any tax deducted from that interest, royalty, services, technical advice, assistance, rental or other income as bears the same proportion to that tax as the amount of that portion of the interest, royalty, services, technical advice, assistance, rental or other income bears to the whole of the interest, royalty, services, technical advice, assistance, rental or other income, as the case may be; and accordingly, where this subsection applies--

(a) the reference in subparagraph (2)(b)(i) to the interest, royalty, services, technical advice, assistance, rental or other income shall be taken to be a reference to that portion thereof;

(b) the reference in subparagraph (2)(b)(i) to the tax shall be taken to be a reference to so much thereof as aforesaid; and

(c) the reference in subparagraph (2)(b)(ii) to the part of the interest, royalty, services, technical advice, assistance, rental or other income shall be taken to be to the part of that portion of the interest, royalty, services, technical advice, assistance, rental or other income. 

(8) Any tax which is applicable to the statutory income of a person from his ordinary source in relation to a trust for a year of assessment (not being a share of the total income of the trust body for that year which has been deducted from that total income in ascertaining the chargeable income of the trust body for that year) shall, where the statutory income is included in the aggregate income of a person for a year of assessment, be set off against the tax charged on the chargeable income, if any, of that person for that year of assessment.

(9) For the purposes of subsection (8), the tax applicable to the statutory income for a year of assessment of a person from his ordinary source in relation to a trust shall be taken for that year to be a sum which bears the same proportion to the amount of tax chargeable on the chargeable income of the trust body of the trust for that year (or, where the trust body is entitled to any relief under section 132 or 133 for that year, to that amount less the amount of that relief) as that person's statutory income from his ordinary source for that year bears to the total income of the trust body for that year.

(9A) Notwithstanding subsections (8) and (9), where income distributed by a unit trust is included in the aggregate income of a person for a year of assessment, the tax chargeable on the unit trust and attributable to the income included in the aggregate income of that person (or, where the trust is entitled to any relief under section 132 or 133, that tax less the amount of that relief) shall be set off against the tax charged on the chargeable income, if any, of that person for that year of assessment.

(10) Where in any case to which subsection 68(4) applies any income received by a receiver is distributed to any person entitled thereto, and that income is gross income of that person from a source of his for the basis period for a year of assessment, any tax paid by the receiver and attributable to that gross income shall be set off against the tax charged on that person's chargeable income for that year (the amount of any such tax which is so attributable being determined by the Director General).

(11) Where tax is set off under this section against the tax charged for any year of assessment or would have been so set off if there had been tax so charged, the tax so set off or which would have been so set off shall not be set off against the tax charged for any other year of assessment.

(12) Where paragraph 45(2)(a) applies to an individual and to a wife of his for a year of assessment, any reference in the foregoing subsections to a person shall, in the application of those subsections for that year to that individual and that wife, be taken to be a reference to that individual including that wife as if she were that individual and where paragraph 45(2)(b) applies, this subsection shall be applied accordingly.

(13) (Deleted by Act 683)

Unannotated Statutes of Malaysia - Principal Acts/INCOME TAX ACT 1967 Act 53/INCOME TAX ACT 1967 ACT 53,,/110A.Set-off for tax deducted

110A. Set-off for tax deducted

(Deleted by Act 683).

Unannotated Statutes of Malaysia - Principal Acts/INCOME TAX ACT 1967 Act 53/INCOME TAX ACT 1967 ACT 53,,/110B.Set-off for tax charged on actuarial surplus

110B. Set-off for tax charged on actuarial surplus

(1) Notwithstanding section 110, where for a basis period for a year of assessment an amount of actuarial surplus from the life fund of an insurer is transferred to the shareholders' fund pursuant to subsection 60(3A) or (4A), any amount of tax charged on the portion of that surplus shall be set off against the tax charged on the chargeable income from the shareholders' fund of that insurer in respect of the life business.

(2) Where--

(a) tax is set off under this section against the tax charged on the chargeable income of an insurer from its shareholders' fund in respect of life business for a year of assessment and the amount of the tax set-off exceeds the tax charged for that year, the excess shall be disregarded; or

(b) there is no tax charged for that year, so much of the amount of tax that would otherwise be set off but for the absence of such tax charged shall be disregarded. 

(3) For the purposes of this section, tax charged on the chargeable income of an insurer from its shareholders' fund in respect of life business shall consist of an amount of tax before taking into account the tax set-off under section 110.

(4) The portion of the surplus referred to in subsection (1) shall be ascertained in accordance with the formula prescribed by the Minister.

Unannotated Statutes of Malaysia - Principal Acts/INCOME TAX ACT 1967 Act 53/INCOME TAX ACT 1967 ACT 53/110C.Set-off for tax charged on actuarial surplus under takaful business

Part VII COLLECTION AND RECOVERY OF TAX

110C. Set-off for tax charged on actuarial surplus under takaful business

(1) Notwithstanding section 110, where for a basis period for a year of assessment an amount of actuarial surplus from the family fund of an operator is transferred to the shareholders' fund pursuant to subparagraph 60AA(9)(a)(vi) or 60AA(10)(a)(vi), any amount of tax charged on the portion of that surplus shall be set off against the tax charged on the chargeable income from the shareholders' fund of that operator in respect of the family business.

(2) Where--

(a) tax is set off under this section against the tax charged on the chargeable income of an operator from its shareholders' fund in respect of family business for a year of assessment and the amount of the tax set-off exceeds the tax charged for that year, the excess shall be disregarded; or

(b) there is no tax charged for that year, so much of the amount of tax that would otherwise be set off but for the absence of such tax charged shall be disregarded. 

(3) For the purposes of this section, tax charged on the chargeable income of an operator from its shareholders' fund in respect of family business shall consist of an amount of tax before taking into account the tax set-off under section 110.

(4) The portion of the surplus referred to in subsection (1) shall be ascertained in accordance with the formula prescribed by the Minister.

Unannotated Statutes of Malaysia - Principal Acts/INCOME TAX ACT 1967 Act 53/INCOME TAX ACT 1967 ACT 53,,/111.Refund of over-payments

111. Refund of over-payments

(1) Subject to this section, where it is proved to the satisfaction of the Director General that any person has paid tax for any year of assessment (by deduction or otherwise) in excess of the amount payable under this Act, that person shall be entitled to have the excess refunded by the Government and, where that person is dissatisfied with the amount to be refunded to him, he may within thirty days of being notified of that amount appeal to the Special Commissioners as if the notification were a notice of assessment, the provisions of this Act relating to appeals applying accordingly within any necessary modifications.

(1A) Where a person has furnished a return in accordance with subsection 77(1) or section 77A to the Director General for a year of assessment and that person has paid tax in excess of the amount payable--

(a) that return shall be deemed to be a notification under subsection (1); and

(b) that person is deemed to have been notified of the excess amount on the day that return is furnished. 

(1B) Where subsection (1A) applies--

(a) the reference to tax shall be taken to be a reference to an amount of tax set-off under section 110; and

(b) the reference to amount payable shall be taken to be a reference to the amount of tax payable before taking into account the tax set-off under section 110. 

(2) No claim for repayment under this section shall be valid unless it is made within five years after the end of the year of assessment to which the claim relates or, where the claim relates to repayment of tax charged by an assessment, within five years after the end of the year of assessment within which that assessment was made.

(3) Nothing in this section shall operate--

(a) to extend any time limit for appeal, validate any appeal which is otherwise invalid or authorize the revision of any assessment or other matter which has become final and conclusive; or

(b) to compel the Government to refund the excess amount of tax paid (by deduction or otherwise) in respect of an assessment unless the assessment has been finally determined. 

(4) The representative of a disabled or deceased person shall be entitled to a refund under subsection (1) for the benefit of that person or his estate of any excess within the meaning of that subsection, and for the purposes of this subsection a payment of tax by the representative of such a person shall be deemed to have been made by that person.

4AAny amount of excess in respect of tax payable for a year of assessment which is to be refunded to a person under subsection (1) may be utilized by the Director General for the payment of any other amount of tax which is due and payable (including any amount of instalments which is due and payable) by that person under this Act, or under the Petroleum (Income Tax) Act 1967 or the Real Property Gains Tax Act 1976.

4BWhere amount of exces in respect of a person is ascertained in accordance with subsection 50(4) of the Petroleum (Income Tax) Act 1967 or subsection 24(7A) of the Real Property Gains Tax Act 1976 such excess shall be applied for the payment of tax which is due and payable (including any amount of instalments which are due and payable) by that person under this Act.

(5) (Deleted by Act 683).

(6) In this section--

"disabled person"

means a person who through incapacity, bankruptcy or liquidation or for any other reason is unable to manage his own affairs;

"representative"

means in the case of a deceased person, his executor, and, in the case of a disabled person, the guardian, committee, assignee in bankruptcy, liquidator or other person who manages or controls his estate, property, assets or affairs.

Unannotated Statutes of Malaysia - Principal Acts/INCOME TAX ACT 1967 Act 53/INCOME TAX ACT 1967 ACT 53,,/111A.Refund of over-payments

111A. Refund of over-payments

(Deleted by Act 683).

Unannotated Statutes of Malaysia - Principal Acts/INCOME TAX ACT 1967 Act 53/INCOME TAX ACT 1967 ACT 53,,/111B.Establishment of Fund for Tax Refund

Part VIIa fund for tax refund

111B. Establishment of Fund for Tax Refund

(1) There is hereby established a fund, to be known as the Fund for Tax Refund (in this section referred to as "the Fund") which shall be specified in and incorporated into the Second Schedule to the Financial Procedure Code Act 1957 [Act 61].

(2) There shall be paid from time to time into the Fund such amount of tax collected under this Act as may be authorized by the Minister.

(3) The moneys of the Fund shall be applied for the making of a refund of an amount of tax paid in excess of the amount payable as ascertained in section 111 of this Act or any other refund or payment required to be paid out of the Fund as provided by any other written law.

(4) The Fund shall be administered by the Accountant General of Malaysia.

(5) Notwithstanding subsection (2) and the Financial Procedure Act 1957, the Minister may from time to time authorize the payment into the Consolidated Revenue Account in the Federal Consolidated Fund of all or any part of the moneys of the Fund.

Unannotated Statutes of Malaysia - Principal Acts/INCOME TAX ACT 1967 Act 53/INCOME TAX ACT 1967 ACT 53,,/111C.Non applicability of section 14a of the Financial Procedure Act 1957

111C. Non applicability of section 14a of the Financial Procedure Act 1957

Section 14A of the Financial Procedure Act 1957 shall not apply to any refund in excess of the amount payable as ascertained in section 111.

Unannotated Statutes of Malaysia - Principal Acts/INCOME TAX ACT 1967 Act 53/INCOME TAX ACT 1967 ACT 53,,/111D.Compensation for over-payment of tax

111D. Compensation for over-payment of tax

(1) Subject to this section and subsection 111(4A), an amount of compensation may be payable to a person if the amount refunded to that person for a year of assessment under section 111 is made after--

(a) ninety days from the date a return for that year of assessment is required to be furnished under this Act, in the case of return furnished by way of electronic transmission; or

(b) one hundred and twenty days from the date a return for that year of assessment is required to be furnished under this Act, in any other case.

(2) For the purposes of this section--

(a) the "amount refunded" refers to tax paid in accordance with section 107, 107B or 107C for a year of assessment in excess of tax payable, if any, for that year of assessment as specified in a return furnished under section 77 or 77A; and

(b) the amount of compensation shall be determined in accordance with the following formula:

A x B/C x 2%

(3) Without prejudice to sections 91 and 113, where the Director General discovers that the whole or part of the compensation--

(a) is wrongly paid to a person, the Director General may require from that person a return of such amount already paid; or

(b) ought not to have been paid to that person by reason of an incorrect return or incorrect information furnished by that person, the Director General may require from that person a return of such amount already paid and that amount shall without any further notice be increased by a sum equal to ten per cent of that amount which ought not to have been paid,and the amount of compensation wrongly paid or ought not to have been paid and the sum increased shall be recoverable as if it were tax due and payable under this Act.

(4) This section shall not apply--

(a) if a person fails to furnish return for a year of assessment in accordance with section 77 or 77A;

(b) in respect of excess of amount payable referred to in subsections 111(1A) and (1B); or

(c) if a person appeals against an assessment under section 99.

Unannotated Statutes of Malaysia - Principal Acts/INCOME TAX ACT 1967 Act 53/INCOME TAX ACT 1967 ACT 53/112.Failure to furnish return or give notice of chargeability

Part VIII OFFENCES AND PENALTIES

112. Failure to furnish return or give notice of chargeability

(1) Any person who makes default in furnishing a return in accordance with subsection 77(1) or 77A(1) or in giving a notice in accordance with subsection 77(3) shall, if he does so without reasonable excuse, be guilty of an offence and shall, on conviction, be liable to a fine of not less than two hundred ringgit and not more than twenty thousand ringgit or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months or to both.

(2) In any prosecution under subsection (1) the burden of proving that a return has been made or a notice given shall be upon the accused person.

(2A) Where a person has been convicted of an offence under subsection (1), the court may make a further order that the person shall comply with the relevant provision of this Act under which the offence has been committed within thirty days, or such other period as the court deems fit, from the date the order is made.

(3) Where in relation to a year of assessment a person makes default in furnishing a return in accordance with subsection 77(1) or 77A (1) or in giving a notice in accordance with subsection 77(3) and no prosecution under subsection (1) has been instituted in relation to that default--

(a) the Director General may require that person to pay a penalty equal to treble the amount of that tax which, before any set-off, repayment or relief under this Act, is payable for that year; and

(b) if that person pays that penalty (or, where the penalty is abated or remitted under subsection 124(3), so much, if any, of the penalty as has not been abated or remitted), he shall not be liable to be charged on the same facts with an offence under subsection (1). 

(4) The Director General may require any person to pay an additional amount of penalty in accordance with subsection (3) in respect of any additional tax which is payable by that person for a year of assessment.

Unannotated Statutes of Malaysia - Principal Acts/INCOME TAX ACT 1967 Act 53/INCOME TAX ACT 1967 ACT 53/113.Incorrect returns

113. Incorrect returns

(1) Any person who--

(a) makes an incorrect return by omitting or understating any income of which he is required by this Act to make a return on behalf of himself or another person; or

(b) gives any incorrect information in relation to any matter affecting his own chargeability to tax or the chargeability to tax of any other person, 

shall, unless he satisfies the court that the incorrect return or incorrect information was made or given in good faith, be guilty of an offence and shall, on conviction, be liable to a fine of not less than one thousand ringgit and not more than ten thousand ringgit and shall pay a special penalty of double the amount of tax which has been undercharged in consequence of the incorrect return or incorrect information or which would have been undercharged if the return or information had been accepted as correct.

(2) Where a person--

(a) makes an incorrect return by omitting or understating any income of which he is required by this Act to make a return on behalf of himself or another person; or

(b) gives any incorrect information in relation to any matter affecting his own chargeability to tax or the chargeability to tax of any other person, then, if no prosecution under subsection (1) has been instituted in respect of the incorrect return or incorrect information, the Director General may require that person to pay a penalty equal to the amount of tax which has been undercharged in consequence of the incorrect return or incorrect information or which would have been undercharged if the return or information had been accepted as correct; and, if that person pays that penalty (or, where the penalty is abated or remitted under subsection 124(3), so much, if any, of the penalty as has not been abated or remitted), he shall not be liable to be charged on the same facts with an offence under subsection (1).

Unannotated Statutes of Malaysia - Principal Acts/INCOME TAX ACT 1967 Act 53/INCOME TAX ACT 1967 ACT 53,,/114.Wilful evasion

114. Wilful evasion

(1) Any person who wilfully and with intent to evade or assist any other person to evade tax--

(a) omits from a return made under this Act any income which should be included;

(b) makes a false statement or entry in a return made under this Act;

(c) gives a false answer (orally or in writing) to a question asked or request for information made in pursuance of this Act;

(d) prepares or maintains or authorizes the preparation or maintenance of false books of account or other false records;

(e) falsifies or authorizes the falsification of books of account or other records; or

(f) makes use or authorizes the use of any fraud, art or contrivance, shall be guilty of an offence and shall, on conviction, be liable to a fine of not less than one thousand ringgit and not more than twenty thousand ringgit or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three years or to both, and shall pay a special penalty of treble the amount of tax which has been undercharged in consequence of the offence or which would have been undercharged if the offence had not been detected.

(1A) Any person who assists in, or advises with respect to, the preparation of any return where the return results in an understatement of the liability for tax of another person shall, unless he satisfies the court that the assistance or advice was given with reasonable care, be guilty of an offence and shall, on conviction, be liable to a fine of not less than two thousand ringgit and not more than twenty thousand ringgit or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three years or to both.

(2) Where in any proceedings under this section it is proved that a false statement or false entry (whether by omission or otherwise) has been made in a return furnished under this Act by or on behalf of any person or in any books of account or other records maintained by or on behalf of any person, that person shall be presumed until the contrary is proved to have made that false statement or entry with intent to evade tax.

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115. Leaving Malaysia without payment of tax

(1) Any person who, knowing that a certificate has been issued in respect of him under section 104, voluntarily leaves or attempts to leave Malaysia without paying all the tax, sums and debts specified in the certificate or furnishing security to the satisfaction of the Director General for the payment thereof shall be guilty of an offence and shall, on conviction, be liable to a fine of not less than two hundred ringgit and not more than twenty thousand ringgit or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months or to both.

(2) A police officer or immigration officer may arrest without warrant any person whom he reasonably suspects to be committing or about to commit an offence under this section.

(3) In this section "immigration officer" has the same meaning as in section 104.

Unannotated Statutes of Malaysia - Principal Acts/INCOME TAX ACT 1967 Act 53/INCOME TAX ACT 1967 ACT 53,,/116.Obstruction of officers

116. Obstruction of officers

Any person who--

(a) obstructs or refuses to permit the entry of the Director General or an authorized officer into any land, building or place in pursuance of section 80;

(b) obstructs the Director General or an authorized officer in the exercise of his functions under this Act;

(c) refuses to produce any book or other document in his custody or under his control on being required to do so by the Director General or an authorized officer for the purposes of this Act;

(d) fails to provide reasonable facilities or assistance or both to the Director General or an authorized officer in the exercise of his powers under this Act; or

(e) refuses to answer any question relating to any of those purposes lawfully asked of him by the Director General or an authorized officer, shall be guilty of an offence and shall, on conviction, be liable to a fine of not less than one thousand ringgit and not more than ten thousand ringgit or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding one year or to both.

Unannotated Statutes of Malaysia - Principal Acts/INCOME TAX ACT 1967 Act 53/INCOME TAX ACT 1967 ACT 53,,/117.Breach of confidence

117. Breach of confidence

(1) Any classified person who in contravention of section 138--

(a) communicates classified material to another person; or

(b) allows another person to have access to classified material, shall be guilty of an offence and shall, on conviction, be liable to a fine not exceeding four thousand ringgit or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding one year or to both.

(2) In this section "classified material" and "classified person" have the same meaning as in section 138.

Unannotated Statutes of Malaysia - Principal Acts/INCOME TAX ACT 1967 Act 53/INCOME TAX ACT 1967 ACT 53,,/118.Offences by officials

118. Offences by officials

Any person having an official function under this Act who--

(a) otherwise than in good faith, demands from any person an amount in excess of the tax or penalties due under this Act;

(b) withholds for his own use or otherwise any portion of any such tax or penalty collected or received by him;

(c) otherwise than in good faith, makes a false report or return (orally or in writing) of the amount of any such tax or penalty collected or received by him;

(d) defrauds any person, embezzles any money or otherwise uses his position to deal wrongfully with the Director General or any other person, shall be guilty of an offence and shall, on conviction, be liable to a fine not exceeding twenty thousand ringgit or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three years or to both.

Unannotated Statutes of Malaysia - Principal Acts/INCOME TAX ACT 1967 Act 53/INCOME TAX ACT 1967 ACT 53,,/119.Unauthorized collection

119. Unauthorized collection

Any person who, not being authorized under this Act to do so, collects or attempts to collect tax or a penalty under this Act shall be guilty of an offence and shall, on conviction, be liable to a fine not exceeding twenty thousand ringgit or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three years or to both.

Unannotated Statutes of Malaysia - Principal Acts/INCOME TAX ACT 1967 Act 53/INCOME TAX ACT 1967 ACT 53,,/119A.Failure to keep records

119A. Failure to keep records

Any person who, without reasonable excuse --

(a) fails to comply with an order or a notice given under subsection 82(3) or (5); or

(b) contravenes subsection 82(1), (1A), (6), (7) or (8), shall be guilty of an offence and shall, on conviction, be liable to a fine of not less than three hundred ringgit and not more than ten thousand ringgit or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding one year or to both.

Unannotated Statutes of Malaysia - Principal Acts/INCOME TAX ACT 1967 Act 53/INCOME TAX ACT 1967 ACT 53/120.Other offences

120. Other offences

(1) Any person who without reasonable excuse--

(a) fails to comply with a notice given under section 78, 79, subsection 80(3), section 81, subsection 84(1), section 85 or 87;

(b) fails to furnish a return in accordance with subsection 83(1) or to prepare and render a statement in accordance with subsection 83(1A) or 83A(1);

(c) fails to give the notice required by subsection 83(2), (3) or (4);

(d) contravenes subsection 84(2), 86(1), section 89 or subsection 153(1);

(e) fails to comply with a direction given under subsection 83(5) or section 107; or

(f) fails to furnish an estimate in accordance with subsection 107C(2), 107C(3) or paragraph 107C(4)(a),

(g) (Deleted by Act 683) shall be guilty of an offence and shall, on conviction, be liable to a fine of not less than two hundred ringgit and not more than twenty thousand ringgit or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months or to both.

(2) Where a person has been convicted of an offence under subsection (1), the court may make a further order that the person shall comply with the relevant provision of this Act under which the offence has been committed within thirty days, or such other period as the court deems fit, from the date the order is made.

Unannotated Statutes of Malaysia - Principal Acts/INCOME TAX ACT 1967 Act 53/INCOME TAX ACT 1967 ACT 53,,/121.Additional provisions as to offences under sections 113, 115, 116, 118 and 120

121. Additional provisions as to offences under sections 113, 115, 116, 118 and 120

(1) No proceedings for an offence under section 113, 115, 116, 118 or 120 shall be instituted more than twelve years after the offence was committed.

(2) Any person who aids, abets or incites another person to commit an offence under section 113, 115, 116 or 118 shall be deemed to have committed the same offence and shall be liable to the same penalty.

Unannotated Statutes of Malaysia - Principal Acts/INCOME TAX ACT 1967 Act 53/INCOME TAX ACT 1967 ACT 53,,/122.Tax, etc., payable notwithstanding institution of proceedings

122. Tax, etc., payable notwithstanding institution of proceedings

The institution of proceedings or the imposition of a penalty, special penalty, fine or term of imprisonment under this Part shall not relieve any person from liability for the payment of any tax (or any penalty deemed under any other Part to be tax payable under this Act) or any debt or other sum for which he is or may be liable or from liability to make any return which he is required by this Act to make.

Unannotated Statutes of Malaysia - Principal Acts/INCOME TAX ACT 1967 Act 53/INCOME TAX ACT 1967 ACT 53,,/123.Tax, etc., payable notwithstanding institution of proceedings

123. Tax, etc., payable notwithstanding institution of proceedings

(Deleted by Act A1028).

Unannotated Statutes of Malaysia - Principal Acts/INCOME TAX ACT 1967 Act 53/INCOME TAX ACT 1967 ACT 53,,/124.Power to compound offences and abate or remit penalties

124. Power to compound offences and abate or remit penalties

(1) Where any person has committed any offence under this Act, the Director General may at any time before conviction compound the offence and order that person to pay such sum of money, not exceeding the amount of the maximum fine and any special penalty to which that person would have been liable if he had been convicted of the offence, as he thinks fit:

Provided that the Director General shall not exercise his powers under this section unless that person in writing admits that he has committed the offence and requests the Director General to deal with the offence under this section.

(2) Where under this section the Director General compounds an offence committed by any person and makes an order accordingly--

(a) the order shall be made in writing under the hand of the Director General and there shall be attached to it the written admission and request referred to in subsection (1);

(b) the order shall specify--