Act 53 - Income Tax Act 1967 (Malaysia Tax)

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Act 53
INCOME TAX ACT 1967

As at 1 September 2014
INCOME TAX ACT 1967
First enacted
1967 (Act No. 47 of 1967)
Revised ... 1971 (Act 53 w.e.f. 21

October 1971)
Latest amendment made by
Act 761 which came
into operation on
See section 3 of Act 761
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INCOME TAX ACT 1967

ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS
PART I
PRELIMINARY
Section
1.
Short title and commencement
2.
Interpretation
PART II
IMPOSITION AND GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS
OF THE TAX
3.
Charge of income tax
3A.
(Deleted)
3B.
Non-chargeability to tax in respect of offshore business activity
3C.
(Deleted)
4.
Classes of income on which tax is chargeable
4A.
Special classes of income on which tax is chargeable
4B.
Non-business income
4C.
Gains or profits from a business arising from stock in trade parted with by
any element of compulsion
5.
Manner in which chargeable income is to be ascertained
6.
Rates of tax
6A.
Tax rebate
6B.
(Deleted)
6C.
(Deleted)
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7.
Residence: individuals
8.
Residence: companies and bodies of persons
9.
(Deleted)
10.
(Deleted)
11.
(Deleted)
12. Derivation of business income in certain cases

13. General provisions as to employment income
13A.
(Deleted)
14. General provisions as to dividend income

15. Derivation of interest and royalty income in certain cases
15A. Derivation of special classes of income in certain cases
15B. Derivation of gains or profits in certain cases
16. Voluntary pensions, etc.
17. Derivation of pensions, etc.
PART III
ASCERTAINMENT OF CHARGEABLE INCOME
Chapter 1Preliminary
18. Interpretation of Part III
19. Supplementary provisions for the interpretation of Part III
Chapter 2Basis years and basis periods

20. Basis years
21. Basis period of a person other than a company, limited liability partnership,
trust body or co-operative society
21A. Basis period of a company, limited liability partnership, trust body or
co-operative society
Chapter 3Gross income

22. Gross income generally
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23. Interpretation of sections 24 to 28

24. Basis period to which gross income from a business is related
25. Basis period to which gross income from an employment is related
26. Basis period to which gross income in respect of dividend is related
27. Basis period to which gross income in respect of interest, etc., is related
28. Basis period to which gross income not provided for by sections 24 to 27 is
related
29.
Basis period to which income obtainable on demand is related
30.
Special provisions applicable to gross income from a business
31.
(Deleted)
32.
Special provisions applicable to gross income from an employment
Chapter 4Adjusted income and adjusted loss

33. Adjusted income generally
34. Special provisions applicable to adjusted income from a business
34A. Special deduction for research expenditure
34B. Special deduction for contribution to an approved research institute or
payment for use of services of an approved research institute or company
34C. Special provision applicable to adjusted income from a discount or premium
34D. Special deduction for expenditure on treasury shares
35. Stock in trade
36. Power to direct special treatment in the computation of business income in
certain cases
37. (Deleted)
38. Special provisions applicable to adjusted income from an employment
38A. Limitation on deduction of entertainment expenses
39. Deductions not allowed
40. Adjusted loss
41. Ascertainment of adjusted income or adjusted loss from a business for an
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Chapter 5Statutory income

Section
42. Statutory income
Chapter 6Aggregate income and total income

43. Aggregate income
44. Total income
44A. Group relief for companies
Chapter 7Chargeable income

44B. Carry-back losses
45. Chargeable income and aggregation of husbands and wifes income
45A.
Deduction for husband
46. Deduction for individual and Hindu joint family

46A. (Deleted)
46B. Deduction for individual on interest expended
47. Deduction for wife or former wife
48. Deduction for children
49. Deduction for insurance premiums
50. Application of section 49 where husband and wife are living together
51. Deduction must be claimed
Chapter 8Special cases

52. Modification of Part III in certain special cases
53. Trade associations
53A.
Club, association or similar institution
54. Sea and air transport undertakings

54A.
Exemption of shipping profits
54B. (Deleted)
55. Partnerships generally
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56. Successive partnerships

57. Provisions applicable where partnership is a partner in another partnership
58. Income receivable by partnership otherwise than from partnership business
59. Partnership losses
60. Insurance business
60A. Inward re-insurance: chargeable income, reduced rate and exempt dividend
60AA.
Takaful business
60AB. Chargeable income of life fund subject to tax

60B. Offshore insurance: chargeable income, reduced rate and exempt dividend
60C. Banking business
60D. (Deleted)
60E.
(Deleted)
60F.
Investment holding company
60FA. Investment holding company listed on Bursa Malaysia

60G. Foreign fund management company
60H. Closed-end fund company
60I. Company that establishes special purpose vehicle
61. Trusts generally
61A. Exemption of Real Estate Investment Trust of Property Trust Fund
62. Discretionary trusts
63. Trust annuities
63A. Special deduction for qualifying capital expenditure
63B. Special deduction for expenses
63C. Special treatment on rent from the letting of real property of a Real Estate
Investment Trust or Property Trust Fund
63D. Income of a unit trust from the letting of real property is not income from a
business
64. Estates under administration
65. Settlements
65A. Co-operative Societies
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PART IV
PERSONS CHARGEABLE
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66. Personal chargeability: general principle

67. Vicarious responsibility and chargeability
68. Power to appoint agent
69. Incapacitated persons
70. Non-residents
71. Masters of ships and captains of aircraft
72. Hindu joint families
73. Trustees
74. Executors
75. Companies and bodies of persons
75A. Directors liability
75B. Limited liability partnership and business trust
76. Rulers and Ruling Chiefs
PART V
RETURNS
77. Return of income by a person other than a company, limited liability
partnership, trust body or co-operative society
77A. Return of income by every company, limited liability partnership, trust body
or co-operative society
77B. Amendment of return
77C. Deduction of tax as final tax
78. Power to call for specific returns and production of books
79. Power to call for statement of bank accounts, etc.
80. Power of access to buildings and documents, etc.
81. Power to call for information
82. Duty to keep records and give receipts
82A. Duty to keep documents for ascertaining chargeable income and tax payable
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83. Return by employer

83A. Duty to furnish particulars of payment made to an agent, etc.
84. Return concerning persons other than the maker of the return
85. Return by occupiers
86. Return by partnership
87. Power to call for further return
88. Returns deemed to be made with due authority
89. Change of address
PART VI
ASSESSMENTS AND APPEALS
Chapter 1Assessments
90. Assessments generally
91. Assessment and additional assessments in certain cases
91A. Deemed assessment on the amended return
92. Advance assessments
93. Form and making of assessments
94. Record of assessments
95. Discharge of double assessments
96. Notice of assessment
96A. Composite assessment
97. Finality of assessment
97A. Notification of non-chargeability
Chapter 2Appeals
98. The Special Commissioners and the Clerk
99. Right of appeal
100. Extension of time for appeal
101. Review by Director General
102. Disposal of appeals
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PART VII
COLLECTION AND RECOVERY OF TAX
Section
103. Payment of tax

103A.
(Deleted)
104. Recovery from persons leaving Malaysia

105. Refusal of customs clearance in certain cases
106. Recovery by suit
107. Deduction of tax from emoluments and pensions
107A.
Deduction of tax from contract payment
107B.
Payment by instalments
107C.
Estimate of tax payable and payment by instalments for companies
108. Non-deduction of tax from dividend

109. Deduction of tax from interest or royalty in certain cases
109A.
Application of sections 109 and 110 to income derived by a public

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

from Malaysia
109C.
Deduction of tax from interest paid to a resident
109D.
Deduction of tax on the distribution of income of a unit trust
109E.
Deduction of tax on the distribution of income of a family fund, etc.
109F.
Deduction of tax from gains or profits in certain cases derived from

Malaysia
109G.
Deduction of tax from income derived from withdrawal of contribution

made to a private retirement scheme
109H.
Appeal by the payer
110.
Set-off for tax deducted
110A.
(Deleted)
110B.
Set-off for tax charged on actuarial surplus
111.
111A.
Refund of over-payments
(Deleted)
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PART VIIA
FUND FOR TAX REFUND
Section
111B.
Establishment of fund for Tax Refund
111C.
Non applicability of section 14A of the Financial Procedure Act 1957
111D.
Compensation for over-payment of tax
PART VIII
OFFENCES AND PENALTIES
112. Failure to furnish return or give notice of chargeability
113. Incorrect returns
114. Wilful evasion
115. Leaving Malaysia without payment of tax
116. Obstruction of officers
117. Breach of confidence
118. Offences by officials
119. Unauthorized collection
119A.
Failure to keep records
120. Other offences

121. Additional provisions as to offences under sections 113, 115, 116, 118 and
120
122. Tax, etc., payable notwithstanding institution of proceedings
123. (Deleted)
124. Power to compound offences and abate or remit penalties
125. Recovery of penalties imposed under Part VIII
126. Jurisdiction of subordinate court
PART IX
EXEMPTIONS, REMISSION AND OTHER RELIEF
127. Exemptions from tax: general
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127A.
Cessation of exemption
128. (Deleted)
129. Remission of tax
129A.
Other relief
130. (Deleted)
131. Relief in respect of error or mistake
132. Double taxation arrangements
132A. Tax information exchange arrangements
132B. Mutual administrative assistance arrangement
133. Unilateral relief from double taxation
PART IXA
SPECIAL INCENTIVE RELIEF
133A.
Special incentive relief
PART X
SUPPLEMENTAL
Chapter 1Administration
134. The Director General and his staff
135. Power of Minister to give directions to Director General
136. Delegation of Director Generals functions
137. Identification of officials
138. Certain materials to be treated as confidential
Chapter 1ARuling
138A. Public ruling
138B. Advance ruling
138C. Advance Pricing Arrangement
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Chapter 2Controlled companies and powers to protect

the revenue in case of certain transactions
Section
139. Controlled companies

140. Power to disregard certain transactions
140A. Power to substitute the price and disallowance of interest on certain
transactions
140B. Special provision applicable to loan or advances to director
141. Powers regarding certain transactions by non-residents
Chapter 3Miscellaneous
142. Evidential provisions
142A. Admissibility of electronic record
143. Errors and defects in assessments, notices and other documents
144. Power to direct where returns, etc., are to be sent
145. Service of notice
146. Authentication of notices and other documents
147. Free postage
148. Provisions as to approvals and directions given by Minister or Director
General
149. Annulment of rules and orders laid before the Dewan Rakyat
150. Power to approve pension or provident fund, scheme or society
151. Procedure for making refunds and repayments
152. Forms
152A.
Electronic medium
153. Restriction on persons holding themselves out as tax agents,

tax consultants, etc.
154. Power to make rules
154A.
Power to enter into an agreement with regard to tax liability
155. Repeals
156. Transitional and saving provisions
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SCHEDULE 1
SCHEDULE 2
SCHEDULE 3
SCHEDULE 4
SCHEDULE 4A (Deleted)
SCHEDULE 4B
SCHEDULE 4C (Deleted)
SCHEDULE 5
SCHEDULE 6
SCHEDULE 7
SCHEDULE 7A
SCHEDULE 7B
SCHEDULE 8
SCHEDULE 9
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INCOME TAX ACT 1967

An Act for the imposition of income tax.
[Throughout Malaysia28 September 1967]
PART I
PRELIMINARY
Short title and commencement

1. (1) This Act may be cited as the Income Tax Act 1967.
(2) (Omitted).
(3) This Act shall have effect for the year of assessment 1968 and
subsequent years of assessment.
Interpretation
2. (1) In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires
adjusted income, in relation to a source and a basis period, means
adjusted income ascertained in accordance with this Act;
adjusted loss, in relation to a source and a basis period, means
adjusted loss ascertained in accordance with this Act;
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aggregate income, in relation to a person and a year of

assessment, means aggregate income ascertained in accordance with
this Act;
amended return means an amended return made in accordance
with section 77B;
approved loan means
(a) any loan or credit made to the Government, State
Government (including any loan or credit made to a person
other than the Government or State Government where the
loan or credit is guaranteed by the Government or State
Government), local authority or statutory body; or
(b) any loan or credit other than a loan or credit of the kind
specified in paragraph (a), made to a person pursuant to an
application received prior to 25 October 1996 where the
amount of such loan or credit exceeds two hundred and fifty
million ringgit,
by a person pursuant to an application received prior to 25 October 1996
not resident in Malaysia:
Provided that
(i) the loan or credit has been approved by the Minister
of Finance; and
(ii) the loan or credit agreement was executed in
Malaysia or where the loan or credit agreement with
the prior approval of the Minister was executed
outside Malaysia;
approved operational headquarters company has the meaning
assigned thereto by section 60E;
approved scheme means the Employees Provident Fund, private
retirement scheme or any pension or provident fund, scheme or
society approved by the Director General under section 150;
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assessment means any assessment or additional assessment made

under this Act;
authorized officer means, within the scope of his authority
(a) an officer authorized by subsections 136(1) to (4) to
exercise any function of the Director General; or
(b) an officer authorized under subsection 136(5) to exercise or
assist in exercising any such function;
basis period, in relation to a person, a source of his and a year of
assessment, means such basis period, if any, as is ascertained in
accordance with section 21 or21A;
basis year has the meaning assigned by section 20;
body of persons means an unincorporated body of persons (not
being a company), including a Hindu joint family but excluding a
partnership;
building includes any structure erected on land (not being plant or
machinery);
business includes profession, vocation and trade and every
manufacture, adventure or concern in the nature of trade, but
excludes employment;
business trust has the same meaning assigned to it in the Capital
Markets and Services Act 2007 [Act 671];
Central Bank means the Central Bank of Malaysia established
under section 3 of the Central Bank of Malaysia Act 2009 [Act 701];
chargeable income in relation to a person and a year of
assessment, means chargeable income ascertained in accordance with
this Act;
Clerk means the Clerk to the Special Commissioners;
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company means a body corporate and includes anybody of

persons established with a separate legal identity by or under the laws
of a territory outside Malaysia and a business trust;
composite assessment means a composite assessment made in
accordance with section 96A;
controlled company means a company having not more than fifty
members and controlled, in the manner described by section 139, by
not more than five persons;
co-operative society means any co-operative society registered
under any written law relating to the registration of co-operative
societies in Malaysia;
deferred annuity means deferred annuity contracted on or after
1 January 2014 issued by insurers licensed under the Financial
Services Act 2013 [Act 758] or takaful operators registered under
the Islamic Financial Services Act 2013 [Act 759], and contains
the Retirement Saving Standards approved by the Central Bank;
director, in relation to a company, includes any person occupying
the position of director (by whatever name called), any person in
accordance with whose directions or instructions the directors are
accustomed to act and any person who
(a) is a manager of the company or otherwise concerned in the
management of the companys business;
(b) is remunerated out of the funds of that business; and
(c) is, either on his own or with one or more associates within
the meaning of subsection 139(7), the beneficial owner of
(or able directly or through the medium of other companies
or by any other indirect means to control) twenty per cent or
more of the ordinary share capital of the company
(ordinary share capital here meaning all the issued share
capital of the company, by whatever name called, other than
capital the holders whereof have a right to a dividend at a
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fixed rate but have no other right to share in the profits of

the company);
Director General means the Director General of Inland Revenue
referred to in section 134;

employee, in relation to an employment, means
(a) where the relationship of master and servant subsists, the
servant;
(b) where that relationship does not subsist, the holder of the
appointment or office which constitutes the employment;
employer, in relation to an employment, means
(a) where the relationship of master and servant subsists, the
master;
(b) where that relationship does not subsist, the person who
pays or is responsible for paying any remuneration to the
employee who has the employment, notwithstanding that
that person and the employee may be the same person
acting in different capacities;
employment means
(a) employment in which the relationship of master and servant
subsists;
(b) any appointment or office, whether public or not and
whether or not that relationship subsists, for which
remuneration is payable;
executor means the executor, administrator or other person
administering or managing the estate of a deceased person;
foreign tax means any tax on income (or any other tax of a
substantially similar character) chargeable or imposed by or
under the laws of a territory outside Malaysia and in relation to
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paragraph 132(4)(d) or section 132A includes other taxes of every

kind imposed by or under the laws of that territory;
Hindu joint family means what in any system of law prevailing in
India is known as a Hindu joint family or coparcenary;
husband who elects means the husband who is referred to in
paragraph 45(2)(b);
incapacitated person means a minor or a person adjudged under
any law to be in a state of unsoundness of mind (however described);
individual means a natural person;
Inland Revenue Board of Malaysia means the Inland Revenue
Board of Malaysia established under the Inland Revenue Board of
Malaysia Act 1995 [Act 533];
Labuan business activity has the meaning assigned to it in the
Labuan Business Activity Tax Act 1990 [Act 445];
Labuan company means a Labuan company incorporated under
the Labuan Companies Act 1990 [Act 441] and includes a foreign
Labuan company registered under that Act, Labuan limited
partnership established and registered under the Labuan Limited
Partnerships and Limited Liability Partnerships Act 2010 [Act 707],
Labuan trust as defined in the Labuan Trusts Act 1996 [Act 554] and
a Malaysian bank as defined in the Labuan Financial Services and
Securities Act 2010 [Act 704];
lease includes a sublease, a tenancy for three years or less and any
agreement for a lease or sublease;
limited liability partnership means a limited liability
partnership registered under the Limited Liability Partnerships
Act 2012 [Act 743];
Malaysia means the territories of the Federation of Malaysia, the
territorial waters of Malaysia and the sea-bed and subsoil of the
territorial waters, and includes any area extending beyond the limits
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of the territorial waters of Malaysia, and the sea-bed and subsoil of

any such area, which has been or may hereafter be designated under
the laws of Malaysia as an area over which Malaysia has sovereign
rights for the purposes of exploring and exploiting the natural
resources, whether living or non-living;
market value, in relation to any thing, means the price which that
thing would fetch if sold in a transaction between independent
persons dealing at arm's length;
Minister means the Minister for the time being charged with the
responsibility for finance;
partnership means an association of any kind (including joint
adventures, syndicates and cases where a party to the association is
itself a partnership) between parties who have agreed to combine any
of their rights, powers, property, labour or skill for the purpose of
carrying on a business and sharing the profits therefrom, but excludes
a Hindu joint family although such a family may be a partner in a
partnership, a limited liability partnership and any association which
is established pursuant to a scheme of financing in accordance with
the principles of Syariah;
permanent total disablement has the same meaning assigned to it
in the Employees Social Security Act 1969 [Act 4];
person includes a company, a body of persons, a limited liability
partnership and a corporation sole;
premises means a building (or, where a building is divided into
separate parts used or capable of being used as separate residential
flats or otherwise as separate tenements, any one of those parts) and
includes
(a) any other building or part of a building used or intended to
be used in conjunction therewith as domestic offices or for
some other ancillary purpose; and
(b) any land attached thereto for use by way of amenity as
garden or grounds;
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prescribed means prescribed by rules made under section 154

or, in relation to a form other than the form mentioned in
subsection 138(1), prescribed under section 152;
private retirement scheme means a retirement scheme approved
by the Securities Commission in accordance with the Capital Markets
and Services Act 2007 [Act 671];
public entertainer means a stage, radio or television artiste, a
musician, sportsperson or an individual exercising any profession,
vocation or employment of a similar nature;
rent includes any sum paid for the use or occupation of any
premises or part thereof or for the hire of any thing;
resident means resident in Malaysia for the basis year for a year
of assessment by virtue of section 7 or 8;
royalty includes
(a) any sums paid as consideration for the use of, or the right to
use
(i) copyrights, artistic or scientific works, patents,
designs or models, plans, secret processes or
formulae, trademarks or tapes for radio or
television broadcasting, motion picture films, films
or video tapes or other means of reproduction
where such films or tapes have been or are to be
used or reproduced in Malaysia or other like
property or rights;
(ii) know-how or information concerning technical,
industrial, commercial or scientific knowledge,
experience or skill;
(b) income derived from the alienation of any property, knowhow or information mentioned in paragraph (a) of this
definition;
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(c)(d) (Deleted by Act 293);

Securities Commission means the Securities Commission established
under section 3 of the Securities Commission Act 1993 [Act 498];
serious disease means acquired immunity deficiency syndrome,
Parkinsons disease, cancer, renal failure, leukaemia or other similar
diseases;
service director, in relation to a company, means a director (not
being a person to whom, together with his associates within the
meaning of subsection 139(7), if any, there would be distributed, on
the distribution of a dividend by the company, more than five per
cent of the dividend) who is employed in the service of the company
in a managerial or technical capacity, and is not, either on his own or
with any associate within that meaning, the beneficial owner of (or
able directly or through the medium of other companies or by any
other indirect means to control) more than five per cent of the
ordinary share capital of the company (ordinary share capital here
having the same meaning as in the definition of director in this
subsection);
share, in relation to a company, includes stock other than
debenture stock;
source means a source of income;
Special Commissioners means the Special Commissioners of
Income Tax referred to in section 98;
statutory authority means any authority or body established by or
under a written law (not being an authority or body established under
the Companies Act 1965 [Act 125], or any written law of a
corresponding kind in force before the commencement of that Act in
any place comprised in Malaysia on 1 January 1968) to discharge any
functions of a public nature, including the provision of public utility
and similar services;
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statutory income, in relation to a person, a source and a year of

assessment, means statutory income ascertained in accordance with
this Act;
statutory order means an order having legislative effect;
stock in trade, in relation to a business, means property of any
description, whether movable or immovable, being either
(a) property such as is sold in the ordinary course of the
business or would be so sold if it were mature or if its
manufacture, preparation or construction were complete; or
(b) materials such as are used in the manufacture, preparation
or construction of any such property as is referred to in
paragraph (a) of this definition,
and includes any work in progress;
tax means the tax imposed by this Act;
total income, in relation to a person and a year of assessment,
means total income ascertained in accordance with this Act;
treasury share means a share of a company that was previously
issued but was repurchased, redeemed or otherwise acquired by such
company and not cancelled;
trust body, in relation to a trust, means the trust body provided for
by section 61;
wife means a woman who (whether or not she has gone through
any religious or other ceremony) is regarded by virtue of any law or
custom as the wife of a man or as one of his wives;
wife who elects means the wife who is referred to in paragraph
45(2)(a);
year of assessment, subject to subsection (5), means calendar
year.
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(2) Any reference in this Act to income shall, if the income is not
described as being income of a particular kind, be construed as a
reference to income generally or to gross, adjusted, statutory,
aggregate, total or chargeable income as the context and
circumstances may require.
(3) Unless the context otherwise requires, payable for and
receivable for, when used in this Act with reference to a period,
mean payable or receivable, as the case may be, for that period or any
part thereof.
(4) Where
(a) two or more companies are related within the meaning of
section 6 of the Companies Act 1965;
(b) a company is so related to another company which is itself
so related to a third company;
(c) the same persons hold more than fifty per cent of the shares
in each of two or more companies; or
(d) each of two or more companies is so related to at least one
of two or more companies to which paragraph (c) applies,
all the companies in question are in the same group for the purposes
of this Act.
(5) References in this Act to a year or years of assessment shall be
construed (except where Schedule 9 provides otherwise) as
references to a year or years of assessment in relation to which this
Act has effect by virtue of subsection 1(3).
(6) For the purposes of this Act
(a) the reference to tax in paragraph 79(e) shall be deemed to
include a reference to any tax imposed by any of the
repealed laws (repealed laws in this subsection having the
same meaning as in Schedule 9);
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(b) the reference to this Act in section 81, paragraph 116(c) and
section 153 shall be deemed to include references to each of
the repealed laws; and
(c) the reference to functions under this Act in paragraph
116(b) shall be deemed to include a reference to functions
under any of the repealed laws exercised by virtue of this
Act.
(7) Any reference in this Act to interest shall apply, mutatis
mutandis, to gains or profits received and expenses incurred, in lieu
of interest, in transactions conducted in accordance with the Syariah.
(8) Subject to subsection (7), any reference in this Act to the
disposal of an asset or a lease shall exclude any disposal of an asset
or lease by or to a person pursuant to a scheme of financing approved
by the Central Bank, the Securities Commission, the Labuan
Financial Services Authority or the Malaysia Co-operative Societies
Commission as a scheme which is in accordance with the principles
of Syariah where such disposal is strictly required for the purpose of
complying with those principles but which will not be required in any
other schemes of financing.
(9) Any reference in subsection 107C(4A), paragraph 2A of
Schedule 1 and paragraph 19A of Schedule 3 to a company which has
a paid-up capital in respect of ordinary shares of two million five
hundred thousand ringgit and less at the beginning of the basis period
for a year of assessment shall exclude a business trust and a company
which is established for the issuance of asset-backed securities in a
securitization transaction approved by the Securities Commission.
(10) Any reference in this Act to
(a) Labuan Offshore Business Activity Tax Act 1990 is
construed as reference to Labuan Business Activity Tax
Act 1990;
(b) Labuan Offshore Financial Services Authority is
construed as reference to Labuan Financial Services
Authority;
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(c) offshore business activity is construed as reference to

Labuan business activity;
(d) Offshore Companies Act 1990 is construed as reference
to Labuan Companies Act 1990; and
(e) offshore company is construed as reference to Labuan
company.
(11) In relation to a business trust, any reference in this Act to
shares or ordinary share capital, shareholders and dividend shall be
read as including a reference to units or derivatives of units, unit
holders and distributions, respectively.
PART II
IMPOSITION AND GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS OF THE TAX
Charge of income tax

3. Subject to and in accordance with this Act, a tax to be known as
income tax shall be charged for each year of assessment upon the
income of any person accruing in or derived from Malaysia or
received in Malaysia from outside Malaysia.
3A. (Deleted by Act 451).
Non-chargeability to tax in respect of offshore business activity
3B. Notwithstanding section 3, tax shall not be charged under this
Act on income in respect of an offshore business activity carried on
by an offshore company, other than an offshore company (in this Act
referred to as chargeable offshore company), which has made an
election under section 3A of the Labuan Offshore Business Activity
Tax Act 1990.
3C. (Deleted by Act 578).
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Classes of income on which tax is chargeable

4. Subject to this Act, the income upon which tax is chargeable under
this Act is income in respect of
(a) gains or profits from a business, for whatever period of
time carried on;
(b) gains or profits from an employment;
(c) dividends, interest or discounts;
(d) rents, royalties or premiums;
(e) pensions, annuities or other periodical payments not
falling under any of the foregoing paragraphs;
(f) gains or profits not falling under any of the foregoing
paragraphs.
Special classes of income on which tax is chargeable

4A. Notwithstanding section 4 and subject to this Act, the income of
a person not resident in Malaysia for the basis year for a year of
assessment in respect of
(i) amounts paid in consideration of services rendered
by the 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 persons;
(ii) amounts paid in consideration of 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
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(iii) rent or other payments made under any agreement

or arrangement for the use of any moveable
property,
which is derived from Malaysia is chargeable to tax under this Act.
Non-business income
4B. For the purpose of section 4, gains or profit from a business shall
not include any interest that first becomes receivable by a person in
the basis period for a year of assessment other than interest where
subsection 24(5) applies.
Gain or profits from a business arising from stock in trade

parted with by any element of compulsion
4C. For the purpose of paragraph 4(a), gains or profits from a
business shall include an amount receivable arising from stock in
trade parted with by any element of compulsion including on
requisition or compulsory acquisition or in a similar manner.
Manner in which chargeable income is to be ascertained

5. (1) Subject to this Act, the chargeable income of a person upon
which tax is chargeable for a year of assessment shall be ascertained
in the following manner:
(a) first, the basis period for each of his sources for that year shall
be ascertained in accordance with Chapter 2 of Part III;
(b) next, his gross income from each source for the basis
period for that year shall be ascertained in accordance
with Chapter 3 of that Part;
(c) next, his adjusted income from each source (or, in the
case of a source consisting of a business, his adjusted
income or adjusted loss from that source) for the basis
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period for that year shall be ascertained in accordance

with Chapter 4 of that Part;
(d) next, his statutory income from each source for that year
shall be ascertained in accordance with Chapter 5 of that
Part;
(e) next, his aggregate income for that year and his total
income for that year shall be ascertained in accordance
with Chapter 6 of that Part; and
(f) next, his chargeable income for that year shall be
ascertained in accordance with Chapter 7 of that Part:
Provided that in ascertaining the chargeable income of
(i) an individual resident in Malaysia there shall be
excluded the income consisting of interest
accruing in or derived from Malaysia and received
from a person referred to in subsection 109C(4) in
respect of interest paid or credited to that
individual; or
(ii) a participant other than a participant which is a
resident company there shall be excluded any
income accruing in or derived from Malaysia and
received from a takaful operator referred to in
subsection 109E(2) in respect of such income paid
or credited to that participant.
(2) For the purposes of this Act, any income of a person from any
source or sources, and any adjusted loss of a person from any source
or sources consisting of a business, may be ascertained for any period
(including a year of assessment) notwithstanding that
(a) the person in question may have ceased to possess that
source or any of those sources prior to that period; or
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(b) in that period that source or any of those sources may

have ceased to produce gross income or may not have
produced any gross income.
(3)-(4) (Deleted by Act 337).
Rates of tax
6. (1) (a) Except where this subsection provides otherwise and
subject to section 6A, income tax shall be charged for each
year of assessment upon the chargeable income of every
person for that year at the appropriate rate as specified in
Part I of Schedule l;
(b) subject to section 109 but notwithstanding any other
provisions of this Act, where
(i) the income of a person not resident in Malaysia for
the basis year for a year of assessment consists of
interest (other than interest on an approved loan or
interest of the kind referred to in paragraph 33 of
Part 1, Schedule 6) or royalty derived from
Malaysia; or
(ii) the income of a person (other than a company) not
resident in Malaysia for the basis year for a year of
assessment consists of remuneration or other
income in respect of services performed or
rendered in Malaysia by a public entertainer,
income tax there on shall be charged at the appropriate
rate as specified in Part II of Schedule 1;
(c) (Deleted by Act 451);
(d) income tax shall be charged for each year of assessment
upon the chargeable income of every co-operative society
for that year at the appropriate rate as specified in Part IV
of Schedule 1;
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(e) subject to section 109B but notwithstanding any other

provisions of this Act, income tax shall be charged for
each year of assessment upon the income of a person
charged under section 4A at the appropriate rate as
specified under Part V of Schedule 1;
(f) subject to section 109C but notwithstanding any other
provisions of this Act, income tax shall be charged for each
year of assessment upon the income of an individual resident
in Malaysia which consists of interest (other than interest
exempt from tax under this Act or any order made thereto)
accruing in or derived from Malaysia and received from a
person referred to in subsection 109C(4) at the appropriate
rate as specified under Part VI of Schedule 1;
(g) (Deleted by Act 624);
(h) income tax shall be charged for each year of assessment
upon the chargeable income of a foreign fund
management company in relation to the source consisting
of the provision of fund management services to foreign
investors for that year at the appropriate rate as specified
in Part IX of Schedule 1;
(i) subject to section 109D but notwithstanding any other
provisions of this Act, income tax shall be charged for
each year of assessment upon the income of a unit holder
other than a unit holder which is a resident company
which consists of income distributed by the unit trust
referred to in section 61A at the appropriate rate as
specified under Part X of Schedule 1 provided that the
rates specified under such Part shall apply, in respect of
subparagraphs (a) and (c) of that Part for a period of five
years from the year of assessment 2012 and in respect of
subparagraph (b) of that Part for a period of five years
commencing from the year of assessment 2007;
(j) subject to the provision of section 109E but
notwithstanding any other provisions of this Act, income
tax shall be charged for each year of assessment upon the
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income of a participant, other than a participant which is a

resident company, which consists of profits distributed or
credited by an operator referred to in section 60AA at the
appropriate rate as specified under Part XI of Schedule 1;
(k) subject to section 109 F but notwithstanding any other
provisions of this Act, income tax shall be charged
for each year of assessment upon the income of a
non-resident person charged under paragraph 4(f) at
the appropriate rate as specified under Part XIII of
Schedule 1;
(l) subject to section 109 G but notwithstanding any other
provisions of this Act, income tax shall be charged for a
year of assessment upon the income of an individual
consisting of the total amount received in respect of
withdrawal from a deferred annuity or a private
retirement scheme where such withdrawal is made by
that individual before reaching the age of fifty-five
(other than by reason of permanent total disablement,
serious disease, mental disability, death or permanently
leaving Malaysia) at the appropriate rate as specified
under Part XVI of Schedule 1.
(2) The Minister, where he is satisfied that it is the intention of the
Government to promote the introduction into the Dewan Rakyat of a
Bill to vary in any particular way the rates of tax, may by statutory
order declare those rates to be varied in that way; and, where he does
so, then, subject to subsections (3) and (4), this Act shall have effect
as if those rates as so varied had come into force at the beginning of
the first year of assessment for which the Bill seeks to vary those
rates.
(3) Every order made under subsection (2) shall be laid before the
Dewan Rakyat as soon as may be after it has been made and shall
cease to have effect
(a) at the expiration of a period of three months (or such
longer period as may be specified by resolution of the
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Dewan Rakyat) beginning on the date when the order was

made; or
(b) on the coming into force (after the date when the order
was made) of an Act varying the rates of tax,
whichever first occurs.
(4) Where an order made under subsection (2) ceases to have effect
pursuant to subsection (3)
(a) the amount of any tax which
(i) has been charged by any assessment by reference
to the order; and
(ii) is payable (whether or not it is due or due and
payable) but not paid at the date when the order
ceases to have effect,
shall be taken to be amended to the amount which would
have been payable if the order had not been made; and
(b) so much of any tax paid by any person in consequence of
the order as exceeds the tax payable under the law in force
immediately after the date when the order ceases to have
effect shall be repaid by the Director General if that
person
(i) makes a claim therefor in the prescribed form
within one year after that date; and
(ii) furnishes to the Director General such further
particulars of the claim as the Director General
may require.
(5) In subsections (2) and (3) any reference to rates of tax includes
a reference to the rate of any abatement specified under Schedule 1.
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Tax rebate
6A. (1) Subject to this section, income tax charged for each year of
assessment upon the chargeable income of every individual resident
for the basis year for that year shall be rebated for that year of
assessment in accordance with subsections (2) and (3) before any set
off is made under section 110 and any credit is allowed under section
132 or 133.
(2) A rebate shall be granted for a year of assessment in the
following amounts:
(a) four hundred ringgit in the case of an individual who has
been allowed a deduction under paragraph 46(1)(a) for
that year of assessment where his chargeable income for
that year of assessment does not exceed thirty-five
thousand ringgit;
(b) four hundred ringgit in the case of an individual who has
been allowed a deduction under subsection 47(1) or (2)
for that year of assessment where his chargeable income
for that year of assessment does not exceed thirty-five
thousand ringgit;
(c) four hundred ringgit in the case of a wife who has been
allowed a deduction under section 45A for that year of
assessment where her chargeable income for that year of
assessment does not exceed thirty-five thousand ringgit:
Provided that where Part XIV or XV of Schedule 1
applies, thirty-five thousand ringgit shall consist of
chargeable income of that individual from all sources.
(3) A rebate shall be granted for a year of assessment for any zakat,
fitrah or any other Islamic religious dues payment of which is
obligatory and which are paid in the basis year for that year of
assessment to, and evidenced by a receipt issued by, an appropriate
religious authority established under any written law.
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(4) Where the total amount of the rebate under subsections (2) and (3)
exceeds the income tax charged (before any such rebate) for any year of
assessment, the excess shall not be paid to the individual or available as a
credit to set off his tax liability for that year of assessment or any
subsequent year.
6B. (Deleted by Act 661).
Residence: individuals
7. (1) For the purposes of this Act, an individual is resident in
Malaysia for the basis year for a particular year of assessment if
(a) he is in Malaysia in that basis year for a period or periods
amounting in all to one hundred and eighty two days or
more;
(b) he is in Malaysia in that basis year for a period of less
than one hundred and eighty-two days and that period
is linked by or to another period of one hundred and
eighty-two or more consecutive days (hereinafter
referred to in this paragraph as such period)
throughout which he is in Malaysia in the basis year
for the year of assessment immediately preceding that
particular year of assessment or in that basis year for
the year of assessment immediately following that
particular year of assessment:
Provided that any temporary absence from Malaysia
(i) connected with his service in Malaysia and owing
to service matters or attending conferences or
seminars or study abroad;
(ii) owing to ill-health involving himself or a member
of his immediate family; and
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(iii) in respect of social visits not exceeding fourteen

days in the aggregate,
shall be taken to form part of such period or that period,
as the case may be, if he is in Malaysia immediately prior
to and after that temporary absence;
(c) he is in Malaysia in that basis year for a period or periods
amounting in all to ninety days or more, having been with
respect to each of any three of the basis years for the four
years of assessment immediately preceding that particular
year of assessment either
(i) resident in Malaysia within the meaning of this
Act for the basis year in question; or
(ii) in Malaysia for a period or periods amounting in all to
ninety days or more in the basis year in question; or
(d) he is resident in Malaysia within the meaning of this Act
for the basis year for the year of assessment following that
particular year of assessment, having been so resident for
each of the basis years for the three years of assessment
immediately preceding that particular year of assessment.
(1A) For the purposes of subsection (1), an individual shall be
deemed to be in Malaysia for a day if he is present in Malaysia for
part of that day and in ascertaining the period for which he is in
Malaysia during any year, any day (within paragraphs 1(a) and (c) for
which he is in Malaysia shall be taken into account whether or not
that day forms part of a continuous period of days during which he is
in Malaysia.
(1B) Notwithstanding subsection (1), where a person who is a
citizen and
(a) is employed in the public services or service of a statutory
authority; and
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(b) is not in Malaysia at any day in the basis year for that
particular year of assessment by reason of
(i) having and exercising his employment outside
Malaysia; or
(ii) attending any course of study in any institution
or professional body outside Malaysia which is
fully-sponsored by the employer,
he is deemed to be a resident for the basis year for that
particular year of assessment and for any subsequent basis
years when he is not in Malaysia.
(2) (Deleted by Act A226).
Residence: companies and bodies of persons

8. (1) For the purposes of this Act
(a) a Hindu joint family is resident in Malaysia for the basis
year for a year of assessment if its manager or karta is
resident for that basis year;
(b) a company or a body of persons (not being a Hindu joint
family) carrying on a business is resident in Malaysia for
the basis year for a year of assessment if at any time
during that basis year the management and control of its
business or of any one of its businesses, as the case may
be, are exercised in Malaysia; and
(c) any other company or body of persons (not being a Hindu
joint family) is resident in Malaysia for the basis year for
a year of assessment if at any time during that basis year
the management and control of its affairs are exercised in
Malaysia by its directors or other controlling authority.
(1A) Notwithstanding subsection (1), for the purposes of this Act
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(a) a limited liability partnership carrying on a business is

resident in Malaysia for the basis year for a year of
assessment if at any time during that basis year the
management and control of its business or of any one of
its businesses, as the case may be, are exercised in
Malaysia;
(b) any other limited liability partnership is resident in
Malaysia for the basis year for a year of assessment if at
any time during that basis year the management and
control of its affairs are exercised in Malaysia by its
partners;
(c) a business trust is resident in Malaysia for the basis year
for a year of assessment if the trustee manager of that
business trust is resident in Malaysia and a trustee
manager of a business trust is resident for the basis year
for a year of assessment if
(i) the trustee manager in his capacity as such carries
on such business trust in Malaysia; and
(ii) the management and control of the business of
such business trust is exercised in Malaysia.
(2) If it is shown that it has been established as between the
Director General and a company, limited liability partnership,
business trust or body of persons for any tax purpose that the
company, limited liability partnership, business trust or body was
resident in Malaysia for the basis year for any year of assessment, it
shall be presumed until the contrary is proved that the company,
limited liability partnership, business trust or body was resident in
Malaysia for the purposes of this Act for the basis year for every
subsequent year of assessment.
9-10. (Deleted by Act A226).
11. (Deleted by Act 624).
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Derivation of business income in certain cases

12. (1) Where for the purposes of this Act it is necessary to
ascertain any gross income of a person derived from Malaysia from a
business of his, then
(a) subject to subsection (2), so much of the gross income
from the business as is not attributable to operations of the
business carried on outside Malaysia shall be deemed to
be derived from Malaysia;
(b) notwithstanding paragraph (a), if the business consists
wholly or partly of the manufacturing, growing, mining,
producing or harvesting in Malaysia of any article,
product, produce or other thing
(i) the gross income from any sale of the article,
product, produce or other thing taking place
outside Malaysia in the course of carrying on the
business; or
(ii) where the article, product, produce or other thing
is exported in the course of carrying on the
business and subparagraph (i) does not apply, an
amount equal to the market value of the article,
produce, product or other thing at the time of its
export,
shall be deemed to be gross income of that person derived
from Malaysia from the business.
(2) Where in the case of a business to which paragraph (1)(a)
applies
(a) the business or a part thereof is carried on in Malaysia;
(b) any of the gross income of the business (from wherever
derived) consists of a dividend or interest to which
subsection 24(4) or (5) applies; and
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(c) the dividend or interest relates either

(i) to a share, debenture, mortgage or other source
which forms or has formed part of the stock in
trade of the business or, where only part of the
business is carried on in Malaysia, of that part of
the business; or
(ii) to a loan of the kind mentioned in subsection 24(5)
granted in the course of carrying on the business or
that part of the business, as the case may be,
so much of that gross income as consists of that dividend or interest
shall be deemed to be derived from Malaysia.
General provisions as to employment income

13. (1) Gross income of an employee in respect of gains or profits
from an employment includes
(a) any wages, salary, remuneration, leave pay, fee,
commission, bonus, gratuity, perquisite or allowance
(whether in money or otherwise) in respect of having or
exercising the employment;
(b) an amount equal to the value of the use or enjoyment by
the employee of any benefit or amenity (not being a
benefit or amenity convertible into money) provided for
the employee by or on behalf of his employer,
excluding
(i) a benefit or amenity consisting of medical or
dental treatment or a benefit for child care;
(ii) a benefit or amenity consisting of
(A) leave passages including meals and
accommodation for travel within Malaysia
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not exceeding three times in any calendar

year; or
(B) one leave passage for travel between
Malaysia and any place outside Malaysia in
any calendar year, limited to a maximum of
three thousand ringgit:
Provided that the benefit or amenity
enjoyed under this subparagraph is confined
only to the employee and members of his
immediate family;
(iii) a benefit or amenity used by the employee solely in
connection with the performance of his duties; and
(iv) a benefit or amenity falling under paragraph (c);
(c) an amount in respect of the use or enjoyment by the
employee of living accommodation in Malaysia (including
living accommodation in premises occupied by his
employer) provided for the employee by or on behalf of
the employer rent free or otherwise;
(d) so much of any amount (other than a pension, annuity or
periodical payment falling under paragraph 4(e)) received
by the employee, whether before or after his employment
ceases, from a pension or provident fund, scheme or
society not approved for the purpose of this Act as would
not have been so received if his employer had not made
contributions in respect of the employee to the fund,
scheme or society or its trustees; and
(e) any amount received by the employee, whether before or
after his employment ceases, by way of compensation for
loss of the employment, including any amount in respect
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(i) a covenant entered into by the employee restricting

his right after leaving the employment to engage in
employment of a similar kind; or
(ii) any agreement or arrangement having the like
effect.
(2) Gross income in respect of gains or profits from an
employment
(a) for any period during which the employment is exercised
in Malaysia;
(b) for any period of leave attributable to the exercise of the
employment in Malaysia;
(c) for any period during which the employee performs
outside Malaysia duties incidental to the exercise of the
employment in Malaysia;
(d) for any period during which a person is a director of a
company and that company is resident in Malaysia for the
basis year for a year of assessment and within that basis
year that period or part of that period falls; or
(e) for any period during which the employment is exercised
aboard a ship or aircraft used in a business operated by a
person who is resident in Malaysia for the basis year for a
year of assessment and within that basis year that period
or part of that period falls,
(3) Gross income in respect of gains or profits from an
employment in the public services or the service of a statutory
authority
(a) for any period during which the employment is exercised
outside Malaysia; or
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(b) for any period of leave attributable to the exercise of the

employment outside Malaysia,
shall be deemed to be derived from Malaysia if the employee is a
citizen.
(4) For the purposes of subsection (1) a benefit, amenity or living
accommodation provided for an employee as therein mentioned shall
be deemed to be used or enjoyed by the employee if it is used or
enjoyed by his spouse, family, servants, dependants or guests.
(5) Any question whether any gross income is gross income for a
period mentioned in subsection (2) shall be decided by applying the
appropriate provisions of Chapter 3 of Part III as if that period were
the basis period for a year of assessment.
General provisions as to dividend income

14. (1) Subject to this section, where a company resident for the
basis year for a year of assessment pays, credits or distributes a
dividend in the basis period for that year of assessment, the dividend
(2) Where a company resident for the basis year for a year of
assessment was not resident for the basis year for the year of
assessment immediately preceding that year of assessment, only
dividends paid, credited, or distributed by the company on or after the
day on which the management and control of any business of the
company (or, in the case of a company which does not carry on a
business, the management and control of its affairs by its directors or
other controlling authority) were first exercised in Malaysia in that
first-mentioned basis year shall be deemed to be derived from
Malaysia.
(3) Where
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(a) the management and control of the business of a company

(or, if it has more than one business, of all its businesses);
or
(b) in the case of a company which does not carry on a
business, the management and control of its affairs by its
directors or other controlling authority,
cease to be exercised in Malaysia in the basis year for a year of
assessment and the company is not resident for the basis year for the
year of assessment following that first-mentioned year of assessment,
dividends paid, credited or distributed in that first-mentioned basis
year after the cessation shall not be deemed to be derived from
Malaysia.
(4) Where a dividend consists of property other than money, that
dividend shall be taken to consist of an amount equal to the market
value of the property at the time of the distribution of the dividend.
Derivation of interest and royalty income in certain cases
15. Gross income in respect of interest or royalty shall be deemed to
be derived from Malaysia
(a) if responsibility for payment of the interest or royalty lies
with the Government, a State Government or a local
authority;
(b) (i) if responsibility for payment of the interest or royalty
in the basis year for a year of assessment (the
responsibility of any guarantor being disregarded in
the case of interest) lies with a person who is resident
for that basis year; and
(ii) in the case of interest it is payable in respect of
money borrowed by that person and employed in or
laid out on assets used in or held for the production
of any gross income of that person derived from
Malaysia or the debt in respect of which the interest
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is paid is secured by any property or asset situated in

Malaysia; or
(c) if the interest or royalty is charged as an outgoing or
expense against any income accruing in or derived from
Malaysia.
Derivation of special classes of income in certain cases
15A. Gross income in respect of
(a) amounts paid in consideration of services rendered by a
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 person;
(b) amounts paid in consideration of technical advice,
assistance or services rendered in connection with
technical management or administration of any scientific,
industrial or commercial undertaking, venture, project or
scheme;
(c) rent or other payments made under any agreement or
arrangement for the use of any moveable property,
shall be deemed to be derived from Malaysia
(i) if responsibility for payment of the above or other
payments lies with the Government, a State
Government or a local authority;
(ii) if responsibility for the payment of the above or
other payments lies with a person who is a resident
for that basis year; or
(iii) if the payment of the above or other payments is
charged as an outgoing or expense in the accounts
of a business carried on in Malaysia:
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Provided that in respect of paragraphs (a) and (b), this section

shall apply to the amount attributable to services which are performed
in Malaysia.
Derivation of gains or profits in certain cases

15B. Gross income in respect of gains or profits to which
paragraph 4(f) applies shall be deemed to be derived from
Malaysia
(a) if responsibility for the payment of such gains or profits
lies with the Government, a State Government or a local
authority;
(b) if responsibility for the payment of such gains or profits
lies with a person who is a resident for that basis year; or
(c) if the payment of such gains or profits is charged as an
outgoing or expense in the accounts of a business carried
on in Malaysia.
Voluntary pensions, etc.

16. Where any pension or other periodical payment is paid
voluntarily to any person who has permanently ceased to exercise an
employment (or to that persons widow or widower, child, relative or
dependant) by his former employer or the successor of his former
employer, there shall be deemed to be a source of that person or of
that persons widow or widower, child, relative or dependant, as the
case may be, in respect of that pension or payment and that pension
or payment shall be deemed to be gross income from that source
chargeable to tax.
Derivation of pensions, etc.

17. (1) Gross income in respect of a pension from the Government
or a State Government shall be deemed to be derived from Malaysia.
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(2) Where
(a) a person has a right to a pension or other like payment
(i) from a pension fund or a fund of a similar kind;
(ii) under a pension scheme or a scheme of a similar
kind; or
(iii) by virtue of his membership of a pension society
or a society of a similar kind; and
(b) the forum of the administration of the fund, scheme or
society is in Malaysia at any time in the basis year for a
year of assessment,
the gross income for the basis period for that year of assessment in
respect of the pension or other like payment shall be deemed to be
derived from Malaysia.
(3) The gross income for the basis period for a year of assessment
from any source of the kind mentioned in section 16 or in respect of a
pension or other periodical payment to which paragraph 4(e) applies
shall be deemed to be derived from Malaysia if the person paying that
income was resident for the basis year for that year of assessment:
Provided that this subsection shall not apply to a pension or other
payment to which subsection (1) or (2) applies.
PART III
ASCERTAINMENT OF CHARGEABLE INCOME
Chapter 1 - Preliminary
Interpretation of Part III

18. In this Part, unless the context otherwise requires
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agriculture means any form of cultivation of crops, animal

farming, aquaculture, inland fishing and any other agricultural or
pastoral pursuit;
cargo includes mail, currency, specie, livestock and all kinds of
goods;
crops includes any form of vegetable produce;
defined value, in relation to living accommodation provided for
an employee by or on behalf of his employer, means
(a) where the accommodation is not affected by any written
law providing for the restriction or control of rents and the
person so providing the accommodation holds the
accommodation on lease the rent which is or would have
been paid if the accommodation is or had been
unfurnished and the lessor and lessee were independent
persons dealing at arms length;
(b) in any other case, the rateable value or, in the absence of a
rateable value, the economic rent;
disabled person means any individual certified in writing by the
Department of Social Welfare to be a disabled person;
economic rent, in relation to any premises or part of any
premises, means the rent at which those premises or that part might
reasonably be expected to be let if
(a) the lessor covenanted to pay the cost of fire insurance,
public rates and work of repair and maintenance (being
work which would normally be included in a covenant to
repair and maintain if such a covenant were entered into
by a lessor dealing at arms length); and
(b) any written law providing for the restriction or control of
rents were disregarded;
entertainment includes
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(a) the provision of food, drink, recreation or hospitality of

any kind; or
(b) the provision of accommodation or travel in connection
with or for the purpose of facilitating entertainment of the
kind mentioned in paragraph (a),
by a person or an employee of his, with or without any consideration
paid whether in cash or in kind, in promoting or in connection with a
trade or business carried on by that person;
farm means any land used for the purposes of agriculture;
furniture includes air-conditioning equipment and any fixture
which, if it were not a fixture, would be regarded as furniture;
insurance includes a takaful scheme pursuant to the Takaful
Act 1984 [Act 312];
licensed Malaysian offshore bank has the meaning assigned to it
by the Labuan Offshore Business Activity Tax Act 1990 [Act 445];
mine means a source of minerals over which mining operations
are, have been or may lawfully be carried on;
minerals means minerals and mineral substances (other than
mineral oils), and includes precious metals, precious stones and nonprecious minerals, but does not include common clay (other than
kaolin or bentonite), sand, sandstone or any sodium compound or any
other similar common mineral substance obtainable without
underground mining operations and not containing any precious
metal or precious stones in economically workable quantities;
mining operations includes every method or process by which
minerals are won or obtained;
payroll tax means any tax of that name imposed by a written law;
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premiums, in relation to insurance, includes contributions or

instalments payable under a takaful scheme pursuant to the Takaful
Act 1984;
rateable value, in relation to premises, means the annual value as
determined for rating purposes by the local rating authority, if any;
replanting means the replacement of the crop of any product on
any area of land by taking such action as is calculated to produce on
the same area a crop of the same product and includes reafforestation
of timber;
turnover tax means any tax of that name imposed by a written
law.
Supplementary provisions for the interpretation of Part III

19. (1) A period overlaps another period for the purposes of this
Part if
(a) it begins before and ends in or at the same time as or after
that other period; or
(b) it begins at the same time as or during that other period
and ends after that other period.
(2) For the purposes of this Part, an individual and a wife of his
shall be treated as living together unless
(a) they are separated under an order of a court or under a deed of
separation or a written agreement for separation; or
(b) they are in fact separated in such circumstances that the
separation is likely to be permanent.
(3) Where
(a) it is necessary for the purposes of Chapter 4 to ascertain
the amount of any interest, rent or any payment of any
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other kind which is payable for the basis period (or for a
part of the basis period) for a year of assessment; and
(b) the period for which the interest, rent or payment is
payable (in this subsection referred to as the relevant
period) overlaps that basis period,
the interest, rent or payment shall be taken to accrue evenly over the
relevant period, and so much of the interest, rent or payment as is
thus found to accrue during the period of the overlap shall be taken to
be the amount of the interest, rent or payment which is payable for
that basis period or that part of that basis period, as the case may be.
(4) In this Part a reference to
(a) gross income or any other item receivable; or
(b) rent or any other sum payable,
is a reference to any gross income, other item, rent or other sum, as
the case may be, which is payable to the recipient, whether or not it is
due or due and payable.
(5) Any reference to this Part in section 18 or this section includes
a reference to Schedules 2, 3, 4 and 4B.
(6) For the avoidance of doubt it is declared that, where a person
who is a partner in a partnership is not in fact personally engaged in
carrying on the business of that partnership, nothing in section 55, 56
or 57 shall cause that partner to be treated as being personally
engaged in his proprietorship or continuing proprietorship business in
relation to that partnership.
Chapter 2 Basis years and basis periods
Basis years
20. For the purposes of this Act, the calendar year coinciding with a
year of assessment shall constitute the basis year for that year of
assessment.
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Basis period of a person other than a company, limited liability

21. The basis year for a year of assessment shall constitute, in
relation to a source of a person other than a company, limited liability
partnership, trust body or co-operative society, the basis period for
that year of assessment.
Basis period of a company, limited liability partnership, trust

body or co-operative society
21A. (1) Except as provided in this section, the basis year for a year
of assessment shall constitute, in relation to a source of a company,
limited liability partnership, trust body or co-operative society, the
basis period for that year of assessment.
(2) Subject to subsections (5) and (6), where a company, limited
liability partnership, trust body or co-operative society has made up
the accounts of its operations for a period of twelve months ending on
a day other than 31 December in the basis year, that period shall
constitute the basis period for that year of assessment for any of its
sources of income.
(3) Where the company, limited liability partnership, trust body or
co-operative society has made up the accounts of its operations for a
period of twelve months ending on a day in a basis year and there is
a failure to make up the accounts of the company, limited liability
partnership, trust body or cooperative society ending on the
corresponding day in the following basis year, the Director General
may direct that the basis period for the year of assessment in which
the failure occurs, or the basis periods for that year and the following
year of assessment, shall consist of a period or periods (which may be
of any length) as specified in the direction.
(4) Subject to subsections (5) and (6), where a company, limited

liability partnership, trust body or co-operative society commences
operation on a day in a basis year for a year of assessment
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(hereinafter referred to as the first year of assessment) and makes

up its account
(a) for a period of less than twelve months ending on a day in
that basis year, that period shall constitute the basis period
for the first year of assessment;
(b) for any period of months ending on a day in the
immediately following basis year (hereinafter referred to
as the second basis year), that period shall constitute the
basis period for the year of assessment (hereinafter
referred to as the second year of assessment)
immediately following the first year of assessment, there
shall be no basis period in relation to any of its sources of
income for the first year of assessment; or
(c) for a period of more than twelve months ending on a day
in the basis year immediately following the second basis
year, that period shall constitute the basis period for the
year of assessment immediately following the second year
of assessment and there shall be no basis period in relation
to any of its sources of income for the first year of
assessment and the second year of assessment.
(5) Where a company commences operations and
(a) is required under any law of the place of incorporation to
make up its accounts ending on a specified day; or
(b) being a company within a group of companies makes up
its accounts ending on the same day as that of all other
companies in that group,
the period which begins from the day the company, trust body or
co-operative society commences operations until the end of the
accounting period of the company, trust body or co-operative society
shall constitute, for those operations of that company, trust body or
co-operative society, the basis period for a year of assessment.
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(6) Where a company, limited liability partnership trust body or cooperative society on the day on which it commences a new operation
is already carrying on one or more operations, the basis period of the
existing operation or operations for a year of assessment in which
that day falls shall constitute for the new operation the basis period
for that year of assessment and there shall be no basis period for the
new operation for the year of assessment preceding that year.
(7) In subsections (4) and (6), references to company, limited
liability partnership trust body or co-operative society commencing to
carry on an operation shall be construed only as references to cases
where the company, limited liability partnership trust body or cooperative society in question commences to carry on
(a) its own operations; or
(b) the operations of another company, limited liability
partnership trust body or cooperative society being
operations not previously carried on by that other
company, limited liability partnership trust body or
cooperative society or its agents.
(8) For the purposes of this section, operations in relation to a
company, limited liability partnership trust body or co-operative
society means
(a) an activity which consists of the carrying on of a business;
(b) an activity which consists wholly in the making of
investments;
(c) an activity which consists of both the carrying on of a
business and the making of investments; or
(d) an activity which consists of the making of investments
prior to the commencement of a business or after the
cessation of a business.
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Chapter 3Gross income
Gross income generally

22. (1) Subject to this Act, the gross income of a person from a
source of his for the basis period for a year of assessment shall be the
gross income from that source for that period ascertained in
accordance with the following provisions of this Chapter (that person
and that period being referred to in those provisions as the relevant
person and the relevant period respectively).
(2) Subject to this Act, the gross income of a person from a source
of his for the basis period for a year of assessment shall include any
sums receivable or deemed to have been received for that basis
period in relation to that source by way of
(a) insurance, indemnity, recoupment, recovery, reimbursement
or otherwise
(i) where such sums are in respect of the kind of
outgoings and expenses deductible in ascertaining
the adjusted income of that person from that
source; or
(ii) under a contract of indemnity; and
(b) compensation for loss of income from that source.
(c) (Deleted by Act 661).
Interpretation of sections 24 to 28
23. For the purposes of sections 24 to 28
(a) a reference to a debt is a reference to a debt in a liquidated
sum (whether or not due or due and payable);
(b) a dividend deemed to be derived from Malaysia by virtue
of section 14 shall be treated as paid on the day on which
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cash or its equivalent (whether in the form of a voucher,

cheque or otherwise) in respect of the dividend is posted
or delivered by or on behalf of the payer, and as
distributed in specie on the day on which it is posted or
delivered by or on behalf of the distributor;
(c) where any tax or foreign tax has been deducted in paying,
crediting or distributing any gross income, then, with
respect to that gross income, any reference in those
sections to gross income paid, credited or received shall
be taken to mean the amount of that gross income before
the deduction;
(d) where any dividend deemed to be derived from Malaysia
by virtue of section 14 is paid or credited without
deduction of tax or is distributed in specie, the amount of
the gross income in respect of that dividend shall be taken
to be such an amount as, after deduction of tax at the rate
deductible at the date of payment, crediting or
distribution, would be equal to
(i) the amount in fact paid;
(ii) the amount in fact credited; or
(iii) the market value of the dividend at the date of
distribution,
as the case may be.
Basis period to which gross income from a business is related

24. (1) Where in the relevant period a debt owing to the relevant
person arises in respect of
(a) any stock in trade sold in or before the relevant period in
the course of carrying on a business;
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(aa) any stock in trade parted with by any element of

compulsion including on requisition or compulsory
acquisition or in a similar manner, in or before the
relevant period;
(b) any services rendered at any time in the course of carrying
on a business; or
(c) the use or enjoyment of any property dealt with at any
time in the course of carrying on a business,
the amount of the debt shall be treated as gross income of the relevant
person from the business for the relevant period.
(2) Where in the relevant period any stock in trade of a business of
the relevant person is
(a) withdrawn for his own use; or
(b) withdrawn (otherwise than on requisition or compulsory
acquisition or in a similar manner) without any
consideration being received therefor or for a
consideration consisting of
(i) any property not being either a debt owing to the
relevant person or a sum in cash or the equivalent
of cash;
(ii) any such property together with a debt owing to
the relevant person or any such sum; or
(iii) any such property together with a debt owing to
the relevant person and any such sum,
then, subject to subsection (3), an amount equal to the market value
of that stock in trade at the time of its withdrawal shall be treated as
gross income of the relevant person from the business for the relevant
period.
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(3) Where in a case to which subsection (2) applies the

consideration for the withdrawal of any stock in trade is consideration
of the kind described in subparagraph (b)(ii) or (iii) of that
subsection, then, for the purposes of that subsection
(a) the amount of the market value of that stock in trade shall
be reduced by the amount of the debt or sum or the
amount of the debt and sum, as the case may be, referred
to in whichever of those subparagraphs applies to the
case;
(b) subsection (1) shall apply to the debt as if it were a debt
arising on the sale of that stock in trade; and
(c) section 28 shall apply to any such sum.
(4) Subject to section 3, where in the relevant period a dividend is
paid, credited or distributed to the relevant person, then, if the stock,
share or other source to which the dividend relates forms or has
formed in or before the relevant period part of the stock in trade of a
business of the relevant person
(a) the amount of the dividend shall be treated as gross
income of the relevant person from the business for the
relevant period, if the business is carried on at any time in
the relevant period; and
(b) subsection (1) shall not apply to a debt owing to the
relevant person in respect of any such dividend:
Provided that, where this subsection has applied to a dividend
which has been credited, it shall not apply to that dividend when paid.
(5) Subject to section 3, where in the relevant period any gross
interest first becomes receivable by the relevant person, then, if the
debenture, mortgage or other source to which the interest relates
forms or has formed in or before the relevant period part of the stock
in trade of a business carried on by or on behalf of the relevant
person, or if the interest is in respect of a loan granted in or before the
relevant period in the course of carrying on the business of lending of
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money and the business is one which is licensed under any written
law
(a) the interest shall be treated as gross income of the relevant
person from the business for the relevant period if the
business is carried on at any time in the relevant period;
and
(b) subsection (1) shall not apply to a debt owing to the
relevant person in respect of any such interest.
(6) Where in the relevant period any article, product, produce or
other thing is exported from Malaysia in the course of carrying on a
business in such circumstances that subsection 12(1) applies thereto
in relation to the business
(a) subsection (2) shall not apply with respect to that article,
product, produce or other thing or to any gross income
received in respect thereof; and
(b) the amount equal to the market value of the article, product,
produce or other thing deemed under subsection 12(1) to be
gross income derived from the business shall be treated as
gross income of the relevant person from the business for the
relevant period.
(7) Where this section applies to any particular item of gross
income, nothing in sections 25 to 29 and nothing in section 30 shall
apply to that item.
(8) This section shall not apply to income under section 4A.
Basis period to which gross income from an employment is
related
25. (1) Subject to subsection (1A), or (2A) where gross income from
an employment
(a) is not receivable in respect of any particular period; and
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(b) first becomes receivable in the relevant period,

it shall when received be treated as gross income of the relevant
person for the relevant period.
(1A) The gross income from an employment in respect of any right
to acquire shares in a company of the kind to which paragraph
13(1)(a) applies, shall where the right is exercised, assigned, released
or acquired in the relevant period be treated as gross income of the
relevant person for that relevant period.
(2) Subject to section 3 and subsections (2A) and (5), where gross
income from an employment is receivable in respect of the whole of
the relevant period (or, except in a case to which subsection (4)
applies, in respect of any part of the relevant period), it shall when
received be treated as gross income of the relevant person for the
relevant period.
(2A) Where gross income from an employment in relation to
directors fee or bonus is receivable in respect of the whole or part of
the relevant period, that gross income shall, when received in any
relevant period, be treated as the gross income of the relevant person
for the second mentioned relevant period;
(3) Subject to section 3 and subsection (5), where gross income
falls to be treated under subsection (1), (2) or (2A) as gross income
for the relevant period, then, if its receipt first becomes known to the
Director General on a day more than four years after the end of the
relevant period, it shall whenever necessary be treated as gross
income of the relevant person for the basis period for the year of
assessment which began four years before the beginning of the year
of assessment which includes that day.
(4) Subject to section 3 and subsection (5), where gross income
from an employment is receivable in respect of a period (in is
subsection referred to as the overlapping period) which overlaps the
relevant period, that gross income when received shall be apportioned
between the part of the overlapping period which overlaps the
relevant period and the remaining part of the overlapping period (the
apportionment, unless the Director General having regard to the facts
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of any particular case otherwise directs, being made in the proportion

that the number of days of the overlapping period that fall into the
relevant period bears to the total number of days of the overlapping
period) and so much of that gross income as is apportioned to the
overlapping part of the overlapping period shall be treated as gross
income of the relevant person from the employment for the relevant
period:
Provided that
(a) where the employment ceases in the basis period for a
year of assessment and, at or about the time of the
cessation of the employment, gross income from the
employment becomes receivable as a lump sum by way of
gratuity, deferred pay or otherwise but excluding any
amount which by virtue of paragraph 13(1)(d) or (e) is
included in his gross income from the employment, then,
for the purposes of this subsection
(i) that sum, notwithstanding subsection (1), shall be
treated as accruing evenly over and receivable in
respect of an accrual period consisting of the
period of the employment (including, where the
employment was employment by a company, any
particular period during which the relevant person
was employed by another company in the same
group, being a group of which that first-mentioned
company was a member at the time of the
cessation of the employment) or, if the period of
employment including any such particular period)
commenced more than four years before the
commencement of that basis period, an accrual
period consisting of that basis period and the basis
periods for the four years of assessment
immediately preceding that year;
(ii) so much of that sum as by virtue of subparagraph (i)
is treated as accruing evenly over and receivable in
respect of any such particular period during which
the relevant person was employed by any such other
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company shall be deemed to be income from the

source consisting of his employment by that other
company and not from the source consisting of the
employment by that first-mentioned company; and
(iii) that accrual period shall be treated as the
overlapping period;
(b) where the overlapping period in respect of which that
gross income is receivable partly elapsed more than four
years before the day on which the receipt of that gross
income first became known to the Director General, then,
for the purposes of this subsection, that gross income shall
whenever necessary be deemed to have been receivable in
respect of and to have accrued evenly over that part of the
overlapping period which did not so elapse and, if that
part falls wholly into the relevant period, shall whenever
necessary be deemed to be gross income of the relevant
person from the employment for the relevant period;
(c) where the overlapping period in respect of which that
gross income is receivable wholly elapsed more than four
income first became known to the Director General, that
gross income shall whenever necessary be treated as gross
income for the basis period for the year of assessment
which began four years before the beginning of the year of
assessment which includes that day.
(5) Where gross income from an employment first becomes
receivable in the relevant period and is in respect of
(a) a period which commences after the end of the relevant
period; or
(b) a period which overlaps the relevant period and which
partly elapsed after the end of the relevant period,
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subsections (2) to (4) shall not apply and that gross income shall
when received be treated as gross income of the relevant person for
the relevant period:
Provided that, where the relevant period wholly elapsed more than
four years before the day on which the receipt of that gross income
first became known to the Director General, that gross income shall
whenever necessary be treated as gross income of the relevant person
for the basis period for the year of assessment which began four years
before the beginning of the year of assessment which includes that
day.
(6) Notwithstanding the foregoing subsections, where the Director
General is satisfied that
(a) an employee has left or will be leaving Malaysia in the
basis year for the year of assessment to which the relevant
period relates (that year of assessment being in this
subsection referred to as the relevant year) and will not be
resident for the basis year for the following year of
assessment;
(b) no pension derived from Malaysia will be receivable by
the employee for the basis period for that following year;
and
(c) gross income from the employees employment will cease
to be derived from Malaysia on the expiration of a period
of leave following the employees departure from
Malaysia,
any gross income from the employment which but for this subsection
would by virtue of any of the foregoing subsections be receivable for
the basis period for the year of assessment following the relevant year
shall be treated as receivable for the relevant period unless the
employee in making his return of income for the relevant year (or
within such period after the making of that return as the Director
General may allow) makes a written request to the Director General
that this subsection shall not apply in relation to his gross income
from the employment.
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Basis period to which gross income in respect of dividend is

related
26. (1) Subject to subsection (2), where gross income from a source
consists of a dividend deemed to be derived from Malaysia by virtue
of section 14, all gross income from that source paid, credited or
distributed in the relevant period shall be taken to be gross income of
the relevant person for the relevant period:
Provided that, where this section has applied to a dividend which
had been credited, it shall not apply to that dividend when paid.
(2) In relation to gross income to which subsection (1) applies,
where the relevant period overlaps the basis period for the
immediately preceding year of assessment, the gross income in
relation to the part of the relevant period which overlaps that basis
period shall not be taken to be the gross income of the relevant
person for the relevant period.
Basis period to which gross income in respect of interest, etc., is
related
27. (1) Subject to this section where gross income from a source in
Malaysia of the relevant person
(a) consists of any interest, discount, rent or royalty or of any
pension, annuity or other periodical payment to which
paragraph 4(e) applies; and
(b) first becomes receivable in the relevant period,
it shall when it has been received be treated as gross income of the
relevant person for the relevant period.
(1A) Where gross income from a source in Malaysia of a company
consists of any amount of discount or premium from the subscription
or issuance of bond, as the case may be, and first becomes receivable
in the relevant period, that amount shall be deemed to over the whole
period of the bond and the gross income of the company for the
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relevant period that relates to the period of the bond shall be a sum to
be determined in accordance with the following formula:
AxC
B
where
is the number of days in the relevant period

that falls within the period of the bond;
is the total number of days of the whole period

of the bond; and
is the total amount of discount or premium in

respect of the bond:
Provided that the Director General may allow the company to

consistently apply any other formula which is in accordance with the
generally accepted accounting principles applicable during the
relevant period.
(2) Where gross income from a source of the relevant person is
gross income to which subsection (1) or (1A) applies and is receivable
in respect of a period (in this subsection referred to as the overlapping
period) which overlaps the relevant period, that gross income when
received shall be apportioned between the part of the overlapping
period which overlaps the relevant period and the remaining part of
the overlapping period (the apportionment, unless the Director
General having regard to the facts of any particular case otherwise
directs, being made in the proportion that the number of days of the
overlapping period that fall into the relevant period bears to the total
number of days of the overlapping period) and so much of that gross
income as is apportioned to the overlapping part of the overlapping
period shall be treated as gross income of the relevant person from
that source for the relevant period:
Provided that
(a) where that gross income is in respect of an amount of
interest calculated for two or more periods of accrual
which together make up the overlapping period, the gross
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income in respect of the interest in respect of each period

of accrual shall be ascertained and
(i) if any such period of accrual falls into the relevant
period, subsection (1) shall apply to the gross
income so ascertained in respect of that period of
accrual;
(ii) if any such period of accrual overlaps the relevant
period, this subsection (without this paragraph of
this proviso) shall apply to the gross income so
ascertained in respect of that period of accrual as if
that period of accrual were the overlapping period
and as if that last mentioned gross income were
gross income receivable in respect of the
overlapping period;
(b) where the overlapping period in respect of which that
gross income is receivable partly the elapsed more than
four years before the day on which the receipt of that
gross income first became known to the Director General,
then, for the purposes of this subsection, that gross income
shall whenever necessary be deemed to have been
receivable in respect of and to have accrued evenly over
that part of the overlapping period which did not so elapse
and, if that part falls wholly into the relevant period, shall
whenever necessary be deemed to be gross income of the
relevant person from that source for the relevant period;
(c) where the overlapping period in respect of which that
gross income is receivable wholly elapsed more than four
income first became known to the Director General, that
gross income shall whenever necessary be treated as gross
income of the relevant person for the basis period for the
year of assessment which began four years before the
beginning of the year of assessment which includes that
day.
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(3) Where gross income mentioned in subsection (1) or (1A)

becomes receivable in the relevant period and is in respect of
(a) a period which commences after the end of the relevant
period; or
(b) a period which overlaps the relevant period and which
partly elapsed after the end of the relevant period,
subsection (2) shall not apply and that gross income shall when
received be treated as gross income of the relevant person for the
relevant period:
Provided that, where the relevant period wholly elapsed more than
four years before the day on which the receipt of that gross income
first becomes known to the Director General, that gross income shall
whenever necessary be treated as gross income of the relevant person
for the basis period for the year of assessment which began four years
before the beginning of the year of assessment which includes that
day.
(4) In subsection (2) period of accrual means a period
throughout which there is no change in the rate of interest or in the
principal sum in respect of which interest is payable.
Basis period to which gross income not provided for by
sections 24 to 27 is related
28. Subject to this Act, where in the relevant period there is received
by the relevant person from a source any gross income to which
sections 24 to 27 do not apply, the amount of that income (or, where
the income consists of something having a market value, the amount
of its market value at the time of its receipt) shall be treated as gross
income of the relevant person from that source for the relevant
period.
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Basis period to which income obtainable on demand is related

29. (1) Notwithstanding anything in sections 23 to 28, where the
circumstances are such that the relevant person is entitled to any
gross income (other than gross income to which section 24 or 26
applies) accruing in or derived from Malaysia and is able to obtain
the receipt thereof on demand, that gross income shall be treated as
being received by him at the time those circumstances arise.
(2) The reference in subsection (1) to gross income the receipt of
which the relevant person is able to obtain on demand includes a
reference to gross income the receipt of which he would be able to
obtain on demand but for the fact that it is lawfully receivable by a
receiver of any kind.
(3) For the purposes of this section, where gross income from a
source in Malaysia of the relevant person consists of interest that
relates to a loan
(a) between persons one of whom has control over the other;
or
(b) between persons both of whom are controlled by some
other person,
the relevant person is deemed to be able to obtain on demand the
receipt of such interest when such interest is due to be paid to the
relevant person in the relevant period.
Special provisions applicable to gross income from a business

30. (1) Where a deduction has been made under subsection 34(2) in
ascertaining the adjusted income of the relevant person from a
business for the basis period for a year of assessment, that basis
period being prior to the relevant period, then
(a) if the deduction has been made in respect of a debt estimated
to have become wholly irrecoverable, any sum recovered on
account of the debt by that person in the relevant period shall
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be treated as gross income of the relevant person from the

business for the relevant period; and
(b) if the deduction has been made in respect of a debt
estimated to have become partly irrecoverable and there
has been received by that person in respect of the debt a
sum (or an aggregate of sums) in excess of the amount of
that part of the debt not estimated to have become
irrecoverable, so much of that excess as is recovered by
him in the relevant period shall be treated as gross income
of the relevant person from the business for the relevant
period.
(2) Where during the relevant period any sum is refunded to the
relevant person
(a) on account of payroll tax paid by him in respect of
remuneration paid by him to any person employed by him
in the production of his gross income from a business or
the relevant period or any basis period ending prior to the
relevant period; or
(b) on account of turnover tax paid by him in respect of the
turnover of the business,
the sum refunded shall be treated as gross income of his from the
business derived from Malaysia for the relevant period.
(3) Where during the relevant period
(a) recovered expenditure (within the meaning of Schedule 2)
is recovered by or on behalf of the relevant person in
connection with a business of his which includes the
working of a mine; and
(b) the total recovered expenditure so recovered exceeds the
aggregate of
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(i) the residual expenditure (within the meaning of

that Schedule) at the date on which that period
begins; and
(ii) the qualifying mining expenditure (within the
meaning of that Schedule) incurred by him during
that period,
the amount of the excess shall be treated as gross income of the
relevant person from the business for the relevant period.
(4) Where
(a) a deduction has been made under subsection 33(1) in
computing the adjusted income of the relevant person
from a business for the basis period for a year of
assessment (that basis period being prior to the relevant
period) in respect of any outgoing or expense (including
any sum payable, rent payable or expense incurred of the
kind described in paragraph 33(1)(a), (b) or (c)); or
(b) any allowance or aggregate amount of allowances has
been made under section 42 in computing the statutory
income of the relevant person from a business for the
basis period for a year of assessment (that basis period
being prior to the relevant period) in respect of any
expenditure incurred under Schedule 3,
and the whole or any part of a debt in respect of any such outgoing,
expense, sum, rent or expenditure is released in the relevant period,
the amount released shall be treated as gross income of the relevant
person from that business for the relevant period.
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Special provisions applicable to gross income from an

employment
32. (1) Where in the relevant period there has been the use or
enjoyment by the relevant person of any benefit or amenity of the
kind to which paragraph 13(1)(b) applies, the amount in respect
thereof to be included in his gross income from the employment for
the relevant period shall be an amount equal to the value of that use
or enjoyment as ascertained by whatever method is just and
reasonable in the circumstances.
(1A) (a) Where in the relevant period a relevant person acquired
any right to acquire shares in a company of the kind to which
paragraph 13(1)(a) applies, under his name or in the name of his
nominee or agent, the amount in respect thereof to be included in his
gross income from the employment shall be
(i) the market value of the shares where the right shall
be exercised, assigned, released or acquired on a
specified date or where the right shall be
exercised, assigned, released or acquired within a
specified period, the first day of that period; or
(ii) the market value of the shares on the date of the
exercise, assignment, release or acquisition of the
right,
whichever is the lower less the amount paid for the shares.
(b) In this subsection, market value means
(i) in the case of a company listed on any stock
exchange, the average price of the shares which is
ascertained by averaging the highest and the
lowest price of the shares for the day; or
(ii) in any other case, the net asset value of the shares
for the day.
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(2) Where in the relevant period there has been the use or enjoyment
by the relevant person of living accommodation of the kind to which
paragraph 13(1)(c) applies, then, subject to subsection (3), the amount in
respect thereof to be included in his gross income from the employment
for the relevant period shall be
(a) an amount equal to the defined value of the living
accommodation for the relevant period or an amount equal
to thirty per cent of the gross income which by virtue of
paragraph 13(1)(a) and section 25 or 28 falls to be
included in his gross income from the employment for the
relevant period, whichever is the less; or
(b) where the living accommodation is provided in
(i) a hotel, hostel or similar premises;
(ii) any premises on a plantation or in a forest; or
(iii) any premises which, although in a rateable area,
are not subject to public rates,
an amount equal to three per cent of the gross income
which by virtue of paragraph 13(1)(a) and section 25 or
28 falls to be included in his gross income from the
employment for the relevant period.
(3) Notwithstanding subsection (2), where in the relevant period
there has been the use and enjoyment by the relevant person of living
accommodation of the kind to which paragraph 13(1)(c) applies,
then
(a) where the relevant persons employer is a company and
the relevant person at any time during the relevant period
is a director of the company (not being a service director)
while the company is a controlled company, then, whether
or not he is a director at the time of the use and
enjoyment, the amount to be included in his gross income
for the relevant period shall be the defined value of the
accommodation for the relevant period or, if the
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accommodation is wholly or partly shared with other

employees, such proportion of the defined value as is just
and reasonable;
(b) where the living accommodation is provided for only a
part of the relevant period, the amount to be included
in his gross income for the relevant period under
subsection (2) or this subsection shall be reduced in
such a proportion, if any, as is just and reasonable
having regard to all the circumstances;
(c) where the living accommodation (except in a case to
which paragraph (a) or paragraph (2)(b) applies) is
provided in such circumstances that
(i) it is to be wholly or partly shared with other
employees;
(ii) the relevant person is required by the employer to
reside therein; or
(iii) the relevant person is required or expected by the
employer to use it for the advancement of the
employers interests by the provision of hospitality
or otherwise and, in order that it may be so used, it
is larger or more valuable accommodation than the
relevant person would otherwise need,
the amount to be included in his gross income for the relevant
period under paragraph (2)(a) shall be so much of the defined
value of the accommodation for the relevant period as is just
and reasonable or thirty per cent of the gross income which by
virtue of paragraph 13(1)(a) and section 25 or 28 falls to be
included in his gross income from the employment for the
relevant period, whichever is the less (that amount being
reduced in any case to which paragraph (b) applies in such a
proportion, if any, as is just and reasonable having regard to
all the circumstances).
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(4) For the purposes of this section, the amount of gross income
from the employment mentioned in paragraphs (2)(a), (b) and (3)(c)
shall not include the amount of gross income in respect of any right
to acquire shares in a company ascertained under subsection (1A).
Chapter 4 - Adjusted income and adjusted loss

Adjusted income generally
33. (1) Subject to this Act, the adjusted income of a person from a
source for the basis period for a year of assessment shall be an
amount ascertained by deducting from the gross income of that
person from that source for that period all outgoings and expenses
wholly and exclusively incurred during that period by that person in
the production of gross income from that source, including
(a) subject to subsection (2), any sum payable for that period
(or for any part of that period) by way of interest upon any
money borrowed by that person and
(i) employed in that period in the production of gross
income from that source; or
(ii) laid out on assets used or held in that period for the
production of gross income from that source;
(b) rent payable for that period (or for any part of that period)
by that person in respect of any land or building or part
thereof occupied by him in that period for the purpose of
producing gross income from that source;
(c) expenses incurred during that period for the repair of
premises, plant, machinery or fixtures employed in the
production of gross income from that source or for the
renewal, repair or alteration of any implement, utensil or
article so employed, other than implements, utensils,
articles (the expenditure on which would be qualifying
plant expenditure for the purposes of Schedule 3) or any
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means of conveyance, excluding the cost of reconstructing

or rebuilding
(i) any premises, buildings, structures or works of a
permanent nature;
(ii) any plant or machinery; or
(iii) any fixtures; and
(d) such other deductions as may be prescribed.
(2) Where a person, being a person to whom paragraph (1)(a)
applies in relation to gross income from a business of his for the basis
period for a year of assessment and in relation to borrowed money,
has made (otherwise than for the purpose of producing that gross
income) any loan of money or any investment in movable or
immovable property, and the loan or any part thereof is outstanding at
any time in that period or the investment or any part thereof is held
by him at any time in that period and it appears to the Director
General that the loan or any part thereof or the investment or any part
thereof has been financed wholly or partly or directly or indirectly
out of the borrowed money
(a) the total sum payable for that period or any part thereof by
way of interest on that borrowed money shall be deemed
to accrue evenly over that period or part thereof, and so
much of that sum as is thus found to accrue during each
calendar month shall be taken to be the monthly figure for
the purposes of this subsection;
(b) if at the end of any calendar month the aggregate of
(i) the amount of the loan then outstanding if any; and
(ii) the cost of so much of the investment as is held by
him at that time if any,
is less than the amount of that borrowed money, the
monthly figure for that month shall be reduced by an
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amount which bears to that monthly figure the same

proportion as that aggregate bears to the amount of that
borrowed money or by an amount which in the opinion
of the Director General is just and reasonable in all the
circumstances;
(c) if at the end of any calendar month the aggregate
mentioned in the preceding paragraph is more than the
amount of that borrowed money, the monthly figure for
that month shall be reduced to nil or to an amount which
in the opinion of the Director General is just and
reasonable in all the circumstances; and
(d) the amount of the deduction to be made for that period in
respect of that borrowed money shall be an amount
consisting of the aggregate of
(i) the monthly figures for all calendar months to
which paragraph (b) or (c) applies, as reduced by
either of those paragraphs; and
(ii) the monthly figures for the other calendar months.
(3) In subsection (2) calendar month, in relation to a basis
period or part thereof, means a period which is included in that basis
period or part thereof and is either
(a) one of the twelve months of the Gregorian calendar; or
(b) where that basis period or part thereof includes a part, but
not the whole, of such a month, that part of that month.
(4) For the purposes of paragraph (1)(a) and subsection (2), where
any sum payable for a basis period for a year of assessment is not due
to be paid in that period, the sum shall when it is due to be paid be
deducted in arriving at the adjusted income of a person for that
period.
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Special provisions applicable to adjusted income from a business

34. (1) In ascertaining the adjusted income of a person from a
business for the basis period for a year of assessment, deductions
shall be made from the gross income from the business for that period
in accordance with the following subsections (the person, business,
period and gross income in question being referred to in those
subsections as the relevant person, the business, the relevant period
and the relevant gross income respectively).
(2) There shall be deducted in the case of any debt as defined in
subsection (3)
(a) if at the end of the relevant period the debt is reasonably
estimated in all the circumstances of the case to be wholly
irrecoverable, an amount equal to the amount of the debt;
(b) if at the end of the relevant period the debt is reasonably
estimated in all the circumstances of the case to be partly
irrecoverable, an amount equal to so much of the debt as
is estimated to be irrecoverable,
the deduction being in either case reduced by the amount of any
deduction made under this subsection in respect of the debt for the
basis period for a year of assessment prior to the year of assessment
to which the relevant period relates.
(3) In subsection (2) debt means
(a) a debt arising in respect of any matter referred to in
subsection 24(1) or in respect of interest of the kind
referred to in subsection 24(5), where the amount of any
such debt has been included in the relevant gross income
or in the gross income of the relevant person from the
business for the basis period for a year of assessment prior
to the year of assessment to which the relevant period
relates; or
(b) a debt arising in respect of a loan of the kind mentioned in
subsection 24(5) granted in the course of carrying on the
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business in the relevant period or in the basis period for

any such prior year of assessment.
(3A) The reference to the debt which is partly irrecoverable under
paragraph (2)(b), shall be deemed, in the case of a bank, to include all
interest in respect of a loan or credit facility accrued from the date
that such loan or facility is classified as nonperforming loan in
accordance with the relevant guidelines issued by the Central Bank.
(3B) For the purpose of subsection (3A), bank means a bank or a
finance company or a banking and finance company licensed or deemed to
be licensed under the Banking and Financial Institutions Act 1989 [Act 372]
or Islamic Banking Act 1983 [Act 276], or an institution prescribed under
the Development Financial Institutions Act 2002 [Act 618].
(4) Where in the relevant period the relevant person has made a
contribution to an approved scheme in respect of an employee of his,
then
(a) if the employees remuneration as determined under the
rules, regulations, by-laws or constitution of that scheme
for the period for which the contribution is made (that
period being a period which coincides with or overlaps the
relevant period) is deductible as a whole, or in parts
aggregating the whole, in computing the adjusted income
from the business for any basis period or periods for a
year or years of assessment in relation to the business,
there may be deducted from the relevant gross income an
amount equal to the contribution or nineteen per cent of
the employees remuneration as so determined for the
period for which the contribution is made, whichever is
the less;
(b) if only a part or parts of that remuneration is or are so
deductible, there may be deducted from the relevant gross
income an amount equal to so much of the contribution or
of that percentage of the remuneration (whichever of those
amounts is the less) as bears to the whole of the
contribution or to that percentage of the remuneration, as
the case may be, the same proportion as that part or the
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aggregate of those parts, as the case may be, bears to the

whole of that remuneration.
(5) Where on the first establishment of a scheme of the kind
referred to in subsection (4) a special contribution thereto is made in
the relevant period by the relevant person whereby any of his
employees engaged in activities relating to the production of the
relevant gross income or gross income of the relevant person from
the business for the basis period for a year of assessment (that basis
period being prior to the relevant period) may qualify for the benefits
under that scheme, the Director General may when approving that
scheme authorize deductions in respect of that special contribution of
such amounts (being amounts which in total are equal to or less than
the special contribution) from the gross income of the relevant person
from the business for the basis periods for such years of assessment
as he thinks fit.
(6) There may be deducted from the relevant gross income
(a) an amount equal to any payroll tax paid by the relevant
person in the relevant period in respect of any
remuneration paid by him to any person employed by him
in the production of gross income of his from the
business;
(b) an amount equal to any turnover tax in respect of the
turnover of the business paid by the relevant person in the
relevant period;
(c) where any part of the relevant gross income is derived
from the working of a mine, such amounts in respect of
capital expenditure as may be allowed for the relevant
period pursuant to Schedule 2;
(d) where any part of the relevant gross income is derived
from the working of a farm relating to cultivation of
crops, an amount equal to any expense (not being an
expense which is qualifying expenditure or qualifying
agriculture expenditure for the purposes of Schedule 3 or
incurred in the acquisition of land or anything growing
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thereon) incurred by the relevant person in the relevant

period in replanting the farm for the purposes of
cultivation of crops or in effecting any improvement of
the farm or any part of the farm in connection with such
replanting;
(e) an amount equal to the amount of expenditure incurred by
the relevant person in the relevant period on the provision
of any equipment, or on the alteration or renovation of
premises, necessary to assist any disabled person
employed by him in the production of gross income of his
from the business;
(f) an amount equal to the expenditure incurred by the
relevant person in the relevant period in respect of
translation into or publication in the national language of
cultural, literary, professional, scientific or technical
books approved by the Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka;
(g) an amount equal to the expenditure incurred by the
relevant person in the relevant period on the provision of
library facilities which are accessible to the public and in
respect of contributions to public libraries and libraries of
schools and institutions of higher education:
Provided that the amount that may be deducted shall not
exceed one hundred thousand ringgit;
(h) an amount equal to the expenditure incurred by the
relevant person in the relevant period on the provision of
services, public amenities and contributions to a charity or
community project pertaining to education, health,
housing, conservation or preservation of environment,
enhancement of income of the poor, infrastructure and
information and communication technology, approved by
the Minister:
Provided that where a deduction has been made under
this paragraph, no further deduction of the same amount
shall be allowed under subsection 44(6);
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(ha) an amount equal to the expenditure incurred by a

company on the provision of infrastructure in relation to
its business which is available for public use, subject to
the prior approval of the Minister:
Provided that where a deduction has been made under
this paragraph, no further deduction of the same amount
shall be allowed under subsection 44(6);
(i) an amount equal to the expenditure incurred, not being
capital expenditure on land, premises, buildings,
structures or works of a permanent nature or on
alterations, additions or extensions thereof or in the
acquisition of any rights in or over any property, by the
relevant person in the relevant period on the provision and
maintenance of a child care centre for the benefit of
persons employed by him in his business;
(j) an amount equal to the expenditure incurred by the
relevant person in the relevant period in establishing and
managing a musical or cultural group approved by the
Minister;
(k) an amount equal to the expenditure incurred by the
relevant person in the relevant period for sponsoring any
arts, cultural or heritage activity approved by the Ministry
of Information, Communication and Culture:
Provided that the amount deducted in respect of
expenditure incurred for sponsoring those activities shall
not in aggregate exceed five hundred thousand ringgit of
which the amount deducted in respect of expenditure
incurred in sponsoring foreign arts, cultural or heritage
activity shall not exceed two hundred thousand ringgit;
(k) an amount equal to the expenditure incurred by the
company in the relevant period on the provision of a
scholarship to a student for any course of study leading to
an award of a diploma, or degree (including a degree at a
Masters or Doctorate level) or the equivalent of a diploma
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or degree undertaken at a higher educational institution

established or registered under the laws regulating such
establishment or registration in Malaysia or authorized by
any order made under section 5A of the Universities and
University Colleges Act 1971 [Act 30]:
Provided that the scholarship
(a) shall only be given to a student
(i) who is receiving full-time instruction at
such higher educational institution;
(ii) who has no means of his own; and
(iii) the total monthly income of whose parents
or guardian, as the case may be, does not
exceed five thousand ringgit; and
(b) shall not include payments other than payments
required by such higher educational institution
relating to the course of study, and educational
aids and reasonable cost of living expenses during
the students period of study at such higher
educational institution;
(m) an amount equal to the expenditure, not being capital
expenditure, incurred by a company in the relevant
period for the purpose of obtaining accreditation for a
laboratory or a certification body, as evidenced by a
certificate issued by the Department of Standards
Malaysia:
Provided that the expenditure incurred in the relevant
period shall be deemed to be incurred by that company in
the basis period for the year of assessment in which the
certificate is issued;
(ma) an amount twice the amount of the expenditure, not being
capital expenditure, incurred by a company in the relevant
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period for the purpose of obtaining certification for

recognized quality systems and standards, and halal
certification, evidence by a certificate issued by a
certification body as determined by the Minister:
Provided that the expenditure incurred in the relevant
period shall be deemed to be incurred by that company in
the basis period for the year of assessment in which the
certificate is issued;
(n) an amount equal to the expenditure incurred by a person
in the relevant period on the provision of practical training
in Malaysia, in relation to his business, to an individual
who is
(i) resident in the basis year for a year of assessment; and
(ii) not an employee of that person; and
(o) an amount equal to the expenditure incurred by a
company in a relevant period for participating in
international standardization activities approved by the
department of Standards Malaysia.
(7) There may be deducted from the relevant gross income any
expenditure, not being capital expenditure incurred on plant,
machinery, fixtures, land, premises, buildings, structures or works of
a permanent nature or on alterations, additions or extensions thereof
or in the acquisition of any rights in or over any property, incurred by
the relevant person during the relevant period on scientific research
related to the business and directly undertaken by him or on his
behalf.
(8) Where any deduction in respect of any matter is capable of
being made under this section, no deduction or allowance in respect
of that matter shall be made under section 33 or Schedule 3, as the
case may be.
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Special deduction for research expenditure

34A. (1) Subject to this section, in ascertaining the adjusted income of a
person from a business for the basis period for a year of assessment, a
deduction shall be made, as specified in subsection (4), from the gross
income from the business for that period in respect of expenditure, not
being capital expenditure incurred on plant, machinery, fixtures, land,
premises, buildings, structures or works of a permanent nature or on
alterations, additions or extensions thereof or in the acquisition of any
rights in or over any property, incurred by that person during that period
on research approved by the Minister
(a) (Deleted by Act 693);
(b) (Deleted by Act 693).
(2) The Minister in approving the research pursuant to
subsection (1) may impose such conditions as he thinks fit or

may specify the period or periods for the purpose of deduction
under this section.
(3) (Deleted by Act 693).
(4) The amount of deduction to be made under subsection (1) shall
be twice the amount of expenditure, not being capital expenditure,
referred to in that subsection:
Provided that where subsection (4A) applies, the amount of
deduction to be made shall be the amount of expenditure incurred.
(4A) A pioneer company may, in a return of income for the year of
assessment in which the expenditure referred to in subsection (1) had
been incurred, elect that the amount of that expenditure be deducted
in the first basis period in respect of its post-pioneer business for a
year of assessment.
(5) Where any deduction in respect of expenditure on research is
made under this section, no deduction in respect of that expenditure
shall be made under section 33 or 34.
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(6) For the purposes of this section, the words pioneer company
and post-pioneer business have the respective meanings assigned to
them under the Promotion of Investments Act 1986.
Special deduction for contribution to an approved research

institute or payment for use of services of an approved research
institute or company
34B. (1) Subject to this section, in ascertaining the adjusted income
of a person from a business for the basis period for a year of
assessment, a deduction shall be made, as specified in subsection (2),
from the gross income from the business for that period in respect of
expenditure, not being capital expenditure, incurred by that person
during that period in respect of
(a) contribution in cash to an approved research institute;
(b) payment for the use of the services of an approved
research institute or an approved research company; or
(c) a contract research and development company and a
research and development company have the same
meaning assigned thereto in section 2 of the Promotion of
Investments Act 1986 and fulfills the conditions specified
by the relevant Ministry;
(d) a related company has the meaning assigned to it in
section 2 of the Promotion of Investments Act 1986.
(2) The amount of deduction to be made under subsection (1) shall
be twice the amount of expenditure, not being capital expenditure,
referred to in that subsection:
Provided that no deduction in respect of that expenditure shall be
made under this section to a person being a related company of a
research and development company which has been given approval
under subsection 27D(1) of the Promotion of Investments Act 1986
and whose period as prescribed under paragraph 29E(2)(b) of that Act
has not ended.
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(3) Where any deduction in respect of expenditure referred to in

subsection (1) is made under this section, no deduction in respect of
that expenditure shall be made under section 33, 34 or 34A.
(4) In this section
(a) an approved research institute means an institute,
including a company licensed under section 24 of the
Companies Act 1965, approved by the Minister to mainly
carry on research in an industry specified in the approval
and to commercially exploit the benefit of such research
thereof;
(b) an approved research company means a company, other
than a company licensed under section 24 of the
Companies Act 1965, approved by the Minister to mainly
carry on research in an industry specified in the approval
and to commercially exploit the benefit of such research
thereof;
(c) a contract research and development company, a
related company and a research and development
company have the meaning assigned thereto in section 2
of the Promotion of Investments Act 1986.
Special provision applicable to adjusted income from a discount

or premium
34C. (1) Notwithstanding section 33 but subject to this section, in
ascertaining the adjusted income of a company from a source
consisting of discount or premium, any expenses in respect of the
discount or premium incurred on bond issued or subscribed, as the
case may be, by that company is deemed to accrue to the company
over the whole period of the bond and the amount to be deducted
from the gross income from that source for the basis period for a year
of assessment that relates to the period of the bond shall be a sum to
be determined in accordance with the following formula:
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AxC
B
where
is the number of days in the basis period for

the year of assessment that falls within the
period of the bond;
is the total number of days of the whole period

of the bond; and
is the total amount of discount or premium

incurred in respect of the bond:
Provided that the Director General may allow the company to

consistently apply any other formula which is in accordance with the
generally accepted accounting principles applicable during that basis
period.
(1A) For the purpose of subsection (1), where by reason of an
insufficiency or absence of gross income of a company from a source
consisting of discount or premium for the basis period for a year of
assessment, effect cannot be given or cannot be given in full to any
amount of discount falling to be deducted to that company for that
basis period in relation to that source, that amount which has not been
so deducted shall be allowed as a deduction in arriving at the adjusted
income of that company from any source or sources consisting of a
business for that basis period:
Provided that the proceeds from the issuance of the bond that
relates to that amount are utilized wholly by that company for the
production of gross income from any source or sources consisting of
that business.
(1B) This section shall not apply if in the basis period for a year of
assessment the bond issued or subscribed forms part of the stock in
trade of a business of a company.
(2) Where any deduction in respect of expenditure referred to in
subsection (1) or (1A) is made under this section, no deduction in
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respect of that expenditure shall be made under section 33, 34, 34A or
34B.
Special deduction for expenditure on treasury shares
34D. (1) Notwithstanding section 33 but subject to this section, in
ascertaining the adjusted income of a company from a business for
the basis period for a year of assessment, a deduction shall be made
from the gross income for that period any expenses incurred by that
company in acquiring treasury shares.
(2) The amount of deduction referred to in subsection (1)
(a) shall be the cost of acquiring the treasury shares which are
transferred to its employee less any amount payable by
that employee for such treasury shares; and
(b) shall be allowed in the basis period for a year of
assessment where the employee exercised his rights to
acquire such treasury shares.
(3) For the purpose of subsection (2), the cost of acquiring
treasury shares which are transferred to its employee shall be
determined on the basis that the treasury shares acquired by the
company at an earlier point in time are deemed to be transferred first.
(4) Where any amount payable by an employee for any treasury
shares transferred to him exceeds the cost to the company of acquiring
the treasury shares transferred as provided under subsection (3), the
amount of the excess shall be credited to an account to be kept by the
company for the purpose of this section.
(5) Where there is any balance in the account kept by the
company under subsection (4) and any treasury shares are
subsequently transferred by the company to any employee under
subsection (1), the cost to the company of acquiring the treasury
shares as determined under subsection (3) shall be reduced
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(a) where the amount of the balance is equal to or exceeds the

amount of the cost, to zero; or
(b) where the amount of the balance is less than the amount of
the cost, by the amount of the balance,
and the amount of the reduction shall be debited to the account.
(6) For the purpose of this section, a company transfers treasury
shares held by it to an employee when the employee acquires the
legal and beneficial interest in the treasury shares.
(7) Where a holding company transfers treasury shares held by it
to any employee employed at any time by a subsidiary company of
the holding company who has the right to acquire such shares
(a) no deduction shall be allowed to the holding company
under subsection (1);
(b) if any amount is paid or payable by the subsidiary
company to the holding company for the transfer of the
treasury shares, there shall be allowed to the subsidiary
company, on the date of the transfer of the shares or of the
payment to the holding company for the shares, whichever
is the later, a deduction under subsection (1) for the
amount, or an amount equal to the cost to the holding
company of acquiring the treasury shares transferred to
the employee of the subsidiary less any amount payable
by that employee for the treasury shares, whichever is
less.
Stock in trade
35. (1) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Part, in
ascertaining the adjusted income of a person from a business for the
basis period for a year of assessment, the value of the stock in trade
of the business at the beginning and at the end of that period shall be
taken into account in accordance with the following subsections (that
person, business, period and stock in trade being referred to in those
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subsections as the relevant person, the business, the relevant period

and the stock respectively).
(2) Where the value of the stock at the end of the relevant period
exceeds the value of the stock at the beginning of the relevant period,
the total of all amounts otherwise deductible under this Act in
ascertaining the adjusted income of the relevant person from the
business for the relevant period shall be reduced by the amount of the
excess; and, where the value of the stock at the beginning of the
relevant period exceeds the value of the stock at the end of the
relevant period, the total of all amounts otherwise so deductible shall
be increased by the amount of the excess.
(3) Subject to subsections (4) and (5)
(a) the value of any particular item of the stock at the end of
the relevant period shall be taken to be
(i) an amount equal to its market value at that time; or
(ii) if the relevant person so elects and that item is
physically tangible, an amount equal to the total
cost to him of acquiring that item (or any materials
used in its manufacture, preparation or
construction) and bringing it to its condition and
location at that time:
Provided that in the case of any item of the stock
consisting of immovable properties, stocks, shares or
marketable securities, the value thereof at the end of the
relevant period shall be taken to be an amount equal to its
cost price to that relevant person or its market value at that
time, whichever is the lower;
(b) the value of any particular item of the stock at the
beginning of the relevant period (except where the
business was commenced by the relevant person in the
relevant period) shall be taken to be an amount equal to its
value as ascertained under paragraph (a) at the end of the
basis period for the year of assessment immediately
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preceding the year of assessment to which the relevant

period relates.
(4) Where
(a) by virtue of section 41 this Chapter applies in relation to
the business as if an accounting period were the relevant
period; and
(b) a previous period for which the accounts of the business
were made up ended immediately prior to that accounting
period,
the reference in paragraph (3)(b) to the basis period for the year of
assessment immediately preceding the year of assessment to which
the relevant period relates shall be construed as a reference to that
previous period.
(5) Where during the relevant period the relevant person
permanently ceases to carry on the business, then
(a) if
(i) at or about the time he so ceases any of what was
the stock in trade of the business is sold or

transferred for valuable consideration by that
person to another person and that other person
intends to use that transferred stock in the business
or in another business of his; and
(ii) the cost of that transferred stock to that other
person is deductible as an expense in computing
that other persons adjusted income for the basis
period for a year of assessment from the business
or from that other business of his,
the value of that transferred stock at the time he so
ceases shall be taken to be an amount equal to the
price paid on the sale or to the value of the
consideration, as the case may be, and shall be taken
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to be the value of that stock at the end of the relevant

period;
(b) the value of any of what was at the time he so ceases the
stock in trade of the business to which paragraph (a) does
not apply shall be taken to be an amount equal to its
market value at the time he so ceases and shall be taken to
be the value thereof at the end of the relevant period;
(c) for the purposes of paragraph (a)
(i) where any of the stock in trade is sold or
transferred for a consideration in cash or its
equivalent with other assets of the business, the
total consideration given for that transferred stock
in trade and those assets shall be apportioned in
such manner as is just and reasonable;
(ii) where any of the stock in trade is transferred (with
or without other assets) for a consideration other
than cash or its equivalent, the value of the
consideration shall be taken to be an amount equal
to the market value of the consideration at the date
of the transfer and, if that stock in trade is
transferred with other assets, that amount shall be
apportioned in such manner as is just and
reasonable; and
(iii) where any of the stock in trade is transferred (with
or without other assets) for a consideration which
partly does and partly does not consist of cash or
its equivalent, the value of the consideration shall
be taken to be an amount equal to that cash or its
equivalent together with the market value of the
rest of the consideration and, if that stock in trade
is transferred with other assets, that amount shall
be apportioned in such manner as is just and
reasonable; and
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(d) where any stock in trade is sold or transferred to another

person in a case to which paragraph (a) applies, the cost to
that other person of that stock in trade shall in computing
the adjusted income of that person from the business (or
from any other business of his in which he uses or intends
to use any of that stock in trade) be taken to be an amount
equal to its value as ascertained under that paragraph.
Power to direct special treatment in the computation of business

income in certain cases
36. (1) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Part, where the
Director General is satisfied that there is a need for some treatment in
computing
(a) the gross income from a business with respect to
(i) a hire-purchase transaction;
(ii) a transaction under which a debt is payable by
instalments;
(iii) a lease transaction in respect of moveable property;
(iv) any other transaction involving a debt or stock in
trade; or
(v) such other transaction as may be prescribed; and
(b) the adjusted income and statutory income from the
business,
he may give directions and formulate regulations to be published in
the Gazette for special treatment with respect to any such transaction,
either in relation to a particular business or in relation to any business
having any such transaction:
Provided that no such directions and regulations shall have effect in
relation to a business for any year of assessment with respect to
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which an assessment wholly or partly relating to income from that

business has become final and conclusive or is the subject of an
appeal which has been sent forward to the Special Commissioners.
(2) Any direction given under subsection (1) with respect to the
gross income, adjusted income and statutory income from a business
or businesses may
(a) provide that the gross income to which it relates (or any
part thereof) shall be taken to be gross income for such
basis period or periods for such year or years of
assessment with respect to that business or those
businesses as may be specified in the direction;
(b) provide for
ascertainment
income from
basis period
assessment.
special treatment with respect to the

of the adjusted income and statutory
that business or those businesses for the
or periods for any year or years of

Special provisions applicable to adjusted income from an
employment
38. (1) Subject to this section
(a) where an employees gross income from an employment
includes for the basis period for a year of assessment any
amount ascertained in accordance with subsection 32(1) in
respect of any benefit or amenity consisting of furniture
provided by or on behalf of his employer in conjunction
with living accommodation, there may be deducted from
that gross income the amount of any rent payable by that
employee for that period for that accommodation and
furniture, less the amount of any deduction made in
respect of that rent under paragraph (b); and
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(b) where an employees gross income from an employment

includes for the basis period for a year of assessment any
amount ascertained in accordance with subsection 32(2)
or (3) in respect of living accommodation provided by or
on behalf of his employer, there may be deducted from
that gross income expenses of the following kind:
(i) the amount of any public rates or insurance
premiums payable by the employee in respect of
that accommodation for that period;
(ii) any expenses incurred for the repair or
maintenance of the premises (excluding expenses
of a capital nature and expenses incurred in
connection with the upkeep of land attached to the
premises for use by way of amenity as garden or
grounds) which the employee, pursuant to the
terms on which that accommodation is so
provided, is legally bound to meet in respect of
that accommodation during that period;
(iii) where
the
accommodation
is
provided
unfurnished, any rent payable by the employee for
that accommodation for that period;
(iv) where the accommodation is provided furnished
and is held by or on behalf of the employer on
lease at what would be an economic rent if so
much of the rent as relates to the furniture were to
be disregarded, so much of any rent payable by the
employee for that period as bears to the whole of
the rent so payable the same proportion as the
economic rent of the accommodation bears to the
rent payable by or on behalf of the employer for
that period; and
(v) where the accommodation is provided furnished
and subparagraph (iv) does not apply, so much of
any rent payable by the employee for that period
as bears to the whole rent so payable the same
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proportion as the defined value of
accommodation bears to the aggregate of
economic rent for that period and the rent for
period appropriate to the market value of
furniture provided in conjunction with
accommodation.
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the
the
that
the
that
(2) Where living accommodation is provided for only part of a

basis period, the expenses referred to in paragraph (1)(b) shall be
restricted to such of those expenses as are payable for that part under
that subsection or as are bound to be met during that part under that
subsection, as the case may be.
(3) The total amount deducted under this section from an
employees gross income from an employment for the basis period
for a year of assessment shall not exceed the total of the amounts
included in that gross income
(a) by virtue of subsection 32(1) in respect of any benefit or
amenity consisting of furniture provided by or on behalf of
an employer in conjunction with living accommodation; and
(b) by virtue of subsection 32(2) or (3).
(4) Where an employees gross income from an employment
includes for the basis period for a year of assessment any amount
ascertained in accordance with subsection 32(2) or (3) in respect of
living accommodation provided by or on behalf of his employer, any
expense to which subparagraph (1)(b)(ii) applies in relation to that
basis period (or a part of that basis period) shall, if it is payable for a
period which overlaps that basis period or that part, be apportioned in
the manner provided by subsection (6); and for the purposes of this
section regard shall be had only to so much of that expense as is so
apportioned to that basis period or that part.
(5) Where any amount is included in gross income
(a) by virtue of subsection 32(1) in respect of any benefit or
amenity consisting of furniture provided by or on behalf of an
employer in conjunction with living accommodation; or
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(b) by virtue of subsection 32(2) or (3),

no deduction shall be made under section 33 in respect of any
outgoings and expenses incurred or which might be included as
incurred in the production of that part of the gross income consisting
of that amount.
(6) In the application of subsection (4) in relation to a persons
gross income from his employment where the expenses, to which
subparagraph (1)(b)(ii) applies is payable for a period (in this
subsection referred to as the overlapping period) which overlaps
the basis period or part of the basis period, the amount of the expense
to be deducted from that gross income shall be determined in
accordance with the following formula:
AxC
B
where
is the number of days living accommodation is

provided in the basis period or part of the basis
period that falls in the overlapping period;
is the total number of days in the overlapping

period; and
is the amount of expenses to which subparagraph

(1)(b)(ii) applies.
Limitation on deduction of entertainment expenses

38A. Where an employees gross income from an employment
under subsection 13(1) includes for the basis period for a year of
assessment any entertainment allowance, the amount of expenses
deductible under subsection 33(1) in respect of entertainment by the
employee, shall not exceed the amount of such entertainment
allowance included in that gross income.
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Deductions not allowed

39. (1) Subject to any express provision of this Act, in ascertaining
the adjusted income of any person from any source for the basis
period for a year of assessment no deduction from the gross income
from that source for that period shall be allowed in respect of
(a) domestic or private expenses;
(b) any disbursements or expenses not being money wholly
and exclusively laid out or expended for the purpose of
producing the gross income;
(c) any capital withdrawn or any sum employed or intended
to be employed as capital;
(d) any amount in respect of any payment to any pension,
provident, savings, widows, widowers and orphans or
other similar fund or society which is not an approved
scheme;
(e) any expenditure incurred in relation to a business, being
expenditure which is
(i) qualifying mining expenditure for the purposes of
Schedule 2;
(ii) qualifying expenditure, qualifying agriculture
expenditure or qualifying forest expenditure for
the purposes of Schedule 3; or
(iii) qualifying prospecting
purposes of Schedule 4,
expenditure
for
the
and which but for this paragraph would be deductible in

ascertaining the adjusted income from the business;
(f) interest or royalty derived from Malaysia from which tax
is deductible under section 109, if tax has not been
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deducted therefrom and paid to the Director General in

accordance with subsection (1) of that section:
Provided that
(i) this paragraph shall not apply if the payer has paid
the amount referred to in subsection (2) of that
section; and
(ii) where such tax is deducted or such amount is paid
after the due date for the furnishing of a return for
a year of assessment that relates to such payment,
the tax or amount so paid shall not prejudice the
imposition of penalty under subsection 113(2) if a
deduction on such payment is made in such return
or is claimed in the information given to the
Director General in arriving at the adjusted income
of the payer;
(g) any sum, by whatever name called, payable (otherwise
than to a State Government or with the approval of the
Minister, a statutory authority, or other body the capital or
fund of which is wholly or substantially owned by a State
Government or a statutory authority) for the use of a
licence or permit to extract timber from a forest in
Malaysia;
(h) (Deleted by Act 619);
(i) any contract payment from which tax is deductible under
section 107A, if tax has not been deducted therefrom and paid
to the Director General in accordance with subsection (1) of
that section:
Provided that
section; and
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of the payer;
(j) any payments from which tax is deductible under
section 109B, or 109F if tax has not been deducted
therefrom and paid to the Director General in
accordance with subsection (1) of that section:
Provided that
section; and
of the payer;
(k) any sum paid by way of rentals in respect of a motor
vehicle, other than a motor vehicle licensed by the
appropriate authority for commercial transportation of
goods or passengers, in excess of fifty thousand ringgit:
Provided that if the motor vehicle has not been used
by any person for any purpose prior to the rental and the
total cost of the motor vehicle does not exceed one
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hundred and fifty thousand ringgit, any sum paid by way

of rental in excess of one hundred thousand ringgit:
Provided further that the maximum amount of
deduction in respect of the rentals of such motor vehicle in
the year of assessment and subsequent years of assessment
shall not in the aggregate exceed fifty thousand ringgit or
one hundred thousand ringgit, as the case may be, in
respect of that motor vehicle;
(l) a sum equal to fifty percent of any expenses incurred in
the provision of entertainment including any sums paid to
an employee of that person for the purpose of defraying
expenses incurred by that employee in the provision of
entertainment:
Provided that this paragraph shall not apply to the
following expenses:
(i) the provision of entertainment to his employees
except where such provision is incidental to the
provision of entertainment for others;
(ii) the provision of entertainment by a person who
carries on a business which consists of or includes
the provision for payment of entertainment to
clients or customers of that business and that
entertainment is provided for payment by the
clients or customers in the ordinary course of that
business;
(iii) the provision of promotional gifts at trade fairs or
trade or industrial exhibitions held outside
Malaysia for the promotion of exports from
Malaysia;
(iv) the provision of promotional samples of products
of the business of that person;
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(v) the provision of entertainment for cultural or

sporting events open to members of the public,
wholly to promote the business of that person;
(vi) the provision of promotional gifts within Malaysia
consisting of articles incorporating a conspicuous
advertisement or logo of the business; or
(vii) the provision of entertainment which is related
wholly to sales arising from the business of that
person;
(viii) the provision of a benefit or amenity to an
employee consisting of a leave passage to facilitate
a yearly event within Malaysia which involves the
employer, the employee and the immediate family
members of that employee; or
(m) notwithstanding subparagraph (l)(i), and subject to
subparagraph (l)(viii) any expenditure incurred in the

provision of a benefit or amenity to an employee
consisting of a leave passage within or outside Malaysia;
or
(n) any remuneration or any similar payment paid to a
partner of a limited liability partnership where such
remuneration or payment is not specified or provided in
the limited liability partnership agreement made in
accordance with section 9 of the Limited Liability
Partnerships Act 2012.
(1A) Notwithstanding any provision of this Act, where a person is
required under section 81 to furnish to the Director General any
information within the time specified in a notice or such other time as
may be allowed by the Director General, and that information
concerns wholly or in part a deduction claimed by that person in
arriving at the adjusted income of that person from any source for the
basis period for a year of assessment, no deduction from the gross
income from that source for that period shall be allowed in respect of
such claim if the person fails to provide such information within the
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time specified in that notice or such extended time as allowed by the

Director General.
(2) It is hereby declared that section 33, except in so far as it
relates to expenses of the kind specified in paragraphs (1)(a) to (d)
thereof, is not an express provision of this Act within the meaning of
this section.
(3) Paragraphs (1)(f), (i) and (j) shall not apply if for a year of
assessment a person is exempt under paragraph 127(3)(b) or
subsection 127(3A) or the Promotion of Investments Act 1986, in
respect of all income of that person from all sources not being
exemption on income equal to capital expenditure incurred.
Adjusted loss
40. Subject to this Act, where but for an insufficiency of gross
income of a person from a business for the basis period for a year of
assessment there would have been an amount of adjusted income of
that person from the business for that period, the amount by which
the total of all such deductions as would then have been allowed
under the foregoing provisions of this Chapter in ascertaining that
adjusted income exceeds his gross income from the business for that
period shall be taken to be the amount of his adjusted loss from the
business for that period.
Ascertainment of adjusted income or adjusted loss from a
business for an accounting period
41. (1) Subject to this section, where for the purposes of this Act it
is necessary to ascertain the adjusted income or adjusted loss of a
person from a business for the basis period for a year of assessment
(that basis period being in this section referred to as the relevant
period) and accounts of the business have not been made up for the
relevant period
(a) that persons adjusted income or adjusted loss from the
business shall be ascertained for any accounting period for
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which accounts of the business have been made up (being

a period which either falls into or overlaps the relevant
period) by applying Chapters 3 and 4, whenever and as
often as may be necessary, as if that accounting period
were the basis period for that year of assessment;
(b) such apportionment of the adjusted income or adjusted
loss for any such accounting period, and such aggregation
of the adjusted income or adjusted loss for any such
accounting period (or of any apportioned part thereof)
with the adjusted income or adjusted loss (or any
apportioned part thereof) for any other such accounting
period, shall be made as is necessary to arrive at the
adjusted income or the adjusted loss for the relevant
period; and
(c) the adjusted income or the adjusted loss so arrived at shall
constitute the adjusted income or the adjusted loss, as the
case may be, from the business for the relevant period.
(2) The apportionment referred to in paragraph (1)(b) shall be
made in relation to any accounting period which overlaps the relevant
period, the apportionment being made, unless the Director General
having regard to the circumstances of any particular case otherwise
directs, in the proportion that the number of days of the overlapping
period that fall into the relevant period bears to the total number of
days of the overlapping period.
(3) This section shall not apply if there is any part of the relevant
period for which no accounts of the business have been made up.
Chapter 5Statutory income
Statutory income
42. (1) Subject to this Act, the statutory income (if any) of a
person from a source for a year of assessment (that year of
assessment being in this section referred to as the relevant year) shall
consist of
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(a) the amount of his adjusted income (if any) from that
source for the basis period for the relevant year; and
(b) the amount of
(i) any balancing charge or the aggregate amount of
the balancing charges;
(ii) any agriculture charge or the aggregate amount of
the agriculture charges; and
(iii) any forest charge or the aggregate amount of the
forest charges,
falling to be made for the relevant year under Schedule 3
in relation to that source,
reduced by the amount of any allowance or the aggregate amount of
the allowances falling to be made for the relevant year under that
Schedule in relation to that source.
(2) Where the basis period for the relevant year overlaps the basis
period for the immediately preceding year of assessment, the amount
of adjusted income for the basis period for the relevant year shall be
taken to be reduced by a sum determined in accordance with the
formula
AxB
C
where
is the amount of the adjusted income for the basis

period for the relevant year;
is the length of the period of the overlap; and
is the length of the basis period for the relevant year.
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Chapter 6 - Aggregate income and total income
Aggregate income
43. (1) Subject to this Act, the aggregate income of a person for a
year of assessment (that person and year of assessment being in this
section referred to as the relevant person and the relevant year
respectively) shall consist of
(a) the aggregate of his statutory income, if any, for the
relevant year from each of his sources consisting of a
business, reduced by any deduction falling to be made for
the relevant year pursuant to subsection (2);
(b) the aggregate of his statutory income, if any, for the
relevant year from each of his other sources; and
(c) any additions falling to be made for the relevant year
pursuant to Schedule 4.
(2) Subject to subsections (3) and (5), there shall be deducted
under paragraph (1)(a) pursuant to this subsection from the aggregate
of the relevant persons statutory income from each of his sources
consisting of a business for the relevant year the amount ascertained
under subsection 44(4) or (5) for any particular year of assessment
preceding the relevant year or, where that amount exceeds that
aggregate, so much of that amount as is equal to that aggregate:
Provided that, where a deduction has been made or may be made
pursuant to this subsection from the aggregate of the relevant
persons statutory income from each of his sources consisting of a
business for a year of assessment following the particular year in
question or for more than one year of assessment following that
particular year and in either such case ending prior to the relevant
year, then, for the purposes of the application of this subsection for
the relevant year, there shall be substituted in place of the amount
ascertained under subsection 44(4) or (5) for that particular year so
much, if any, of that amount as has not been deducted for the year of
assessment following that particular year or, as the case may be, for
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those years of assessment following that particular year and ending

prior to the relevant year.
(3) For the purposes of subsection (2), the reference to the amount
ascertained under subsection 44(4) or (5) for a particular year shall,
whenever necessary, be taken to be a reference to the aggregate of
(a) that amount for the particular year; and
(b) so much of any such amount for a year of assessment
preceding the particular year as has not been deducted
pursuant to subsection (2) from the aggregate of the
relevant persons statutory income from each of his
sources consisting of a business for the particular year or
for a year of assessment preceding the particular year.
(4) For the purposes of subsection (1), a person who for a year of
assessment has no statutory income from a source of his or no
aggregate statutory income of the kinds referred to in paragraphs
(1)(a) and (b) shall be regarded as having for that year a statutory
income of zero from that source or, as the case may be, an aggregate
statutory income of the kind referred to in paragraph (1)(a) or the
kind referred to in paragraph (1)(b), as the case may be, of zero.
(6) A reference in this section to the aggregate of the relevant
persons statutory income from each of his sources consisting of a
business or from each of his other sources shall where he has only
one source consisting of a business or only one other source, be
construed as a reference to his statutory income from that one source
consisting of a business or from that one other source, as the case
may be.
Total income
*44. (1) The total income of a person for a year of assessment (that
person and year of assessment being in this section referred to as the
* NOTE - See section 10 of Act 644 for explanation
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relevant person and the relevant year respectively) shall consist of the
amount of his aggregate income for the relevant year reduced
(a) first, by any deduction falling to be made for the relevant
year pursuant to subsection (2);
(b) next, by any deduction falling to be so made pursuant to
Schedule 4 or 4B ;
(c) next, by any deduction falling to be so made pursuant to
subsection (6) or (6A);
(d) next, by any deduction falling to be so made pursuant to
subsection (8), (9), (10), (11), (11A), (11B) or (11C);
(e) next, by any deduction falling to be so made pursuant to
section 44A; and
(f) thereafter, by any deduction falling to be so made
pursuant to section 44B.
(2) Subject to subsections (3) and (5), there shall be deducted
pursuant to this subsection from the aggregate income of the relevant
person for the relevant year the amount of any adjusted loss from a
source of his for the basis period for the relevant year or, where there
is an adjusted loss from each of two or more sources of his for the
appropriate basis period for each source for the relevant year, the
aggregate of the adjusted loss from each of those sources for its
appropriate basis period for the relevant year.
(3) For the purposes of subsection (2), where in relation to a source
the basis period for the relevant year overlaps the basis period for the
immediately preceding year of assessment, the amount of the
adjusted loss from that source for the basis period for the relevant
year shall be taken to be reduced by a sum which bears the same
proportion to that amount as the length of the period of the overlap
bears to the length of the basis period for the relevant year and the
amount of that loss as so reduced shall be taken to be the amount of
the adjusted loss from that source for the basis period for the relevant
year.
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(4) Where the relevant person has no aggregate income for the
relevant year, there shall be ascertained for the purposes of section 43
the amount of any adjusted loss from a source of his for the basis
period for the relevant year or the aggregate of any adjusted loss from
each of his sources for its appropriate basis period for the relevant
year, as the case may be, which would have fallen to have been
deducted pursuant to subsection (2) but for the absence of aggregate
income.
(5) Where the amount referred to in subsection (4) exceeds the
relevant persons aggregate income for the relevant year, so much of
that amount as is equal to that aggregate income shall be deducted
pursuant to subsection (2) and there shall be ascertained for the
purposes of section 43 the amount of that excess.
(5A) The amount ascertained under subsection (4) or (5) for any
relevant year in respect of a company shall be disregarded for the
purposes of section 43 unless the Director General is satisfied that the
shareholders of that company on the last day of the basis period for
that relevant year in which such amount is ascertained were
substantially the same as the shareholders of that company on the
first day of the basis period for the year of assessment in which such
amount would otherwise be deductible under that section and such
amount disregarded shall not be allowed as a deduction in subsequent
years of assessment.
(5B) For the purpose of subsection (5A)
(a) the shareholders of the company at any date shall be
substantially the same as the shareholders at any other
date if on both those dates
(i) more than fifty per cent of the paid-up capital in
respect of the ordinary share of the company is
held by or on behalf of the same persons; and
(ii) more than fifty per cent of the nominal value of the
alloted shares in respect of ordinary share in the
company is held by or on behalf of the same
persons; and
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(b) shares in the company held by or on behalf of another

company shall be deemed to be held by the shareholders
of the last mentioned company.
(5C) In subsection (5B), ordinary share means any share other
than a share which carries only a right to any dividend which is of
(a) a fixed amount or at a fixed rate per cent of the nominal
value of the shares; or
(b) a fixed rate per cent of the profits of the company.
(5D) Where there is a substantial change in the shareholders of a
company referred to in subsection (5A), the Minister may under
special circumstances exempt that company from the provisions of
that subsection.
(5E) Where a partnership or a company is converted into a limited
liability partnership in accordance with section 29 or 30 of the
Limited Liability Partnerships Act 2012, the amount ascertained
under subsection 44(4) or (5) for any relevant year in respect of that
partnership or company shall be allowed for the purposes of
ascertaining the aggregate income of that limited liability partnership
for a year of assessment following the relevant year.
(6) Subject to subsection (12), there shall be deducted pursuant to
this subsection from the aggregate income of a person for the relevant
year reduced by any deduction falling to be made for that year in
accordance with subsection (1) an amount equal to any gift of money
made by him in the basis year for that year to the Government, a
State Government, a local authority or an institution or organization
approved for the purposes of this section by the Director General on
the application of the institution or organization concerned:
Provided that the amount to be deducted from the aggregate
income for the relevant year in respect of any gift of money made to
any institution or organization approved for the purposes of this
section by the Director General shall not exceed
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(a) in the case of a person other than a company, seven per

cent of the aggregate income of that person in the relevant
year; or
(b) in the case of a company, ten per cent of the aggregate
income of that company in the relevant year.
(6A) Subject to subsection (12), there shall be deducted pursuant to
this subsection from the aggregate income of a person for the relevant
year reduced by any deduction falling to be made for that year in
accordance with subsection (1) an amount equal to the value, as
determined by the Department of Museums Malaysia or the National
Archives of any gift of artefact, manuscript or painting made by him
in the basis year for that year to the Government or State
Government.
(6B) Where an institution or organization is aggrieved by the
decision of the Director General in respect of an application made
under subsection (6), the institution or organization may, within thirty
days after being informed of the decision, appeal to the Minister and
the Minister may make any decision as he considers fit;
(7) In subsection (6)
institution means an institution in Malaysia which is not operated
or conducted primarily for profit and which is
(a) a hospital;
(b) a public or benevolent institution;
(c) a university or other educational institution;
(d) a public authority or society engaged solely in research or
other work connected with the causes, prevention or cure
of disease in human beings;
(e) a
Government-assisted
institution
socio-economic research; or
(f) a technical or vocational training institution;
engaged
in
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organization means an organization in Malaysia which is not

operated or conducted primarily for profit and which is
(a) an organization established and maintained exclusively to
administer and augment a public or private fund
established or held for the sole purpose of the
establishment, enlargement or improvement of an
institution or solely for the provision of a scholarship,
exhibition or prize for an individual for educational work,
research work or other similar work in an institution or in
what would be an institution if it were in Malaysia;
(aa) an organization established and maintained exclusively to
administer and augment a public or private fund
established or held for the sole purpose of carrying out the
objective in which the institution is operated or conducted;
(b) an organization established and maintained exclusively to
administer and augment a public fund established or held
solely for the relief of distress among members of the
public;
(c) an organization established and maintained exclusively to
administer and augment a public fund established and held
solely for the purposes of religious worship or the
advancement of religion and such fund is to be used
(i) for the construction, improvement, purchase or
maintenance of a building in Malaysia which is
(A) intended to be used (and, when constructed
or purchased, is used) exclusively for those
purposes; and
(B) intended to be open (and, when constructed
or purchased, is open) to any member of
the public for those purposes; or
(ii) to provide facilities to carry on the activity related
to those purposes; or
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(iii) to provide for the management of the activity

related to those purposes;
(d) an organization which maintains or assists in maintaining
a zoo, museum, art gallery or similar undertaking or is
engaged in or in connection with the promotion of culture
or the arts;
(e) an organization engaged in or in connection with the
conservation or protection of animals;
(f) a Government-assisted organization engaged solely in
addressing problems relating to industrial and commercial
development and promoting and enhancing the
relationship between the public sector and the private
sector;
(g) a Government-assisted organization established and
maintained exclusively to administer and augment a fund
established or held solely for promoting national unity;
(h) an organization established exclusively
conservation or protection of the environment;
for
the
(i) an international organization as defined under the International

Organization (Privileges and Immunities) Act 1992 [Act 485]
carrying out such charitable activities as determined by
the Minister;
(j) an organization established and maintained exclusively to
administer or augment a fund established or held for the
purpose of carrying out projects towards the acculturation
of the community in information and communication
technology, approved by the Minister; or
(k) a benevolent fund or trust account established or held for
the sole purpose of providing relief or aid to an individual
who has no, or insufficient means, or in the case of a
dependent individual whose parents or guardian has no, or
insufficient means, to pay for the cost of the medical
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treatment required by such individual to treat a serious

disease as defined in subsection 46(2).
(7A) An institution or organization referred to in subsection (7)
(a) may apply not more than twenty-five per cent of its
accumulated funds as at the beginning of the basis period
for the year of assessment for the carrying on of, or
participation in, a business:
Provided that the profits or income derived therefrom
shall be used solely for charitable purposes or for the
primary purpose for which the institution or organization
was established; or
(b) may carry out charitable activities outside Malaysia with
the prior consent of the Minister.
(7B) The reference to the carrying on of, or participation in, a
business in paragraph (7A)(a) shall not include the carrying on of a
business by an institution or organization where
(a) the business is carried on in the course of the actual
carrying out of the primary purpose of the institution or
organization; or
(b) the work in connection with the business is mainly carried
on by persons for whose benefit the institution or
organization was established.
this subsection from the aggregate income of a person to whom
paragraph 34(6)(g) does not apply, for the relevant year reduced by
any deduction for that year in accordance with subsection (1) an
amount equal to any gift of money made by him in the basis year for
that year, for the provision of library facilities which are accessible to
the public, to public libraries and libraries of schools and institutions
of higher education, not exceeding twenty thousand ringgit.
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(9) There shall be deducted pursuant to this subsection from the

aggregate income of a relevant person who is an individual for the
relevant year reduced by any deduction for that year in accordance
with subsection (1) an amount equal to any gift of money or
contribution in kind (the value to be determined by the relevant local
authority) made by him in the basis year for that year for the
provision of facilities in public places for the benefit of disabled
persons.
(10) There shall be deducted pursuant to this subsection from the
aggregate income of a relevant person who is an individual for the
with subsection (1) an amount equal to any gift of money or the cost
or value (as certified by the Ministry of Health) of any gift of medical
equipment made by him in the basis year for that year to any
healthcare facility approved by that Ministry, and that amount shall
not exceed twenty thousand ringgit.
this subsection from the aggregate income of a relevant person for the
with subsection (1) an amount equal to the value of any gift of
painting (to be determined by the National Art Gallery or any state art
gallery) made by him in the basis year for that year to the National
Art Gallery or any state art gallery.
(11A) There shall be deducted pursuant to this subsection from the
aggregate income of a person other than an offshore company
excluding chargeable offshore company and individual for the
with subsection (1) an amount equal to the payment of zakat
perniagaan which is paid in the basis period for that relevant year to
an appropriate religious authority established under any written law
or any person authorized by such religious authority:
Provided that the amount to be deducted pursuant to this
subsection shall not exceed one-fortieth of the aggregate income of
that person in the relevant year.
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(11B) There shall be deducted from the aggregate income of a

relevant person for the relevant year reduced by any deduction for
that year in accordance with subsection (1) an amount equal to any
gift of money or cost of contribution in kind made by the relevant
person in the basis period for that year for any sports activity
approved by the Minister or to any sports body approved by the
Commissioner of Sports appointed under the Sports Development
Act 1997 [Act 576]:
subsection shall not exceed
(a) in the case of a person other than a company, the
difference between the amount of seven per cent of the
aggregate income of that person in the relevant year and
the total amount that has been deducted pursuant to the
proviso to subsections (6) and (11C) for that relevant year;
or
(b) in the case of a company, the difference between the
amount of ten per cent of the aggregate income of that
company in the relevant year and the total amount that has
been deducted pursuant to the proviso to subsections (6)
and (11C) for that relevant year.
(11C) There shall be deducted from the aggregate income of a
relevant person for the relevant year reduced by any deduction for
that year in accordance with subsection (1) an amount equal to any
gift of money or cost of contribution in kind made by the relevant
person in the basis period for that year for any project of national
interest approved by the Minister:
subsection shall not exceed
(a) in the case of a person other than a company, the
difference between the amount of seven per cent of the
aggregate income of that person in the relevant year and
the total amount that has been deducted pursuant to the
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proviso to subsections (6) and (11B) for that relevant year;

or
(b) in the case of a company, the difference between the
amount of ten per cent of the aggregate income of that
company in the relevant year and the total amount that has
been deducted pursuant to the proviso to subsections (6)
and (11B) for that relevant year.
(12) In subsections (6), (6A), (8) and (11), references to basis year
in relation to a company, trust body or co-operative society shall be
construed as references to the basis period for the year of assessment
of that company, trust body or co-operative society.
Group relief for companies
44A. (1) Subject to this section, a company (referred to in this
section as a surrendering company) may surrender not more than
seventy per cent of its adjusted loss in the basis period of a year of
assessment to one or more related companies (referred to in this
section as a claimant company):
Provided that the surrendering company and the claimant
company shall be resident in the basis year for that year of
assessment and incorporated in Malaysia.
(2) Subsection (1) shall apply if for any year of assessment
(a) the surrendering company and the claimant company
(i) are related companies throughout the basis period
for that year of assessment and the twelve months
period immediately preceding that basis period;
(ii) have paid-up capital in respect of ordinary share of
more than two million five hundred thousand
ringgit at the beginning of the basis period for that
year of assessment;
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(iii) have twelve months basis period ending on the

same day;
(iv) make an irrevocable election to surrender or claim
an amount of adjusted loss in the return furnished
for that year of assessment under section 77A; and
(v) are subject to tax at the appropriate rate as
specified in paragraph 2 of Part I of Schedule 1;
and
(b) the claimant company has a defined aggregate income for
that year of assessment.
(3) For the purpose of this section, a surrendering company and
claimant company are related companies if at least
(a) seventy per cent of the paid-up capital in respect of
ordinary shares of the surrendering company is directly or
indirectly (through the medium of other companies
resident and incorporated in Malaysia) owned by the
claimant company;
(b) seventy per cent of the paid-up capital in respect of
ordinary shares of the claimant company is directly or
indirectly (through the medium of other companies
resident and incorporated in Malaysia) owned by the
surrendering company; or
(c) seventy per cent of the paid-up capital in respect of
ordinary shares of the surrendering company and claimant
company are directly or indirectly owned by another
company resident and incorporated in Malaysia.
(4) Subject to subsection (5), any amount of adjusted loss
surrendered under this section for any year of assessment
(a) shall be the amount or aggregate amount of the adjusted
loss or the excess of that amount of the surrendering
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company for that year of assessment as ascertained under

subsection 44(4) or (5);
(b) shall be allowed to a claimant company as a deduction in
ascertaining the total income of the claimant company in
accordance with subsection 44(1); and
(c) shall not exceed the defined aggregate income of the
claimant company for that year of assessment.
(5) Where the amount of adjusted loss is
(a) surrendered to more than one claimant company, the
adjusted loss shall be fully deducted in accordance with
subsection (4) to the first claimant company before any
excess of the adjusted loss is surrendered and deducted in
accordance with that subsection to the second claimant
company and so on; or
(b) claimed by a claimant company from more than one
surrendering company, the adjusted loss surrendered from
the first surrendering company shall be deducted in
accordance with subsection (4) to that claimant company
before the adjusted loss is surrendered from the second
surrendering company be deducted in accordance with
that subsection to that claimant company and so on.
(6) For the purpose of subsection (5), the surrendering company
and the claimant company shall ascertain the order of priority in
respect of the adjusted loss surrendered or claimed but if that loss
cannot be effected in accordance with the order of priority specified
by any surrendering company or claimant company the amount of
adjusted loss surrendered or claimed shall be dealt with in such
manner as the Director General thinks reasonable and proper.
(7) Notwithstanding that a company to which subsection (3)
applies, owns at least seventy per cent of the paid-up capital in the
other company, it shall not be treated to have satisfied that subsection
unless additionally in the year of assessment the first-mentioned
company is beneficially entitled to at least seventy per cent of
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(a) any residual profits of the other company, available for

distribution to that other companys equity holders; and
(b) any residual assets of the other company, available for
distribution to that other companys equity holders on a
winding up.
(8) Notwithstanding any other provision of this section, where
(a) a claimant company has made an election under
subsection (2), that company shall not in that year
elect to surrender its adjusted loss to any other
claimant company; or
(b) a surrendering company has made an election under
subsection (2), that company shall not in that year elect to
claim any adjusted loss from any other surrendering
company.
(9) Where
(a) in the basis year for a year of assessment the Director
General discovers that the adjusted loss as mentioned in
subsection (4) ought not to have been deducted in arriving
at the total income of the claimant company, the Director
General may in that year or within five years after its
expiration make an assessment or additional assessment in
respect of that company in order to make good any loss of
tax; or
(b) the surrendering company gives an incorrect information
in the return furnished under section 77A in respect of the
amount of adjusted loss surrendered, the Director General
may, by a notice in writing, require the surrendering
company to pay a penalty equal to the amount of tax
which had or would have been undercharged by the
claimant company in consequence of the incorrect
information and where the surrendering company is
dissatisfied with the penalty, the surrendering company
may within thirty days of being notified appeal to the
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Special Commissioners as if the notice were a notice of

assessment and the provision of this Act relating to
appeals shall apply accordingly with any necessary
modifications.
(10) The provisions of this section shall not apply to a company
for a basis period for a year of assessment where the period during
which that company
(a) is a pioneer company or has been granted approval for
investment tax allowance under the Promotion of
Investments Act 1986;
(b) is exempt from tax on its income under section 54A,
paragraph 127(3)(b) or subsection 127(3A);
(c) has made a claim for a reinvestment allowance under
Schedule 7A;
(d) has made a claim for deduction in respect of an approved
food production project under the Income Tax (Deduction
for Investment in an Approved Food Production Project)
Rules 2006;
(e) has made a claim for deduction under the Income Tax
(Deduction for Cost of Acquisition of Proprietary Rights)
Rules 2002;
(f) has been granted a deduction under the Income Tax
(Deduction for Cost of Acquisition of a Foreign Owned
Company) Rules 2003; or
(g) has made a claim for deduction under any rules made
under section 154 and those rules provide that this section
shall not apply to that company.
(11) For the avoidance of doubt
(a) the amount of adjusted loss surrendered under this section
shall be disregarded for the purpose of ascertaining the
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aggregate income of the surrendering company under

section 43; and
(b) the provisions of this Act shall apply to any adjusted loss
of the surrendering company which is not surrendered
under this section.
(12) In this section
commercial loan means any borrowing which entitles the creditor
to any return which is of only
(a) a fixed amount or at a fixed rate per cent of the amount of
the borrowing; or
(b) of a fixed rate per cent of the profits of the company;
defined aggregate income, in relation to a year of
assessment, means the aggregate income of a claimant
company for that year reduced by a deduction made
pursuant to paragraphs 44(1)(a), (b), (c) and (d);
equity holder means any holder of ordinary share in the claimant
or surrendering company or any creditor of that company in respect
of any non-commercial loan;
non-commercial loan means any borrowing other than a
commercial loan;
ordinary share means any share other than a share which carries
only a right to any dividend which is of
value of the shares; or
(b) a fixed rate per cent of the profits of the company;
residual assets means net assets of the claimant surrendering
company after distribution made to
(a) creditors of that company in respect of commercial loans; and
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(b) holders of shares other than ordinary share,

and where that company has no residual asset, a notional amount of
one hundred ringgit is deemed to be the residual assets of the
company;
residual profits means profits of the claimant or surrendering
company after deducting any dividend which is of
value of the shares of that company; or
(b) a fixed rate per cent of the profits of that company,
but before deducting any return due to any non-commercial loan
creditor which is not of
(i) a fixed amount or at a fixed rate per cent of the
amount of the borrowing; or
(ii) a fixed rate per cent of the profits of that company,
and where that company has no residual profit, a notional amount of
one hundred ringgit is deemed to be the residual profits of that
company.
Carry-back losses
*44B. (1) In this section
adjusted loss means the amount or aggregate amount of the
adjusted loss of a person from a source of his or the excess of that
amount for the basis period for a year of assessment as ascertained
under subsection 44(4) or 44(5);
*NoteNotwithstanding the provisions of section 46 of the Finance Act 2007 [Act 683], any amount of tax
refunded in respect of any tax discharged for the year of assessment preceding the year of assessment 2009 as a
consequence of any deduction allowed in accordance with section 44B of the principal Act, shall not reduce the 108
balance or revised 108 balance of a company under section 46 of the Finance Act 2007- see section 4 of Income
Tax (Amendment) Act 2009 [Act A1349].
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defined aggregate income, in relation to a year of assessment,

means the aggregate income of the person for that year reduced by
any deduction made pursuant to paragraphs (a), (b), (c), (d), and (e)
of subsection 44(1);
immediately preceding, in relation to a year of assessment,
means
(a) for the year of assessment 2009, the year of assessment
2008; and
(b) for the year of assessment 2010, the year of assessment
2009.
(2) Subject to subsection (6), this section shall apply if
(a) the basis period of a person for the year of assessment
2009 or 2010 and the basis period for the year of
assessment immediately preceding the year of assessment
2009 or 2010 ends on the same day; and
(b) that person is subject to tax at the appropriate rate as specified
in paragraph 1, 1A, 2 or 2A of Part I of Schedule 1.
(3) Subject to this section, where a person has made an irrevocable
election under subsection (4), the amount of the adjusted loss of that
person from a source of his for the basis period for a year of
assessment 2009 or 2010, other than the adjusted loss surrendered by
that person pursuant to section 44A, shall be allowed as a deduction in
ascertaining the total income of that person for a year of assessment
immediately preceding the year of assessment 2009 or 2010, in
accordance with subsection 44(1).
(4) For the purpose of subsection (3), a person shall make an
irrevocable election, either for the year of assessment 2009 or 2010,
in the return furnished for the year of assessment 2009 or 2010 to
deduct an amount of the adjusted loss from a source of his for the
basis period for that year of assessment in ascertaining the total
income of that person for the year of assessment immediately
preceding the year of assessment 2009 or 2010.
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(5) The amount of adjusted loss of a person from a source of his

for the basis period for a year of assessment 2009 or 2010 to be
deducted pursuant to subsection (3)
(a) shall not exceed one hundred thousand ringgit; or
(b) where the amount of the defined aggregate income for the
year of assessment immediately preceding the year of
assessment 2009 or 2010 is less than one hundred
thousand ringgit, shall not exceed the amount of the
defined aggregate income.
(6) The provisions of this section shall not apply to a person if
during the basis period for a year of assessment 2009 or 2010 and the
basis period for a year of assessment immediately preceding the year
of assessment 2009 or 2010, that person
(a) is a pioneer company or has been granted approval for
investment tax allowance under the Promotion of
Investments Act 1986;
(b) is exempt from tax on its income under section 54A,
paragraph 127(3)(b) or subsection 127(3A), or tax paid or
payable by that person for that year of assessment is
remitted under section 129;
(c) has made a claim for a reinvestment allowance under
Schedule 7A;
(d) has made a claim for deduction in respect of an approved
food production project under the Income Tax (Deduction
for Investment in an Approved Food Production Project)
Rules 2006 [P.U. (A) 55/2006];
(e) has made a claim for deduction under the Income Tax
(Deduction for Cost of Acquisition of Proprietary Rights)
Rules 2002 [P.U. (A) 63/2002];
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(f) has made a claim for deduction under the Income Tax
(Deduction for Cost of Acquisition of a Foreign Owned
Company) Rules 2003 [P.U. (A) 310/2003];
(g) has made a claim for deduction under any rules made
under section 154, other than the rules specified in
paragraphs (d), (e) and (f), and those rules made under
section 154 provide that this section shall not apply to that
person;
(h) is an investment holding company under section 60FA;
(i) carries on insurance business under section 60, inward
re-insurance business under section 60 A or offshore
insurance business under section 60 B;
(j) carries on takaful business under section 60AA; or
(k) in the case of an individual, has no source consisting of a
business.
(7) Where in the basis year for a year of assessment the
Director General discovers that the adjusted loss referred to in
subsection (3) ought not to have been deducted in arriving at the
total income of a person for the year of assessment immediately
preceding the year of assessment 2009 or 2010, the Director
General may in the first-mentioned year or within six years after
its expiration
(a) make an assessment or additional assessment in respect of
that person in order to make good any loss of tax; and
(b) require that person to pay a penalty equal to the amount of
tax, which had or would have been undercharged by that
person, pursuant to an assessment made under paragraph (a).
(8) For the avoidance of doubt
(a) the amount of adjusted loss which has been allowed as a
deduction pursuant to this section shall be disregarded for
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the purpose of ascertaining the aggregate income of a

person for a year of assessment immediately following the
year of assessment 2009 or 2010 under subsection 43(2);
and
(b) the provisions of this Act shall apply to the balance of the
adjusted loss (if any) of a person which has not been
allowed as a deduction pursuant to this section.
Chapter 7 - Chargeable Income
Chargeable income and aggregation of husbands and wifes

income
45. (1) Subject to this section, the chargeable income of a person
for a year of assessment shall be his total income for that year less
any deductions allowed by this Chapter for that year.
(2) Subject to this section, where an individual and his wife were
living together in the basis year for a year of assessment and did not
in that basis year cease to live together or to be husband and wife of
each other
(a) the wife may elect in writing (wife who elects) that her
total income shall be aggregated with the total income of
her husband and assessed in his name for that year of
assessment; or
(b) the husband may elect in writing (husband who elects)
that his total income shall be aggregated with the total
income of his wife and assessed in her name for that year
of assessment:
Provided that where the wife who elects or the husband who
elects is not resident for the basis year for a year of assessment, such
wife or husband, as the case may be, may elect under this subsection
only if she or he is a citizen.
(3) For the purposes of paragraph (2)(b)
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(a) for any year of assessment, that paragraph shall only apply
if there is no election made by a wife or wives under
paragraph (2)(a) for that year of assessment; and
(b) the election shall only be made with one wife.
(4) Where under subsection (2) the total income of the wife who
elects falls to be aggregated with that of her husband or the total
income of the husband who elects falls to be aggregated with that of
his wife, for a year of assessment, the wife who elects or the husband
who elects, as the case may be, shall be treated as having no
chargeable income for that year.
(5) The election referred to in subsection (2) shall be made in a
return furnished in accordance with subsection 77(1).
Deduction for husband
45A. Where
(a) the husband has no source of income;
(b) the husband has no total income which can be aggregated
with that of his wife; or
(c) an election has been made by the husband under
paragraph 45(2)(b),
there shall be allowed to the wife, for a year of assessment, in
addition to the allowances or deduction (if any) to that wife under
sections 46, 48 and 49, a deduction of three thousand ringgit for the
husband and a further three thousand five hundred ringgit if he is a
disabled person:
Provided that this section shall only apply to one wife.
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Deduction for individual and Hindu joint family

46. (1) In the case of an individual or a Hindu joint family resident
for the basis year for a year of assessment, there shall be allowed for
that year of assessment personal deductions of
(a) nine thousand ringgit for that individual in respect of
himself and his dependent relatives (if any), or for that
Hindu joint family;
(b) (Deleted by Act 600);
(c) an amount limited to a maximum of five thousand ringgit
in respect of medical treatment, special needs or carer
expenses expended in that basis year by that individual for
his parents and the claim is evidenced by certification of a
medical practitioner that the medical conditions of the
parents require medical treatment or special needs or carer
and
(i) in the case of medical treatment or special needs, a
receipt on the amount expended; or
(ii) in the case of carer, a written certification or
receipt from, or work permit of, the carer:
Provided that for the purpose of this paragraph
(a) carer shall not include that individual, his
wife or her husband or the child of the
individual;
(b) parents shall be individuals resident in
Malaysia;
(c) the medical treatment and care services are
provided in Malaysia; and
(d) the medical practitioner is registered with
the Malaysian Medical Council.
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(d) an amount limited to a maximum of five thousand ringgit

expended or deemed expended under subsection (3) in
that basis year by that individual for the purchase of any
necessary basic supporting equipment for his own use, if
he is a disabled person or for the use of his wife, child or
parent, who is a disabled person, or in the case of a wife,
for her own use, if she is a disable person, or for the use of
her husband, child or parent, who is a disabled person;
(e) a further six thousand ringgit for that individual if he is a
disabled person;
(f) fees expended in that basis year by that individual on
himself for
(i) any course of study up to tertiary level, other than
a degree at Masters or Doctorate level, undertaken
for the purpose of acquiring law, accounting,
Islamic financing, technical, vocational, industrial,
scientific or technological skills or qualifications;
or
(ii) any course of study for a degree at Masters or
Doctorate level undertaken for the purpose of
acquiring any skill or qualification,
in any institution or professional body in Malaysia
recognized by the Government or approved by the
Minister, as the case may be, and the total deduction
under this paragraph is subject to a maximum amount
of five thousand ringgit;
(g) an amount limited to a maximum of five thousand ringgit
in respect of medical expenses expended or deemed
expended under subsection (3) in that basis year by that
individual on himself if he is suffering from a serious
disease or on his wife or child who is suffering from a
serious disease, or in the case of a wife, on herself if she is
suffering from a serious disease or on her husband or child
who is suffering from a serious disease:
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Provided that the claim is evidenced by a receipt and

certification issued by a medical practitioner that
treatment was provided to the individual, spouse or child
for that disease;
(h) an amount limited to a maximum of five hundred ringgit
in respect of complete medical examination expenses
expended or deemed expended under subsection (3) in
that basis year by that individual on himself or on his wife
or on his child, or in the case of a wife, on herself or on
her husband or on her child, as evidenced by receipts
issued by a hospital or a medical practitioner:
Provided that the deduction under this paragraph shall
be part of the amount limited to a maximum of five
thousand ringgit in paragraph (g);
(i) an amount limited to a maximum of one thousand ringgit
in respect of expenses expended or deemed expended
under subsection (3) in that basis year by that individual
for the purchase of books, journals, magazines and other
similar publications for the purpose of enhancing
knowledge for his own use or for the use of his wife or
child, or in the case of a wife, for her own use or for the
use of her husband or child, as evidenced by receipts
issued in respect of the purchase;
(j) an amount limited to a maximum of three thousand ringgit
under subsection (3) in the basis year for that year of
assessment by that individual for the purchase of personal
computer (not being a personal computer used for the
purpose of his own business) as evidenced by receipt;
Provided that the deduction under this paragraph shall
not be allowed for the two following year of assessement;
(k) an amount limited to a maximum of six thousand ringgit
deposited in that basis year by that individual for his child
into the Skim Simpanan Pendidikan Nasional account
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established under the Perbadanan Tabung Pendidikan

Tinggi Nasional Act 1997 [Act 566]:
Provided that if any withdrawal is made from the
account by that individual in that basis year, the amount
deposited during that year shall be reduced by that
withdrawal and regard shall be had only to the reduced
amount subject to a maximum amount of six thousand
ringgit;
(l) an amount limited to a maximum of three hundred ringgit
for the purchase of sports equipment for any sports
activity as defined under the Sports Development Act
1997 as evidenced by receipts issued in respect of the
purchase; and
(m) an amount limited to a maximum of five hundred ringgit
for the payment of monthly bill for broadband
subscription under that individuals name as evidenced by
receipts issued in respect of such bill.
(2) In this section
child shall be construed as referring to a child as defined in
subsection 48(9);
(3) For the purposes of paragraphs (1)(d), (g), (h), (i), (j), (k), (l)
and (m) any amount expended by the wife or the husband in the year
of assessment
(a) where subsection 45(2) applies, shall be deemed to have
been expended by the husband of the wife who elects or
by the wife of the husband who elects, as the case may be;
or
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(b) where the wife or the husband has no total income, shall
be deemed to have been expended by the husband of that
wife who has no total income or the wife of that husband
who has no total income, as the case may be:
Provided that where paragraph 45(2)(b) applies or the husband
has no total income, any amount expended by the husband shall be
deemed to have been expended by the wife who has been allowed a
deduction under section 45A.
Deduction for individual on interest expended
46B. (1) Subject to this section, in the case of an individual who is a
citizen and resident for the basis year for the relevant year, there shall
be allowed for that relevant year personal deduction in respect of
interest expended in that basis year by the individual to finance the
purchase of a residential property:
Provided that
(a) the purchase of the residential property is limited to only
one unit;
(b) the Sale and Purchase Agreement for the purchase has
been executed on or after 10 March 2009 but not later
than 31 December 2010; and
(c) the individual has not derived any income in respect of
that residential property.
(2) Subject to subsection (3), there shall be allowed to that
individual a deduction for a maximum amount of ten thousand ringgit
for each basis year for a year of assessment for a period of three
consecutive basis years beginning from the basis year in which the
interest referred to in subsection (1) is first expended by that
individual.
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(3) Where
(a) two or more individuals are each entitled to claim
deduction for the relevant year under this section for
interest expended in respect of the same residential
property; and
(b) the total amount of interest expended by those individuals
in the basis year for that relevant year exceed the amount
of deduction allowable for that relevant year under
subsection (2),
there shall be allowed to each of those individuals for that relevant
year an amount to be determined in accordance with the following
formula:
AxB
C
where
is the total amount of deduction allowed under

subsection (2) for that relevant year;
is the total interest expended in the basis year for

that relevant year by that individual; and
is the total interest expended in the basis year for

that relevant year by all such individuals.
(4) For the purposes of subsection (1), any amount expended by

the wife or the husband in the relevant year
been expended by the husband of the wife who elects or
by the wife of the husband who elects, as the case may be;
or
be deemed to have been expended by the husband of that
wife or the wife of that husband, as the case may be:
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Provided that where paragraph 45(2)(b) applies or where the

husband has no total income, any amount expended by the husband
shall be deemed to have been expended by the wife who has been
allowed a deduction under section 45A.
(5) For the purposes of this section, residential property means a
house, condominium unit, apartment or flat which is built as a
dwelling house.
Deduction for wife or former wife
47. (1) In the case of an individual resident for the basis year for a
year of assessment who in that basis year had a wife living together
with him, there shall, subject to subsections (3) and (4), be allowed
for that year of assessment a deduction of
(a) three thousand ringgit for the wife; and
(b) a further three thousand five hundred ringgit for the wife
if she is a disabled person.
(2) In the case of an individual resident for the basis year for a
year of assessment who in that basis year
(a) made payments to a wife of his by way or in the nature of
alimony pendente lite;
(b) made payments by way of alimony or maintenance (in
pursuance of an order of a court or otherwise) to a former
wife whose marriage with him was dissolved or annulled
(by a court or otherwise) in accordance with any law or
customs applicable to him; or
(c) made payments in pursuance of an order of a court, a deed
or a written agreement to a wife from whom he was
separated by an order of a court, a deed of separation or a
written agreement for separation,
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then, subject to subsection (3), there shall be allowed for that

year of assessment a deduction of the aggregate amount of
those payments.
(3) The total of the deductions allowed for a year of assessment to
an individual under paragraph (1)(a) and subsection (2) shall not
exceed three thousand ringgit.
(4) Where an individuals wife is assessed separately in her name
for any year of assessment on her income no allowance or deduction
shall be made to him in respect of that wife under subsection (1).
(5) Notwithstanding subsection 45(2) but subject to subsection (4),
where an individuals wife has no total income which can be
aggregated with that of her husband for a year of assessment, an
allowance or deduction shall be made to him in respect of that wife
under subsection (1).
Deduction for children
48. (1) Subject to this section, where an individual who is resident
for the basis year for a year of assessment
(a) pays (wholly or in part) in that basis year for the
maintenance at any time in that basis year of an unmarried
child who at any time in that basis year is under the age of
eighteen years;
(b) pays (wholly or in part) in that basis year
(i) for the maintenance at any time in that basis year
of an unmarried child who at any time in that basis
year is receiving full-time instruction at any
university, college, school or other similar
educational establishment; or
(ii) for that instruction;
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(c) pays (wholly or in part) in that basis year for the

child (in subparagraphs (i) to (ii) referred to as the child)
who at any time in that basis year is serving under articles
or indentures with a view to qualifying in a trade or
profession or
(i) pays (wholly or in part) in that basis year for any
part-time education which is received by the child
at any time in that basis year and relates to that
trade or profession;
(ii) pays (wholly or in part) in that basis year on behalf
of the child any premium payable under or in
connection with those articles or indentures; or
(iii) makes in that basis year on behalf of the child any
other payment payable under or in connection with
those articles or indentures; or
(d) pays (wholly or in part) in that basis year for the
child if it is proved to the satisfaction of the Director
General that the child is physically or mentally disabled,
there shall be allowed for that year of assessment in respect of that
child the appropriate deduction, if any, specified in subsection (2):
Provided that where a wife living together with her husband is
assessed separately for any year of assessment on her income, she
may elect in writing that the appropriate deduction be wholly allowed
to her for that year of assessment.
(2) The appropriate deduction referred to in subsection (1) is
(a) in respect of children falling under paragraphs (1)(a) to (c), one
thousand ringgit for each child;
(b) in respect of children falling under paragraph (1)(d), five
thousand ringgit for each child.
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(3) (a) Where for a year of assessment any individual is entitled

under paragraph (1)(b), (c) or (d) to a deduction specified
under paragraph (2)(a) or (b), as the case may be, in
respect of a child over the age of eighteen years and the
child is receiving full-time instruction at a university,
college or other establishment (similar to a university or
college) of higher education, or is serving under articles or
indentures with a view to qualifying in a trade or
profession, then there shall be allowed
(i) in the case where that individual is entitled under
paragraph (1)(b) or (c) to a deduction, in
substitution for deduction specified under
paragraph (2)(a), a deduction of six times of the
amount of deduction specified under that
paragraph (2)(a); or
(ii) in the case where that individual is entitled under
paragraph (1)(d) to a deduction, in addition to a
deduction specified under paragraph (2)(b), a
further deduction of six thousand ringgit:
Provided that in the case of a child who is receiving
full-time instruction outside Malaysia, it shall be in
respect of an award of degree (including a degree at
Master or Doctorate level) or the equivalent of a
degree.
(b) For the purpose of paragraph (a), the instruction and
educational establishment referred to in that paragraph
shall be approved by the relevant government authority.
(4) Where two or more individuals are each entitled to claim a
deduction for a year of assessment under this section for a payment
made in respect of the same child, there shall be allowed to each of
those individuals, in place of the whole deduction which would
otherwise be allowed under this section, a reduced deduction of fifty
per cent of that whole deduction.
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(5) A deduction shall not be allowed to an individual under this

section for a year of assessment in respect of any child whose total
income, wherever derived or accruing, for that year exceeds the
amount of the deduction that would otherwise be allowed under this
section to that individual in respect of that child.
(9) In this section child, in relation to an individual or his wife,
means a legitimate child or step-child of his or his wife, or a child
proved to the satisfaction of the Director General to have been
adopted by the individual or his wife in accordance with any law.
Deduction for insurance premiums
49. (1) Subject to this section, in the case of an individual resident
for the basis year for a year of assessment who in that basis year
has
(a) paid any premium for any insurance;
(b) as an employee or as a self-employed person within
the meaning of the Employees Provident Fund Act
1991 [Act 452] made or suffered the making of a
contribution to an approved scheme (other than a
private retirement scheme); or
(c) made or suffered the making of any contribution under
any written law relating to widows, widowers and
orphans pensions or under any approved scheme within
the meaning of any such law,
there shall be allowed for that year of assessment a deduction of the
aggregate amount of the payments or contributions or both or a
deduction of six thousand ringgit whichever is the less.
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(1A) For the purposes of subsection (1)

(a) (Deleted by Act 742).
(b) where subsection 50(2) or 50(3) applies, the total
deduction under that subsection shall not exceed six
thousand ringgit.
(1B) (a) Subject to this section, in the case of an individual
resident for the basis year for a year of assessment who
has paid any premium for insurance on education or for
medical benefits, there shall be allowed for that year of
assessment in addition to the deduction allowed under
subsection (1), a deduction of the aggregate amount of the
payments or a deduction of three thousand ringgit,
whichever is the less;
(b) for the purposes of paragraph (a), where subsection 50(2)
applies, the total deduction under the paragraph shall not
(1C) (Deleted by Act 719).
(1D) In the case of an individual resident for the basis year for a
year of assessment who has
(a) paid premium for deferred annuity; or
(b) made or suffered the making of a contribution to a private
retirement scheme,
there shall be allowed for that year of assessment a deduction of the
aggregate amount of the payments or contribution or both or a
deduction of three thousand ringgit whichever is the less.
(1E) For the purposes of subsection (1D), where subsection 50(2)
or (3) applies, the total deduction under that subsection shall not
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(2) For the purposes of subsection (1), no regard shall be had to

any contribution to an approved scheme unless the contribution was
obligatory by reason of
(a) any contract of employment of the individual claiming a
deduction in respect of the contribution; or
(b) any provision in the rules, regulations, by-laws or
constitution of the scheme,
and, where the contribution was partly obligatory by reason of such a
contract or provision and partly not so obligatory, regard shall be had
only to the part which was so obligatory.
(3) In relation to an individual claiming a deduction under
subsection (1) and (1D), insurance and deferred annuity, mean an
insurance or deferred annuity contracted for by the individual
(a) on the individuals life;
(b) on the life of a wife of the individual or, where the
individual is a female, on the life of the individuals
husband; or
(c) on the joint lives of the individual and a wife or wives of
his or on the joint lives of two or more wives of his or,
where the individual is a female, on the joint lives of
(i) the individual and her husband;
(ii) the individual, her husband and any other wife or
wives of his;
(iii) the individual and any other wife or wives of her
husband; or
(iv) her husband and any other wife or wives of his,
being an insurance or deferred annuity contracted for with an
insurance company for securing on death either a capital sum or a
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deferred annuity or both (whether in conjunction with any other

benefit or not) or an insurance or deferred annuity contracted for with
a government, a public body or the controlling authority of any
nationalized insurance business.
(4) For the purposes of subsection (1B) reference to an insurance
means an insurance contracted for by an individual for himself, his
wife or child, or in the case of a wife, for herself, her husband or
child.
Application of section 49 where husband and wife are living

together
50. (1) Where an individual who is resident for the basis year for a
year of assessment has a wife living together with him at any time in
that basis year, and they did not in that basis year
(a) cease to live together; or
(b) cease to be husband and wife of each other,
the application of section 49 to that individual shall be subject to this
section.
(2) Any premium for any insurance or deferred annuity within the
meaning of subsection 49(3), or for any insurance on education or
medical benefits within the meaning of subsection 49(4), which has
been paid by the wife or the husband in the year of assessment
been paid by the husband of the wife who elects or by the
wife of the husband who elects, as the case may be; or
be deemed to have been paid by the husband of that wife
who has no total income or the wife of that husband who
has no total income, as the case may be:
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Provided that where paragraph 45(2)(b) applies, or the husband has

no total income, any amount paid by the husband shall be deemed to
have been paid by the wife who has been allowed a deduction under
section 45A.
(3) Where subsection 45(2) applies for the year of assessment, and
in that year the wife who elects or the husband who elects has made
or suffered the making of a contribution as an employee to an
approved scheme or as a self-employed person within the meaning of
the Employees Provident Fund Act 1991 to the Employees Provident
Fund
(a) the contribution shall be deemed to have been made by the
husband or the wife in whose name the assessment was
made, as the case may be, in that year; and
(b) the reference to a contract of employment in paragraph
49(2)(a) shall be deemed to include a reference to a
contract of employment of the wife who elects or the
husband who elects, as the case may be.
Deduction must be claimed
51. Notwithstanding sections 47 to 50, no deduction shall be allowed
under those sections in ascertaining the chargeable income of an
individual for a year of assessment unless a claim has been made for
that year for the deduction or for a deduction of a larger or smaller
amount in respect of the same subject matter.
Chapter 8 - Special cases
Modification of Part III in certain special cases

52. In a case where any provision of this Chapter applies, the
foregoing Chapters shall also apply but shall be modified in their
application to the extent necessary to conform with that provision;
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and, if in that case there is any inconsistency between that provision

and any provision of the foregoing Chapters, that provision of those
Chapters shall be void to the extent of the inconsistency.
Trade associations
53. (1) Where a trade association is resident for the basis year for a
year of assessment
(a) the total of the sums (other than sums forming part of any
gross income of the association from any source other
than the source created by this subsection) receivable on
revenue account by the association for that basis year
(including entrance fees and subscriptions) shall be
deemed to be gross income for that basis year from a
business of the association deemed to be carried on by the
association; and
(b) that basis year shall be deemed to be the basis period for
that year of assessment for that business.
(2) For the purposes of subsection (1)
(a) the gross income, adjusted income or adjusted loss and
statutory income of a trade association relating to its
transactions with its members shall be ascertained on the
same principles as those on which its gross income,
adjusted income or adjusted loss and statutory income
relating to its transactions with non-members, if any,
would be ascertained; and
(b) any outgoings or expenses connected with the sums
receivable on revenue account referred to in subsection (1)
shall be deemed to have been incurred in the production of
its gross income relating to its transactions with its
members if they would have been so incurred if the sums
deemed by that subsection to be gross income had in fact
been gross income of the association.
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(3) In this section, trade association means any association of

persons, of partnerships or of persons and partnerships formed with
the main object of
(a) safeguarding or promoting the business of its members; or
(b) developing and advancing the profession of its members.
(4) Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Act, a trade
association shall, for the purposes of this section, be deemed to be a
body of persons and not a partnership.
Club, association or similar institution

53A. (1) This section shall apply to a body of persons which carry
on a club, association or similar institution other than a trade
association to which section 53 applies.
(2) Any income of the body of persons from transaction with
members and any outgoing or expenses or capital allowances
attributable to such income shall be disregarded for the purpose of
this Act.
(3) The gross income of a body of persons for the basis period for
the year of assessment shall include the amount of gross income for
that period from the investment made out of any of the fund of the
body of persons.
(4) The body of persons shall maintain a separate account in
respect of income derived from its members and non-members.
(5) Where the amount of outgoing or expenses to be allowed or
capital allowances to be made to the body of persons are common to
income from transaction with members and non-members, the
amount of outgoing or expenses that shall be allowed or capital
allowances that shall be made to that body of persons in respect of
income relating to transaction with non-members shall be an amount
as determined by applying the method as may be prescribed under
this Act.
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(6) In this section, members, in relation to a body of persons,

means those persons who are entitled to vote at a general meeting of
the body at which effective control is exercised over its affairs.
Sea and air transport undertakings

54. (1) Where the business of a person consists partly of
transporting passengers or cargo by sea or air and partly of other
activities
(a) the transport activities of that kind shall be deemed to
constitute one business and source of that person and the
other activities shall be deemed to constitute a separate
and distinct business and source of that person; and
(b) the gross income and adjusted income or adjusted loss for
the basis period for a year of assessment from the business
consisting of those other activities, and the statutory
income for that year of assessment from the business so
consisting shall be ascertained in accordance with the
provisions of the foregoing Chapters without modification
by this section.
(2) (a) Subject to section 54A, where that person is resident for
the basis year for a year of assessment, his gross income and adjusted
income or adjusted loss for the basis period for that year of
assessment from the business of transporting passengers or cargo by
sea or air his statutory income for that year of assessment from that
business shall be ascertained by reference to his income therefrom
wherever accruing or derived;
(b) Where that person is not resident for the basis year for a
year of assessment, his gross income derived from Malaysia from the
business of transporting passengers or cargo by sea or air for the basis
period for that year of assessment and his statutory income from that
business for that year of assessment shall be ascertained in
accordance with the following subsections (that business, person,
basis period and year of assessment being referred to in those
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subsections as the business, the operator, the relevant period and the
relevant year respectively).
(3) Subject to subsection (4), the statutory income of the operator
from the business for the relevant year shall be deemed to be five per
cent of the gross income derived from Malaysia for the relevant
period.
(4) Where within three years (or such further period as the
Director General may allow) after the commencement of the relevant
year the operator produces a certificate which is an acceptable
certificate, then
(a) if there is world income, the operators statutory income
from the business for the relevant year shall be deemed to
be a sum bearing the same proportion to the world income
as the gross income derived from Malaysia for the
relevant period bears to the gross income shown by the
certificate, less the amount of any loss from the business
computed in accordance with paragraph (b) for a year of
assessment preceding the relevant year (to the extent that
the loss has not been allowed as a deduction in computing
the statutory income from the business for any year of
assessment following that preceding year of assessment
and ending prior to the relevant year);
(b) if there is a world loss, the operators net statutory loss
from the business for the relevant year shall be deemed to
be a sum bearing the same proportion to the world loss as
the gross income derived from Malaysia for the relevant
period bears to the gross income shown by the certificate;
(c) if by the time the certificate becomes an acceptable
certificate no assessment for the relevant year has been
made on the operator by reference to subsection (3), that
subsection shall cease to have effect in relation to the
business for the relevant year; and (d) if by that time an
assessment for the relevant year has been made on the
operator by reference to subsection (3), the Director
General shall make such additional assessment or such
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repayment of tax as may be necessary in consequence of

the application of this subsection for the relevant year.
(5) In this section, in relation to the business, the operator, the
relevant period and the relevant year
acceptable certificate means a certificate produced to the Director
General with respect to which he is satisfied that the amounts
specified in the certificate have been computed by methods not
substantially different from those provided by this Act for the
computation of analogous figures for a similar business carried on by
a person who is resident;
certificate means a certificate which
(a) is issued by the authority responsible for the
administration of the tax laws of any country (other than
Malaysia) in which the operator is resident for the
purposes of those laws; and
(b) specifies in respect of the business for the relevant period
the amount of
(i) the gross income from wherever derived;
(ii) the income or the loss computed for the purpose of
foreign tax by that authority without making any
allowance for depreciation; and
(iii) the total depreciation allowances given by that
authority (excluding any allowance or part thereof
brought forward from a previous period);
gross income derived from Malaysia for the relevant period
means the total of all sums first receivable by the operator in the
relevant period in respect of transporting by sea or air (whether
before, in or after the relevant period) passengers or cargo embarked
or loaded in Malaysia into ships or aircraft owned or chartered by the
operator, except sums so receivable in respect of passengers or
cargo
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(a) brought to Malaysia, whether by the operator or

otherwise, solely for transfer
(i) from one ship or aircraft to another;
(ii) from a ship to an aircraft; or
(iii) from an aircraft to a ship; or
(b) so embarked or loaded into such a ship or aircraft if the
call of that ship or aircraft at a port, aerodrome or airport
in Malaysia for that embarkation or loading was a casual
call within the meaning of subsection (6),
less any sums received in the relevant period or prior thereto which
are refunded in the relevant period and any sums first receivable in
the relevant period or prior thereto which in the relevant period cease,
otherwise than on the receipt thereof, to be receivable;
gross income from wherever derived means the total of all sums
first receivable by the operator in the relevant period in respect of
transporting by sea or air (whether before, in or after the relevant
period) passengers or cargo in ships or aircraft owned or chartered by
the operator;
world income, in relation to a certificate which is an acceptable
certificate, means the amount of any income specified in that
certificate in accordance with subparagraph (b)(ii) of the definition of
certificate in this subsection, as reduced by the amount of the
depreciation allowances specified in that certificate, less any sums
received in the relevant period or prior thereto which are refunded in
the relevant period and any sums first receivable in the relevant
period or prior thereto which in the relevant period cease, otherwise
than on the receipt thereof, to be receivable;
world loss, in relation to a certificate which is an acceptable
certificate, means
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(a) the amount of any loss specified in that certificate together

with the amount of the depreciation allowances specified
in that certificate; or
(b) where the amount of those allowances exceeds the amount
of the income specified in that certificate in accordance
with subparagraph (b)(ii) of the definition of certificate
in this subsection, the amount of the excess.
(6) A call at a port, aerodrome or airport in Malaysia (in this
subsection referred to as a Malaysian call) by a ship or aircraft owned
or chartered by the operator (in this subsection referred to as a
relevant craft) is a casual call for the purposes of subsection (5) only
if
(a) apart from that particular Malaysian call there were no
other Malaysian calls by that or any other relevant craft in
the period of twenty-four consecutive months immediately
prior to that particular Malaysian call; and
(b) the Director General is satisfied that the intention of the
operator is that for the period of twenty-four consecutive
months immediately following that particular Malaysian
call
(i) that relevant craft will not be making another
Malaysian call (except a call made in the course of
the voyage or flight from the place where that
particular Malaysian call was made); and
(ii) no other relevant craft will be making a Malaysian
call:
Provided that, if within the period mentioned in paragraph (b) that
or any other relevant craft makes another Malaysian call (except, in
the case of that relevant craft, a call made in the course of the voyage
or flight from the place where that particular Malaysian call was
made), that particular Malaysian call shall be treated as never having
been a casual call.
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Exemption of shipping profits

*54A. (1) Subject to the following subsections, where a person who
is resident for the basis year for a year of assessment carries on the
business of
(a) transporting passengers or cargo by sea on a Malaysian
ship; or
(b) letting out on charter a Malaysian ship owned by him on a
voyage or time charter basis,
seventy per cent of the statutory income of that person for that year of
assessment from that business shall be exempt from tax.
(1A) Where subsection (1) applies, a person who is entitled to an
allowance under Schedule 3 and who has not made any claim under
paragraph 77 of that Schedule in respect of such allowance, the amount of
such allowance shall be deemed to have been made to him for the purpose
of ascertaining his statutory income under subsection (1).
(2) Notwithstanding the provisions of this Act
(a) the income derived from each Malaysian ship referred to
under subsection (1) shall be treated as income from a
separate and distinct business source of that person;
(b) the adjusted loss (if any) of the person for any year
assessment in respect of a source consisting of
Malaysian ship shall not be available as a deduction
arriving at the total income of that person for that year
assessment;
of
a
in
of
(c) referred to in that paragraph, and if by reason of

insufficiency or absence of that statutory income, the
amount of adjusted loss which has not been so utilized
shall further reduce the amount of statutory income of that
person from that source which is exempt under this
section for any subsequent years of assessment until the
amount of adjusted loss is fully utilized; and
* NOTE - See section 25 of the Finance Act 2012 [Act 742] for explanation.
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(d) an amount of statutory income of a person for a year of

assessment from a source consisting of a Malaysian ship
which is not exempt under this section shall be deemed to
be the total income of that person.
(3) The following provisions shall apply to a person carrying on a
business in respect of which his income is exempt under subsection (1)
(a) he shall maintain a separate account for the income
derived or deemed to be derived from each Malaysian
ship from that business for the purpose of this section:
Provided that where expenses have been incurred by
that person which are not directly attributable to a
Malaysian ship, the Director General may allocate as
expenses such amounts as might reasonably and properly
have been incurred in the normal course of his business in
respect of such ship;
(b) as soon as any amount of income of the Malaysian ship is
exempted under this section, such amount shall be
credited to an exempt account;
(c) where such exempt account is in credit at the date on
which any dividends are paid by that person (out of
income which has been exempted), an amount equal to
such dividends or to such credit whichever is the lesser,
shall be debited to such account;
(d) any dividend paid, credited or distributed in a basis period
out of such exempt account shall be exempt from tax; and
(e) where such dividend is received by a shareholder and that
shareholder is a company, any dividend paid by that
shareholding company to its shareholders shall, to the
extent that the Director General is satisfied that the
dividend so paid is paid out of such exempt dividend, be
exempt from tax in the hands of the shareholders.
(f) (Deleted by Act 683).
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(4) That person shall deliver to the Director General a copy of the
accounts referred to in subsection (3) made up to any date specified
by him whenever called upon to do so by notice in writing.
(5) Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this section,
where it appears to the Director General that
(a) any income of that person which has been exempt; or
(b) any dividend (including a dividend paid by a holding
company to which paragraph (3)(e) applies) exempted in
the hands of any shareholder,
ought not to have been so exempt, the Director General may at any
time
(i) make such assessment or additional assessment
upon that person or any shareholder as may appear
to be necessary in order to make good any loss of
tax; or
(ii) direct that person to debit his account kept in
accordance with subsection (3) with such amount
as the circumstances may require:
Provided that the direction given under this
paragraph shall be deemed to be a notice of
assessment for the purposes of section 99.
(6) For the purposes of this section
Malaysian ship means a sea-going ship registered as such under
the Merchant Shipping Ordinance 1952 [Ord. 70 of 1952], other than
a ferry, barge, tug-boat, supply vessel, crew boat, lighter, dredger,
fishing boat or other similar vessel;
person includes a partnership.
54B. (Deleted by Act 293).
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Partnerships generally
55. (1) Subject to this section and sections 56 to 59, in the case of a
business of a partnership (in this section referred to as the relevant
partnership) and in relation to a person who is a partner in the
relevant partnership throughout the period during which he was such
a partner it shall for the purposes of this Act be postulated that
(a) there has been a transfer to that person (in this section
referred to as the sole proprietor) of the business and
assets of the relevant partnership together with all rights
and liabilities of the partners in relation thereto;
(b) the subject matter of the transfer constitutes a business (in
this section and section 56 referred to as the proprietorship
business) of the sole proprietor carried on by him in a
manner similar to the way in which the relevant
partnership business was carried on and in particular that
the accounts of the relevant partnership business, made up
for any period, are the accounts of the proprietorship
business made up for that period.
(2) There shall be ascertained in accordance with the foregoing
provisions of this section and of this Part what would be, but for any
provisions of any of the following subsections, the adjusted income
in this section referred to as the provisional adjusted income of the
sole proprietor from his proprietorship business for the basis period
for a year of assessment.
(3) The divisible income of the proprietorship business for the
basis period for a year of assessment shall be taken to be an amount
found by the deduction from the provisional adjusted income of the
sole proprietor from that business for that period of the total amount
of
(a) any remuneration payable by virtue of any partnership
arrangement of the relevant partnership to any partner
therein for that period or for any part thereof;
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(b) any interest payable to any partner in the relevant

partnership for that period or any part thereof in
connection with all capital moneys paid or advanced by
him (otherwise than in a fiduciary capacity, unless in that
capacity he is a partner in the relevant partnership) to the
relevant partnership; and
(c) any expenses incurred during that period in relation to any
partner in the relevant partnership and charged in the
relevant partnership accounts (whether or not for that
period) which
(i) would have been private or domestic expenses if
incurred by that partner; or
(ii) are reimbursements of private or domestic
expenses incurred by that partner.
(4) The amount of the divisible income of the proprietorship
business for the basis period for a year of assessment ascertained
under subsection (3) shall be treated as having accrued evenly over
that period and shall be divided between those who were partners of
the relevant partnership in that period in accordance with the sharing
arrangements (subsisting from time to time during that period) of
those partners in like manner as that amount would have been
divisible between those partners if that amount had been divisible
profits from the business of the relevant partnership accruing evenly
over that period; and so much of that divisible income as is thus
found to be attributable to the sole proprietor shall be taken to be his
share of that divisible income for that period.
(5) The adjusted income of the sole proprietor from the
proprietorship business for the basis period for a year of assessment
shall be taken to be the aggregate of
(a) so much of the total amount deducted under subsection (3)
in ascertaining the divisible income of that business for
that period as relates to any remuneration, interest or
expenses payable to or incurred in relation to the sole
proprietor; and
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(b) his share, ascertained under subsection (4), of the divisible

income of that business for that period.
(6) For the purposes of subsection (3) of this section, the amount
of any remuneration or interest shall be ascertained whenever
necessary by applying subsection 19(3) as if references therein to
Chapter 4 were references to subsection (3) of this section.
(7) In subsection (4) divisible profits shall not be taken to include
any items of the kind referred to in paragraphs (3)(a), (b) and (c).
Successive partnerships
56. (1) Where, apart from this section, the circumstances are such
that
(a) section 55 applies to a business of a partnership (in this
section referred to as the old partnership), to a person (in
this section referred to as the continuing partner) who is a
partner therein and to the period during which he was such
a partner;
(b) at some time after the commencement of that application,
section 55 applies to a business of another partnership (in
this section referred to as the new partnership) to a partner
therein who is the continuing partner and to the period
during which he was such a partner;
(c) those periods are successive periods;
(d) those businesses are substantially similar and to all intents
and purposes (in so far as the continuing partner is
concerned) are carried on successively as if they were one
continuing business (apart from the assets of each of those
partnerships and the rights and liabilities of the respective
partners in relation to each of those businesses,
partnerships and assets),
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section 55 in its application to the business of the old partnership, to

the business of the new partnership and to the continuing partner as
the sole proprietor of each of the proprietorship businesses
constituted under that section in relation to the old and new
partnerships shall be subject to such modifications provided for by
this section for such period of time (being a period, in this section
referred to as the material period, some part of which will comprise
the whole or part of the period during which the continuing partner
was a partner in the old partnership and some part of which will
comprise the whole or part of the period during which the continuing
partner was a partner in the new partnership) as may be requisite in
all the circumstances for the purposes of the application of this
section, in conjunction with section 55 as so modified, to the
continuing partner in relation to the businesses of the old and new
partnerships and to such other matters as are provided for by this
section.
(2) Notwithstanding subsection (1)
(a) this section shall not apply if accounts of the business of
the old partnership have been made up for a period of
twelve months ending on the day prior to the day on
which the new partnership was formed and accounts of
the business of the new partnership have been made up for
a period of twelve months commencing on the day the
new partnership was formed; and
(b) where, prior to the application of this section to the
continuing partner, section 55 has been applied to him in
relation to the old partnership and any assessment has
been made wholly or partly in consequence of that
application of section 55, the subsequent application of
this section shall not invalidate the assessment.
(3) Notwithstanding that, but for this section, upon the formation
of the new partnership during the material period the proprietorship
business of the continuing partner in relation to the old partnership
would have ceased and the proprietorship business of the continuing
partner in relation to the new partnership would have commenced,
those two proprietorship businesses shall throughout the material
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period be treated as one continuing proprietorship business (in this

section referred to as the continuing proprietorship business) of the
continuing partner, carried on by him in a manner similar to the way
in which the businesses of the old and new partnerships were carried
on and, without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing, the
accounts of those businesses made up for any period shall be taken to
be the accounts of the continuing proprietorship business made up for
that period.
(4) There shall be ascertained in accordance with the foregoing
provisions of this section and of this Part what would be, but for any
provisions of any of the following subsections, the adjusted income
(in this section referred to as the provisional adjusted income) of the
continuing partner from his continuing proprietorship business for the
basis period for a year of assessment.
(5) The divisible income of the continuing proprietorship business
for the basis period for a year of assessment shall be taken to be an
amount found by the deduction from the provisional adjusted income
of the continuing partner from that business for that period of the
total amount of
(a) any remuneration payable by virtue of any partnership
arrangement of the old or new partnership to any partner
in the old or new partnership for that period or for any part
thereof;
(b) any interest payable to any partner in the old or new
partnership for that period or any part thereof in
connection with all capital moneys paid or advanced by
him (otherwise than in a fiduciary capacity, unless in that
capacity he is a partner in the old or new partnership) to
the old or new partnership; and
(c) any expenses incurred during that period in relation to any
partner in the old or new partnership and charged in the
accounts of the old or new partnership (whether or not for
that period) which
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(i) would have been private or domestic expenses if

incurred by that partner; or
(ii) are reimbursements of private or domestic
expenses incurred by that partner.
(6) The amount of the divisible income of the continuing
proprietorship business for the basis period for a year of assessment
ascertained under subsection (5)
(a) if the formation date of the new partnership falls after that
period, shall be treated as having accrued evenly over that
period and shall be divided between those who were
partners of the old partnership in that period in accordance
with the sharing arrangements (subsisting from time to
time during that period) of those partners in like manner
as that amount would have been divisible between those
partners if that amount had been divisible profits from the
business of the old partnership accruing evenly over that
period; and so much of that divisible income as is thus
found to be attributable to the continuing partner shall be
taken to be his share of that divisible income for that
period;
(b) if the formation date of the new partnership falls within
that period, shall be treated as having accrued evenly over
that period and shall be divided in the proportion that the
respective lengths of the two parts hereinafter mentioned
bear to the length of that period, namely the part (in this
subsection referred to as the first part) of that period
which falls before that date and the part (in this subsection
referred to as the second part) of that period which falls on
or after that date and
(i) a sum being so much of that amount as is thus
found to have been apportioned to the first part
shall be treated as having accrued evenly over the
length of the first part and divided between those
who were partners of the old partnership in the
first part in accordance with the sharing
arrangements (subsisting from time to time during
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the first part) of those partners in like manner as

that sum would have been divisible between those
partners if that sum had been divisible profits from
the business of the old partnership accruing evenly
over the first part; and so much of that sum as is
thus found to be attributable to the continuing
partner shall be taken to be part of his share of that
divisible income;
(ii) a sum being so much of that amount as is thus
found to have been apportioned to the second part
shall be treated as having accrued evenly over the
length of the second part and shall be divided
between those who were partners of the new
partnership in the second part in accordance with
the sharing arrangements (subsisting from time to
time during the second part) of those partners in
like manner as that sum would have been divisible
between those partners if that sum had been
divisible profits from the business of the new
partnership accruing evenly over the second part;
and so much of that sum as is thus found to be
attributable to the continuing partner shall be taken
to be part of his share of that divisible income; and
(iii) the amount of the part of the continuing partners
share ascertained under subparagraph (i) and the
amount of the part of his share ascertained under
subparagraph (ii) shall be aggregated; and the
amount of the aggregate shall be taken to be his
share of that divisible income for that period; and
(c) if the formation date of the new partnership falls before
that period, shall be treated as having accrued evenly over
that period and shall be divided between those who were
partners of the new partnership in that period in
accordance with the sharing arrangements (subsisting
from time to time during that period) of those partners in
like manner as that amount would have been divisible
between those partners if that amount had been divisible
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profits from the business of the new partnership accruing

evenly over that period; and so much of that divisible
income as is thus found to be attributable to the continuing
partner shall be taken to be his share of that divisible
income for that period.
(7) For the purposes of subsection (5) of this section, the amount
of any remuneration or interest shall be ascertained whenever
necessary by applying subsection 19(3) as if references therein to
Chapter 4 were references to subsection (5) of this section.
(8) The adjusted income of the continuing partner from the
continuing proprietorship business for the basis period for a year of
assessment shall be taken to be the aggregate of
(a) so much of the total amount deducted under subsection (5)
in ascertaining the divisible income of that business for
that period as relates to any remuneration, interest or
expenses payable to or incurred in relation to the
continuing partner; and
(b) his share, ascertained under paragraph (6)(a), (b)or (c), as
the case may be, of the divisible income of that business
for that period.
(9) In subsection (6) divisible profits does not include any items
of the kind referred to in paragraphs (5)(a), (b) and (c).
Provisions applicable where partnership is a partner in another

partnership
57. Where a partnership (in this section referred to as the subsidiary
partnership) is a partner in another partnership (in this section
referred to as the main partnership), then, in relation to a business of
the main partnership
(a) throughout any period that a person is a partner in the
subsidiary partnership and the subsidiary partnership is a
partner in the main partnership it shall be postulated that
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the person in question was a partner in the main

partnership in place of the subsidiary partnership, and the
adjusted income under subsection 55(5) or 56(8) (in this
section referred to as the computed adjusted income) of
that person for the basis period for a year of assessment as
the sole proprietor from his proprietorship business or as
continuing partner from his continuing proprietorship
business, as the case may be, in relation to the main
partnership shall be ascertained under section 55 or under
section 55 in conjunction with section 56, as the case may
be; and
(b) the computed adjusted income for that basis period shall be
divided between the partners of the subsidiary partnership
in like manner as divisible income is divided under
subsection 55(4) or 56(6), as the case may be, and the
amount of the share thereof so ascertained of any such
partner as the sole proprietor or as the continuing partner as
mentioned in subsection 55(4) or 56(6), as the case may be,
shall be taken to be his adjusted income for the basis period
for that year of assessment from the proprietorship
business or continuing proprietorship business, as the case
may be, which he is treated as having in relation to the
main partnership by virtue of paragraph (a).
Income receivable by
partnership business
partnership
otherwise
than
from
58. (1) Where a partnership carries on or shares in the profits of a

business and income is receivable by the partnership (not being
income forming part of the gross income for the basis period for any
year of assessment from any proprietorship business or continuing
proprietorship business in relation to any partner in the partnership)
from a source, then, whether or not the income has been distributed to
the partners, sections 55, 56 and 57 shall apply (with any necessary
modifications) for ascertaining the gross income and adjusted income
for the basis period for a year of assessment from that source of each
partner who is a partner in the partnership as they apply for
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ascertaining his gross income and adjusted income for the basis
period for that year from the business.
(2) For the purposes of subsection (1), in the application of
section 55 or section 55 in conjunction with section 56, as the
case may be, the provisional adjusted income shall be taken to be
the divisible income.
Partnership losses
59. (1) In the case of a sole proprietor of a proprietorship business
or of a continuing partner of a continuing proprietorship business
referred to in sections 55 and 56 respectively
(a) the adjusted loss (in this section referred to as the
provisional adjusted loss) of that proprietor or partner
from that proprietorship or continuing proprietorship
business for the basis period for a year of assessment shall
be ascertained on the same principles as those on which
his provisional adjusted income from the respective
business would, but for that loss, have been ascertained
under section 55 or under section 55 in conjunction with
section 56, as the case may be;
(b) the divisible loss of that proprietorship or continuing
proprietorship business, for the basis period for a year of
assessment shall be found by the addition to the
provisional adjusted loss of that sole proprietor or of that
continuing partner, as the case may be, from that
proprietorship business or continuing proprietorship
business of his for that period of the total amount as
mentioned in and as ascertained under subsections 55(3)
and (5) or subsections 56(5) and (7), as the case may be;
(c) the divisible loss so found with respect to that
proprietorship business or continuing proprietorship
business shall be divided in like manner as divisible
income from that business would have been divided if
there had been divisible income for that period, and so
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much of that divisible loss as is thus found to be

attributable to that sole proprietor or continuing partner
shall be taken to be his share of that divisible loss for that
period; and
(d) the adjusted loss of that sole proprietor or continuing
partner from that proprietorship business or continuing
proprietorship business for that basis period shall be taken
to be the difference between
(i) his share, ascertained pursuant to paragraph (c), of the
divisible loss of that proprietorship business or
continuing proprietorship business for that period; and
(ii) so much of the total amount added pursuant to
paragraph (b) as relates to any remuneration,
interest or expenses payable to or incurred in
relation to him as a partner in the partnership in
relation to which he is taken to be a sole proprietor
or a continuing partner, as the case may be:
Provided that, if in relation to any person the sum found under
subparagraph (d)(ii) exceeds the share referred to in
subparagraph (d)(i), the difference between that sum and that
share shall be treated as the amount of that persons adjusted
income for that period from that proprietorship business or from
that continuing proprietorship business, as the case may be.
(2) For the purposes of section 55 or section 55 in conjunction
with section 56, where the total amount as mentioned in and
ascertained under subsections 55(3) and (5) or subsections 56(5) and
(7), as the case may be, exceeds the provisional adjusted income of
the sole proprietor from his proprietorship business or the continuing
partner from his continuing proprietorship business, as the case may
be, for the basis period for a year of assessment, the excess shall be
taken to be the divisible loss for that period from that proprietorship
business or continuing proprietorship business, as the case may be,
and paragraphs (1)(c) and (d) shall apply accordingly.
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(3) In a case where section 57 would apply but for the absence of
any adjusted income, the foregoing subsections shall apply with the
following additional provisions:
(a) the adjusted loss (in this subsection referred to as the
computed adjusted loss) of the sole proprietor from his
proprietorship business or of the continuing partner
from his continuing proprietorship business, as the case
may be, in relation to the main partnership for the basis
period for a year of assessment shall be ascertained
under subsection (1); and
(b) the computed adjusted loss for that basis period shall be
divided between the partners of the subsidiary partnership
in like manner as it would have been divided under
paragraph 57(b) if the computed adjusted loss had been
computed adjusted income within the meaning of that
section; and the amount of the share thereof so ascertained
of any such partner as the sole proprietor or as the
continuing partner, as the case may be, shall be taken to
be his adjusted loss for the basis period for that year of
assessment from the proprietorship business or continuing
proprietorship business, as the case may be, which he is
treated as having in relation to the main partnership by
virtue of paragraph 57(a).
Insurance business
60. (1) This section shall apply for ascertaining the adjusted income
for the basis period for a year of assessment from the insurance
business of an insurer.
(a) subject to paragraph (b), where an insurer carries on life
business in conjunction with general business, the life
business and the general business shall be treated as
separate insurance businesses;
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(i) where an insurer carries on inward re-insurance

business, the inward re-insurance business and the
general business (excluding the inward reinsurance
business and offshore insurance business) shall be
treated as separate general businesses;
(ii) where an insurer carries on offshore insurance
business, the offshore insurance business and the
general business (excluding the offshore insurance
business and inward re-insurance business) shall
be treated as separate general businesses;
(c) where an insurer carries on life business, the income of

the life fund shall be treated as a separate source of
income from the income of the shareholders fund in
respect of the life business:
Provided that
(i) where the insurer also carries on life reinsurance
business, the life re-insurance business shall be a
separate source from life business and shall be
treated as a general business; or
(ii) where the insurer also carries on inward life reinsurance business, the inward life re-insurance
business shall be a separate source from life
business and shall be treated as a general business;
(d) where an insurer carries on only life re-insurance
business, the life re-insurance business shall be treated as
a general business.
(3) The adjusted income of the life fund, other than income arising
from life re-insurance business, for the basis period for a year of
assessment of an insurer resident for the basis year for that year of
assessment shall be ascertained by
(a) taking the aggregate of
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(i) the amount of gross income for that period from

the investments made out of any of the insurers
life funds; and
(ii) the amount of any gross proceeds (whether or not
of an income nature) which are not gross income
to which subparagraph (i) applies and which are
first receivable in that period in connection with
the realization of those investments or any rights
arising from them; and
(b) deducting from that aggregate where subparagraph (a)(ii)
is applicable for that period to gross proceeds receivable
in connection with any investments or rights, the cost of
acquiring and realizing those investments or rights.
(3A) The adjusted income of the shareholders fund for the basis
period for a year of assessment of an insurer resident for the basis
year for that year of assessment shall be ascertained by
the investments made out of any of the
shareholders funds;
(iii) the amount of the actuarial surplus from the life fund
that is transferred to the shareholders fund; and
(b) deducting from that aggregate
(i) where subparagraph (a)(ii) is applicable for that
period to gross proceeds receivable in connection
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with any investments or rights, the cost of

acquiring and realizing those investments or rights;
and
(ii) so much of the amount transferred from the
shareholders fund as is equal to the actuarial
deficit for that period arising from the life fund,
other than the deficit from life reinsurance
business.
(4) The adjusted income of the life fund, other than income arising
from life re-insurance business, of an insurer not resident for the basis
year for that year of assessment shall where that business is wholly or
partly carried on in Malaysia as ascertained by
investments made (in Malaysia or elsewhere) out
of the insurers Malaysian life fund; and
(b) deducting from that aggregate where subparagraph (a)(ii)
is applicable for that period to gross proceeds receivable
in connection with any investments or rights, the cost of
(4A) The adjusted income of the shareholders fund for the basis
period for a year of assessment of an insurer not resident for the basis
year for that year of assessment shall, where that business is wholly
or partly carried on in Malaysia, be ascertained by
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the investments made out of any of the
shareholders funds;
(iii) the amount of the actuarial surplus from the life fund
that is transferred to the shareholders fund; and
acquiring and realizing those investments or rights;
and
(ii) so much of the amount transferred from the
shareholders fund as is equal to the actuarial
deficit for that period arising from the life fund,
other than the deficit from life reinsurance
business.
(4B) The adjusted income as ascertained under subsections (3A)
and (4A) shall be deemed to be the statutory income from that source.
(5) The adjusted income for the basis period for a year of
assessment from the general business of an insurer resident for the
basis year for that year of assessment shall consist of an amount
arrived at by

(i) the amount of the gross premiums first receivable
in that period in respect of general policies issued
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by him (less the amount of any premiums received

at any time in respect of any such general policies
and returned by him during that period);
(ii) the amount of any other gross income for that
period from the general business of the insurer
(including any commissions and any interest or
other income from investments held in connection
with that business);
(iii) the amount of any gross proceeds (whether or not
to which subparagraph (ii) applies and which are
arising from them;
(iv) any amounts recovered or recoverable by him in
that period under re-insurance contracts made in
connection with that business; and
(v) the amount of his reserve fund for unexpired risks
at the end of the immediately preceding basis
period; and
(b) subject to subsection (7), deducting from that aggregate
the amount of
(i) claims incurred in that period in connection with
his general policies;
(ii) re-insurance premiums payable by him in that
period in connection with that business;
(iii) commissions payable and discounts allowed by
him in that period in connection with that
business;
(iv) management expenses incurred by him in that
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(v) his reserve fund for unexpired risks at the end of

that period; and
(vi) where subparagraph (a)(iii) is applicable for that
(5A) The adjusted income for the basis period for a year of
assessment from the inward re-insurance business of an insurer
resident for the basis year for that year of assessment shall consist of
an amount arrived at by applying subsection (5) as if references
therein to general business and general policies were references
to inward re-insurance business and inward re-insurance
contracts respectively.
(5B) The adjusted income for the basis period for a year of
assessment from the offshore insurance business of an insurer
resident for that basis year for that year of assessment shall consist of
therein to general business and general policies were references
to offshore insurance business and offshore insurance policies
respectively.
(5C) The adjusted income for the basis period for a year of
assessment from the life re-insurance business of a life insurer
resident for that basis year for that year of assessment shall consist of
therein to
(a) general business of an insurer were references to life
re-insurance business of a life insurer;
(b) general policies were references to life reinsurance
policies; and
(c) reserve fund for unexpired risks were references to
actuarial valuation reserve.
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(6) The adjusted income for the basis period for a year of
assessment from the general business of an insurer not resident for
the basis year for that year of assessment shall where that business is
wholly or partly carried on in Malaysia consist of an amount arrived
at by
(i) the amount of the gross premiums first receivable
in that period in respect of Malaysian general
policies issued by him (less any premiums
received at any time on account of any such
Malaysian general policies returned by him in that
period);
period derived from Malaysia from that business
(including
gross
income
consisting
of
commissions and gross income from investments,
wherever made, held in connection with that
business);
arising from them;
(iv) any amounts recovered or recoverable by him in
that period under re-insurance contracts made in
connection with Malaysian general policies of that
business; and
relating to any such Malaysian general policies at the
end of the immediately preceding basis period; and
(b) subject to subsection (7), deducting from that aggregate
the amount of
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his Malaysian general policies;
(ii) re-insurance premiums payable by him in that
period in connection with any such Malaysian
general policies;
(iii) commissions payable and discounts given by him
in that period in connection with any such
Malaysian general policies;
(iv) management expenses incurred by him in
Malaysia in that period in connection with that
business;
(v) his reserve fund for unexpired risks relating to any
such Malaysian general policies at the end of that
period;
(vi) a portion of the insurers head office expenses
incurred by him in that period which is fair and
reasonable if, in relation to that period, regard is
had to the gross premiums receivable by him in
respect of Malaysian general policies issued by
him in that period as compared with the total gross
premiums receivable by him in respect of all
general policies issued by him in that period; and
(vii) where subparagraph (a)(iii) is applicable for that
(6A) The adjusted income for the basis period for a year of
assessment from the inward re-insurance business of an insurer not
resident for the basis year for that year of assessment shall, where
that business is wholly or partly carried on in Malaysia, consist of an
amount arrived at by applying subsection (6) as if references therein
to general business and Malaysian general policies were
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references to inward re-insurance business and inward reinsurance contracts respectively.

(6B) The adjusted income for the basis period for a year of
assessment from the offshore insurance business of an insurer not
amount arrived at by applying subsection (6) as if references there in
to general business and Malaysian general policies were
references to offshore insurance business and offshore insurance
policies respectively.
(6C) The adjusted income for the basis period for a year of
assessment from the life re-insurance business of a life insurer not
amount arrived at by applying subsection (6) as if references therein
to
(a) general business of an insurer were references to life
re-insurance business of a life insurer;
(b) Malaysian general policies were references
Malaysian life re-insurance policies; and
to
(c) reserve fund for unexpired risks were references to

actuarial valuation reserve.
(7) Where an insurer carrying on general business has re-insured
the risk or part of the risk with a re-insurer who either does not carry
on the business of insuring risks of that kind in Malaysia or does not
re-insure the risk through a branch in Malaysia, there may be
deducted under subparagraph (5)(b)(ii) or (6)(b)(ii) in respect of such
risks which are re-insured only ninety-five per cent of the amount
which would otherwise be deductible:
Provided that in a case to which subsection (6), (6A) or (6B)
applies
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(a) the insurer may elect that no deductions shall be made

under subparagraph (6)(b)(ii); and
(b) where he does so
(i) the election shall be irrevocable and shall apply in
relation to the basis period for the year of
assessment for which it is made and for the basis
periods for all subsequent years of assessment; and
(ii) amounts recoverable under re-insurance contracts
shall be disregarded for the purposes of
subparagraph (6)(a)(iv).
(8) Where an insurer in connection with his life business or his
general business receives any incidental gross income (not being a
premium on a policy issued in the course of carrying on that life or
general business) for which subsections (3) to (7) do not provide, that
income shall be treated as income of the insurer falling under
paragraph 4(f) and he shall be deemed to have a separate source in
respect of it.
(9) For the purposes of this section an insurers reserve fund for
unexpired risks at the end of a basis period shall consist of
(a) twenty-five per cent of the difference between the gross
premiums first receivable by him in that period in respect
of marine, aviation or transit policies issued by him and
the amount deducted under subparagraph (5)(b)(ii) or
(6)(b)(ii); and
(b) an amount calculated based on the method of computation
as determined by the relevant authority regulating the
insurance industry and which is consistently applied to
premiums first receivable by him in that period in respect
of other general policies issued by him (less the amount
deducted under subparagraph (5)(b)(ii) or 6(b)(ii)).
(10) Where under this section all such deductions as would be
made in computing what would have been the adjusted income for
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the basis period for a year of assessment from the insurance business
of an insurer if any such adjustment income had been ascertainable
exceed the aggregate of the amounts from which those deductions
would otherwise have been made, the amount of the excess shall be
taken to be the amount of his adjusted loss from that business for that
period.
(10A) Notwithstanding subsections (10), 43(2) and 44(2), any
adjusted loss of the life fund for the basis period for a year of
assessment of an insurer shall only be available as a deduction
against the statutory income of the life fund of the insurer for
subsequent years of assessment until fully utilized.
(10B) Notwithstanding paragraph 75 of Schedule 3, any
unabsorbed allowances of the life business shall only be available for
deduction against the adjusted income for the basis period for a year
of assessment and subsequent years of assessment in respect of the
life fund of the insurer.
(10C) Allowances under Schedule 3 shall only be available for
deduction against the adjusted income of the life fund and the balance
of such allowances shall not be available as a deduction against the
adjusted income of the shareholders fund.
(10D) In arriving at the total income of an insurer for a year of
assessment, the adjusted loss from a source or sources of an insurer
for that year of assessment other than from a source consisting of a
life fund, shall be available as deduction against the aggregate
statutory income (excluding the statutory income from a source
consisting of a life fund) of an insurer, and any unabsorbed loss
ascertained under subsection 44(4) or (5) for that year of assessment
shall not be deducted against the statutory income of the life fund of
the insurer for the subsequent years of assessment.
(11) In this section, sections 60A and 60B
general business means all insurance business which is not life
business;
general policy means a policy other than a life policy;
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insurer means a person who carries on insurance business and

includes a professional re-insurer;
investments includes any accretions thereto;
inward re-insurance means any re-insurance of a risk under a
policy where the risk is outside Malaysia and the original insurance
policy
(a) is issued by an insurer not resident in Malaysia but not
issued by a branch in Malaysia of such insurer; or
(b) is issued by a branch outside Malaysia of an insurer
resident in Malaysia,
and where any risk is in transit in Malaysia it shall be deemed to be
outside Malaysia;
inward re-insurance contract means a Malaysian policy in respect
of inward re-insurance;
life business has the same meaning assigned thereto under section 2
of the Insurance Act 1996 [Act 553];
life policy has the same meaning assigned thereto under section 2
of the Insurance Act 1996;
Malaysian life fund means the fund established pursuant to
section 38 of the Insurance Act 1996;
Malaysian policy has the same meaning assigned there to under
section 2 of the Insurance Act 1996;
offshore insurance means insurance of a risk under a general
policy where the risk is outside Malaysia and the insurance policy is
issued by an insurer resident in Malaysia or by a branch in Malaysia
of an insurer not resident in Malaysia, and where any risk is in transit
in Malaysia it shall be deemed to be outside Malaysia;
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offshore insurance policies means policies issued in respect of

offshore insurance;
policy has the same meaning assigned thereto under section 2 of
the Insurance Act 1996;
premium has the same meaning assigned thereto under section 2
re-insurance has the same meaning assigned thereto under section 2
revenue account means the revenue account lodged in respect of
life business under section 87 of the Insurance Act 1996.
Inward re-insurance: chargeable income, reduced rate and

exempt dividend
60A. (1) (a) Where an insurer carries on inward re-insurance
business in conjunction with other insurance
businesses, the part of the chargeable income for a
year of assessment which is attributable to that
inward re-insurance business shall consist of an
amount which bears the same proportion to the
chargeable income for that year of assessment of the
insurer as the part of the aggregate income which
relates to the inward re-insurance business bears to
the whole of the aggregate income for that year of
assessment from all sources of the insurer; and
(b) the amount arrived at under paragraph (a) shall be treated
as his chargeable income for a year of assessment of an
insurer from inward re-insurance business for the
purposes of paragraph 3 of Part I of Schedule 1.
(2) As soon as any amount of chargeable income from the inward
re-insurance business of an insurer (being a company) resident for the
basis year for a year of assessment has been subject to income tax at
the rate of 5 per cent
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(a) the net amount of that income (after deduction of such

tax) shall be credited to an account (that account and
company being referred to as the exempt account and the
relevant company respectively); and
(b) paragraph 5 (except subparagraph (1) thereof) and
paragraph 6 of Schedule 7A shall apply as if any reference
in those paragraphs to any income exempted or which has
become exempt under paragraph 3 were a reference to
income credited to the exempt account.
Takaful business
60AA. (1) This section shall apply for ascertaining the adjusted
income for the basis period for a year of assessment from the takaful
business of an operator.
(a) subject to paragraph (b), where an operator carries on
family solidarity business (in this section referred to as
family business) in conjunction with general business,
the family business and the general business shall be
treated as separate takaful businesses;
(b) where an operator carries on
(i) an inward re-takaful business, the inward re-takaful
business and general business (excluding the inward
re-takaful business and offshore takaful business)
shall be treated as separate general businesses; and
(ii) an offshore takaful business, the offshore takaful
business and the general business (excluding the
offshore takaful business and inward re-takaful
business) shall be treated as separate general
businesses;
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(c) where an operator carries on family business, the income

of the fund established in respect of that business (in this
section referred to as family fund) shall be treated as a
separate source of income from the income of the
shareholders fund in respect of the family business:
Provided that
(i) where the operator also carries on family solidarity
re-takaful business, the family solidarity re-takaful
business shall be a separate source from family
business and shall be treated as a general business;
or
(ii) where the operator also carries on inward family
solidarity re-takaful business, the inward family
solidarity re-takaful business shall be a separate
source from family business and shall be treated as
a general business;
(d) where an operator carries on only family solidarity re-takaful
business, that business shall be treated as a general business;
and
(e) where an operator carries on inward re-takaful business,
offshore takaful business, family solidarity re-takaful business
or general business (excluding those businesses), the income
of the fund established in respect of each of the businesses (in
this section referred to as inward re-takaful fund, offshore
fund, family re-takaful fund and general fund
respectively) shall be treated as a separate source of income
from the income of the shareholders fund in respect of those
businesses.
(3) The adjusted income of the family fund, other than income
arising from family solidarity re-takaful business, for the basis period
for a year of assessment of an operator resident for the basis year for
that year of assessment shall be ascertained by
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the investments made out of any of the operators
family funds; and
the realization of the investments or any right
with any investment or right, the cost of acquiring
and realizing the investments or rights; and
(ii) the proportion of profits from investments
distributed or credited to the participant or to the
shareholders fund for that period out of any of the
operators family funds.
(4) The adjusted income of the family fund, other than income
arising from family solidarity re-takaful business, for the basis period
for a year of assessment of an operator not resident for the basis year
for that year of assessment shall, where that business is wholly or
partly carried on in Malaysia, be ascertained by
the investments made (in Malaysia or elsewhere)
out of the operators Malaysian family funds; and
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and realizing the investments or rights; and
(ii) the proportion of profits from investments
distributed or credited to the participant or to the
shareholders fund for that period out of any of the
operators Malaysian family funds.
(5) The adjusted income of the general fund in respect of general
business for the basis period for a year of assessment of an operator
resident for the basis year for that year of assessment shall be
ascertained by
(i) the amount of the gross contributions first
receivable in that period in respect of general
certificate, issued by him (less the amount of any
contribution or contract received at any time in
respect of such certificate or contract and returned
by him during the period and the amount of
wakalah fee which is attributable to the
shareholders fund);
period from that business (including any
commission and any profit from investment held
in connection with that business);
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arising from them;
(iv) any amount recovered or recoverable by him in
that period under re-takaful contracts made in
connection with that business; and
period; and
(b) subject to subsection (12), by deducting from that
aggregate the amount of
his general certificate;
(ii) re-takaful contributions payable by him in that
him in that period in connection with that
business;
(iv) his reserve fund for unexpired risks at the end of
that period;
(v) where subparagraph (a)(iii) is applicable for that
and realizing the investments or rights;
(vi) any fee other than wakalah fee attributable to the
shareholders fund;
(vii) any share of profits distributed or credited to the
participant or shareholders fund for that period
out of any of the operators general fund; and
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(viii) management expenses incurred by him in that

period in connection with his general business.
(6) The adjusted income of the inward re-takaful fund, offshore
fund or family re-takaful fund for the basis period for a year of
assessment in respect of inward re-takaful business, offshore takaful
business or family solidarity re-takaful business respectively of an
operator resident for the basis year for that year of assessment shall
consist of an amount arrived at by applying subsection (5) and
references in that subsection to
(a) general certificate shall be construed as references to
inward re-takaful contract, offshore takaful certificate
or family solidarity re-takaful certificate, as the case
may be;
(b) general business shall be construed as references to
inward re-takaful business, offshore takaful business
or family solidarity re-takaful business, as the case may
be; and
(c) reserve fund for unexpired risks and operator shall in
the case of family solidarity re-takaful business be
construed as references to actuarial valuation reserve
and family solidarity operator respectively:
Provided that in the case of inward re-takaful business or offshore
takaful business, no deduction shall be allowed on any share of
profits distributed or credited to the participant or shareholders fund
for that period out of any of the operators inward fund or offshore
fund, as the case may be.
(7) The adjusted income of the general fund in respect of general
business for the basis period for a year of assessment of an operator
not resident for the basis year for that year of assessment shall, where
that business is wholly or partly carried on in Malaysia be ascertained
by
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(i) the amount of the gross contribution first

receivable in that period in respect of Malaysian
general certificate or contract, issued by him (less
the amount of any contribution received at any
time in respect of such certificate or contract and
returned by him during the period and the amount
of wakalah fee which is attributable to the
shareholders fund);
period derived from Malaysia from that business
(including any commission and any profit from
investment, wherever made, held in connection
with that business);
arising from them;
(iv) any amount recovered or recoverable by him in
that period under re-takaful contracts made in
connection with Malaysian general certificate of
that business; and
relating to any such Malaysian general certificate
period; and
(b) subject to subsection (12), by deducting from that
aggregate the amount of
his Malaysian general certificate;
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(ii) re-takaful contributions payable by him in that

period in connection with any such Malaysian
general certificate;
him in that period in connection with any such
Malaysian general certificate;
(iv) his reserve fund for unexpired risks relating to any
such Malaysian general certificate at the end of
that period;
(v) where subparagraph (a)(iii) is applicable for that
and realizing the investment or right;
(vi) any fee other than wakalah fee attributable to the
shareholders fund;
(vii) any share of profits distributed or credited to the
participant or to the shareholders fund for that
period out of any of the operators Malaysian
general fund ; and
(viii) management expenses incurred by him in that
period in connection with his general business.
(8) The adjusted income of the inward re-takaful fund, offshore
fund or family re-takaful fund for the basis period for a year of
assessment in respect of inward re-takaful business, offshore takaful
business or family solidarity re-takaful business respectively of an
operator not resident for the basis year for that year of assessment
shall, where that business is wholly or partly carried on in Malaysia,
consist of an amount arrived at by applying subsection (7) and
references in that subsection to
(a) Malaysian general certificate shall be construed as
references to inward re-takaful contract, offshore
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takaful certificate or Malaysian family solidarity

re-takaful certificate, as the case may be;
(b) general business shall be construed as references to
inward re-takaful business, offshore takaful business
or family solidarity re-takaful business, as the case may
be; and
(c) reserve fund for unexpired risks and operator shall in
the case of family solidarity re-takaful business be
construed as references to actuarial valuation reserve
and family solidarity operator respectively:
Provided that in the case of inward re-takaful business or offshore
takaful business, no deduction shall be allowed on any share of
profits distributed or credited to the participant or shareholders fund
for that period out of any of the operators inward fund or offshore
fund, as the case may be.
(9) The adjusted income of the shareholders fund, for the basis
period for a year of assessment of an operator resident for the basis
year for that year of assessment shall be ascertained by
the investments made by the operator out of any of
the shareholders funds;
arising from them;
(iii) the amount of gross income for that period in
respect of wakalah fee or any other fee receivable
in connection with the family fund, general fund,
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inward re-takaful fund, offshore fund or family retakaful fund;

(iv) any amount of qard recovered by him in that
period in connection with the family fund; and
(v) the amount of gross income for that period in
respect of profits from investments distributed or
credited from family fund, or in respect of profits
distributed or credited from general fund or family
re-takaful fund; and
(ii) so much of the amount of qard incurred in that
period in connection with the family fund;
(iii) the amount of management expenses incurred by
him in that period in connection with his family
and general businesses; and
(iv) commission payable and discounts allowed by him
in that period in connection with his general
business.
(10) The adjusted income of the shareholders fund, for the basis
period for a year of assessment of an operator not resident for the
basis year for that year of assessment shall, where that business is
wholly or partly carried on in Malaysia be ascertained by
the investments made by the operator out of any of
the shareholders funds;
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arising from them;
(iii) the amount of gross income for that period in
respect of wakalah fee or any other fee receivable
in connection with the family fund, general fund,
inward re-takaful fund, offshore fund or family retakaful fund;
(iv) any amount of qard recovered by him in that
period in connection with the family fund; and
(v) the amount of gross income for that period in
respect of profits from investments distributed or
credited from family fund, or in respect of profits
distributed or credited from general fund or family
re-takaful fund; and
(ii) so much of the amount of qard incurred in that
period in connection with the family fund;
(iii) the amount of management expenses incurred by
him in that period in connection with his family
and general businesses; and
(iv) commission payable and discounts allowed by him
in that period in connection with his general
business.
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(11) The adjusted income as ascertained under subsections (9) and

(10) shall be deemed to be the statutory income from that source.
(12) Where an operator carrying on general business has re-takaful
the risks or part of the risks with a re-takaful operator who either does
not carry on the business of takaful of that kind in Malaysia or does
not re-takaful the risks through a branch in Malaysia, there may be
deducted under subparagraph (5)(b)(ii) or (7)(b)(ii) in respect of such
risks which are re-takaful only ninety-five per cent of the amount
which would otherwise be deductible:
Provided that in the case where subsection (7) or (8) apply (other than
in the case of family solidarity re-takaful business), the operator may
elect that no deductions shall be made under subparagraph (7)(b)(ii) and
if he does so
(a) the election shall be irrevocable and shall apply in relation
to the basis period for the year of assessment for which it
is made and for the basis periods for all subsequent years
of assessment; and
(b) amounts recoverable under re-takaful contracts shall be
disregarded for the purposes of subparagraph (7)(a)(iv).
(13) Where an operator in connection with his family business or
his general business receives any incidental gross income (not being a
contribution on a certificate issued in the course of carrying on that
family or general business) for which subsections (3) to (10) and
subsection (12) do not provide, that income shall be treated as income
of the operator falling under paragraph 4(f) and he shall be deemed to
have a separate source in respect of it.
(14) Where under this section all such deductions as would be
made in computing what would have been the adjusted income for
the basis period for a year of assessment from takaful business of an
operator if any such adjustment income had been ascertainable
exceed the aggregate of the amounts from which those deductions
would otherwise have been made, the amount of the excess shall be
taken to be the amount of his adjusted loss from that business for that
period.
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(15) Notwithstanding subsection (14) and subsection 43(2), any

unabsorbed losses of the family fund shall only be available for
deduction against the statutory income for the basis period for a year
of assessment and subsequent years of assessment in respect of the
family fund of the operator.
(15A) In arriving at the total income of an operator for a year of
assessment
(a) the adjusted loss from a source or sources of an operator
for that year of assessment other than from a source
consisting of a family fund, shall be available as deduction
against the aggregate statutory income (excluding the
statutory income from a source consisting of a family
fund) of an operator; and
(b) any unabsorbed loss ascertained under subsection 44(4) or
(5) for that year of assessment shall not be deducted
against the statutory income of the family fund of the
operator for the subsequent years of assessment.
(16) Notwithstanding paragraph 75 of Schedule 3, any unabsorbed
allowances of the family fund shall only be available for deduction
against the adjusted income for the basis period for a year of
assessment and subsequent years of assessment in respect of the
family fund of the operator.
(17) Allowances under Schedule 3 shall only be available for
deduction against the adjusted income of the family fund and the
balance of such allowances shall not be available as a deduction
against the adjusted income of the shareholders fund.
(18) Any income which is distributed or credited to a participant
under this section shall be deemed to be derived from Malaysia.
(19) The chargeable income in respect of the family fund as
determined under subsections (3) and (4) is subject to tax as specified
under Part XII of Schedule 1.
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(20) Where an operator carries on inward re-takaful business or

offshore takaful business in conjunction with other takaful
businesses, the part of the chargeable income for a year of assessment
which is attributable to that inward re-takaful business or offshore
takaful business shall consist of an amount which bears the same
proportion to the chargeable income for that year of assessment of the
operator as the part of the aggregate income which relates to the
inward re-takaful business or offshore takaful business bears to the
whole of the aggregate income for that year of assessment from all
sources of the operator.
(21) The amount arrived at under subsection (20) shall be treated
as his chargeable income for a year of assessment of an operator from
inward re-takaful business or offshore takaful business for the
purposes of paragraph 4 of Part I of Schedule 1.
(22) As soon as any amount of chargeable income from the inward
re-takaful business or offshore takaful business of an operator, being
a company resident for the basis year for a year of assessment, has
been subject to income tax at the rate of five per cent
contribution means takaful instalment payable by participants;
family solidarity means takaful business for the benefit of the
individual and his family;
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general business means any takaful business which is not family

business;
general certificate means a certificate other than a family
solidarity certificate;
investment includes any accretions thereto;
inward re-takaful means any re-takaful of a risk under a
certificate where the risk is outside Malaysia and the original takaful
certificate
(a) is issued by an operator not resident in Malaysia and not
by a branch in Malaysia of such operator; or
(b) is issued by a branch outside Malaysia of an operator
resident in Malaysia,
and where any risk is in transit in Malaysia it shall be deemed to be
outside Malaysia;
inward re-takaful contract means a Malaysian certificate in
respect of inward re-takaful;
Malaysian certificate means any Malaysian certificate entered in
the Register established by the operator pursuant to section 15 of the
Takaful Act 1984;
Malaysian family solidarity fund means the fund in respect of
Malaysian family certificate;
offshore takaful means takaful of a risk under a certificate where
the risk is outside Malaysia and the takaful certificate is issued by a
takaful operator resident in Malaysia or by a branch in Malaysia of a
takaful operator not resident in Malaysia, and where any risk is in
transit in Malaysia it shall be deemed to be outside Malaysia;
operator means a company which carries on takaful business,
including a company that solely carries on re-takaful business;
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participant includes, where a certificate has been assigned, the

assignee for the time being and, where he is entitled as against the
operator to the benefit of the certificate, the personal representative of
a deceased participant;
qard means a benevolent loan made from the shareholders fund
to the family fund to fulfill a short term financial need of the family
fund which shall be repaid by the family fund;
re-takaful has the same meaning assigned to it under section 2 of
the Takaful Act 1984;
takaful has the same meaning assigned to it under section 2 of the
Takaful Act 1984;
takaful business has the same meaning assigned to it under
section 2 of the Takaful Act 1984;
takaful certificate includes any contract of takaful for family
solidarity business or general business whether or not embodied in or
evidenced by an instrument in the form of a certificate, and
references to issuing a certificate shall be construed accordingly;
wakalah fee means a fee in respect of a contract which gives the
power to a person to nominate another person to act on his behalf
based on agreed terms and conditions.
(24) For the purpose of this section, an operators reserve fund for
unexpired risks at the end of a basis period shall consist of
(a) twenty-five per cent of the difference between the
gross contributions first receivable by him in that
period in respect of marine, aviation or transit
certificates issued by him and the amount deducted
under subparagraph (5)(b)(ii) or (7)(b)(ii); and
(b) an amount calculated based on the method of computation
as determined by the relevant authority regulating the
takaful industry and which is consistently applied to
contributions first receivable by him in that period in
respect of other general certificates issued by him less the
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amount deducted under subparagraph (5)(b)(ii) or

(7)(b)(ii).
Chargeable income of life fund subject to tax

60AB. The chargeable income in respect of the life fund as
determined under subsections 60(3) and 60(4) is subject to tax as
specified under Part VIII of Schedule 1.
Offshore insurance: chargeable income, reduced rate and exempt

dividend
60B. (1) (a) Where an insurer carries on offshore insurance business
in conjunction with other insurance businesses, the part of the
chargeable income for a year of assessment which is attributable to
that offshore insurance business shall consist of an amount which
bears the same proportion to the chargeable income for that year of
assessment of the insurer as the part of the aggregate income which
relates to the offshore insurance business bears to the whole of the
aggregate income for that year of assessment from all sources of the
insurer; and
(b) the amount arrived at under paragraph (a) shall be treated
as the chargeable income for a year of assessment of an insurer from
offshore insurance business for the purposes of paragraph 3 of Part I
of Schedule 1.
(2) As soon as any amount of chargeable income from the
offshore insurance business of an insurer (being a company) resident
for the basis year for a year of assessment has been subject to income
tax at the rate of five per cent
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Banking business
60C. Where a person who is resident for the basis year for a year of
assessment carries on a business of banking in Malaysia and
elsewhere, his gross income and adjusted income or adjusted loss for
the basis period for that year of assessment from that business and his
statutory income for that year of assessment from that business shall
be ascertained by reference to his income there from wherever
accruing or derived excluding the gross income, adjusted income or
adjusted loss and statutory income attributable to an offshore
business activity of a licensed Malaysian offshore bank.
60D. (Deleted by Act 600).
60E. (Deleted by Act 624).
Investment holding company

60F. (1) Where an investment holding company is resident for the
basis year for a year of assessment there shall be deducted in arriving
at the total income before any deduction falling to be made under
paragraph 44(1)(c) an amount in respect of expenses incurred by that
company in the basis period for that year of assessment, which
amount shall be determined in accordance with the formula
AXB
4C
where
is the total of the permitted expenses incurred

for that basis period reduced by any receipt of
a similar kind;
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is the gross income consisting of dividend,

interest and rent chargeable to tax for that basis
period; and
is the aggregate of the gross income consisting

of dividend and interest (whether such
dividend or interest is exempt or not) and rent,
and gains made from the realization of
investments for that basis period:
Provided that
(a) the amount of deduction to be made shall not exceed five
per cent of the gross income consisting of dividend,
interest and rent for that basis period; and
(b) where, by reason of an absence or insufficiency of
aggregate income for that year of assessment, effect
cannot be given or cannot be given in full to any
deduction falling to be made to the investment holding
company under this section for that year, that deduction
which has not been so made shall not be made to the
investment holding company for any subsequent year of
assessment.
(1A) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, where in any
year of assessment income of an investment holding company
consists of
(a) income from the holding of investment, it shall not be treated
as income from a source consisting of a business; or
(b) income other than income from the holding of investment,
it shall be treated as gains or profits under paragraph 4(f).
(1B) If it is shown that it has been established as between the
Director General and the company for any tax purposes that the
company is an investment holding company for the basis period for
any year of assessment it shall be presumed until the contrary is
proved that the company is an investment holding company for the
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purpose of this Act for the basis period for every subsequent year of
assessment.
(1C) This section shall not apply to an investment holding
company referred to in section 60FA.
(2) In this section
business of holding of an investment means business of letting of
property where a company in any year of assessment provides any
maintenance or support services in respect of the property;
dividend is deemed to include income distributed by a unit trust;
investment holding company means a company whose activities
consist mainly in the holding of investments and not less than eighty
per cent of its gross income other than gross income from a source
consisting of a business of holding of an investment (whether exempt
or not) is derived there from;
permitted expenses means expenses incurred by an investment
holding company in respect of
(a) directors fees;
(b) wages, salaries and allowances;
(c) management fees;
(d) secretarial, audit and accounting fees, telephone charges,
printing and stationary costs and postage; and
(e) rent and other expenses incidental to the maintenance of
an office,
which are not deductible under subsection 33(1).
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Investment holding company listed on Bursa Malaysia

60FA. (1) The provisions of this section shall apply notwithstanding
any other provisions of this Act.
(2) Where an investment holding company is a company resident
for the basis year for a year of assessment and listed on the Bursa
Malaysia in the basis period for that year of assessment, income of
that investment holding company from the holding of investment in
that basis period shall be treated as gross income of that investment
holding company from a source consisting of a business for that year
of assessment.
(3) For the purpose of subsection (2)
(a) in ascertaining for a year of assessment the adjusted
income of an investment holding company from a source
referred to in that subsection, any amount of deduction to
be made under this Act in arriving at that income shall
only be allowed against the gross income from that source
but
(i) where in that year of assessment that source does
not produce any income, any deduction in respect
of that source shall be disregarded for the purposes
of this Act; or
(ii) where that amount of deduction exceeds the gross
income from that source for that year of
assessment, the excess shall be disregarded for the
purposes of this Act; and
(b) in ascertaining for a year of assessment the statutory
income of an investment holding company from a source
referred to in that subsection, any allowance for that year
of assessment falling to be made to that company under
Schedule 3 in respect of that source shall only be available
against the adjusted income of that person from that
source and if by reason of an absence or insufficiency of
adjusted income from that source for the basis period for
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that year of assessment, effect cannot be given or be given

in full to any allowance for that year of assessment in
relation to that source, that allowance which has not been
so made shall not be made to that company for subsequent
(4) If it is shown that it has been established between the Director
General and the company for any tax purposes that the company is an
investment holding company for the basis period for any year of
assessment it shall be presumed until the contrary is proved that the
company is an investment holding company for the purpose of this
Act for the basis period for every subsequent year of assessment.
(5) In this section, investment holding company has the same
meaning assigned to it under section 60F.
Foreign fund management company
60G. (1) Where a foreign fund management company carries on
business in Malaysia of providing fund management services to
foreign and local investors, the income derived from the provision of
fund management services to foreign investors shall be treated as a
separate and distinct business source from that source of income
derived from the provision of fund management services to local
investors.
(2) The chargeable income in relation to the source consisting
of the provision of fund management services to foreign investors
for a year of assessment shall be the statutory income from that
source reduced by any deduction falling to be made pursuant to
subsection 43(2) relating to that source.
(3) The chargeable income in relation to the source or sources
other than the source consisting of the provision of fund management
services to foreign investors for a year of assessment shall be the
statutory income from that source or the aggregate of the statutory
income from each of those sources, as the case may be, reduced by
any deductions falling to be made pursuant to subsections 43(2) and
44(1):
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Provided that in so making the deductions under subsections 43(2)

and 44(1), no regard shall be had to the adjusted loss, if any, from the
source consisting of the provision of fund management services to
foreign investors.
(4) The chargeable income of a foreign fund management
company, resident in Malaysia for the basis year for a year of
assessment in relation to the source consisting of the provision of
fund management services to foreign investors, after deduction of the
tax thereon, shall be credited to an account to be kept by that
company (that account and that company being referred to as the
exempt account and the relevant company respectively).
(5) Paragraphs 5 and 6 of Schedule 7A shall apply as if any
reference in those paragraphs to any income exempted or which has
become exempt under paragraph 3 of that Schedule were a reference
to income credited to the exempt account of the relevant company
under subsection (4).
foreign fund management company means a company
incorporated in Malaysia and licensed under the Capital Markets and
Services Act 2007 [Act 671];
foreign investors
(a) in relation to an individual means individuals who are not
resident and not citizens of Malaysia;
(b) in relation to a company means companies where the
entire issued share capital is beneficially owned, directly
or indirectly by persons who are not resident and not
citizens of Malaysia; and
(c) in relation to a trust fund means trust funds where the
entire interest in the fund is beneficially held, directly or
indirectly by foreign investors, where
(i) the fund is created outside Malaysia; and
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(ii) the trustees of the fund are not resident and not
citizens of Malaysia;
local investors are individuals, companies or trust funds that are
not foreign investors.
Closed-end fund company

60H. (1) This section shall apply to a closed-end fund company
resident in Malaysia for the basis year for a year of assessment.
(2) Where a closed-end fund company receives an amount in
respect of gains from the realization of investments in the basis
period for a year of assessment such amount shall be exempt from tax
for that year of assessment.
(3) Paragraphs 5 and 6 of Schedule 7A shall apply, mutatis
mutandis, to the amount exempted under subsection (2) and
paragraph 35 of Schedule 6 (where applicable).
(4) In ascertaining the total income of a closed-end fund company
for the basis period for a year of assessment there shall be deducted
before any deduction falling to be made under paragraph 44(1)(c) an
amount in respect of expenses incurred by that closed-end fund
company during that period, which amount shall be determined in
accordance with the formula
AxB
4C
where
is the total of the permitted expenses incurred for that

basis period;
is the gross income consisting of dividend and interest

chargeable to tax for that basis period; and
is the aggregate of the gross income consisting of

dividend and interest (whether such dividend or interest is
exempt or not) and gains made from the realization of
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investments (whether chargeable to tax or not) for that

basis period:
Provided that
(a) the amount of deduction to be made shall not be less than
ten per cent of the total permitted expenses incurred for
that basis period; and
deduction falling to be made to the closed-end fund
company under this section for that year, that deduction
which has not been so made shall not be made to the
closed-end fund company for any subsequent year of
assessment.
closed-end fund company means a public limited company
incorporated in Malaysia and approved by the Securities Commission
to engage wholly in the investment of funds in securities;
permitted expenses means expenses incurred by a closed-end
fund company in respect of
(a) managers remuneration;
(b) maintenance of register of shareholders;
(c) share registration expenses;
printing and stationery costs and postage;
securities means debentures, stocks and shares in a public company
or corporation, or bonds of any government or any body corporate or
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unincorporated and includes any right or option in respect thereof and

any interest in unit trust schemes.
(6) Sections 33 and 34 shall not apply to a closed-end fund
company.
Company that establishes special purpose vehicle

60I. (1) For the purpose of this Act, where a company establishes a
special purpose vehicle solely for the issuance of Islamic securities,
any source of the special purpose vehicle and any income from that
source shall be treated as a source and income of that company and
such company shall have the right to receive and utilize any proceeds
derived from the issuance of such Islamic securities.
(2) The special purpose vehicle is exempt from the responsibility
of doing all acts and things required to be done under this Act.
(3) The company that establishes the special purpose vehicle shall
keep and retain in safe custody records and documents in accordance
with sections 82 and 82A for the purpose of ascertaining the
chargeable income of the company from the source referred to in
subsection (1).
(4) in this section
Islamic securities means Islamic securities which adopt Syariah
principles approved by the Securities Commission or Labuan
Offshore Financial Services Authority;
special purpose vehicle means a company incorporated under the
Companies Act 1965 or a company incorporated under the Offshore
Companies Act 1990 which has made an election under section 3A of
the Labuan Offshore Business Activity Tax Act 1990 and established
solely for the purpose of complying with the principles of syariah in
the issuance of Islamic securities but excludes a company which
issues asset-backed securities in a securitization transaction approved
by the Securities Commission or Labuan Offshore Financial Services
Authority.
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Trusts generally
61. (1) So long as a trust subsists
(a) the trustees for the time being shall be known as the trust
body and the trust body shall be treated as a person for the
purposes of all the provisions of this Act except Part VIII
(other than section 122);
(b) for the purposes of this Act
(i) any source forming part of the property of the
trust;
(ii) any source of a trustee of the trust, being a source
of his by virtue of sections 55 to 58; and
(iii) any income from any such source, shall be treated
as the source and income of the trust body of the
trust:
Provided that in the case of a unit trust, gains
arising from the realization of investments shall not be
treated as income of the trust body of the trust;
(c) subject to subsections (4) and (5), the entitlement of a
beneficiary at any time and from time to time to any
income from the trust shall be deemed to be a source (in
this section and section 62 referred to as his ordinary
source) of his in relation to the trust, and the amount,
ascertained under this section, of any share of his of any
total income of the trust body of the trust for a year of
assessment shall be deemed to be his statutory income
from his ordinary source for that year; and
(d) a beneficiary of the trust shall be assessed and charged to
tax in respect of any income of his from his ordinary
source or from his further source within the meaning of
subsection (5) in relation to the trust:
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Provided that paragraphs (c) and (d) and subsection (5) shall not
apply to a person in respect of any amount which by virtue of
paragraph 13(1)(d) falls to be included in the gross income of that
person in respect of gains or profits from an employment.
(1A) Notwithstanding paragraphs (1)(c) and (d), a unit holder of a
unit trust shall be assessed and charged to tax in respect of income
equivalent to an amount ascertained by reference to his share of the
total income of the unit trust for a year of assessment, distributed to
him by the unit trust in the basis year for that year of assessment:
Provided that the unit holder shall not be assessed and
charged to tax in respect of any amount distributed by the unit
trust out of income exempt from tax, other than income exempt
under section 61 A , or the gains referred to in the proviso to
paragraph 61(1)(b).
(1B) Any income which is distributed by a unit trust to a unit
holder under subsection (1A) shall be deemed to be derived from
Malaysia.
(2) The income of the trust body of a trust shall be assessed and
charged to tax separately from the income of a beneficiary from any
source of his in relation to the trust, whether or not that beneficiary is
also a trustee member of that body, and in so assessing and charging
that body by reference to its chargeable income for a year of
assessment regard shall be had to the whole of its total income for
that year, notwithstanding that the amount of a share thereof may be
deemed under this section or section 62 to be statutory income of a
beneficiary:
Provided that, where
(a) the trust body of a trust is resident for the basis year for a
year of assessment; and
(b) a beneficiary who has a share of the total income of the
trust body for that year of assessment is resident for the
basis year for that year of assessment,
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the Director General may, in ascertaining the chargeable income of

the trust body for that year of assessment, deduct from that total
income that share of that beneficiary.
(3) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, a trust body
shall be regarded as resident for the basis year for a year of
assessment if, but only if, any trustee member of that body is resident
for that basis year:
Provided that where
(a) the trust was created outside Malaysia by a person or
persons who were not citizens;
(b) the income of that trust body for that basis year is wholly
derived from outside Malaysia;
(c) the trust is administered for the whole of that basis year
outside Malaysia; and
(d) at least one-half of the number of the member trustees are
not resident in Malaysia for that basis year,
that trust body shall not be regarded as resident in Malaysia for that
basis year.
(4) Subject to sections 62 and 63, and whether or not the trust
body of a trust is resident for the basis year for a year of
assessment
(a) where throughout the basis year a beneficiary of the trust
was entitled to the whole of the distributable income from
the trust for that basis year, the amount of the total income
of the trust body for that year of assessment shall be
deemed to be the amount of the beneficiarys share of that
total income; part, shall be deemed to be the amount of his
share (or the amount of part of his share, as the case may
require) of that total income;
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(b) where throughout that basis year a beneficiary of the trust

was entitled to a particular fraction of that distributable
income, an amount found by applying that fraction to that
total income shall be deemed to be the amount of his share
of that total income;
(c) where the trust subsists throughout that basis year and
during that basis year a beneficiary of the trust is entitled
to the whole or a fraction of the distributable income from
the trust for any part or parts of that basis year
(i) that total income, treated as if it had accrued
evenly from day to day over that basis year, shall
with respect to any such part be divided in the
proportion which the length of that part bears to
the length of that basis year and so much of the
amount of that total income as is thus found to be
apportioned to that part is referred to in this
paragraph in relation to that part as the apportioned
sum;
(ii) if the beneficiary was entitled to the whole of the
distributable income from the trust for such a part,
the apportioned sum, in relation to that part, shall
be deemed to be the amount of his share (or the
amount of part of his share, as the case may
require) of that total income;
(iii) if the beneficiary was entitled to a particular
fraction of the distributable income from the trust
for such a part, an amount found by applying that
fraction to the apportioned sum, in relation to that
part, shall be deemed to be the amount of his share
(or the amount of part of his share, as the case may
require) of that total income; and
(iv) where two or more parts of his share of that total
income have been so ascertained, the aggregate of
the amounts of those parts shall be deemed to be
the amount of his share of that total income;
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(d) where the trust was not subsisting throughout that basis
year, paragraphs (a), (b) and (c) (and subsection (7)) shall
have effect as if references therein to that basis year were
references to a period consisting of the whole of the time
during which the trust was subsisting in that basis year;
and
(e) any amount deemed by virtue of this subsection to be a
beneficiarys share of that total income shall be deemed to
be derived from Malaysia.
(5) Subject to sections 62 and 63, if the total of
(a) all sums received in Malaysia from the trust body of a
trust by a beneficiary (being sums of an income nature in
his hands) in the basis year for a year of assessment; and
(b) all sums received by him outside Malaysia from the trust
body of the trust in any year (being sums of an income
nature in his hands) and remitted to Malaysia in the basis
year for a year of assessment,
exceeds the amount of his statutory income from his ordinary source
in relation to the trust for that year of assessment
(i) he shall, in respect of that excess, be deemed to
have a source (in this subsection referred to as his
further source) in relation to the trust; and
(ii) the amount of that excess shall be deemed to be his
statutory income from his further source for that
particular year of assessment:
Provided that, if the Director General is satisfied that a sum equal
to any part of that excess may, to the best of his judgment be
regarded as an ingredient of the beneficiarys statutory income from
his ordinary source in relation to the trust for any preceding year of
assessment, the beneficiarys statutory income from his further
source for that particular year of assessment shall be reduced by the
amount of that sum.
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(7) Where any part of the income from a trust for the basis year for
a year of assessment is subject to a trust for accumulation, any
reference in this section to the total income of the trust body of that
trust for that year of assessment (being a reference made in
connection with a reference to the distributable income from the trust
for that basis year) shall be construed as a reference to a sum which
bears the same proportion to that total income as that distributable
income bears to the aggregate of
(a) that distributable income; and
(b) that part of the income from the trust which is subject to
the trust for accumulation.
(8) Paragraph (1)(a) and subsection (3) shall apply where there is
only one trustee as they apply where there are two or more trustees,
and references to a trust body in this Act shall be construed
accordingly.
(9) In this Act
(a) a reference to income from a source of a trust includes a
reference to any income subject to the trust; and
(b) a reference to sums received or to income received by a
beneficiary of a trust includes a reference to sums or
income disbursed by the trust body of the trust on his
behalf or for his benefit.
Exemption of Real Estate Investment Trust or Property Trust

Fund
61A. (1) Where in the basis period for a year of assessment ninety
per cent or more of the total income of the unit trust is distributed to
the unit holder, the total income of the unit trust for that year of
assessment shall be exempt from tax.
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(2) In this section, unit trust means a unit trust which is

approved by the Securities Commission as Real Estate Investment
Trust or Property Trust Fund.
Discretionary trusts
62. (1) Where there is a discretionary trust, section 61 shall apply to
the trust but shall be modified in its application by the following
subsections.
(2) Subject to the following subsections, whether or not the trust
body of discretionary trust is resident for the basis year for a year of
assessment:
(a) subject to paragraph (b), the total of all sums received in
Malaysia by a particular beneficiary of the trust (being
sums of an income nature in his hands) in that basis year
from the trust body of the trust or the total income of that
body for that year of assessment, whichever is the less,
shall be deemed to be the amount of that particular
beneficiarys share of that total income; and
(b) where
(i) that particular beneficiary is one of a class of
beneficiaries of the trust;
(ii) that particular beneficiary has received in Malaysia
and any other beneficiary or beneficiaries of that
class has or have received in Malaysia any sum or
sums of that nature in that basis year from the trust
body of the trust; and
(iii) the aggregate of all sums so received exceeds the
total income of that body for that year of
assessment,
paragraph (a) shall not apply to that particular
beneficiary in relation to that discretionary trust for
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that year of assessment and a sum bearing the same

proportion to that total income as the total of all sums
so received by that particular beneficiary bears to that
aggregate shall be deemed to be the amount of that
particular beneficiarys share of that total income.
(3) Where a trust is such that with respect to some of the
distributable income from the trust for the basis year for a year of
assessment (in this subsection referred to as the discretionary portion)
a discretionary power of the trustees applies and with respect to some
of the distributable income from that trust for that basis year (in this
subsection referred to as the non-discretionary portion) either a
beneficiary is entitled to the whole thereof or there are beneficiaries
entitled to particular fractions thereof
(a) the total income of the trust body of the trust for that year
of assessment shall be divided into a discretionary part
and a non-discretionary part, the amount of the
discretionary part being a sum which bears the same
proportion to that total income as the discretionary portion
bears to the distributable income from the trust for that
basis year and the amount of the non-discretionary part
being a sum which bears the same proportion to that total
income as the non-discretionary portion bears to the
distributable income from the trust for that basis year;
(b) subject to paragraph (c)
(i) subsection (2) shall apply in relation to the trust
body and that part of the trust relating to the
discretionary portion as if the amount of the
discretionary part were the total income of the trust
body for that year of assessment;
(ii) in the application of subsection 61(5) in relation to
the trust body and that part of the trust relating to
the discretionary portion, the amount of the
discretionary part shall be treated as the total
income of the trust body for that year of
assessment; and
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(iii) in the application of subsections 61(4) and (5) in

relation to the trust body and that part of the trust
relating to the non-discretionary portion, the
amount of the non-discretionary part shall be
treated as the total income of the trust body for that
year of assessment;
(c) where in consequence of the application of paragraph (b)
a beneficiary of the trust has a share of the discretionary
part and a share of the non-discretionary part, the
aggregate of the amounts of those shares shall be deemed
to be the amount of his statutory income from his ordinary
source in relation to the trust for that year of assessment,
and if the total of
(i) all sums received in Malaysia from the trust body
of the trust by him (being sums of an income
nature in his hands) in the basis year for a year of
assessment; and
(ii) all sums received by him outside Malaysia from
the trust body of the trust in any year (being sums
of an income nature in his hands) and remitted to
Malaysia in the basis year for a year of assessment,
exceeds that aggregate, that excess shall be deemed
to be his further source within the meaning of
subsection 61(5).
(4) Where subsection (2) or (3) applies in relation to a trust (in this
subsection referred to as the principal trust) and a year of assessment,
then, if any part of the income from the principal trust for the basis
year for that year of assessment is subject to a trust for accumulation,
the reference in subsection (2) or paragraph (3)(a) to total income
shall be construed as a reference to a sum which bears the same
proportion to that total income as the part of the income from the
principal trust not so subject to that trust for accumulation bears to
the income from the principal trust.
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Trust annuities
63. (1) This section shall apply where a person is entitled to an
annuity payable under the terms of a trust (that annuity, that trust and
the trust body of that trust being in this section referred to as the
annuity, the trust and the trust body respectively).
(2) The amount of the annuity payable for the basis year (or for a
part of the basis year) for a year of assessment shall be ascertained
whenever necessary by applying subsection 19(3) as if references
therein to Chapter 4 were references to this section and references to
the basis period (or to a part thereof) for a year of assessment were
references to the basis year (or to a part thereof) for a year of
assessment; and, where two or more amounts are payable in respect
of the annuity for the basis year (or for a part of the basis year) for a
year of assessment, then, in the application of this section to that
annuity, any reference to an amount payable in respect of that annuity
shall be construed as a reference to the aggregate of those amounts.
(3) Where the whole of the gross income of the trust body from
each of its sources for the basis period for a year of assessment is
derived from Malaysia or the trust body is resident for the basis year
for that year of assessment
(a) the amount payable in respect of the annuity for that basis
year shall be deemed to be derived from Malaysia whether
or not the trust body has any total income for that year of
assessment; and
(b) in ascertaining the total income (if any) of the trust
body for that year of assessment that amount shall be
deducted after any deduction falling to be made under
paragraph 44(1)(a) or (b) and before any deduction
falling to be made under paragraph 44(1)(c).
(4) Where
(a) the trust body is not resident for the basis year for a year
of assessment; and
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(b) either
(i) in ascertaining the trust bodys total income for
that year of assessment regard is to be had only to
one source, and the gross income for the basis
period for that year of assessment from that source
is derived partly from Malaysia and partly from
outside Malaysia; or
(ii) the trust bodys gross income for the basis period
for that year of assessment is derived as to one of
its sources wholly or partly from Malaysia and as
to another of its sources wholly or partly from
outside Malaysia,
subsection (5) shall apply for ascertaining the total income (if any) of
the trust body for that year of assessment.
(5) Where this subsection applies in relation to a year of
assessment, the amount payable in respect of the annuity for the basis
year for that year of assessment shall be deducted after any deduction
falling to be made under paragraph 44(1)(a) or (b) and before any
deduction falling to be made under paragraph 44(1)(c) and
(a) if the whole of that amount is so deducted, that amount
shall be deemed to be derived from Malaysia;
(b) if that amount exceeds what would be the total income (if
any) of the trust body for that year of assessment
ascertained without any deduction being made in respect
of that amount, so much of that amount as equals what
would be that total income as so ascertained shall be
deemed to be derived from Malaysia.
(6) Where any amount is payable in respect of a joint annuity
under the terms of the trust, there shall for the purposes of this section
be deemed to be payable to each of the joint annuitants with respect
to that amount a sum arrived at by dividing that amount by the
number of joint annuitants.
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(7) Where two or more annuities are payable under the terms of
the trust and there is insufficient income to allow, in ascertaining the
total income (if any) of the trust body of the trust, a full deduction of
all amounts payable in respect of all those annuities, the Director
General shall give such directions as are necessary for ascertaining
how much of the amount payable in respect of each of those annuities
shall be deemed to be derived from Malaysia for the purposes of
paragraph 5(b).
(8) In this section annuity includes any pension or other
periodical payment to which paragraph 4(e) applies.
Special deduction for qualifying capital expenditure

63A. (1) In ascertaining the statutory income of a unit trust from a
source consisting of the derivation of rent from the letting of real
property for a year of assessment, there shall be deducted from the
adjusted income from that source for that year of assessment an
allowance made under subsection (2) in respect of qualifying capital
expenditure.
(2) Where a unit trust has, for the purposes of deriving rent from
the letting of real property, incurred qualifying capital expenditure in
relation to an asset and at the end of the basis period for a year of
assessment the unit trust was the owner of the asset and the asset was
in use for that purpose, there shall be made to the unit trust in relation
to that source for that year an allowance equal to one tenth of that
expenditure:
Provided that where, by reason of an absence or insufficiency of
adjusted income from that source for the basis period for that year of
assessment, effect cannot be given or cannot be given in full to any
allowance falling to be made for that year in relation to that source,
that allowance which has not been so made shall not be made to the
unit trust for any subsequent year of assessment.
(3) Where at the end of the basis period for any year of assessment
the residual expenditure in relation to an asset in respect of which
qualifying capital expenditure has been incurred is zero, or the asset
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is no longer owned or in use by the unit trust, no allowance shall be

made to the unit trust for that year of assessment and subsequent
(4) For the purposes of subsection (2), qualifying capital
expenditure shall be deemed to have been incurred on the day on
which the machinery or plant is capable of being used for the
purposes of deriving rent from the letting of real property.
qualifying capital expenditure in relation to an asset is capital
expenditure incurred on the provision of machinery or plant used for
the purposes of deriving rent from the letting of real property,
including
(a) expenditure incurred on the alteration of an existing
building for the purpose of installing that machinery or
plant and other expenditure incurred incidentally to the
installation thereof provided that such expenditure does
not exceed seventy-five per cent of the aggregate of itself
and any other expenditure (being qualifying capital
expenditure); and
(b) expenditure incurred on preparing or levelling land in
order to prepare a site for the installation of that
machinery or plant provided that such expenditure does
not exceed ten per cent of the aggregate of itself and any
other expenditure (being qualifying capital expenditure);
residual expenditure at any date in relation to an asset in respect
of which qualifying capital expenditure has been incurred by a unit
trust shall be the total qualifying capital expenditure incurred on the
provision of the asset before that date reduced by the allowance
falling to be made in relation to that asset for any year of assessment
before that date.
(6) This section shall not apply to a unit trust referred to in
subsection 61A(2).
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Special deduction for expenses

63B. (1) In ascertaining the total income of a unit trust for the basis
period for a year of assessment, there shall be deducted before any
deduction falling to be made under paragraph 44(1)(c) an amount in
respect of expenses incurred by that unit trust during that period,
which amount shall be determined in accordance with the formula
AXB
4C
where A
is the total of the permitted expenses incurred for that

basis period;
is the gross income consisting of dividend, interest and

rent chargeable to tax for that basis period; and
is the aggregate of the gross income consisting of

dividend and interest (whether such dividend or
interest is exempt or not) and rent, and gains made
from the realization of investments (whether
chargeable to tax or not) for that basis period:
Provided that
(a) the amount of deduction to be made shall not be less than
ten per cent of the total permitted expenses incurred for
that basis period; and
deduction falling to be made to the unit trust under this
section for that year that deduction which has not been so
made shall not be made to the unit trust for any
subsequent year of assessment.
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permitted expenses means expenses incurred by the unit trust in

respect of
(a) managers remuneration;
(b) maintenance of register of unit holders;
(c) share registration expenses;
printing and stationery costs and postage,
which are not deductible under subsection 33(1).
(3) This section shall not apply to a unit trust referred to in
subsection 61A(2).
Special treatment on rent from the letting of real property of a

Real Estate Investment Trust or Property Trust Fund
63C. (1) This section shall apply notwithstanding any other
provisions of this Act.
(2) Where in the year of assessment, income of a unit trust
consists of a rent from the letting of real property, the amount of the
rent shall be treated as gross income of a unit trust from a source
consisting of a business for that year of assessment.
(3) In ascertaining, for a year of assessment, the adjusted income
of a unit trust from a source referred to in subsection (2), any
deductions to be made under this Act in arriving to that income, in
respect of that source for the basis period for that year of assessment
shall only be allowed against the gross income from that source but
(a) where the amount of the deduction exceeds the gross income
from that source for that year of assessment, the excess shall
be disregarded for the purposes of this Act; and
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(b) where that source does not produce any income, the
deduction from the gross income of that unit trust from
that source of income shall not be allowed.
(4) In ascertaining, for a year of assessment, the statutory income
of a unit trust from a source referred to in subsection (2), any
allowances for that year of assessment under Schedule 3 in respect of
that source shall only be available against the adjusted income of that
source and if by reason of an absence or insufficiency of adjusted
income from that source for the basis period for that year of
assessment, effect cannot be given or be given in full to any
allowance for that year of assessment in relation to that source, that
allowance which has not been so made shall not be made to the unit
trust for any subsequent years of assessment.
(5) For the purposes of this section, unit trust has the same
meaning assigned to it under subsection 61A(2).
Income of a unit trust from the letting of real property is not

income from a business
63D. Subject to section 63C but notwithstanding any other provisions
of this Act, income of a unit trust which consists of rent from the
letting of real property shall not be treated as income from a source
consisting of a business.
Estates under administration

64. (1) For the purposes of this Act, any source forming part of the
estate of a deceased individual and any income from that source
arising after the day of the death of that individual shall be treated as
the source and income of the executor of that individual.
(2) The chargeable income of the executor of the estate of a
deceased individual for a year of assessment shall be ascertained
by reference to the gross income from those sources for the
appropriate basis period determined in accordance with the
provisions of sections 3 and 4.
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(3) Where an annuity is payable for the basis year for a year of
assessment by an executor of a deceased individual, then
(a) in ascertaining the total income of the executor for that
year of assessment the amount of the annuity so payable
shall be deducted after any deduction falling to be made
under paragraph 44(1)(a) or (b) and before any deduction
falling to be made under paragraph 44(1)(c);
(b) the annuity so payable shall be regarded as income within
the meaning of paragraph 4(e) in the hands of the
annuitant; and
(c) the annuity shall be deemed to be derived from Malaysia.
(4) In the case of an estate of an individual who was domiciled in
Malaysia at the time of his death, the deduction allowed for any year
of assessment by section 46 (but no other deduction under Chapter 7)
shall be made from the total income of the executor for that year
whether or not the executor is an individual and whether or not the
executor is resident for the basis year for that year.
(5) Subject to subsection (3), payments made by the executor of a
deceased individual to a beneficiary of the estate of that individual
and received by him as a beneficiary shall not be regarded in his
hands as income for the purposes of this Act.
(6) For the purposes of subsection (3), subsection 63(2) shall
apply to annuities affected by this section as it applies to annuities
affected by the said section 63.
Settlements
65. (1) Subject to this section, where
(a) by virtue or in consequence (whether directly or
indirectly) of any settlement and during the life of the
settlor, any income from a source or assets representing
income from a source will or may become payable or
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applicable in the basis period for a year of assessment to

or for the benefit of any relative of the settlor; and
(b) at the commencement of that year of assessment that
relative is unmarried and has not attained the age of
twenty-one years,
the income or assets shall be deemed to be income of the settlor and
not income of any other person.
(2) Subject to this section, if and so long as the terms of any
settlement are such that
(a) any person has or may have power, whether immediately
or in the future, and whether with or without the consent
of any other person, to revoke or otherwise determine the
settlement or any provision thereof; and
(b) in the event of the exercise of the power, the settlor or a
wife or husband of the settlor will or may become
beneficially entitled to the whole or any part of the
property then comprised in the settlement, or of the
income arising from the whole or any part of the property
so comprised,
all income arising under the settlement from the property comprised
in the settlement shall be deemed to be income of the settlor and,
subject to subsection 45(2), not income of any other person:
Provided that this subsection shall not apply by reason only of the
fact that the settlor or a wife or husband of the settlor will or may
become beneficially entitled to any income or property relating to the
interest of any beneficiary under the settlement in the event of that
beneficiary predeceasing him or her, as the case may be.
(3) Subject to this section, where in the basis year for any year of
assessment the settlor in relation to a settlement or any relative of the
settlor or any company with respect to which the settlor or any of his
relatives has control makes use for his or its own purposes, whether
by borrowing or otherwise, of any income arising or of any
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accumulated income which has arisen under the settlement (being

income to which he or it is not entitled thereunder), the amount of
that income or accumulated income so made use of shall be deemed
to be income of the settlor for that basis year and not the income of
any other person; and, where any other person is or was beneficially
entitled to that income, there shall be made to that other person such
repayments of any tax paid by him in respect of that income as are
made necessary by the operation of this subsection.
(4) Where, in relation to any settlement to which this section
applies, in consequence of any provision of this section (and, where
applicable, any other provision of this Act) any tax is charged on or
paid by the settlor, he shall be entitled to recover from any trustee of
the settlement in receipt of income arising whether directly or
indirectly by virtue or in consequence of the settlement (or from any
person in receipt of any such income which is deemed to be income
of the settlor under this section) the amount of the tax so paid by him,
and for that purpose to require the Director General to furnish a
certificate specifying the amount of tax so paid; and any certificate so
furnished shall be conclusive evidence of the facts appearing therein.
(5) Where any income or assets representing income are deemed
to be income of the settlor and not income of any other person under
the foregoing subsections, then, subject to subsection (6)
(a) in a case where the terms of the settlement are such that
there is a trust so that the income or assets in question are
income or assets of a person having a beneficial interest in
that trust, the amount of the income so deemed to be
income of the settlor shall be taken to be
(i) the amount of what would have been, but for this
section, the statutory income of that other person
from any property comprised in the settlement or,
where that other person is not resident, what would
have been his statutory income from any such
property if he had been resident for all relevant
basis years; or
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(ii) where subsection (3) is applicable, such an amount

as the Director General having regard to all the
circumstances may direct;
(b) in any other case, the amount of the income so deemed to
be income of the settlor shall be taken to be
(i) the amount of what would have been, but for this
section, the statutory income of that other person
from any property comprised in the settlement or,
where that other person is not resident, what would
have been his statutory income from any such
property if he had been resident for all relevant
basis years; or
(ii) where subsection (3) is applicable, such an amount
as the Director General having regard to all the
circumstances may direct,
and in any case, the income so deemed to be that of the settlor shall
be deemed to be derived from such place and source as the Director
General having regard to all the circumstances may direct and to be
statutory income of the settlor.
(6) Notwithstanding subsection (5), in any case to which
subsection (2) applies in relation to a settlement, the statutory income
from each source of the trust body of the trust the subject of the
settlement shall be deemed to be statutory income of the settlor and to
be derived from such place and source of the settlor as the Director
General having regard to all the circumstances may direct.
(7) If any question arises as to the amount of any payment of
income or as to any apportionment of income or of statutory income
under this section, that question shall be determined by the Director
General and no appeal shall lie from his decision.
(8) This section shall apply to every settlement wherever it was
made or entered into and whether it was made or entered into before
or after the commencement of this Act.
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(9) In the case of any settlement where there are two or more
settlors, this section shall have effect in relation to each settlor as if
he were the only settlor and in any such case
(a) references in this section to the property comprised in the
settlement include, in relation to any settlor, only property
originating from that settlor, and references in this section
to income in relation to any settlement or arising under the
settlement include, in relation to any settlor, only income
originating from that settlor;
(b) references in this subsection to property originating from a
settlor are references to
(i) property which that settlor has provided directly or
indirectly for the purposes of the settlement;
(ii) property representing property so provided; and
(iii) so much of any property representing both
property so provided and other property as on a
just apportionment represents the property so
provided; and
(c) references in this subsection to income originating from a
settlor are references to
(i) income from property originating from that settlor; and
(ii) income provided directly or indirectly by that
settlor.
(10) In this section any reference to property comprised in a
settlement includes a reference to property representing property so
comprised and any reference to property representing other property
includes a reference to property representing accumulated income
from that other property.
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relative means a child of the settlor (including a stepchild of the
settlor and a child of whom the settlor has the custody or whom he
maintains wholly or partly at his own expense), a child adopted by
the settlor or the husband or wife of the settlor in accordance with
any law, and any person who is a wife, grandchild, brother, sister,
uncle, aunt, nephew, niece or cousin of the settlor;
settlement includes any disposition, trust, covenant, arrangement
or agreement and any transfer of assets or income, but does not
include
(a) a settlement which in the opinion of the Director General
is made for valuable and adequate consideration;
(b) a settlement resulting from an order of a court; or
(c) any agreement made by an employer to pay to an
employee or to the widow or widower or any relative or
dependant of an employee after his death such
remuneration, pension or lump sum as in the opinion of
the Director General is fair and reasonable;
settlor, in relation to a settlement, includes any person by whom
the settlement was made or entered into directly or indirectly, and any
person who was provided or undertaken to provide funds or credit
directly or indirectly for the purpose of the settlement or has made
with any other person a reciprocal arrangement for that other person
to make or enter into the settlement.
Co-operative Societies
65A. In arriving at the chargeable income of a co-operative society
for a year of assessment, there shall be deducted from the total
income for that year
(a) such sum as has been transferred or paid during the basis
period for that year to a statutory reserve fund or to any
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educational institution or co-operative organization

established for the furtherance of cooperative principles,
or to both, or to a Co-operative Education Trust Fund or to
a Co-operative Development Trust Fund, as may be
required under the provisions of any written law relating
to the registration of co-operative societies in Malaysia:
Provided that the maximum sum to be deducted shall
not exceed one-fourth of the audited net profits for that
basis period of such co-operative society; and
(b) an amount equal to eight per cent (or such percentage as
may be prescribed) of the members funds (as defined in
subparagraph 12(2) of Part I of Schedule 6) as at the first
day of the basis period for the year of assessment.
PART IV
PERSONS CHARGEABLE
Personal chargeability: general principle

66. Where under this Act the income of any person is assessable
and chargeable to tax, that person shall, subject to this Part, be the
person assessable and chargeable to tax in respect of that income.
Vicarious responsibility and chargeability

67. (1) Subject to this Part, the following subsections shall apply
where by or under any of the following sections of this Part a person
(in this section referred to as the representative)
(a) is appointed to be the agent of any other person;
(b) is assessable and chargeable to tax on behalf of any other
person; or
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(c) is a person in whose name another person is assessable

and chargeable to tax,
any such other person being in this section referred to as the
principal.
(2) The representative may require any person (including the
principal, in so far as he is capable of complying with the requisition)
who is in receipt or control of any income of the principal, and any
person by whom any income is paid or payable to the principal, to
supply to the representative full particulars of the income and any
expenses connected therewith.
(3) Where the representative is assessable and chargeable to tax on
behalf of the principal, the representative shall be assessable and
chargeable to tax in like manner and to the like amount as the
principal would be assessed and charged to tax; and, where the
principal is assessable and chargeable in the name of the
representative, the principal shall be so assessable and chargeable in
like manner and to the like amount as he would be assessed and
charged to tax if he were assessable and chargeable in his own name.
(4) The representative shall be responsible for doing all such acts
and things as are required by or by virtue of this Act to be done by
him as representative or by the principal for the purposes of this Act,
and in particular for the payment of any tax due from him as
representative or from the principal and for the payment of any debt
so due to the Government under section 107A, 109, 109A or 109B;
and, in default of payment, any such tax or debt (together with any
penalty to which he as representative or the principal is or would be
liable in respect of the default) shall be recoverable from the
representative either as such or as if he were the principal, as the case
may be:
Provided that the representative shall not be required to pay any
such tax, debt or penalty (or any other penalty incurred by the
principal) otherwise than from the accessible moneys.
(4A) For the purposes of subsection (4), where a representative is a
person appointed as an agent under section 68, the Director General
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may, by way of a notice in writing, require the representative to remit

to him any accessible moneys for the purpose of payment of any tax
due from the principal or for any debt so due referred to in that
subsection, notwithstanding that no assessment in respect of such tax
has been made in the name of the representative:
Provided that the accessible moneys shall not include any moneys
held by the representative in his custody and control on behalf of the
principal.
(5) Where by or by virtue of this Act anything is to be made or
served on or given or done to the principal for the purposes of this
Act, in lieu thereof the same may be made or served on or given or
done to the representative:
Provided that nothing in this subsection shall make the
representative liable to be convicted of an offence committed by the
principal in which the representative had no part.
(6) The representative
(a) may retain out of the accessible moneys so much as is
necessary to pay any tax or penalty, or any debt of the
kind referred to in subsection (4) due from him as
representative or from the principal; and
(b) shall be and is hereby indemnified against all persons
whatsoever for any payments made by him as
representative in pursuance of this Act.
(7) In this section the accessible moneys, in relation to the
representative and the principal, means any moneys (including any
pension and any salary, wages or other remuneration) which
(a) from time to time are due from the representative to the
principal or are held by the representative in his custody
and control on behalf of the principal; or
(b) being then moneys of or due to the principal, are
obtainable on demand by the representative.
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Power to appoint agent

68. (1) The Director General may, if he thinks fit, by notice in
writing appoint any person to be the agent of any other person for all
or any of the purposes of this Act; and, where any person is so
appointed for all those purposes, he shall be assessable and
chargeable to tax on behalf of that other person.
(2) An appointment made under subsection (l) may be revoked by
the Director General at any time.
(3) Where a person appointed under subsection (l) to be the agent
of another person is aggrieved by the appointment, he may within
thirty days after the service on him of the notice of appointment
appeal under section 99 as if the notice of appointment served upon
him were a notice of assessment and the provisions of this Act
relating to appeals shall apply accordingly with any necessary
modifications.
(4) Where any income on which tax is chargeable (or the source of
any such income) is under the direction and control of a court in
Malaysia and the court appoints a receiver therefor
(a) the receiver so long as his appointment subsists shall be
deemed to have been appointed under subsection (1)
(without the right of appeal conferred by subsection (3))
to be the agent of the court as regards that income or
source for all the purposes of this Act; and
(b) if the source of that income is vested in the court, the
registrar or other appropriate officer of the court shall be
treated for the purposes of this Act as the person entitled
to that income.
(5) The following sections of this Part shall be without prejudice
to the generality of subsection (1).
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Incapacitated persons
69. (1) Where a person lawfully having the direction, control or
management of any property or concern on behalf of an incapacitated
person receives the gross income of that incapacitated person from all
sources for the appropriate basis periods for a year of assessment, that
first-mentioned person shall be assessable and chargeable to tax in
respect of that income on behalf of that incapacitated person.
(2) Where there is no person assessable and chargeable to tax by
virtue of subsection (1) in respect of the income of an incapacitated
person, the Director General may appoint any person under
subsection 68(1) to be the agent of that incapacitated person for all
the purposes of this Act.
(3) Without prejudice to subsection (1) or (2), if an incapacitated
person assessable and chargeable to tax is a minor, the minors parent
or guardian (or any person standing as regards the minor in a
relationship corresponding to that of parent of guardian) shall be
assessable and chargeable to tax on behalf of the minor.
(4) Nothing in this section shall prevent a minor being directly
assessable and chargeable to tax.
(5) Paragraph 23(c) shall apply whenever appropriate in relation to
the reference to gross income in this section.
Non-residents
70. (1) A person who is not resident for the basis year for a year
of assessment shall be assessable and chargeable to tax for that
year of assessment either directly or in the name of any attorney,
factor, agent, receiver or manager of his (whether or not the
attorney, factor, agent, receiver or manager has the receipt of any
income of that non-resident person):
Provided that nothing in this subsection shall render any person
assessable or chargeable in the name of a broker, a general
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commission agent or any other agent where the broker or agent is not
either
(a) carrying on with the authority of that person the regular
agency of that person; or
(b) a person assessable and chargeable as if he were an agent
by virtue of section 141 on income in respect of gains or
profits arising from sales or transactions carried out
thought himself as broker or agent.
(2) Where a partner in a partnership is not resident for the basis
year for a year of assessment, his income ascertained under the
appropriate provisions of sections 55 to 59 in relation to the
partnership shall be assessable and chargeable to tax for that year of
assessment in the name of
(a) the partnership (which shall be regarded as a person to the
extent necessary to give effect to this subsection);
(b) any partner who is resident for that basis year; or
(c) any agent of the partnership in Malaysia,
and the tax charged thereon shall be recoverable by all the means
provided by this Act out of the assets of the partnership.
Masters of ships and captains of aircraft

71. The master of any ship and the captain of any aircraft owned or
chartered by a person who is assessable and chargeable to tax in
consequence of the application of section 54 shall (though not to the
exclusion of any other agent) be deemed to be the agent of that
person and shall be assessable and chargeable to tax on behalf of that
person.
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Hindu joint families

72. The income of a Hindu joint family (and any income of the
familys manager or karta in his capacity as such, being income by
virtue of sections 55 to 59) shall be assessable and chargeable on the
familys manager or karta, who shall accordingly be assessable and
chargeable to tax on behalf of the family.
Trustees
73. (1) The income of the trust body of a trust shall be assessable
and chargeable to tax on the trust body (which may be given by the
Director General a suitable designation for the purpose) and, so long
as the trustees for the time being remain members of the trust body
they shall (whether or not, in the case of each trustee, he was a
member of the trust body when any particular responsibility or
obligation under this Act first arose) jointly and severally be subject
to all the liabilities to which they would be subject under section 67 if
the trust body were the principal within the meaning of that section
and each trustee were the representative within that meaning.
(2) A trustee who vacates his office shall cease to have
responsibility under subsection (1):
Provided that nothing in this subsection shall relieve any person
from responsibility for a criminal or negligent act, whenever
committed.
Executors
74. (1) Where an individual dies in the basis year for a year of
assessment, his executors shall be assessable and chargeable to tax
for that year of assessment, for the following year of assessment and,
whenever necessary, for any previous year of assessment in respect
of the chargeable income of that individual for any such year of
assessment; and, where they are so assessable and chargeable, they
shall be assessable and chargeable to tax in like manner and to the
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like amount as the individual would be assessed and charged to tax if

he had not died.
(2) For the purposes of subsection (1)
(a) the reference therein to the chargeable income of any
individual for any year of assessment shall be taken to be
such chargeable income for that year as he would have
had if he had not died in respect of any income of his
arising before his death and in respect of any income
received by his executors which if he had not died and if it
had been received by him (at the time it was received by
his executors) would have been taken into account in
arriving at that last-mentioned chargeable income; and
(b) all rights and duties which would have attached to him
with respect to that last-mentioned chargeable income as
he would have so had shall pass to his executors.
(3) Any assessment or additional assessment to be made in
consequence of the foregoing subsections shall be made not later than
the end of the third year of assessment following the year of
assessment in the basis year for which
(a) the Director General is informed of the death of the
individual by the executor referred to under subsection (1)
in the form prescribed under this Act;
(b) the estate duty affidavit (if any) was filed in Malaysia with
respect to any part of the estate of that individual; or
(c) where such an estate duty affidavit has been filed, the last
of any corrective affidavits relating to that estate duty
affidavit was filed,
being the basis year in which the last of those events took place.
(4) The amount of any tax payable by the executors of a deceased
individual by virtue of this section (together with any penalty which
may be incurred under subsection 103(3), (4), (5), (6), (7) or (8))
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shall be debt due from and payable out of the estate of that deceased
individual.
(5) The executors of a deceased individual shall not distribute any
of the assets of his estate unless they have made provision (in so far
as they are able to do so out of those assets) for the payment in full of
any tax which they know or might reasonably expect to be payable by
them under this section.
(6) Any executors who fail to comply with subsection (5) shall be
jointly and severally liable to pay a penalty equal to the amount of the
tax to which the failure relates.
(7) Subsection 125(2) shall apply to a penalty imposed by
subsection (6) of this section as it applies to a penalty imposed by
subsection 112(3) or 113(2).
Companies and bodies of persons

75. (1) The responsibility for doing all acts and things required to
be done by or on behalf of a company or body of persons for the
purposes of this Act shall lie jointly and severally
(a) in the case of a company, with
(i) the manager or other principal officer in Malaysia;
(ii) the directors;
(iii) the secretary; and
(iv) any person (however styled) exercising the
functions of any of the persons mentioned in the
foregoing subparagraphs; and
(b) in the case of a body of persons, with
(i) the manager;
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(ii) the treasurer;

(iii) the secretary; and
(iv) the members of its controlling authority.
(2) The liquidator of a company which is being wound up shall not
distribute any of the assets of the company to its shareholders unless
he has made provision (in so far as he is able to do so out of the
assets of the company) for the payment in full of any tax which he
knows or might reasonably expect to be payable by the company
under this Act or to be deductible by the company under section 107.
(3) Any liquidator who fails to comply with subsection (2) shall be
liable to pay a penalty equal to the amount of the tax to which the
failure relates.
(4) Subsection 125(2) shall apply to a penalty imposed by
subsection (3) of this section as it applies to a penalty imposed by
subsection 112(3) or 113(2).
Directors liability
75A. (1) Notwithstanding anything contrary to this Act or any other
written law
(a) where any tax is due and payable under this Act by a
company, any person who is a director of that company
during the period in which that tax is liable to be paid by
that company; or
(b) where any debt is due and payable from an employer
under any rules made pursuant to section 107 and the
employer is a company, any person who is a director of
that company during the period in which the debt is liable
to be paid by that company,
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shall be jointly and severally liable for such tax or debt, as the case
may be, that is due and payable and shall be recoverable under
section 106 from that person.
(2) In this section, director means any person who
(a) is occupying the position of director (by whatever name
called), including any person who is concerned in the
management of the companys business; and
(b) is, either on his own or with one or more associates
within the meaning of subsection 139(7), the owner of,
or able directly or through the medium of other
companies or by any other indirect means to control,
not less than twenty per cent of the ordinary share
capital of the company (ordinary share capital here
having the same meaning as in the definition of
director in section 2).
Limited liability partnership and business trust

75B. (1) The responsibility for doing all acts and things required to
be done
(a) by or on behalf of a limited liability partnership for the
purposes of this Act shall lie jointly and severally
(i) with the compliance officer who is appointed
amongst the partners of the limited liability
partnership; or
(ii) if no compliance officer is appointed as such, any
one or all of the partners thereof; and
(b) by or on behalf of a business trust for the purposes of this
Act shall lie jointly and severally with the trustee manager
of such business trust.
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(2) For the purpose of this section, compliance officer has the
meaning assigned to it in section 27 of the Limited Liability
Partnerships Act 2012.
Rulers and Ruling Chiefs

76. (1) The income of a Ruler or Ruling Chief shall be assessable
and chargeable to tax in the name of the person nominated by the
Ruler or Ruling Chief for the purposes of this Act as the person
executing the function of administrator of the private property of the
Ruler or Ruling Chief:
Provided that where no such nomination has been made by a
Ruler or Ruling Chief, section 66 shall apply to such Ruler or Ruling
Chief.
(2) Where a person is responsible for the payment of tax on behalf
of a Ruler or Ruling Chief
(a) that person may pay the tax out of any private property in
his hands or under his control belonging to the Ruler or
Ruling Chief and may, to the extent that he pays any such
tax out of his own property, indemnify himself out of any
such private property;
(b) that person shall not be personally liable in respect of the
tax except to the extent that he
(i) has in his possession, custody or control any
private property belonging to the Ruler or Ruling
Chief; or
(ii) had any such private property in his possession,
custody or control at any time after receiving
notice of the tax having become due;
(c) unless the sanction of the Attorney General is first
obtained, no prosecution, suit or other legal proceedings
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shall be instituted against that person in respect of any act

or thing or which he is responsible under this section; and
(d) the provisions of section 67 shall be modified accordingly
when applicable with this section.
(3) In this section Ruler or Ruling Chief means
(a) the Yang di-Pertuan Agong;
(b) the Raja Permaisuri Agong;
(c) the Timbalan Yang di-Pertuan Agong or other Ruler
exercising the functions of the Yang di-Pertuan Agong;
(d) a State Authority or any person exercising the functions of
a State Authority; or
(e) the Undang of Sungei Ujong, the Undang of Jelebu, the
Undang of Johol, the Undang of Rembau or the
TunkuBesar of Tampin.
PART V
RETURNS
Return of income by a person other than a company, limited

liability partnership, trust body or co-operative society
77. (1) Every person, other than a company, limited liability
partnership, trust body or co-operative society to which section 77A
applies, shall for each year of assessment furnish to the Director General a
return in the prescribed form
(a) in the case of that person who is carrying on a business,
not later than 30 June in the year following that year of
assessment; or
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(b) in any other case than the case in paragraph (a), not later
than 30 April in the year following the year of assessment:
Provided that that person has
(a) chargeable income for that year of assessment; or
(b) no chargeable income for that year of assessment, but has
chargeable income or has furnished a return or has been
required under this Act to furnish a return, for the year of
assessment immediately preceding that year of
assessment.
(1A) Where subsection 45(2) applies, a reference to a person under
paragraph 1(a) includes a reference to an individual where his wife or
her husband who elects, as the case may be, is carrying on a business.
(2) Where a person is required to furnish a return under paragraph (b)
of the proviso to subsection (1), the Director General may by way of
notification waive that requirement for any year of assessment.
(3) An individual who arrives in Malaysia during a particular year
of assessment and
(a) is chargeable to tax for that particular year; or
(b) is not chargeable to tax for that particular year but is
chargeable to tax for the year of assessment following that
particular year,
shall, within two months of his arrival give notice to the Director
General that he will be so chargeable.
(4) For the purposes of this section, a return for a year of
assessment shall
(a) specify the chargeable income and the amount of tax payable
(if any) on that chargeable income for that year; and
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(b) contain such particulars as may be required by the

Director General.
Return of income by every company, limited

liability
77A. (1) Every company, limited liability partnership, trust body or

co-operative society shall for each year of assessment furnish to the
Director General a return in the prescribed form within seven months
from the date following the close of the accounting period which
constitutes the basis period for the year of assessment.
(1A) For the purposes of this section, a company shall furnish to
the Director General a return in the prescribed form on an electronic
medium or by way of electronic transmission in accordance with
section 152A.
(2) Notwithstanding subsection (1), where there is a change in the
accounting period of a company, limited liability partnership, trust
body or co-operative society such that the accounts are not closed on
any date in a year, that company, limited liability partnership, trust
body or co-operative society shall furnish to the Director General a
return in the prescribed form for that year and the year of assessment
in which the accounts are closed within seven months from the date
following the close of the accounting period.
(3) For the purposes of this section, a return for a year of
assessment shall
(a) specify the chargeable income and the amount of tax payable
(if any) on that chargeable income for that year; and
(b) contain such particulars as may be required by the
Director General.
(4) The return furnished by a company under this section shall be
based on accounts audited by a professional accountant, together with
a report made by that accountant which shall contain, in so far as they
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are relevant, the matters set out in subsections 174(1) and (2) of the
Companies Act 1965.
Amendment of return
77B. (1) Where for a year of assessment a person has furnished a
return in accordance with subsection 77(1) or 77A(1), that person may
make amendment to such return in an amended return as prescribed
by the Director General in respect of the amount of tax or additional
tax payable by that person on the chargeable income or on the
amount of tax which has been or would have been wrongly repaid to
him.
(2) An amended return under subsection (1) shall only be made
after the due date for the furnishing of the return in accordance with
subsection 77(1) or 77A(1), but not later than six months from that
date.
(3) For the purposes of this section, the amended return shall
(a) specify the amount or additional amount of chargeable
income and the amount of tax or additional tax payable on
that chargeable income;
(b) specify the amount of tax payable on the tax which has or
would have been wrongly repaid to him;
(c) specify the increased sum ascertained in accordance with
subsection (4); or
(d) contain such particulars as may be required by the
Director General.
(4) The tax or additional tax payable under subsection (1) shall
(a) if the amended return is furnished within a period of sixty
days after the due date for the furnishing of the return in
accordance with subsection 77(1) or 77A(1), be increased
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by a sum equal to ten per cent of the amount of such tax or

additional tax; or
(b) if the amended return is furnished after the period of sixty
days from the due date for the furnishing of the return in
accordance with subsection 77(1) or 77A(1) but not later
than six months from that date, be increased by a sum
which shall be determined in accordance with the
following formula:
B + [(A + B) x 5%]
where
is the amount of such tax payable or

additional tax payable; and
is ten per cent of the amount of such tax

payable or additional tax payable,
and the amount of the increased sum shall constitute part of the
amount of tax or additional tax payable under subsection (1).
(5) The amendment under subsection (1) shall only be made once.
(6) Where
(a) a return for a year of assessment has been furnished in
accordance with subsection 77(1) or 77A(1); and
(b) the Director General has made an assessment for that year
of assessment under section 91,
no amendment shall be allowed under this section.
Deduction of tax as final tax

77C. (1) Notwithstanding section 77, where for a year of assessment
an individual
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(a) has income only in respect of gains or profits from an

employment other than gains or profits in respect of the
use or enjoyment of benefits provided by his employer
under paragraph 13(1)(b) or (1)(c);
(b) deductions have been made by his employer in accordance
with subsection 107(2) in respect of such gains or profits;
(c) the individual is employed by the same employer for a
period of twelve months in that year of assessment;
(d) such deductions are not borne by his employer for that
year of assessment; and
(e) that individual whose husband or wife has not made an
election pursuant to section 45,
the individual may elect not to furnish a return for a year of
assessment to the Director General in accordance with section 77.
(2) Where subsection (1) applies and no return for a year of
assessment has been furnished by an individual in accordance with
section 77
(a) an individual is deemed to have made an election under
that subsection;
(b) the total amount of tax deducted referred to under
paragraph (1)(b) shall be deemed to be the amount of tax
payable of that individual for that year of assessment; and
(c) no assessment shall be made by the Director General in
respect of that individual for that year of assessment.
(3) Notwithstanding subsections (1) and (2), the Director General
shall have the power to make an assessment under subsection 90(3)
or section 91 for any year of assessment and where an assessment is
made by the Director General, the amount which is deemed to be the
tax payable under paragraph (2)(b) shall be disregarded.
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Power to call for specific returns and production of books

78. For the purpose of obtaining full information for ascertaining
whether or not a person is chargeable to tax or for determining his
liability the Director General may by notice under his hand require
that or any other person
(a) to complete and deliver to the Director General within a
time specified in the notice (not being less than thirty days
from the date of service of the notice) any return specified
in the notice;
(b) to attend personally before the Director General and
produce for examination all books, accounts, returns and
other documents which the Director General deems
necessary;
(c) to make a return in accordance with paragraph (a) and
also to attend in accordance with paragraph (b); or
(d) to provide in writing such information or particulars
which the Director General deems necessary.
Power to call for statement of bank accounts, etc.

79. The Director General may by notice under his hand require any
person to furnish within a time specified in the notice (not being less
than thirty days from the date of service of the notice) a statement
containing particulars of
(a) all banking accounts
(i) in his own name or in the name of a wife or
dependent child of his or jointly in any such
names;
(ii) in which he is or has been interested jointly or
solely; or
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(iii) on which he has or has had power to operate

jointly or solely,
being accounts which are in existence or have been in
existence at any time during a period to be specified in
the notice;
(b) all savings and loan accounts, deposits, building society
accounts and co-operative society accounts in regard to
which he has or has had any interest or power to operate
solely or jointly during that period;
(c) all assets which he and any wife or dependent child of his
possess or have possessed during that period;
(d) all sources of his and the gross income from those
sources; and
(e) all facts bearing upon his present or past chargeability to
tax.
Power of access to buildings and documents, etc.

80. (1) For the purposes of this Act the Director General shall at all
times have full and free access to all lands, buildings and places and
to all books, documents, objects, articles, materials and things and
may search such lands, buildings and places and may inspect, copy or
make extracts from any such books, documents, objects, articles,
materials and things without making any payment by way of fee or
reward.
(1A) Where the Director General exercises his powers under
subsection (1), the occupiers of such lands, buildings and places shall
provide the Director General or an authorized officer with all
reasonable facilities and assistance for the exercise of his powers
under this section.
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(2) The Director General may take possession of any books,

documents, objects, articles, materials and things to which he has
access under subsection (1) where in his opinion
(a) the inspection of them, the copying of them or the making
of extracts from them cannot reasonably be undertaken
without taking possession of them;
(b) they may be interfered with or destroyed unless he takes
possession of them; or
(c) they may be needed as evidence in any legal proceedings
instituted under or in connection with this Act.
(3) Where in the opinion of the Director General it is necessary for
the purpose of ascertaining income in respect of the gains or profits
from a business for any period to examine any books, accounts or
records kept otherwise than in the national language, he may by
notice under his hand require any person carrying on the business
during that period to furnish within a time specified in the notice (not
being less than thirty days from the date of service of the notice) a
translation in the national language of the books, accounts or records
in question:
Provided that in East Malaysia this subsection shall have effect as
if the words or English were inserted after the words national
language wherever they occur.
Power to call for information

81. The Director General may require any person to give orally or
may by notice under his hand require any person to give in writing
within a time specified in the notice all such information or
particulars as may be demanded of him by the Director General for
the purposes of this Act and which may be in the possession or
control of that person:
Provided that, where that person is a public officer or an officer in
the employment of a local authority or statutory authority, he shall
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not by virtue of this section be obliged to disclose any particulars as

to which he is under a statutory obligation to observe secrecy.
Duty to keep records and give receipts

82. (1) Notwithstanding section 82A and subject to this section,
every person carrying on a business
(a) shall keep and retain in safe custody sufficient records for
a period of seven years from the end of the year to which
any income from that business relates to enable that
income from that business for each year of assessment or
the adjusted loss from that business for the basis period
for any year of assessment to be readily ascertained by the
Director General or an authorized officer; and
(b) if the gross takings from the business for the basis year for
any year of assessment exceeded one hundred and fifty
thousand ringgit from the sale of goods or one hundred
thousand ringgit from the performance of services, shall
issue a printed receipt serially numbered for every sum
received in that year of assessment in respect of goods
sold or services performed in the course of or in
connection with the business and shall retain a duplicate
of every receipt so issued.
(1A) Where a person carrying on a business has not furnished a
return under subsection 77(1), 77A(1) or (2) for a year of assessment,
that person shall keep and retain the records 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.
(2) Where in the carrying on of a business a machine is used for
recording sales, the issue of receipts pursuant to paragraph (1)(b) may
be dispensed with except where the Director General is not
satisfied
(a) that the machine automatically records all sales made; or
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(b) that the total of all sales made in a day is transferred at the
end of the day to a record of sales.
(3) The Director General may specify by statutory order in respect
of any class or description of business (or by notice under his hand in
respect of the business of any particular person)
(a) the form of records to be kept under paragraph (1)(a) and
the manner in which they shall be kept and retained; and
(b) the form of receipts to be issued and duplicate receipts to
be retained under paragraph (1)(b) and the manner in
which they shall be issued or retained.
(4) The Director General may waive all or any of the provisions of
subsection (1) in respect of any business or records or any class or
description of business or records.
(5) The Director General, if he is of the opinion that any
accounts or records produced by any person to the Director
General for the purpose of ascertaining the income of a person
are insufficient or inadequate for that purpose, may by notice
under his hand require that person to produce, in respect of any
period or periods specified in the notice and within a time so
specified (that time not being less than thirty days from the
service of the notice), accounts audited by a professional
accountant, together with a report made by that accountant which
shall contain, in so far as they are relevant, the matters set out in
subsections 174(1) and (2) of the Companies Act 1965.
(6) Any person who under subsection (1) is required to keep
records shall cause appropriate entries to be made in those records in
respect of transactions within sixty days of each transaction.
(7) Any person who is required by this section to keep records
and
(a) does so electronically shall retain them in an electronically
readable form and shall keep the records in such a manner
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as to enable the records to be readily accessible and

convertible into writing; or
(b) has originally kept records in a manual form and
subsequently converts those records into an electronic
form shall retain those records prior to the conversion in
their original form.
(8) All records that relate to any business in Malaysia shall be kept
and retained in Malaysia.
(9) For the purposes of this section, records include
(a) books of account recording receipts and payments or
income and expenditure;
(b) invoices, vouchers, receipts and such other documents as
in the opinion of the Director General are necessary to
verify the entries in any books of account; and
(c) any other records as may be specified by the Director
General under subsection (3).
Duty to keep documents for ascertaining chargeable income and

tax payable
82A. (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.
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(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.
Return by employer
83. (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) 507/1994] for the first-mentioned year;
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(c) the number of new employees employed in the firstmentioned year;

(d) the number of employees who have resigned in the firstmentioned 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
paragraph (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
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(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
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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
individuals 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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Duty to furnish particulars of payment made to an agent, etc.

83A. (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.
Return concerning persons other than the maker of the return
84. (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.
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(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.
Return by occupiers
85. 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.
Return by partnership
86. (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
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(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.
Power to call for further return
87. 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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Returns deemed to be made with due authority

88. 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.
Change of address
89. 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.
PART VI
ASSESSMENTS AND APPEALS
Chapter 1 - Assessments
Assessments generally
90. (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
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(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.
Assessments and additional assessments in certain cases

91. (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 Generals
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
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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 assessment 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.
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Deemed assessment on the amended return

91A. (1) Where a person has furnished an amended 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.
Advance assessments
92. (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;
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(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
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(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,
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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.
Form and making of assessments

93. 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,
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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.
Record of assessments
94. 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.
Discharge of double assessments

95. 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.
Notice of assessment
96. (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.
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(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.
Composite assessment
96A. (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,
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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;
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(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.
Finality of assessment
97. (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);
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(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).
Notification of non-chargeability
97A. (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
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(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.
Chapter 2 Appeals
The Special Commissioners and the Clerk
98. (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
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Remuneration Act 1971 [Act 45], applies) as may be necessary for

the purposes of paragraph 1 of Schedule 5; and, if the Yang diPertuan 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.
Right of appeal
99. (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:
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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.
Extension of time for appeal

100. (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.
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(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.
Review by Director General

101. (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 Generals
opinion;
(b) require the appellant to produce all books or other
documents in the appellants custody or under the
appellants control relating to any source to which the
assessment relates or any other matter relevant to the
assessment in the Director Generals opinion;
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(c) summon any person who in the Director Generals

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 twelvemonth 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 twentyone days of being so served gives notice in writing to the Director
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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 appellants 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.
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(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.
Disposal of appeals
102. (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.
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(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.
(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
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(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
[Sarawak 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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Payment of tax
103. (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
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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.
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.
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.
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(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
AXC
B
where
(a)
(b)
in the case of the wife who elects

A
is that wifes total income for a year of

assessment;
is the aggregate of the husbands and that wifes

or wives total income; and
is the tax charged for the year of assessment

where paragraph 45(2)(a) applies; or
in the case of the husband who elects
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is that husbands total income for a year of

assessment;
is the aggregate of the wifes and that husbands

total income; and
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.
103A. (Deleted by Act A1151).
Recovery from persons leaving Malaysia

104. (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); and
(c) all debts payable by him under subsection 107A(2) or
109(2), 109B(2) or 109F(2);
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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.
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(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.
Refusal of customs clearance in certain cases

105. (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.
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(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.
Recovery by suit
106. (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).
Deduction of tax from emoluments and pensions

107. (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
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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 that 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
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Director General by that person or recovered by the

Director General from that person in pursuance of this
subsection.
Deduction of tax from contract payment

107A. (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.
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(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;
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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.
Payment by instalments
107B. (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
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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
AXC
B
where
is his statutory income in respect of gains or profits

from employment for a year of assessment;
is his total income for that year of assessment; and
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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.
Estimate of tax payable and payment by instalments for

companies
107C. (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.
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(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
(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 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
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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.
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(7) A company, limited liability partnership, trust body or cooperative 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 of 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).
(8A)-(8B) (Deleted by Act 719).
(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
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the amount unpaid and the increase on the amount unpaid shall be
(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
(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 cooperative 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
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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.
due date means the tenth 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.
Non-deduction of tax from dividend

108. Where a dividend is paid or credited by a company to any of its
shareholders in the basis period for a year of assessment, then, if the
dividend is deemed by virtue of section 14 to be derived from
Malaysia, the company shall not be entitled to deduct tax from such
dividend paid or credited.
Deduction of tax from interest or royalty in certain cases

109. (1) Where any person (in this section referred to as the payer) is
liable to pay interest or royalty derived from Malaysia to any other
person not known to him to be resident in Malaysia, other than
interest or royalty attributable to a business carried on by such other
person in Malaysia, he shall upon paying or crediting the interest
(other than interest on an approved loan or interest of the kind
referred to in paragraph 33, 33A, 33B, 35 or 35A of Part I, Schedule 6)
or royalty deduct therefrom tax at the rate applicable to such interest
or royalty, and (whether or not that tax is so deducted) shall within
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one month after paying or crediting the interest or royalty 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.
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 interest or royalty to which that amount relates;
and
(b) if the payer has not deducted that amount in paying the
interest or royalty with respect to which that amount
relates, he may recover that amount from that person as a
debt due to the payer.
the same.
(4) In this section person includes a partnership.
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Application of sections 109 and 110 to income derived by a public

entertainer
109A. 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.
Deduction of tax from special classes of income in certain cases

derived from Malaysia
109B. (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 nonresident;
(b) for technical advice, assistance or services rendered in
connection with technical management or administration
of any scientific, industrial or commercial undertaking,
(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
over.
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General.
from the payer
pay the payments to which the amount relates; and
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.
the same.
(4) In this section person includes a partnership.
Deduction of tax from interest paid to a resident

109C. (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
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circumstances, allow extension of time for tax deducted to be paid
over.
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.
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.
Deduction of tax on the distribution of income of a unit trust

109D. (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:
over.
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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.
from the payer
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.
the same.
(5) Section 110 shall apply mutatis mutandis to tax deducted under
this section.
Deduction of tax on the distribution of income of a family fund,

etc.
109E. (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.
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(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.
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.
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the same.
Deduction of tax from gains or profits in certain cases derived

from Malaysia
109F. (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:
circumstances allow extension of time for the amount of tax deducted
to be paid over.
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
General.
from the payer
pay the payments to which the amount relates; and
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.
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the same.
(5) Section 110 shall apply mutatis mutandis to tax deducted under
this section.
Deduction of tax from income derived from withdrawal of a

deferred annuity or a private retirement scheme
109G. (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:
circumstances allow extension of time for the amount of tax deducted
to be paid over.
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
General.
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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.
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; or
(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.
Appeal by the payer

109H. (1) A payer referred to in sections 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
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section 4A or paragraph 4(f), of which the amount due

under subsection (1) relates;
(b) such payment to 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.
Set off for tax deducted

110. (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 109 B
(including any amount recovered by the Director General
pursuant to subsection 109(2) or 109 B (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
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as having been included in that persons 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 dividend, 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 persons 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
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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,
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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 persons 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
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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 persons 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.
Set-off for tax charged on actuarial surplus

110B. (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
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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.
Refund of over-payment
111. (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
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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
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representative of such a person shall be deemed to have been made

by that person.
(4A) Any 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 are 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.
(4B) Where amount of excess 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.
(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.
Establishment of Fund for Tax Refund

111B. (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].
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(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.
Non applicability of section 14A of the Financial Procedure Act 1957

111C. 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.
Failure to furnish return or give notice of chargeability

112. (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 two 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.
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(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.
Incorrect returns
113. (1) Any person who
(a) makes an incorrect return by omitting or understating any
(b) gives any incorrect information in relation to any matter
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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
(b) gives any incorrect information in relation to any matter
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).
Wilful evasion
114. (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;
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(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
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contrary is proved to have made that false statement or entry with

intent to evade tax.
Leaving Malaysia without payment of tax

115. (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 two 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.
Obstruction of officers
116. 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;
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(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,
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.
Breach of confidence
117. (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,
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.
Offences by officials
118. 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;
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(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,
fine not exceeding twenty thousand ringgit or to imprisonment for a
term not exceeding three years or to both.
Unauthorized collection
119. 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.
Failure to keep records

119A. 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),
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.
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Other offences
120. (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),
fine of not less than two hundred ringgit and not more than two
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.
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Additional provisions as to offences under sections 113, 115, 116,

118 and 120
121. (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.
Tax, etc., payable notwithstanding institution of proceedings

122. 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.
123. (Deleted by Act A1028).
Power to compound offences and abate or remit penalties

124. (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.
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(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
(i) the offence committed;
(ii) the sum of money ordered to be paid; and
(iii) the date on which payment is to be made or the
dates on which instalments of that sum are to be
paid, as the case may be,
and, where the order provides for payment by instalments
and there is default in payment of any instalments, the
whole of the balance then outstanding shall become due
and payable forthwith;
(c) a copy of the order shall be given, if he so requests, to the
person who committed the offence;
(d) that person shall not be liable to any prosecution or, as the
case may be, any further prosecution in respect of the
offence and, if any such prosecution or further prosecution
is brought, it shall be a good defence for that person to
prove that the offence has been compounded under this
section;
(e) the order shall be final and shall not be subject to any
appeal;
(f) the order may be enforced in the same way as the
judgment of a subordinate court (as defined in Schedule 5)
for the payment of the amount stated in the order or the
amount outstanding, as the case may be; and
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(g) the order shall, on production to any court, be treated as

proof of the commission of the offence by that person and
of the other matters set out therein.
(3) The Director General may abate or remit any penalty imposed
under this Act except a penalty imposed on conviction.
Recovery of penalties imposed under Part VIII

125. (1) Special penalties imposed under subsection 113(1) or
114(1) shall be recoverable in the same way as fines imposed on
conviction.
(2) Any penalty imposed on any person under subsection 44A(9),
112(3) or 113(2) shall be collected as if it were part of the tax payable
by that person, but shall not be treated as tax so payable for the
purposes of any provision of this Act other than sections 103 to 106.
Jurisdiction of subordinate court

126. Notwithstanding any other written law, a subordinate court (as
defined in Schedule 5) shall have power to try any offence under his
Act and on conviction to impose the full penalty therefor.
Exemptions from tax: general

127. (1) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act but subject
to section 127A, any income specified in Part I of Schedule 6 shall,
subject to this section, be exempt from tax.
(2) The Dewan Rakyat may by resolution delete any paragraph or
item in Schedule 6 or add further paragraphs or items thereto.
(3) The Minister may by statutory order
(a) provide that the interest payable on any loan charged on
the Consolidated Fund or on a State Consolidated Fund
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shall be exempt from tax, either generally or in respect of

interest payable to persons of a particular class;
(b) exempt any class of persons from all or any of the
provisions of this Act, either generally or in respect of any
income of a particular kind or any class of income of a
particular kind;
(c) declare any part of the armed forces to be a reserve force
for the purposes of paragraph 9 of Part I of Schedule 6 in
addition to the forces mentioned in that paragraph; or
(d) vary paragraph 18 of Part I of Schedule 6 by adding other
commodities to those mentioned in that paragraph or
deleting any of the commodities so mentioned.
(3A) The Minister may, in any particular case exempt any person
from all or any of the provision of this Act, either generally or in
respect of any income of a particular kind or any class of income of a
particular kind.
(4) Any orders made under subsection (3) shall be laid before the
Dewan Rakyat.
(5) Any income which is exempt from tax by virtue of this section
shall be disregarded for the purposes of this Act:
Provided that
(a) this subsection shall not apply as respects section 107A,
109 or 109B; and
(b) any tax deducted under section 107A, 109 or 109B, from
any such income shall be refunded under section 111.
(6) Nothing in this section shall be so construed as to exempt in
the hands of a recipient any income in respect of dividend, interest,
bonus, salary or wages paid wholly or in part out of income exempt
from tax by virtue of this section, unless that first-mentioned income
is itself so exempt.
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PART IX
EXEMPTIONS, REMISSION AND OTHER RELIEF
Cessation of exemption
127A. (1) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act or any
other written law, where any income of a person is exempt by virtue
of a repealed law, and the exemption is deemed to have been made by
an order under section 127, that exemption shall cease.
(2) In this section, repealed law has the same meaning assigned
to it under Schedule 9.
Remission of tax
129. (1) The tax paid or payable by any person may be remitted
wholly or in part
(a) on grounds of poverty, by the Director General; or
(b) on grounds of justice and equity, by the Minister,
and any tax so remitted shall not be regarded as tax payable for the
purposes of any other provision of this Act.
(2) Where a person granted remission under subsection (1) has
paid any of the tax to which the remission relates, he shall be entitled
to have the amount which he has paid refunded to him as if it were an
overpayment to which section 111 applies.
Other relief
129A. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, the Minister
may for the purposes of section 127 provide any relief, in relation to
the treatment of expenses, losses and capital allowances in arriving at
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the chargeable income of a person, as he thinks fit, which is not

otherwise provided for in this Act.
Relief in respect of error or mistake

131. (1) If any person who has paid tax for any year of assessment
alleges that an assessment relating to that year is excessive by reason
of some error or mistake in a return or statement made by him for the
purposes of this Act and furnished by him to the Director General
prior to the assessment becoming final and conclusive, he may within
five years after the end of the year of assessment within which the
assessment was made make an application in writing to the Director
General for relief.
(2) On receiving an application under subsection (1) the Director
General shall inquire into the matter and, subject to this section, shall
give by way of repayment of tax such relief in respect of the alleged
error or mistake as appears to him to be just and reasonable.
(3) In determining any application under this section the Director
General shall have regard to all the relevant circumstances of the case
and in particular
(a) shall consider whether the granting of relief would result
in the exclusion from charge to tax of income of the
applicant; and
(b) for that purpose may take into consideration the
chargeability of the applicant for years of assessment
other than the year to which the application relates and
assessment made upon him for those years.
(4) No relief shall be given under this section in respect of an error
or mistake as to the basis on which the chargeability of the applicant
ought to have been computed if the return or statement containing the
error or mistake was in fact made on the basis of, or in accordance
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with, the practice of the Director General generally prevailing at the

time when the return or statement was made.
(5) An application under subsection (1) shall be as nearly as may
be in the same form as a notice of appeal under section 99; and,
where the applicant is aggrieved by the Director Generals decision
on the application
(a) the applicant may within six months after being informed
of the decision request the Director General in writing to
send the application forward to the Special
Commissioners;
(b) the Director General shall within three months after receiving
the request send the application forward as if he were sending
an appeal forward pursuant to section 102; and
(c) the application shall thereupon be deemed to be an appeal
and shall be disposed of accordingly.
Double taxation arrangements

132. (1) If the Minister by statutory order declares that
(a) arrangements specified in the order have been made by
the Government with the government of any territory
outside Malaysia with a view of affording relief from
double taxation in relation to tax under this Act or other
taxes of every kind under any written law and any foreign
tax of that territory; and
(b) it is expedient that those arrangements should have effect,
then, so long as the order remains in force, those arrangements shall
have effect in relation to tax under this Act notwithstanding anything
in any written law.
(2) Where any arrangements have effect by virtue of this section,
section 138 shall not prevent the disclosure to a duly authorized
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servant or agent of the government with which the arrangements have

been made of such information as is required to be disclosed under
the arrangements.
(3) The appropriate provisions of Schedule 7 shall apply where,
under any arrangements having effect under this section in relation to
a territory outside Malaysia, foreign tax payable under the laws of
that territory is to be allowed as a credit against tax payable under
this Act.
(4) Any arrangements to which effect is given under this section
may include
(a) provision for relief from tax with respect to any person of
any particular class;
(b) provision as to income which is not itself subject to
double taxation;
(c) provision for exempting from tax any person or any
person of any particular class or for exempting from tax
(wholly or in part) the income of any person or any person
of any particular class; and
(d) in addition to provisions for relief from double taxation,
other provisions relating to tax under this Act or other
taxes of every kind under any written law or to foreign tax
of the territory to which the arrangements relate,
and any such arrangements containing any such provision may with
respect to that provision be made to have effect for periods before the
passing of this Act or before the making of the arrangements, and the
foregoing subsections shall be construed accordingly.
(5) Where
(a) any bilateral relief (within the meaning of Schedule 7)
falls to be given to a person for a year of assessment in
consequence of an order made under this section; and
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(b) that year terminated prior to the date of that order,

any unilateral relief (within the meaning of that Schedule) falling to
be given to that person for that year by virtue of section 133 shall not
be given after that date; and, if any such unilateral relief has been
given to him for that year, the amount of any such bilateral relief
shall be reduced by the amount of that unilateral relief which has
been so given.
(6) Any order made under this section shall be laid before the
Dewan Rakyat.
Tax information exchange arrangements

132A. (1) If the Minister by statutory order declares that
outside Malaysia with a view to the exchange of
information forseeably relevant to the administration or
assessment or collection or enforcement of the taxes under
this Act or other taxes of every kind under any written law
and any foreign tax of that territory; and
then, so long as the order remains in force,
notwithstanding anything in any written law, those
arrangements shall have effect in relation to tax under this
Act or other taxes of every kind under any written law.
(2) No arrangement under this section can be made if the order in
respect of an arrangement under section 132 is in force.
(3) Where any arrangements have effect by virtue of this section,
section 138 shall not prevent the disclosure to a duly authorized
servant or agent of the government with which the arrangements have
been made of such information as is required to be disclosed under
the arrangements.
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Dewan Rakyat.
Mutual administrative assistance arrangement

132B. (1) Notwithstanding section 132 or 132A, if the Minister by
statutory order declares that
outside Malaysia with a view to the mutual administrative
assistance in tax matters which includes simultaneous tax
examinations, automatic exchange of information or tax
administrations abroad; and
then, so long as the order remains in force, notwithstanding anything
in any written law, those arrangements shall have effect in relation to
tax under this Act or other taxes of every kind under written law.
Dewan Rakyat.
Unilateral relief from double taxation

133. Relief from double taxation in relation to tax under this Act
and any foreign tax of any territory shall, where there is no order
under section 132 in force in respect of that territory, be given in
accordance with the appropriate provisions of Schedule 7:
Provided that no relief shall be given under this section in relation
to tax payable under the laws of a province or other component part
of that territory or tax levied by or on behalf of a municipality or
other local body.
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PART IXA
SPECIAL INCENTIVE RELIEF
Special incentive relief

133A. Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Act, special
incentive relief shall be given in accordance with Schedule 7A and
Schedule 7B.
PART X
SUPPLEMENTAL
Chapter 1 - Administration
The Director General and his staff

134. (1) There shall be a Director General of Inland Revenue, who
shall have the care and management of the tax.
(1A) The chief executive officer of the Inland Revenue Board of
Malaysia appointed under subsection 6A(1) of the Inland Revenue
Board of Malaysia Act 1995 shall be the Director General of Inland
Revenue.
(1B) The deputy chief executive officers of the Inland Revenue
Board of Malaysia appointed under subsection 6A(1A) of the Inland
Revenue Board of Malaysia Act 1995 shall be the Deputy Directors
General of Inland Revenue.
(2) The Inland Revenue Board of Malaysia shall, after consulting
the Director General of Inland Revenue, appoint, by notification in
the Gazette
(a) (Deleted by Act 742);
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(b) State Directors, Directors, Deputy Directors, Principal

Assistant Directors and Assistant Directors of Inland
Revenue;
(c) Head of Revenue Solicitor, Deputy Revenue Solicitors,
Senior Revenue Counsels and Revenue Counsels; and
(d) such other officers as may be necessary and expedient for
the due administration of this Act,
from amongst the employees of the Inland Revenue Board of
Malaysia.
Power of Minister to give directions to Director General

135. The Minister may give to the Director General directions of a
general character (not inconsistent with this Act) as to the exercise of
the functions of the Director General under this Act; and the Director
General shall give effect to any directions so given.
Delegation of Director Generals functions

136. (1) Any function of the Director General under this Act (not
being a function exercisable by statutory order or a function
exercisable under section 152) may be exercised by a Deputy
Director General.
(2) Any officer appointed under paragraphs 134(2)(b) and (c), may
exercise any function of the Director General under this Act (not
being a function exercisable by statutory order or a function
exercisable under section 152) except his function under section 44,
subsection 137(1) and section 150.
(3)-(4) (Deleted by Act 644).
(5) The Director General may by writing under his hand
authorize any public officer or any employee of the Inland
Revenue Board of Malaysia (subject to any exceptions or
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limitations contained in the authorization) to exercise or assist in

exercising any function of the Director General under this Act
which is exercisable under subsection (2) by the appointed
officers.
(6) Where a public officer or any employee of the Inland Revenue
Board of Malaysia exercises any of the Director Generals functions
by virtue of any provision of subsections (1) to (5), he shall do so
subject to the general supervision and control of the Director General.
(7) The delegation by or under any provision of subsections (1) to
(5) of the exercise of any function of the Director General shall not
prevent the exercise of that function by the Director General himself.
(8) References in this Act to the Director General shall be
construed, in relation to any case where a public officer or an
employee of the Inland Revenue Board of Malaysia is authorized by
any provision of subsections (1) to (5) to exercise the functions of the
Director General, as including references to that officer or employee.
Identification of officials
137. (1) Any person exercising the right of access or the right to
take possession conferred by section 80 shall carry a warrant in the
prescribed form issued by the Director General (or, in the case of a
warrant issued to the Director General, by a Deputy Director
General) which shall identify the holder and his office and shall be
produced by the holder on demand to any person having reasonable
grounds to make the demand.
(2) Where a person purporting to be a public officer or an
employee of the Inland Revenue Board of Malaysia exercising
functions under this Act produces a warrant in the form prescribed
under subsection (1) or any written identification or authority, then,
until the contrary is proved, the warrant, identification or authority
shall be presumed to be genuine and he shall be presumed to be the
person referred to therein.
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Certain material to be treated as confidential

138. (1) Subject to this section, every classified person shall regard
and deal with classified material as confidential; and, if he is an
official, he shall make and subscribe before the prescribed authority a
declaration in the prescribed form that he will do so.
(2) No classified material shall be produced or used in court or
otherwise except
(a) for the purposes of this Act or another tax law;
(b) in order to institute or assist in the course of a prosecution
for any offence committed in relation to tax or in relation
to any tax or duty imposed by another tax law; or
(c) with the written authority of the Minister or of the person
or partnership to whose affairs it relates.
(3) No official shall be required by any court
(a) to produce or disclose classified material which has been
supplied to him or another official otherwise than by or on
behalf of the person or partnership to whose affairs it
relates; or
(b) to identify the person who supplied that material.
(4) Nothing in this section shall prevent
(a) the production or disclosure of classified material to the
Auditor-General (or to public officers under his direction
and control) or the use of classified material by the
Auditor-General, to such an extent as is necessary or
expedient for the proper exercise of the functions of his
office;
(b) the Director General from publicizing, from time to time
in any manner as he may deem fit, the following
particulars in respect of a person who has been found
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guilty or convicted of any offence under this Act or dealt

with under subsection 113(2) or section 124
(i) the name, address and occupation or other
description of the person;
(ii) such particulars of the offence or evasion as the
Director General may think fit;
(iii) the year or years of assessment to which the
offence or evasion relates;
(iv) the amount of the income not disclosed;
(v) the aggregate of the amount of the tax evaded and
penalty (if any) charged or imposed;
(vi) the sentence imposed or other order made:
Provided that the Director General may refrain from publicizing
any particulars of any person to whom this paragraph applies if the
Director General is satisfied that, before any investigation or inquiry
has been commenced in respect of any offence or evasion falling
under section 113 or 114, that person has voluntarily disclosed to the
Director General or to any authorized officer complete information
and full particulars relating to such offence or evasion.
(5) In this section
another tax law means any Ordinance wholly repealed by this
Act, any written law relating to estate duty, film hire duty, payroll tax
or turnover tax and any other written law declared by the Minister by
statutory order to be another tax law for the purposes of this section;
classified material means any return or other document made for
the purposes of this Act and relating to the income of any person or
partnership and any information or other matter or thing which comes
to the notice of a classified person in his capacity as such;
classified person means
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(a) an official;
(b) the Auditor-General and public officers under his
direction and control;
(c) any person advising or acting for a person who is or may
be chargeable to tax, and any employee of a person so
acting or advising if he is an employee who in his capacity
as such has access to classified material; or
(d) any employee of the Inland Revenue Board of Malaysia;
official means a person having an official duty under or
employed in carrying out the provisions of this Act.
Chapter 1A-Ruling
Public ruling
138A. (1) The Director General may at any time make a public ruling
on the application of any provision of this Act in relation to any
person or class of persons, or any type of arrangement.
(2) The Director General may withdraw, either wholly or partly,
any public ruling made under this section.
(3) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, where a
public ruling in subsection (1) applies to any person in relation to an
arrangement and the person applies the provision in the manner stated
in the ruling, the Director General shall apply the provision in
relation to the person and the arrangement in accordance with the
ruling.
Advance ruling
138B. (1) Subject to this section or any rules prescribed under this
Act, on the application made by any person, the Director General
shall make an advance ruling on the application of any provision of
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this Act to the person and to the arrangement for which the ruling is
sought.
(2) An application under subsection (1) shall be made in the
prescribed form and shall contain particulars as may be required by
the Director General.
(3) The Director General may at any time withdraw any advance
ruling made under subsection (1) by giving a notice in writing of such
withdrawal to the person to whom the ruling applies.
(4) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, where an
advance ruling applies to any person in relation to an arrangement
and the person applies the provision in the manner stated in the
ruling, the Director General shall apply the provision in relation to
the person and that arrangement in accordance with the ruling.
(5) An advance ruling on any of the provision of this Act shall
apply to a person in relation to an arrangement if the provision is
expressly referred to in the ruling and for the basis period for year of
the assessment for which the ruling applies.
(6) A ruling made under subsection (1) does not apply to a person
in relation to an arrangement if
(a) the arrangement is materially different from the
arrangement stated in the ruling;
(b) there was a material omission or misrepresentation in, or
in connection with the application of the ruling;
(c) the Director General makes an assumption about a future
event or another matter that is material to the ruling, and
that assumption subsequently proves to be incorrect; or
(d) the person fails to satisfy any of the conditions stipulated
by the Director General.
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Advance Pricing Arrangement

138C. (1) Subject to this section and any rules prescribed under this
Act, on the application made to the Director General by any person
who carries out a cross border transaction with an associated
person
(a) the Director General may enter into an advance pricing
arrangement with that person; or
(b) in the case where section 132 applies, the competent
authorities may enter into an advance pricing
arrangement,
in order to determine the transfer pricing methodology to be used in
any future apportionment or allocation of income or deduction to
ensure the arms length transfer prices in relation to that transaction.
(2) An application under subsection (1) shall be made in the
prescribed form and shall contain particulars as may be required by
the Director General.
(3) The transactions referred to in subsection (1) shall be
construed as a transaction between
(a) persons one of whom has control over the other;
(b) individuals who are relatives of each other; or
(c) persons both of whom are controlled by some other
person.
(4) In this section, relative and transaction have the same
meanings assigned to them under subsection 140(8).
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Chapter 2 - Controlled companies and powers to protect

the revenue in case of certain transactions
Controlled companies
139. (1) For the purposes of this Act, a person shall be taken to have
control of a company
(a) if he exercises or is able to exercise or is entitled to
acquire control (whether direct or indirect) over the
companys affairs and in particular, without prejudice to
the generality of the preceding words, if he possesses or is
entitled to acquire the greater part of the share capital or
voting power in the company;
(b) if he possesses or is entitled to acquire either
(i) the greater part of the issued share capital of the
company;
(ii) such part of that capital as would, if the whole of
the income of the company were in fact distributed
to the members, entitle him to receive the greater
part of the amount so distributed; or
(iii) such redeemable share capital as would entitle him
to receive on its redemption the greater part of the
assets which, in the event of a winding up, would
be available for distribution among members; or
(c) if in the event of a winding up he would be entitled to the
greater part of the assets available for distribution among
members.
(2) Where two or more persons together satisfy in respect of a
company any of the conditions in subsection (l), they shall be taken
to have control of the company.
(3) For the purposes of subsections (1) and (2) there shall be
attributed to any person any rights or powers of a nominee for him,
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that is to say, any rights or powers which another person possesses on

his behalf or may be required to exercise on his direction or behalf.
(4) Where the trustees of a trust are members of a controlled
company, only one of those trustees shall be deemed to be a member
thereof; and, where each of those trustees as such is a person of the
kind mentioned in subsection (1) or (2), only one of those trustees
shall be taken to be a person of that kind.
(5) For the purposes of subparagraph (1)(b)(iii) and paragraph (c),
any person who is a loan creditor of a company (otherwise than in
respect of any loan capital or debt issued or incurred by the company
for money lent by him to the company in the ordinary course of a
business of banking carried on by him) may be treated as a member,
and the references to share capital may be treated as including loan
capital.
(6) For the purposes of subsection (l) there may be attributed to
any person all the rights and powers of any company of which he has,
or he and associates of his have, control or any two or more such
companies, or of any associate of his or any two or more associates of
his, including those attributed to a company or associate under
subsection (3) but not those attributed to an associate under this
subsection; and such attributions shall be made under this subsection
as will result in the company being treated as under the control of
five or fewer persons, if it can be so treated.
(7) In this section
associate means, in relation to a person
(a) a person in any of the following relationships to that
person, that is to say, husband or wife, parent or remoter
forebear, child or remoter issue, brother, sister and
partner;
(b) the trustee or trustees of a settlement in relation to which
that person is, or any such relative of his (living or dead)
as is mentioned in paragraph (a) of this definition is or
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was, a settlor (settlement and settler here having the

same meaning as in section 65);
(c) where that person is interested in any shares or obligations
of a company which are subject to any trust or are part of
the estate of a deceased person, any other person
interested therein;
member includes, in relation to a company, any person having a
share or interest in the capital or income of the company, and for the
purposes of subsection (1) a person shall be treated as entitled to
acquire anything which he is entitled to acquire at a future date or
will at a future date be entitled to acquire.
Power to disregard certain transactions

140. (1) The Director General, where he has reason to believe that
any transaction has the direct or indirect effect of
(a) altering the incidence of tax which is payable or suffered
by or which would otherwise have been payable or
suffered by any person;
(b) relieving any person from any liability which has arisen or
which would otherwise have arisen to pay tax or to make
a return;
(c) evading or avoiding any duty or liability which is imposed
or would otherwise have been imposed on any person by
this Act; or
(d) hindering or preventing the operation of this Act in any
respect,
may, without prejudice to such validity as it may have in any other
respect or for any other purpose, disregard or vary the transaction and
make such adjustments as he thinks fit with a view to counteracting
the whole or any part of any such direct or indirect effect of the
transaction.
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(2) In exercising his powers under this section, the Director

General may
(a) treat any gross income from any source of any person
either as the gross income and source of any other person
or, where the gross income is that of a controlled
company, as having been distributed to any member
(within the meaning of subsection 139(7)) of that
company;
(b) make such computation or recomputation of any gross
income, adjusted income or adjusted loss, statutory
income, aggregate income, total income or chargeable
income of any person or persons as may be necessary to
revise any persons liability to tax or impose any liability
to tax on any person in accordance with his exercise of
those powers; and
(c) make such assessment or additional assessment in respect
of any person as may be necessary in consequence of his
exercise of those powers, nullify a right to repayment of
tax or require the return of a repayment of tax already
made.
(2A) In exercising his powers under this section, the Director
General may require by notice any person to pay to him within the
time specified in the notice the amount of tax that would be deducted
by that person under this Act in consequence of his exercise of those
powers.
(3) Without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing
subsections, the powers of the Director General conferred by this
section shall extend
(a) to the charging with tax of any person or persons who but
for any adjustment made by virtue of this section would
not be chargeable with tax or would not be chargeable
with tax to the same extent; and
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(b) to the charging of a greater amount of tax than would be

chargeable but for any such adjustment.
(4) Where in accordance with this section the Director General
requires from a person the return of the amount of a repayment of tax
already made
(a) the Director General shall give to that person a notice of
that requirement and the notice shall be treated as a notice
of assessment for the purposes of any appeal therefrom,
Chapter 2 of Part VI applying with any necessary
modifications; and
(b) that amount shall be deemed to be tax payable under an
assessment and section 103 and the other provisions of
Part VII shall apply accordingly.
(5) Where in consequence of any adjustment made under this
section an assessment is made, a right to repayment is refused or a
return of a repayment of tax is required, particulars of the adjustment
shall be given with the notice of assessment, with the notice refusing
the repayment or with the notice requiring the return of a repayment,
as the case may be.
(6) Transactions
(a) between persons one of whom has control over the other;
(b) between individuals who are relatives of each other; or
(c) between persons both of whom are controlled by some
other person,
shall be deemed to be transactions of the kind to which subsection (1)
applies if in the opinion of the Director General those transactions
have not been made on terms which might fairly be expected to have
been made by independent persons engaged in the same or similar
activities dealing with one another at arms length.
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(7) Notwithstanding any other provision of this section, where a

transaction to which this section relates consists of a settlement on a
relative or on a relative and other persons, nothing in this section and
no powers exercised thereunder shall affect the interests of the
relative under the settlement.
(8) In this section
relative means a parent, a child (including a stepchild and a child
adopted in accordance with any law), a brother, a sister, an uncle, an
aunt, a nephew, a niece, a cousin, an ancestor or a lineal descendant;
transaction means any trust, grant, covenant, agreement,
arrangement or other disposition or transaction made or entered into
orally or in writing (whether before or after the commencement of
this Act), and includes a transaction entered into by two or more
persons with another person or persons.
Power to substitute the price and disallowance of interest on

certain transactions
140A. (1) This section shall apply notwithstanding section 140 and
subject to any rules prescribed under this Act.
(2) Subject to subsections (3) and (4), where a person in the basis
period for a year of assessment enters into a transaction with an
associated person for that year for the acquisition or supply of
property or services, then, for all purposes of this Act, that person
shall determine and apply the arms length price for such acquisition
or supply.
(3) Where the Director General has reason to believe that any
property or services referred to in subsection (2) is acquired or
supplied at a price which is either less than or greater than the price
which it might have been expected to fetch if the parties to the
transaction had been independent persons dealing at arms length, he
may in determination of the gross income, adjusted income or
adjusted loss, statutory income, total income or chargeable income of
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the person, substitute the price in respect of the transaction to reflect

an arms length price for the transaction.
(4) Where the Director General, having regard to the
circumstances of the case, is of the opinion that in the basis period for
a year of assessment the value or aggregate of all financial assistance
granted by a person to an associated person who is a resident, is
excessive in relation to the fixed capital of such person, any interest,
finance charge, other consideration payable for or losses suffered in
respect of the financial assistance shall, to the extent to which it
relates to the amount which is excessive, be disallowed as a
deduction for the purposes of this Act.
(5) The transactions or the financial assistance referred to in
subsection (2) or (4) respectively, shall be construed as a transaction
or financial assistance between
(a) persons one of whom has control over the other;
(b) individuals who are relatives of each other; or
(c) persons both of whom are controlled by some other
person.
(6) In this section, relative and transaction have the same
meanings assigned to them under subsection 140(8).
Special provision applicable to loan or advances to director

140B. (1) Without prejudice to the generality of section 140A and
subject to this section, where in a basis period for a year of
assessment, a company makes any loan or advances of any money
from the internal funds of the company to a person who is a director
of that company, the company shall be deemed to have a gross
income consisting of interest from such loan or advances for that
basis period.
(2) For the purpose of subsection (1), the interest for the basis
period for that year of assessment shall be the aggregate sum of
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interest for all calendar months in the basis period and the sum of
interest for each calendar month shall be determined in accordance
with the following formula:
1 xAxB
12
where A is the total amount of loan or advances outstanding at
the end of the calendar month; and
B is the average lending rate of commercial banks
published by the Central Bank at the end of the
calendar month or where there is no such average
lending rate, such other reference lending rate as may
be prescribed by the Director General.
(3) Where in respect of a loan or advances referred to under
subsection (1), interest is charged by the company and the total
amount of interest charged and payable by the director to that
company for the basis period for a year of assessment
(a) is more than the aggregate sum of interest under
subsection (2) for that basis period, this section shall cease
to apply; or
(b) is less than the aggregate sum of interest under
subsection (2) for that basis period, this section shall
apply and the total amount of interest which is charged
and payable to the company for that basis period shall
be disregarded.
(4) For the purposes of this Act, director has the same meaning
assigned to it under subsection 75A(2).
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Powers regarding certain transactions by non-residents

141. (1) Where
(a) a person who is not resident for the basis year for a year of
assessment carries on a business with another person who
is resident for that basis year (that person, that other
person and that year of assessment being in this section
referred to as the non-resident, the resident and the
relevant year respectively); and
(b) it appears to the Director General that, owing to the close
connection between the resident and the non-resident and
to the substantial control exercised by the non-resident
over the resident, the course of business between them can
be and is so arranged that the business done by the
resident in pursuance of his connection with the nonresident produces to the resident in relation to the basis
period for the relevant year either no income or a smaller
income than that which might be expected to arise from
that business,
the non-resident shall as regards the relevant year be taken to have a
chargeable income and to be assessable and chargeable to tax thereon
in the name of the resident by reference to the income which might
be expected to arise from the business of the resident as if the
resident were an agent of the non-resident.
(2) Where the true amount of the income from a business of the
non-resident cannot be readily ascertained for the purposes of
subsection (1)
(a) the Director General may, if he thinks fit, assess and
charge the non-resident for the relevant year on a fair and
reasonable percentage of the turnover of the business done
by the non-resident through or with the resident (the
percentage being determined in each case with regard to
the nature of the business); and
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(b) the provisions of this Act relating to the delivery of

returns or particulars by persons acting on behalf of others
shall extend so as to require returns or particulars of the
business done by the non-resident through or with the
resident to be furnished by the resident in the same
manner as returns or particulars of income are to be
delivered by persons acting for persons who are not
resident.
Chapter 3 Miscellaneous
Evidential provisions
142. (1) In a suit under section 106 the production of a certificate
signed by the Director General giving the name and address of the
defendant and the amount of tax due from him shall be sufficient
evidence of the amount so due and sufficient authority for the court to
give judgment for that amount.
(2) In criminal or civil proceedings under this Act any statement
purporting to be signed by the Director General or an authorized
officer which forms part of or is annexed to the information,
complaint or statement of claim, shall, until the contrary is proved, be
evidence of any fact stated therein:
Provided that this subsection shall not apply to
(a) a statement of the intent of the accused person or other
defendant; or
(b) proceedings for an offence punishable by imprisonment.
(3) A transcript of any particulars contained in a return or other
document relating to tax, if it is certified under the hand of the
Director General or an authorized officer to be a true copy of the
particulars, shall be admissible in evidence as proof of those
particulars.
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(4) No statement made or document produced by or on behalf of

any person shall be inadmissible in evidence against that person in
any proceedings against him for an offence under section 112, 113 or
114, or for the recovery of any sum due by way of tax or penalty, by
reason only of the fact that he was or may have been induced to make
the statement or produce the document by any lawful inducement or
promise proceeding from the Director General or an authorized
officer.
(5) (a) Save as provided in paragraph (b) nothing in this Act
shall
(i) affect the operation of Chapter IX of Part III of the
Evidence Act 1950 [Act 56]; or
(ii) be construed as requiring or permitting any person
to produce or give to a court , the Special
Commissioners, the Director General or any other
person any document, thing or information on
which by that Chapter or those provisions he
would not be required or permitted to produce or
give to a court.
(b) Notwithstanding any other written law, where any
document, thing, matter, information, communication or
advice consists wholly or partly of, or relates wholly or
partly to, the receipts, payments, income, expenditure, or
financial transactions or dealings of any person (whether
an advocate and solicitor, his client, or any other person),
it shall not be privileged from disclosure to a court, the
Special Commissioners, the Director General or any
authorized officer if it is contained in, or comprises the
whole or part of, any book, account, statement, or other
record prepared or kept by any practitioner or firm of
practitioners in connection with any client or clients of
the practitioner or firm of practitioners or any other
person.
(c) Paragraph (b) shall also apply with respect to any
document, thing, matter, information, communication or
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advice made or brought into existence before the

commencement of that paragraph.
Admissibility of electronic record

142A. (1) Notwithstanding any other written law, where in any
proceedings under this Act an electronic record of
(a) any prescribed form is furnished by way of electronic
transmission under section 152A; or
(b) any other document is stored or received by or
communicated to the Director General on an electronic
medium or by way of electronic transmission,
the electronic record or the copy or print-out of that electronic record
shall be admissible as evidence of the facts stated or contained
therein:
Provided that the record or the copy or print-out is
(i) certified by the Director General to contain all or any
information furnished, stored, communicated or
received on an electronic medium or by way of
electronic transmission under this section; or
(ii) otherwise authenticated in the manner provided in the
Evidence Act 1950 for authentication of documents
produced by computer.
(2) Where the electronic record of any form prescribed under this
Act or any other document, or a copy or print-out of that record is
admissible under subsection (1), it shall be presumed, until the
contrary is proved, that the record or the copy or print-out accurately
reproduces the content of that form or document.
(3) For the purposes of this Act, electronic medium includes a
data, text, image or any other information stored, received or
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communicated by means of electronic, magnetic, optical, imaging or

any other data processing device.
Errors and defects in assessments, notices and other documents

143. (1) No assessment, notice or other document purporting to be
made or issued for the purposes of this Act shall be quashed or
deemed to be void or voidable for want of form, or be affected by any
mistake, defect or omission therein, if it is in substance and effect in
conformity with this Act or in accordance with the intent and
meaning of this Act and
(a) in the case of an assessment, the person assessed or
intended to be assessed or affected thereby is designated
according to common intent and understanding; and
(b) in any other case, the person to whom it is addressed and
any other person referred to therein are so designated.
(2) An assessment purporting to be made or issued for the
purposes of this Act shall not be impeached or affected by reason of a
mistake therein as to
(a) the name of a person charged to tax;
(b) the description of any income; or
(c) the amount of chargeable income assessed or tax charged,
and a notice of assessment purporting to be so made or issued shall
not be impeached or affected by any such mistake if it is served on
the person in respect of whom the assessment was made or intended
to be made (or served in accordance with subsection 67(5)) and
contains in substance and effect the particulars contained in the
assessment.
(3) Notwithstanding subsection (2), if the amount of tax charged
by an assessment has been incorrectly calculated by reference to the
amount of the chargeable income and the appropriate rate of tax
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applicable thereto, the amount of tax charged as shown in the

assessment and the notice of assessment may, if the Director General
so directs, be taken to be the amount of tax which ought to have been
charged if it had been correctly calculated.
(4) A notice of tax payable purporting to be issued for the
purposes of this Act shall not be impeached by reason of a mistake
therein as to the name of the person liable to pay the tax if the notice
is served on that person.
Power to direct where returns, etc., are to be sent

144. The Director General may by statutory order direct that any
information, return or document required to be supplied, sent or
delivered to the Director General for the purposes of this Act shall,
subject to any conditions contained in the order, be supplied, sent or
delivered to such public officer or employee of the Inland Revenue
Board of Malaysia or to such address as may be specified in the
order.
Service of notice
145. (1) Subject to any express provision of this Act, for the
purposes of this Act notices may be served personally or by ordinary
or registered post.
(2) A notice relating to tax which is sent by ordinary or registered
post shall be deemed to have been served on the person (including a
partnership) to whom it is addressed on the day succeeding the day
on which the notice would have been received in the ordinary course
of post if it is addressed
(a) in the case of a company, partnership or body of persons
having a registered office in Malaysia
(i) to that registered office;
(ii) to its last known address; or
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(iii) to any person authorized by it to accept service of

process;
(b) in the case of a company, partnership or body of persons
not having a registered office in Malaysia
(i) to any registered office of the company,
partnership or body (wherever that office may be
situated);
(ii) to the principal place of business or other activity
of the company, partnership or body (wherever
that place may be situated); or
(iii) to any individual authorized (by or under the law
of any place where the company, partnership or
body is incorporated, registered or established) to
accept service of process; and
(c) in the case of an individual, to his last known address.
(3) Where a person to whom there has been addressed a registered
letter containing a notice under this Act
(a) is informed that there is a registered letter awaiting him at
a post office but refuses or neglects to take delivery of the
letter; or
(b) refuses to accept delivery of that registered letter when
tendered,
the notice shall be deemed to have been served upon him on the date
on which he was informed that the letter was awaiting him or on
which the letter was tendered to him, as the case may be.
(4) For the purposes of subsection (3) an affidavit by the officer in
charge of a post office stating that to the best of his knowledge and
belief
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(a) there has been delivered to the address appearing on a

registered letter a post office notification informing the
addressee that there is a registered letter awaiting him; or
(b) there has been tendered for delivery to the addressee a
registered letter,
shall, until the contrary is proved, be evidence that the addressee has
been so informed or that that registered letter has been tendered to
him, as the case may be.
Authentication of notices and other documents

146. (1) Subject to subsection (2), every notice or other document
issued, served or given for the purposes of this Act by the Director
General or an authorized officer shall be sufficiently authenticated if
the name and office of the Director General is printed, stamped or
otherwise written thereon.
(2) Where this Act provides for a notice, certificate or other
document to be under the hand of any officer, the notice, certificate
or document shall be signed in manuscript by that officer.
(3) A notice, certificate or other document issued, made, served or
given for the purposes of this Act and purporting to be signed in
manuscript by the Director General or an authorized officer shall be
presumed, until the contrary is proved, to have been so signed.
Free postage
147. All returns made under this Act and all remittances of tax (and
any correspondence resulting from or connected with any such return
or remittance) may, if posted in Malaysia in envelopes marked
Income Tax, be sent free of postage to the Director General or to an
officer or address specified in an order made under section 144:
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Provided that the Director General may in certain cases by notice

in writing require any person to send any return, document or
correspondence by registered post.
Provisions as to approvals and directions given by Minister or

Director General
148. Where by or under this Act there is conferred on the Minister or
the Director General power to give an approval or direction of any
kind (not being a power exercisable by statutory order)
(a) an approval or direction given in the exercise of that
power shall not be regarded as subsidiary legislation;
(b) that power shall be deemed to include
(i) power to give any such approval or direction with
retrospective effect;
(ii) power to vary or revoke any such approval or
direction retrospectively or otherwise; and
(iii) power to give any such approval or direction
subject to such conditions as the Minister or the
Director General, as the case may be, may think fit
to impose; and
(c) any such approval or direction shall take effect when it is
given or, where the Minister or Director General, as the
case may be, specifies a date on which it is to take effect,
on that date.
Annulment of rules and orders laid before the Dewan Rakyat

149. Where this Act provides for any rule or order to be laid before
the Dewan Rakyat, the rule or order shall be laid before the Dewan as
soon as may be after it has been made and, if the Dewan at or before
the second meeting begun after the rule or order is laid before it
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resolves that the rule or order or any provision of it be annulled, the

rule or order or that provision of it shall cease to have effect, without
prejudice to anything previously done thereunder or the making of a
new rule or order:
Provided that this section shall not apply to an order made under
subsection 6(2).
Power to approve pension or provident fund, scheme or society

150. The Director General may, subject to such conditions as he may
think fit to impose, approve any pension or provident fund, scheme or
society for the purposes of this Act.
Procedure for making refunds and repayments

151. Where the Director General is authorized or required by this
Act to make any refund or repayment, he shall certify the amount of
the sum to be refunded or repaid and cause the refund or repayment
to be made forthwith.
Forms
152. (1) The Director General may, either by statutory order or in
such other way as seems to him to be appropriate, prescribe such
forms as are required by this Act to be prescribed and such other
forms as he considers ought to be prescribed in connection with the
operation of this Act, and may authorize the use of a suitable
substitute for any form so prescribed:
Provided that this subsection shall not apply to the form of
declaration to be prescribed for the purposes of subsection 138(1).
(2) Where in order to comply with any provision of this Act a
person is required to use a prescribed form, he shall not be regarded
as complying with that provision unless he uses all reasonable
diligence to procure and use
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(a) a printed copy of the form as prescribed under

subsection (1); or
(b) a copy of any substitute for the form authorized under
subsection (1), being a printed copy unless the
authorization provides otherwise.
Electronic medium
152A. (1) The Director General may allow any form prescribed
under this Act to be furnished by any person or by any class of
persons on an electronic medium or by way of an electronic
transmission.
(2) For the purposes of subsection (1), the conditions and
specifications under which any prescribed form is to be furnished
shall be as determined by the Director General.
(3) For the purposes of subsection (1), a person may authorize in
writing a tax agent to furnish on his behalf any form prescribed under
this Act in the manner provided for in subsection (1).
(4) A form prescribed under this Act furnished in accordance with
subsection (3) on behalf of any person shall be presumed to have
been furnished on that persons authority, until the contrary is proved,
and the person shall be deemed to be cognizant of its contents.
(5) Where subsection (3) applies
(a) the person who authorizes the tax agent shall make a
declaration in the form prescribed under this Act stating
that
(i) the tax agent is authorized to furnish the form to
the Director General on his behalf; and
(ii) the information provided by him to the tax agent
for the preparation of the form is true and correct;
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(b) the tax agent shall make a declaration in the form

furnished in accordance with subsection (1) stating that
(i) the form is prepared in accordance with the
information given by the person; and
(ii) he has received a declaration made by the person
under paragraph (a);
(c) the person shall keep and retain in safe custody the form
being the hard copy of the form so furnished and that copy
shall be made under processes and procedures which are
designed to ensure that the information contained in the
form shall be the only information furnished in
accordance with this section;
(d) the hard copy shall be signed by the person; and
(e) the hard copy in paragraph (c) and the declaration made
under paragraph (a) shall be kept and retained for a period
of seven years from the end of the year of assessment in
which the form is furnished.
(6) Any form referred to in subsection (1) is deemed to have been
furnished by a person to the Director General on the date on which
acknowledgement of receipt of the form is transmitted electronically
by the Director General to the person.
Restriction on persons holding themselves out as tax agents, tax

consultants, etc.
*153. (1) No person holding himself out as a tax agent, a tax
consultant or a tax adviser (or under any other like description) shall
be permitted to act in Malaysia on behalf of any person for any of the
purposes of this Act unless he is a tax agent as defined in this section:
Provided that
*NOTESee section 31 of Act 644 for explanation.
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(a) where a company, body of persons or partnership so holds

itself out in any calendar year, then, if at the time of the
holding out any employee of the company, member of the
body or partner in the partnership (whether or not that
employee, member or partner is in Malaysia) is a tax
agent as so defined
(i) it shall be sufficient for the purposes of this
subsection if there is present in Malaysia for a
period or periods in that year amounting in all to
more than one hundred and eighty two days an
employee, member or partner, as the case may be
(not being necessarily the same employee, member
or partner throughout that period or those periods)
who is such a tax agent; and
(ii) the company, body or partnership in question shall
not be guilty of a contravention of this section
unless after the end of that year it is shown to have
failed to comply with subparagraph (i);
(b) nothing in this subsection shall be construed as restricting
an advocate in the lawful practice of his profession.
(2) In this section (and in section 120 in so far as it relates to this
section) person includes partnership.
(3) For the purposes of this Act, tax agent means any
professional accountant or person, approved by the Minister.
(4) An application for an approval under subsection (3) or for a
renewal of such approval shall be made to the Minister.
(5) A fee as may be prescribed by the Minister by an order
published in the Gazette shall be paid on the application for an
approval or renewal of an approval under subsection (4).
(6) An approval or renewal of an approval under this section shall
be valid for
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(a) a minimum period of twenty-four months beginning from

the date of such approval or renewal; or
(b) any other period as approved by the Minister which shall
not be less than twenty-four months beginning from the
date of such approval or renewal.
(7) An approval granted by the Minister before 24 October 1986
shall lapse on 31 December 1987 unless a renewal of such approval is
obtained under this section by that date.
Power to make rules

154. (1) The Minister may make rules
(a) providing for the deduction and payment of tax at the
source in respect of income from any employment and
income of the kind mentioned in paragraph 4(e) and for
the recovery of tax which has or should have been so
deducted;
(b) prescribing, except where subsection 152(1) applies,
anything required by this Act to be prescribed;
(c) implementing or facilitating the operation of an
arrangement having effect under section 132 or 132A;
(d) regulating the practice and procedure in appeals to the
Special Commissioners and the Special Commissioners
own procedure;
(e) requiring any person chargeable to tax who intends to
leave Malaysia to produce a certificate that he has paid all
tax and other sums due from him under this Act or that the
Director General does not object to his departure, and
preventing any such person from leaving Malaysia if he
fails to produce such a certificate;
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(ea) prescribing penalties for any contravention or failure to

comply with any of the provisions of any rules made
under this section:
Provided that no such penalty shall exceed the penalty
prescribed under section 120;
(eb) providing for the scope and procedure applied in relation
to any ruling made under section 138A or 138B, or to any
arrangement under section 138C;
(ec) prescribing fees charged in relation to any ruling made
under section 138B;
(ed) implementing and facilitating the operation of section
140A;
(f) for facilitating generally the operation of this Act.
(2) Any rules made under subsection (1) shall be laid before the
Dewan Rakyat.
Power to enter into an agreement with regard to tax liability

154A. (1) Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Act, the
Government may enter into an agreement with any person with
regard to ascertainment of his adjusted income or adjusted loss or tax
chargeable on him where such agreement is, in the opinion of the
Minister, just and equitable or in the interest of the Government or
any State Government.
(2) Any such agreement may include
(a) provision for disallowing (wholly or in part) outgoings or
expenses which but for the agreement would have been
allowed as a deduction; or
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(b) provision for forgoing (wholly or in part) by any person of

his entitlement to any relief or credit due to him under the
Act.
Repeals
155. (1) The Acts and Ordinances specified in Schedule 8 are hereby
repealed, to the extent therein specified, with effect from 1 January 1968.
(2) All subsidiary legislation made under any Ordinance
wholly repealed by subsection (1) is hereby revoked with effect
from 1 January 1968.
Transitional and saving provisions

156. Subject to section 127A, the transitional and saving provisions
in Schedule 9 shall have effect notwithstanding section 155 or any
other provision of this Act.
SCHEDULE 1
[Section 6]
Rates of Tax
PART I
1.
Except where paragraphs 1A, 2, 2A and 3 provide otherwise, income tax shall
be charged for a year of assessment upon the chargeable income of every person at
the following rates:
Chargeable Income
RM
Rate of Income Tax
For every ringgit of the first
5,000
0 per cent
For every ringgit of the next
15,000
2 per cent
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15,000
6 per cent
15,000
11 per cent
20,000
19 per cent
30,000
24 per cent
100,000
26 per cent
1A. Except where paragraph 2 provides otherwise, income tax shall be charged
for a year of assessment on the chargeable income of a person (other than a
company) not resident for the basis year for that year of assessment at the rate of 26
per cent on every ringgit of the chargeable income.
2.
Subject to paragraph 3, income tax shall be charged for a year of assessment
on the chargeable income of
(a)
a company other than a company to which paragraph 2A applies;
(b)
(Deleted by Act 578).
(c)
a trust body;
(d)
an executor of an estate of a deceased individual who was domiciled

outside Malaysia at the time of his death;
(e)
a receiver with respect to whom section 68(4) applies;
(f)
a limited liability partnership other than a limited liability

partnership to which paragraph 2D applies.
at the rate of 26 per cent for the year of assessment 2008 and 25 per cent for the
subsequent years of assessment on every ringgit of the chargeable income.
2A. Subject to paragraphs 2B, 2C and 3, income tax shall be charged for a year of
assessment on the chargeable income of a company resident in Malaysia which has
a paid-up capital in respect of ordinary shares of two million five hundred thousand
ringgit and less at the beginning of the basis period for a year of assessment at the
following rates:
Chargeable income
RM
Rate of income tax
For every ringgit of the

first
500,000
20 per cent
For
every
exceeding
500,000
26 per cent for the year of

assessment 2008 and 25
ringgit
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per
cent
subsequent
assessment
for
years
the
of
2B. The provisions of paragraph 2A shall not apply to a company referred to in

that paragraph 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)

the related company is directly or indirectly owned by the first
mentioned company; or
(c)

the first mentioned company and the related company is directly or
indirectly owned by another company.
2C. For the purpose of paragraph 2B, 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.
2D. Subject to paragraphs 2E, 2F and 3, income tax shall be charged for a year of
assessment on the chargeable income of a limited liability partnership resident in
Malaysia which has a total contribution of capital (whether in cash or in kind) of
two million five hundred thousand ringgit and less at the beginning of the basis
period for a year of assessment at the following rates:
Chargeable Income
RM
Rate of Income Tax
500,000
20 per cent
For every ringgit exceeding
500,000
25 per cent
2E. The provisions of paragraph 2D shall not apply to a limited liability

partnership referred to in that paragraph if more than
(a)
fifty per cent of the capital contribution (whether in cash or in kind)

of the limited liability partnership is directly or indirectly contributed
by a company;
(b)

the company is directly or indirectly owned by the limited liability
partnership; or
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fifty per cent of the capital contribution (whether in cash or in kind)

of the limited liability partnership and fifty per cent of the paid up
capital in respect of ordinary shares of the company is directly or
2F. The company referred to in paragraph 2E, other than another company referred
to in subparagraph 2E(c), shall have 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.
3.
Income tax shall be charged for a year of assessment on the chargeable
income of an insurer from inward re-insurance business or off-shore insurance
business at the rate of 5 per cent on every ringgit of the chargeable income.
4.
Income tax shall be charged for a year of assessment on the chargeable
income of an operator from inward re-takaful business or offshore takaful business
at the rate of 5 per cent on every ringgit of the chargeable income.
PART II
Notwithstanding Part I, income tax shall be charged on the following income at the
following rates
Type of income
Rate of income tax
1. Income of a non-resident person consisting of

interest (other than interest on an approved loan
or interest of the kind referred to in paragraph 33
of Part I, Schedule 6) derived from Malaysia
15% of gross
2. Income of a non-resident person consisting of

royalty derived from Malaysia
10% of gross
3. Income of a non-resident person (other than a

company) consisting of remuneration or other
income in respect of services performed or
rendered in Malaysia by a public entertainer
15% of gross
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PART III
(Deleted by Act 451)
PART IV
Notwithstanding Part I, income tax shall be charged for a year of assessment upon
the chargeable income of every co-operative society at the following rates:
Chargeable Income
RM
Rate of
income tax
30,000
0 per cent
30,000
5 per cent
40,000
10 per cent
50,000
15 per cent
100,000
20 per cent
250,000
22 per cent
250,000
24 per cent
750,000
25 per cent
PART V
Notwithstanding Part I and Part II, income tax shall be charged on the income of a
non-resident person consisting of
(i) amounts paid in consideration of services rendered by the 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 person;
(ii) amounts paid in consideration of technical advice, assistance or
services rendered in connection with technical management or
administration of any scientific, industrial or commercial undertaking,
(iii) rent or other payments made under any agreement or arrangement for
the use of any moveable property,
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which is derived from Malaysia at the rate of 10% of gross.
PART VI
Notwithstanding Part I, income tax shall be charged on the income of an individual
resident in Malaysia consisting of interest (other than interest exempt under this
Act or any order made thereto) accruing in or derived from Malaysia and received
from a person referred to in section 109C at the rate of .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .5% of
gross.
PART VII
PART VIII
Notwithstanding Part I and Part II, income tax shall be charged on the
chargeable income of a life fund, other than income arising from life reinsurance business and inward life re-insurance business, of a resident or nonresident insurer at the rate of .. .. .. 8 per cent.
PART IX
Notwithstanding Part I, income tax shall be charged on the chargeable income of a
foreign fund management company in relation to the source consisting of the
provision of fund management services to foreign investors as referred to in section
60G at the rate of .. .. .. 10 per cent.
PART X
1.
Notwithstanding Part I
(a) and subject to paragraphs (b) and (c), income tax shall be charged for
a year of assessment on the income of a unit holder other than a unit
holder which is a resident company consisting of income distributed
to the unit holder referred to in section 109 D which is derived from
Malaysia at the rate of 10% of gross;
(b) and subject to paragraph (c), income tax shall be charged for a year of
assessment on the income of a unit holder which is a non-resident
company consisting of income distributed to the unit holder referred
to in section 109D which is derived from Malaysia at the rate of 26%
of gross for the year of assessment 2008 and 25% of gross for the
subsequent years of assessment; and
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(c) and income tax shall be charged for a year of assessment on the
income of a unit holder which is a foreign institutional investor
consisting of income distributed to the unit holder referred to in
section 109D which is derived from Malaysia at the rate of 10% of
gross.
2.
In this Part, institutional investor means a pension fund, collective
investment scheme or such other person approved by the Minister.
PART XI
Notwithstanding Part I, income tax shall be charged on the income of
(a) a participant other than a participant which is a resident company
consisting of income distributed to that participant referred to in
section 109E which is derived from Malaysia at the rate of .. .. ..8% of
gross; and
(b) a participant which is a non-resident company consisting of income
distributed to that participant referred to in section 109 E which is
derived from Malaysia at the rate of .. .. ..26% of gross for the year of
assessment 2008 and 25% of gross for the subsequent years of
assessment.
PART XII
Notwithstanding Part I and Part II, income tax shall be charged on the chargeable
income of a family fund referred to in section 60AA, other than income arising from
family solidarity re-takaful business and inward family solidarity re-takaful
business, of a resident or non-resident operator at the rate of .. .. .. .. .. .. ..8 per cent.
PART XIII
Notwithstanding Parts I and II but subject to Parts X, XI and XII, income tax shall
be charged on the income of a non-resident person consisting of gains or profits
falling under paragraph 4(f) which is derived from Malaysia at the rate of 10% of
gross.
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PART XIV
1.
Notwithstanding Part I, income tax shall be charged for a year of assessment
on the chargeable income of an individual who is a knowledge worker and residing
in a specified region in respect of having or exercising employment with a person
who is carrying on a qualified activity in a specified region at the rate of 15 per cent
on every ringgit of that chargeable income.
2.
In this Part
(a) the knowledge worker, qualified activity and specified region referred
to in paragraph 1; and
(b) where the individual has income from a source other than the
employment referred to in paragraph 1 or where subsection 45(2)
applies, the chargeable income of the individual referred to in that
paragraph,
shall be as determined by the Minister by rules made under this Act.
PART XV
1.
Notwithstanding Part I, income tax shall be charged for a specified year of
assessment on the chargeable income of an approved individual under the
Returning Expert Programme in respect of having or exercising employment with a
person in Malaysia at the rate of 15 per cent on every ringgit of that chargeable
income.
2.
In this Part
(a) an approved individual and the specified year of assessment referred
to in paragraph 1; and
(b) where the individual has income from a source other than the
employment referred to in paragraph 1 or where subsection 45(2)
applies, the chargeable income of the individual referred to in that
paragraph,
shall be as determined by the Minister by rules made under this Act.
PART XVI
Notwithstanding Part I, income tax shall be charged for a year of assessment on the
total amount received by an individual in respect of withdrawal from a deferred
annuity or a private retirement scheme where such withdrawal is made before that
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individual reaches the age of 55 (other than by reason of permanent total

disablement, serious disease, mental disability, death or permanently leaving
Malaysia) at the rate of 8 per cent on every ringgit of that contribution withdrawn.
SCHEDULE 2
[Section 34]
Deductions for Capital Expenditure on Mines
Qualifying mining expenditure
1. Subject to paragraph 2, qualifying mining expenditure for the purposes of this
Schedule is expenditure which is incurred in connection with the working of a mine
or in preparation for the working of a mine
(a) on the acquisition of the mine or rights in or over the mine;
(b) on searching for, on discovering and testing or on winning access to
deposits of minerals;
(c) on the construction of any works or buildings which, when the mine
ceases to be worked, are likely to be of little or no value to any person
except in connection with the working of another mine; or
(d) on development, general administration or management before the
production of minerals begins or during any period when minerals are
not being produced.
2. Where a deduction has been made under section 44 pursuant to Schedule 4 (or
under any corresponding provision of any of the repealed laws as defined in
Schedule 9) in respect of any expenditure, and that expenditure has not been added
to any aggregate income under paragraph 43(1)(c) pursuant to subparagraph 5(a) of
Schedule 4, that expenditure shall be deemed not to be qualifying mining
expenditure for the purposes of this Schedule.
Deductions for qualifying mining expenditure

3. Subject to this Schedule, where the business of a person consists or mainly
consists of the working of a mine with or without other mines (that business and
that person being in this Schedule referred to as the relevant business and the
operator respectively) and the operator has incurred qualifying mining expenditure
in relation to that mine, then, in the ascertainment of the adjusted income of the
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operator for the basis period for a year of assessment from the relevant business
there shall be allowed pursuant to this Schedule as a deduction under section 34
from the gross income for that period from the relevant business an amount arrived
at by dividing the residual expenditure at the end of that period by the residual life
at the beginning of that period.
4. (1) The operator shall, when he commences working a mine which forms part
of the relevant business and thereafter from time to time as may be necessary,
furnish to the Director General a written statement containing an estimate of the life
of the mine by reference to the number of years during which the winning and
obtaining of minerals from the mine may be expected to continue and setting out
the calculations on which that estimate is based; and the Director General, by
reference to that estimate or, where no or no proper or sufficient statement has been
furnished under this paragraph, by reference to a similar estimate made by him to
the best of his judgment shall from time to time as he thinks appropriate fix a figure
of the number of years of the life of the mine, and that number shall constitute the
estimated life of the mine for the purposes of this Schedule:
Provided that, if the commencement of working was before 1 January 1968, this
subparagraph shall not apply as regards that commencement but shall otherwise apply
from time to time as may be necessary.
(2) Except where any provision of paragraph 15 applies, a change in the
estimated life of a mine shall not affect a deduction which has been or could have
been made under section 34 pursuant to this Schedule in ascertaining adjusted
income from the relevant business for the basis period for a year of assessment if
that basis period ended before the change.
5. Where in a case to which section 41 applies it is necessary as regards a mine to
ascertain a deduction under section 34 pursuant to this Schedule in relation to an
accounting period of more or less than twelve months
(a) the residual expenditure at the end of that period shall be divided by
the residual life at the beginning of that period; and
(b) the resulting figure shall be increased or decreased in the same
proportion as the length of that accounting period bears to a period of
twelve months and shall then constitute the amount of the deduction.
Transfer of mine, etc.

6. Paragraphs 7 to 14 shall apply in relation to any particular mine forming part
of the relevant business with respect to which the operator has incurred qualifying
mining expenditure, and in those paragraphs
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consideration means consideration (not being in the nature of or representing

income) which is monetary or non-monetary or both;
the mine means the particular mine in question;
mining asset means either the mine or an asset on or for which the operator has
incurred qualifying mining expenditure in connection with or in preparation for the
working of the mine;
other property means property which is not a mining asset;
value means
(a) in relation to
consideration;
monetary consideration, the amount of the
(b) in relation to non-monetary consideration, the market value of the

consideration at the time of the transaction to which the consideration
relates.
7.
Subject to paragraph 8
(a) where the operator transfers a mining asset for a consideration, the
value of the consideration shall be deemed to be recovered
expenditure in relation to the mine and to be received by the operator
at the date of the transfer;
(b) where the operator receives any consideration for the granting of any
right in or over the mine or any part thereof, the value of the
consideration shall be deemed to be recovered expenditure in relation
to the mine and the operator; and
(c) where the operator receives any amount or property by way of
compensation, recoupment or otherwise for any qualifying mining
expenditure (being expenditure of a kind which does not produce a
mining asset) incurred by him in connection with or in preparation for
the working of the mine, that amount or the market value of that
property at the time of its receipt shall be deemed to be recovered
expenditure in relation to the mine and the operator.
8.
Where the operator transfers a mining asset together with any other property, then
(a) if the transfer is made for an undivided consideration and the operator
and the transferee are able to agree how much of the value of the
consideration should be treated as given for the mining asset and for
the other property respectively, they shall within three months of the
transfer jointly furnish the Director General with a written statement
showing the apportionment of the consideration as so agreed and,
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subject to subparagraph (c), the part of that value apportioned to the

mining asset shall be deemed to be recovered expenditure in relation
to the mine and to be received by the operator at the date of the
transfer;
(b) if the transfer is made for separate considerations, the operator shall
within three months of the transfer furnish the Director General with a
written statement showing the value of each consideration and,
subject to subparagraph (c), the value of the consideration shown in
that statement for the mining asset shall be deemed to be recovered
expenditure in relation to the mine and to be received by the relevant
person at the date of the transfer; and
(c) if the Director General is not satisfied with the apportionment
mentioned in subparagraph (a) or with any value shown in the
statement mentioned in subparagraph (b), or if there is a failure to
furnish a statement in accordance with either of those subparagraphs,
the Director General shall determine to the best of his judgment the
value of the consideration for the mining asset, and the value so
determined shall be deemed to be recovered expenditure in relation to
the mine and to be received by the operator at the date of the transfer.
9. Where there is a transfer by the operator of a mining asset (with or without any
other property) together with a grant by the operator of a right of the kind
mentioned in subparagraph 7(b), then, for the purposes of paragraph 8
(a) the grant shall be treated as forming part of the transfer of that asset; and
(b) the right shall be treated as forming part of that asset,
and that paragraph shall apply accordingly with any necessary modifications.
10. Where the operator transfers a mining asset (with or without other property)
either
(a) for an undivided consideration (as regards that asset and that other
property, if any) together with an amount or property of the kind
mentioned in subparagraph 7(c); or
(b) for separate considerations (as regards that asset and that other
property, if any) together with an amount or property of that kind,
paragraph 8 shall apply with any necessary modifications.
11.
For the purposes of paragraphs 7 to 10

(a) if any consideration consists partly of money and partly of nonmonetary property, the value of the monetary part of the consideration
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and the value of the non-monetary part thereof shall, whenever

necessary, be aggregated or aggregated and apportioned, as the case
may require;
(b) if the subject matter of a transfer consists of two or more mines or of a
right in or over two or more mines, any amount apportioned under
those paragraphs to those mines shall be divided and apportioned to
each of those mines in the proportion that the residual expenditure in
relation to each of those mines at the date of the transfer bears to the
total of the residual expenditure in relation to those mines.
12. Where the operator transfers the mine and at the date of the transfer the
residual expenditure ascertained immediately before that date exceeds the
difference between
(a) the total amount of all the operators recovered expenditure received
on or before that date; and
(b) the total amount of all his recovered expenditure received prior to that
date,
the amount of the excess shall be allowed pursuant to this Schedule under
section 34 as a deduction from his gross income from the relevant business
for the basis period (being the basis period appropriate to the relevant
business for a year of assessment) in which the transfer was made.
13. (1) Where the operator has incurred expenditure in relation to the transfer to
him of the mine and any other matter or thing appertaining to the mine, that
expenditure shall be treated as qualifying mining expenditure incurred by the
operator in respect of the mine.
(2)
(Deleted by Act A226).
14. Where in relation to the mine there takes place a transaction as a result of
which an amount would (but for this paragraph) fall to be treated under any
provision of paragraphs 6 to 13 as recovered expenditure of the operator in relation
to the mine and
(a) the operator is a person over whom the other party to the transaction
has control;
(b) that other party is a person over whom the operator has control;
(c) some other person has control over both the operator and that other
party;
(d) the transaction takes place pursuant to a scheme of reconstruction or
amalgamation of companies; or
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(e) the Director General is of the opinion that the transaction is or forms
part of a transaction to which section 140 applies,
the residual expenditure referable to the mine or any other mining asset
immediately before the date of that first-mentioned transaction shall be deemed in
the hands of the operator to be recovered expenditure received at that date and in
the hands of that other party to be qualifying mining expenditure incurred at that
date; and paragraphs 6 to 13 shall not apply in relation to that first-mentioned
transaction.
Cessation of Working
15. Where in the basis period for a year of assessment the operator permanently
ceases to work a mine (otherwise than upon his death of the transfer of the mine by
him to any other person), recovered expenditure received by him after the date of
the cessation of working shall (notwithstanding any provision of paragraphs 7 to 10) be
treated as if it had been received on that date and
(a) if he so elects, the deductions to be made under section 34 in respect
of amounts allowed pursuant to this Schedule in computing his
adjusted income from the relevant business for that basis period and
for the basis period for each of the four immediately preceding years
of assessment (or, if he commenced to work the mine in the basis
period for one of those four years other than the earliest thereof, for
that first-mentioned basis period and for the basis period being a basis
period in which the mine was worked by him for each of the
preceding years of assessment) shall be computed as regards each
such basis period as if the reference in paragraph 3 to the residual life
at the beginning of the basis period were a reference to what the
residual life would be if the estimated life were taken to be equal to
the number of complete years from the beginning of the first such
basis period to the date of cessation of working; and
(b) such repayments of tax and assessments shall be made as are
necessary to give effect to this paragraph.
Supplemental provisions
16. Where two or more separate and distinct sets of mining operations are
carried on over a source of minerals and none of those sets of operations is carried
on contiguously to another of those sets of operations, each of those sets of
operations shall be treated for the purposes of this Schedule as being carried on in
the working of a separate mine:
Provided that, where a deduction has been given under section 34 in respect of
any amount allowed pursuant to this Schedule for qualifying mining expenditure in
respect of any such separate mine, no amount shall be allowed pursuant to this
Schedule for that expenditure in respect of any other such separate mine and that
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expenditure shall not be treated as qualifying mining expenditure incurred in

respect of that other mine.
17. (1) A person shall not be treated as working a mine for the purposes of this
Schedule unless he is actively engaged in working the mine and his gross income
from a business of his includes the proceeds of sale of minerals won or obtained by
working the mine.
(2) A person is not actively engaged in working a mine within the meaning of
subparagraph (1) if he has sublet the mine or authorized any other person to work
the mine on payment of a premium, rent or tribute (by whatever name called).
18.
Where
(a) the relevant business consists of or includes the working of a mine;
and
(b) the working of that mine begins at any time in the basis period
appropriate to the relevant business for a year of assessment,
the number of years of the life of the mine at the time when the working of that
mine began shall, in ascertaining the residual life for the purposes of paragraph 3,
be deemed to be the number of years of the life of the mine at the beginning of that
period.
19-21.
22.
In this Schedule
estimated life, in relation to a mine, means the figure of the number of years of
the life of the mine fixed from time to time by the Director General under
subparagraph 4(1) as the estimated life of the mine;
recovered expenditure means any amount ascertained in accordance with
paragraphs 6 to 11 or paragraph 14 to be recovered expenditure in relation to any
particular mine forming part of the relevant business;
residual expenditure, in relation to any particular mine forming part of the
relevant business and to any particular date, means the total qualifying mining
expenditure incurred in respect of that mine before the date by the operator,
reduced by the amount of
(a) any deductions made under section 34 pursuant to this Schedule in
respect of that expenditure from the gross income of the operator from
the relevant business for the basis period for any year of assessment,
being a basis period ending before that date; and
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(b) any recovered expenditure in relation to that mine received by the

operator on or before that date;
residual life, in relation to any particular mine forming part of the relevant
business and to any particular date, means the number of years of the estimated life
of the mine remaining at that date.
SCHEDULE 3
[Section 42]
Capital Allowances and Charges
Qualifying expenditure
1. Subject to this Schedule, qualifying expenditure for the purposes of this
Schedule is qualifying plant expenditure or qualifying building expenditure within
the meaning of paragraphs 2 to 6.
2. (1) Subject to subparagraph (2) and paragraph 67, qualifying plant
expenditure is capital expenditure incurred on the provision of machinery or plant
used for the purposes of a business, including
(a) expenditure incurred on the alteration of an existing building for the
purpose of installing that machinery or plant and other expenditure
incurred incidentally to the installation thereof; and
(b) expenditure incurred on preparing, cutting, tunnelling or levelling
land in order to prepare a site for the installation of that machinery or
plant but if the expenditure exceeds ten per cent of the aggregate of
itself and any other expenditure (being qualifying plant expenditure)
incurred for the purposes of the business this subparagraph shall not
apply;
(c) expenditure incurred on fish ponds, animal pens, chicken houses,
cages, buildings (other than those used wholly or partly for the living
accommodation of a director, an individual having control of that
business or an individual who is a member of the management,
administrative or clerical staff engaged in the business), and other
structural improvements on land which are used for the purposes of
poultry farms, animal farms, inland fishing industry or other
agricultural or pastoral pursuits.
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(2) In the case of a motor vehicle, other than a motor vehicle licensed by the
appropriate authority for commercial transportation of goods or passengers, the
qualifying plant expenditure incurred on or after the first day of the basis period for
the year of assessment 1991 shall be limited to a maximum of fifty thousand
ringgit:
Provided that where the qualifying plant expenditure is incurred on a motor
vehicle purchased on or after 28 October 2000, the maximum amount shall be
increased to not more than one hundred thousand ringgit if the motor vehicle has
not been used prior to purchase and the total cost of the motor vehicle does not
exceed one hundred and fifty thousand ringgit:
Provided further that where the qualifying plant expenditure incurred between
the period from 28 October 2000 to 31 December 2000, and that period forms part
of the basis period of a person for the year of assessment prior to the year of
assessment 2001, that expenditure shall be deemed for the purposes of this
Schedule to be incurred in the basis period for the year of assessment 2001.
2A. Subject to this Schedule, where any person had in use machinery or plant for
a non-business purpose, and that machinery or plant is subsequently brought into
use for the purposes of a business of his, he is deemed to have incurred qualifying
plant expenditure in relation to that machinery or plant and the amount of the
qualifying plant expenditure shall be taken to be the market value of the machinery
or plant on the day the machinery or plant was so brought into use.
2B.
2C. Subject to this Schedule, where machinery or plant is brought into use for the
purposes of a business in Malaysia by any person and prior thereto the machinery
or plant had been used for the purposes of a business outside Malaysia, the person
shall be deemed to have incurred qualifying plant expenditure and the amount of
the qualifying plant expenditure in respect thereof shall be taken to be the market
value or the net book value of the machinery or plant, whichever is the lower, on
the day the machinery or plant was so brought into use in Malaysia.
2D. For the purpose of paragraph 1, the capital expenditure incurred by a person
on the provision of machinery or plant shall not include any amount paid to a nonresident person in consideration of services rendered in connection with the
installation or operation of that machinery or plant, if tax has not been deducted
therefrom and paid to the Director General under paragraph 109 B(1)(a) of the Act:
Provided that this paragraph shall not apply if the person has paid the amount
referred to in subsection 109B(2);
3. (1) Subject to paragraph 6, qualifying building expenditure is capital
expenditure incurred on the construction or purchase of a building which is used at
any time after its construction or purchase, as the case may be, as an industrial
building.
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(2) For the purpose of this Schedule, the qualifying building expenditure in the
case of purchase of a building shall be the amount of the purchase price of that
building.
3A.-5. (Deleted by Act 639).
6.
Qualifying building expenditure does not include

(a) subject to paragraph 67, expenditure which is qualifying plant
expenditure for the purposes of this Schedule;
(b) subject to paragraph 42, expenditure which is qualifying agriculture
expenditure for the purposes of this Schedule; or
(c) expenditure which is qualifying mining expenditure for the purposes
of Schedule 2.
Qualifying agriculture expenditure

7.
(1) Subject to this Schedule, qualifying agriculture expenditure for the
purposes of this Schedule is capital expenditure incurred by a person on
(a) the clearing and preparation of land for the purposes of agriculture;
(b) the planting (but not replanting) of crops on land cleared for planting;
(c) the construction on a farm of a road or bridge;
(d) the construction on a farm of a building used for the purposes of a
business of that person which consists wholly or partly of the working
of the farm, or the construction on that farm of a building which is
provided by that person for the welfare of persons, or as living
accommodation for a person, employed in or in connection with the
working of that farm and which, if the farm ceases to be worked, is
likely to be of little or no value to any person except in connection
with the working of another farm.
(2) For the purposes of this paragraph,
reafforestation of timber.
agriculture
includes the
Qualifying forest expenditure

8. (1)
Subject to this Schedule, qualifying forest expenditure for the purposes
of this Schedule is capital expenditure incurred by a person on the construction in a
forest of
(a) a road or building used for the purposes of a business of his which
consists wholly or partly of the extraction of timber from the forest; or
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(b) a building provided by him for the welfare of persons, or as living

accommodation for a person, employed in or in connection with such
extraction,
and which, if the forest ceases to be used for such extraction, would be likely to be
of little or no value to any person except in connection with the extraction of timber
from another forest or with a business which consists wholly or partly of the
working of a farm.
(2) For the purposes of this paragraph, forest, in relation to a person, means a
forest in respect of which he has a concession or a licence to extract timber
therefrom, being a forest in use by him for the extraction of timber therefrom for
the purposes of a business of his which consists wholly or partly of that extraction.
Qualifying renovation or refurbishment expenditure

8A. (1) Subject to this Schedule, qualifying renovation or refurbishment
expenditure for the purposes of this Schedule is capital expenditure incurred by a
person on renovation or refurbishment of a premises which is used for the purpose
of a business of his.
(2) For the purposes of this Schedule, the qualifying renovation or
refurbishment expenditure shall be an amount incurred by a person between the
period from 10 March 2009 to 31 December 2010 and the total amount of
expenditure for that period in respect of all of his sources consisting of a business
shall not exceed one hundred thousand ringgit.
(3)
Qualifying renovation or refurbishment expenditure does not include

(a) expenditure which is qualifying plant expenditure for the purposes of
this Schedule;
(b) expenditure which is qualifying agriculture expenditure for the
purposes of this Schedule;
(c) expenditure which is qualifying forest expenditure for the purposes of
this Schedule; and
(d) expenditure which is qualifying mining expenditure for the purposes
of Schedule 2.
8B. For the purpose of paragraphs 8A and 32B of this Schedule renovation or
refurbishment expenditure shall be an expenditure prescribed by the Minister.
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Qualifying expenditure: initial allowances

9.
An allowance made under paragraphs 10 and 12 shall be known as an initial
allowance.
10. Subject to this Schedule, where in the basis period for a year of assessment a
person has for the purpose of a business of his incurred qualifying plant
expenditure, there shall be made to him in relation to the source consisting of that
business for that year an allowance equal to one-fifth of the expenditure or such
other fraction as may be prescribed.
11-11A.
person has for the purposes of a business of his incurred qualifying building
expenditure on the construction or purchase of a building, there shall be made to
him in relation to the source consisting of that business for that year an allowance
equal to one tenth of that expenditure.
13.
Notwithstanding paragraphs 10 and 12

(a) no allowance shall be made to a person under paragraph 10 for a year
of assessment in relation to an asset and a business of his if at the end
of the basis period for that year he was not the owner of the asset or it
was not in use for the purposes of the business or, where the asset was
disposed of by him in that period, he was not the owner of the asset or
it was not in use, prior to its disposal, for the purposes of the business
at some time in that period;
(b) (Deleted by Act A1028).
(c) no allowance shall be made to a person under paragraph 12 for a year
of assessment in relation to an asset and a business of his if at the end
of the basis period for that year he was not the owner of the asset or it
was not in use or was not about to be used as an industrial building or,
where the asset was disposed of by him in that period, it was not in
use, prior to its disposal, for the purposes of a business of his as an
industrial building at some time in that period;
(d) where an allowance has been made to a person under paragraph 12 for
a year of assessment in relation to a building and a business of his and
that building was not in use or was not about to be used as an
industrial building for the purposes of that business of his at some
time in the basis period for the next following year of assessment, a
balancing charge equal to the amount of the allowance shall be made
on him in relation to that business for that year of assessment for
which the allowance was given.
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13A. Notwithstanding paragraph 10 no initial allowance shall be made to a

person for a year of assessment in relation to an asset and a business of his referred
to in paragraph 2A, 2B or 2C, as the case may be.
Qualifying expenditure: annual allowances

14. An allowance made under paragraphs 15 to 16A shall be known as an annual
allowance.
15. Subject to this Schedule, where a person has for the purposes of a business
of his, incurred qualifying plant expenditure in relation to an asset and at the end of
the basis period for a year of assessment he was the owner of the asset and it was in
use for the purposes of the business, there shall be made to him in relation to the
source consisting of that business for that year an allowance equal to such
proportion of that expenditure as may be prescribed.
16. Subject to this Schedule, where a person has for the purposes of a business of
his incurred qualifying building expenditure on the construction or purchase of a
building and at the end of the basis period for a year of assessment he was the
owner of the building and it was in use as an industrial building for the purposes of
the business, there shall be made to him in relation to the source consisting of that
business for that year an allowance equal to three hundredth or such other fraction
as may be prescribed of that expenditure.
16A. Subject to this Schedule, where a person has incurred qualifying building
expenditure on the construction of a building to which paragraph 67 B applies and at
the end of the basis period for a year of assessment the building was on lease to the
Government, there shall be made to him in relation to the income from that lease
for that year an allowance equal to three-fiftieths or such other fraction as may be
prescribed of that expenditure.
17.
18. An allowance made to a person in relation to a business of his under

paragraph 15 or 16 for a year of assessment in respect of any expenditure in
relation to an asset shall not exceed the amount of the residual expenditure at the
end of the basis period for that year.
19. Where in relation to any particular asset the Director General is of the
opinion that the proportion prescribed under paragraph 15 is too high or too low
having regard to the use of which the asset is put, he may give a direction for such
other proportion as he considers appropriate to be adopted in relation to the
qualifying plant expenditure.
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Special allowances for small value assets

19A. (1) Where in the basis period for a year of assessment a person for the
purposes of a business of his incurred qualifying plant expenditure in relation to an
asset or assets, the value of each asset being not more than one thousand ringgit,
and at the end of the basis period he was the owner of the asset and it was in use for
the purposes of the business, there shall be made in lieu of the amount of the
allowance which would otherwise fall to be made to him under paragraph 10 or 15,
an allowance equal to the amount of that expenditure for that year of assessment:
Provided that where the total qualifying plant expenditure in respect of such
asset for each year of assessment exceeds the amount of ten thousand ringgit, the
total allowance that shall be made in respect of that expenditure under this
paragraph shall be equal to such amount.
(2) Allowance under paragraph 10 or 15 in respect of the qualifying plant
expenditure referred to in subparagraph (1)
(a) shall be made a person if that person has not made a claim in respect
of that expenditure under that subparagraph; or
(b) shall not be made to that person in respect of that expenditure which
has been given allowance under that subparagraph.
(3) The proviso to subparagraph (1) shall not apply to a company resident in
Malaysia which has a paid up capital in respect of ordinary shares of two million
and five hundred thousand ringgit and less at the beginning of the basis period for a
year of assessment.
(4) A company referred to in subparagraph (3) shall not include a company
where more than
(a) fifty per cent of the paid up capital in respect of ordinary shares of the
second mentioned 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 second
mentioned company; or
(c) fifty per cent of the paid up capital in respect of ordinary shares of the
second mentioned company and the related company is directly or
(5) For the purpose of subparagraph (4), related company means a company
which has a paid up capital in respect of ordinary shares of more than two million
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and five hundred thousand ringgit at the beginning of the basis period for a year of
assessment.
Agriculture allowances
20. An allowance made under paragraph 22 or 23 shall be known as an
agriculture allowance.
21. A person entitled to an agriculture allowance in respect of any expenditure
shall not be entitled to an allowance under any other paragraph in respect of the
same expenditure.
person has for the purposes of a business of his incurred qualifying agriculture
expenditure on the construction of
(a) a building for the welfare of persons or as living accommodation for a
person referred to in subparagraph 7(1)(d) there shall be made to him
in relation to the source consisting of that business for that year and
for each of the four following years of assessment an allowance equal
to one-fifth of that expenditure; and
(b) any other building referred to in subparagraph 7(1)(d) there shall be
made to him in relation to the source consisting of that business for
that year and for each of the nine following years of assessment an
allowance equal to one-tenth of that expenditure.
22A. (Deleted by Act A643).
person has for the purposes of a business of his incurred qualifying agriculture
expenditure to which paragraph 22 does not apply, there shall be made to him in
relation to the source consisting of that business for that year and for the following
year of assessment an allowance equal to one-half of that expenditure.
24. Subject to this Schedule, where a person (in this paragraph referred to as the
transmitter) would but for this paragraph be entitled to an agriculture allowance for
a year of assessment in respect of qualifying agriculture expenditure incurred by
him in relation to an asset for the purposes of a business of his and in the basis
period for that year that asset is transferred or transmitted by operation of law or
otherwise to some other person (in this paragraph referred to as the recipient)
(a) the transmitter shall for that year be entitled to only a part of that
allowance, being a part which bears the same proportion to the whole
of that allowance as the number of days comprised in the period
which begins at the beginning of that basis period and ends on the day
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of transfer or transmission bears to the number three hundred and

sixty-five; and
(b) where the asset is
(i) a farm used by the recipient for the purposes of a business of
his which consists wholly or partly of the working of the
farm; or
(ii)
a building which is used by the recipient for the purposes of

that business and is adjacent to or closely in the vicinity of
that farm or another farm of his forming part of that
business,
the recipient shall be entitled for the year of assessment in the basis period for
which the transfer or transmission took place to the other part of that allowance,
and for subsequent years of assessment to any agriculture allowance which would
have been made to the transmitter if the asset had not been transferred or
transmitted and had continued to be owned and used by the transmitter for the
purposes of his business at all material times.
25. Notwithstanding paragraphs 22 to 24, no agriculture allowance shall be made
to a person for a year of assessment in relation to an asset and a business of his
(a) where the asset is transferred or transmitted in the basis period for that
year, if it was not in use for the purposes of the business within one
month (or such further period as the Director General may allow)
before that transfer or transmission took place; or
(b) in any other case, if at the end of the basis period for that year he was
not the owner of the asset or it was not in use for the purposes of the
business.
27. Where in the basis period for a year of assessment a person disposes of an
asset and in relation to that asset and a business of his an agriculture allowance has
been made to him for a year of assessment, and the qualifying agriculture
expenditure incurred in relation to that asset was incurred over a period ending on a
particular day and the disposal of the asset took place less than five years after that
day, there shall be made on him in relation to the source consisting of that business
for that first-mentioned year of assessment an agriculture charge equal to the
amount of
(a) that agriculture allowance; or
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(b) where an agriculture allowance in relation to that asset has been made
to him for more than one year of assessment, the aggregate of all
those allowances for all those years,
and where that asset is disposed of by that person after the end of the basis period
(for a year of assessment) in which that business has permanently ceased to be
carried on by him, the disposal shall be deemed to have been made in that basis
period:
Provided that within three months (or such further period as the Director
General may allow) of the beginning of the year of assessment following that firstmentioned year of assessment or, where that asset was disposed of by that person
after the end of that last-mentioned basis period, the year of assessment following
that in which he disposed of that asset, he may by notice in writing delivered to the
Director General elect that the amount of any agriculture charge falling to be made
on him in respect of the amount of that aggregate for that first-mentioned year be
divided by the number of years of assessment for which those allowances were
made; and an agriculture charge equal to the amount resulting from that division
shall be made on him in relation to the source consisting of that business for each
of those years of assessment.
Forest allowances and forest charges

28. An allowance made under paragraph 30, 30 A or 31 shall be known as a forest
allowance and a charge made under paragraph 32 shall be known as a forest charge.
29. A person entitled to a forest allowance in respect of any expenditure shall not
be entitled to an allowance under any other paragraph in respect of the same
expenditure.
person has for the purposes of a business of his incurred qualifying forest
expenditure on the construction of
(a) a building of the kind referred to in subparagraph 8(1)(b) there shall
be allowed to him in relation to the source consisting of that business
for that year and for each of the four following years of assessment an
allowance equal to one-fifth of that expenditure; and
(b) a road or buildings of the kind referred to in subparagraph 8(1)(a)
there shall be made to him in relation to the source consisting of that
business for that year and each of the nine following years of
assessment an allowance equal to one-tenth of that expenditure.
30A. Subject to this Schedule, where in the basis period for a year of assessment
prior to the year of assessment 1970 a person has for the purposes of a business of
his incurred qualifying forest expenditure on the construction of a building of the
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kind referred to in subparagraph 8(1)(b) and a forest allowance was made to him in
relation to the source consisting of that business for a year of assessment prior to
the year of assessment 1970 in respect of that expenditure there shall be allowed to
him for the year of assessment 1970 and for each of the four following years of
assessment an allowance equal to one-fifth of the difference between that
qualifying forest expenditure and the forest allowances made to him in respect of
that qualifying expenditure for years of assessment prior to the year of assessment
1970.
31. Where a person in relation to a business of his in the basis period for a year of
assessment permanently ceases to extract timber from a forest in relation to which
he has incurred qualifying forest expenditure, there shall be made to him in relation
to the source consisting of that business for that year an allowance in an amount
equal to the excess, if any, of that expenditure over the total of any allowances
made to him under paragraph 30 or 30 A in relation to that expenditure; and he shall
not be entitled to an allowance under paragraph 30 or 30A in relation to that
expenditure for any year of assessment subsequent to that first-mentioned year of
assessment.
32. (1) Where a person who in relation to a business of his and a forest has
incurred qualifying forest expenditure disposes of that forest, there shall be made
on him in relation to the source consisting of that business for the year of
assessment in the basis period for which the disposal took place a forest charge
equal to the amount of any allowance or to the aggregate amount of any allowances
made to him in relation to that expenditure under paragraph 30, 30 A or 31; and
where a forest is disposed of by that person after the end of the basis period (for a
year of assessment) in which that business has permanently ceased to be carried on
by him, the disposal shall be deemed to have been made in that basis period:
Provided that within three months (or such further period as the Director
General may allow) of the beginning of the year of assessment following that year
in which he disposed of the forest he may by notice in writing delivered to the
Director General elect that the amount of that forest charge be divided by the
number of years of assessment for which those allowances were made, and in lieu
of that charge a forest charge equal to the amount resulting from that division shall
be made on him in relation to the source consisting of that business for each of
those years of assessment.
(2) For the purposes of this paragraph, a person shall be taken to have disposed
of a forest if, having a concession or licence to extract timber therefrom, he
transfers or assigns that concession or licence or surrenders that concession or
licence for valuable consideration.
Renovation or refurbishment allowances

32A. (1) Subject to this Schedule, where in the basis period for a year of
assessment a person has for the purposes of a business of his incurred qualifying
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renovation or refurbishment expenditure, there shall be made to him in relation to

the source consisting of that business for that year and the immediate following
year of assessment an allowance equal to one-half of that expenditure.
(2) No renovation or refurbishment allowances shall be made to a person for a
year of assessment and a business of his, if at the end of the basis period for that
year of assessment the premises which has been renovated or refurbished is not in
use by that person for the purpose of his business.
32B. Subject to paragraph 8A, where a person incurs between the period from 10
March 2009 to 31 December 2010 capital expenditure on renovation or
refurbishment of a premises which is used for the purpose of a business and such
capital expenditure qualifies both as qualifying renovation or refurbishment
expenditure and qualifying building expenditure ,that person shall elect to claim an
allowance in respect of that capital expenditure as qualifying renovation or
refurbishment expenditure, or qualifying building expenditure.
Qualifying expenditure: balancing allowances and balancing charges

33. Allowances made under paragraph 34 and charges made under paragraph 35
shall be known as balancing allowances and balancing charges respectively.
person disposes of an asset in relation to which he has incurred qualifying
expenditure for the purposes of a business of his and the residual expenditure at the
date of its disposal exceeds its disposal value, there shall be made to him in relation
to the source consisting of that business for that year an allowance equal to the
amount of the excess.
person disposes of an asset in relation to which he has incurred qualifying
expenditure for the purposes of a business of his and its disposal value exceeds the
residual expenditure at the date of its disposal, there shall be made on him in
relation to that business source for that year a charge equal to the amount of the
excess.
36. No allowance shall be made for a year of assessment under paragraph 34 to a
person in relation to an asset which has been disposed of unless an initial or annual
allowance in relation to that asset has been made or would have been made, if
claimed, to him;
Provided that this paragraph shall not apply in respect of any amount incurred
under paragraph 67C;
37. A charge made on a person under paragraph 35 in relation to an asset shall
not exceed the total of all allowances made to him under this Schedule in relation to
that asset.
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Qualifying expenditure: Licensed private hospital, maternity home

and nursing home
37A.
The provisions of this Schedule relating to industrial building shall apply,
mutatis mutandis, to a private hospital, maternity home and nursing home licensed
under the provisions of any written law for the time being in force relating to
registration of private hospital, maternity home and nursing home, or where no
such law is in force, approved by the Director General after consultation with the
Director General of Health; and in such application the reference to capital
expenditure incurred on the construction of a building shall include any capital
expenditure incurred on the alteration or renovation of rented premises for the
purpose of carrying on therein a private hospital, maternity home or nursing home.
Qualifying expenditure: Building used for research

37B. The provisions of this Schedule relating to industrial building shall apply,
mutatis mutandis, to a building or part thereof being in use for the purpose of
(a) research approved by the Minister within the meaning of
paragraph 34 A(1)(a) and subsection 34 B (4); or
(d) (Deleted by Act 693);
(e) research undertaken by a research and development company or a
contract research and development company as defined in section 2 of
the Promotion of Investments Act 1986,
and in such application, the reference to capital expenditure incurred on the
construction of a building or part thereof, shall include any capital expenditure
incurred on the alteration or renovation of rented premises for the purpose of
carrying on therein such research, and the building or part thereof shall be deemed
to be in use for the purposes of the business referred to in section 34A,
notwithstanding that in the case of research referred to in subparagraph (a), such
research is not related to that business.
Qualifying expenditure: Building used for warehouse

37C. The provisions of this Schedule relating to industrial building shall apply
mutatis mutandis, to a building or part thereof used by a person solely for the
purpose of storage of goods for export or for the storage of imported goods which
are to be processed and distributed or re-exported and there shall be substituted for
the amount of the allowance which would otherwise fall to be made to him under
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paragraph 12 or 16 an allowance of an amount equal to one-tenth of the qualifying

expenditure for that year and for each of the nine following years of assessment.
Qualifying expenditure: Machinery or plant used for research

37D. The provisions of this Schedule relating to qualifying plant expenditure
shall apply, mutatis mutandis, to capital expenditure incurred on the provision of
machinery or plant used for the purposes of research approved by the Minister
within the meaning of section 34A; and in such application the machinery or plant
shall be deemed to be in use for the purposes of the business referred to in section
34A, notwithstanding that such research is not related to that business.
Qualifying expenditure: Building used for approved

service project
37E. The provisions of this Schedule relating to industrial buildings shall apply,
purpose of the provision of services and modernization of operations in relation to
an approved service project as defined under Schedule 7 B.
Qualifying expenditure: Building used for hotel

37F. The provisions of this Schedule relating to industrial buildings shall apply,
purpose of an hotel and that hotel is registered with the Ministry of Tourism.
Qualifying expenditure: Airport

37G. The provisions of this Schedule relating to industrial buildings shall apply,
mutatis mutandis, to an airport and the reference to capital expenditure incurred in
relation to that airport shall include the capital expenditure on the construction,
reconstruction, extension, improvement or purchase of any building, runaway or
ancillary structures.
Qualifying expenditure: Motor racing circuit

37H. The provisions of this Schedule relating to industrial buildings shall apply,
mutatis mutandis, to a motor racing circuit approved by the Minister and the
reference to capital expenditure incurred in relation to that motor racing circuit
shall include the capital expenditure on the construction, reconstruction, extension
or improvement of that motor racing circuit or ancillary structures.
Disposal subject to control, etc.

38. (1) Paragraphs 39 and 40 shall apply where a person disposes of an asset in
relation to which an initial or annual allowance or an agriculture allowance or
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forest allowance has been made or would have been made, if claimed, to him and at
the time of the disposal
(a) the disposer of the asset is a person over whom the acquirer of the
asset has control;
(b) the acquirer of the asset is a person over whom the disposer of the
asset has control;
(c) some other person has control over the disposer and acquirer of the
asset;
(d) the disposal is effected in consequence of a scheme of reconstruction
or amalgamation of companies; or
(e) the disposal is effected by way of a settlement or gift or by devolution
of the property in the asset on death,
the disposer of the asset, the asset in question and the acquirer of the asset being in
those paragraphs referred to as the disposer, the asset and the acquirer respectively.
(2) In this paragraph control, in relation to a company, means the power of a
person to secure, by means of the holding of shares or the possession of voting
power in or in relation to that or any other company, or by virtue of any powers
conferred by the articles of association or other document regulating that or any
other company, that the affairs of the first-mentioned company are conducted in
accordance with the wishes of that person, and, in relation to a partnership, means
the right to a share of more than one-half of the assets of the partnership, or to more
than one-half of the divisible profits of partnership, or in relation to a limited
liability partnership, means the right to a share of more than one-half of the capital
contribution whether in cash or in kind of the limited liability partnership and in
relation to business trust, means the right to not less than fifty per cent of residual
profits of the business trust available for distribution, or not less than fifty per cent
of any residual assets of the business trust available for distribution on a winding
up.
38A. (1) Paragraphs 39 and 40 shall apply where a company disposes of an asset
in respect of industrial building to a unit trust in relation to which an initial or
annual allowance has been made or would have been made, if claimed, to the
company.
(2)
For the purpose of this paragraph

(a) unit trust has the same meaning assigned to it in section 61 A; and
(b) company means a company which holds not less than fifty per cent
of residual profits of the unit trust available for distribution, or not
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less than fifty per cent of any residual assets of the unit trust available
for distribution on a winding up.
38B. Paragraphs 39 and 40 shall apply where a partnership or a company is
converted into a limited liability partnership in accordance with section 29 or 30 of
the Limited Liability Partnerships Act 2012 and the partnership or that company
disposes of an asset to that limited liability partnership in relation to which an
initial or annual allowance has been made or would have been made, if claimed by
the partnership or the company.
39. (1) Subject to any rules made under paragraph 40, the disposal of the asset
shall be deemed to have taken place on the first day of the disposers final period
for a sum equal to the disposers residual expenditure on that day.
(2) In this paragraph the disposers final period means, in relation to the
disposal and acquisition of the asset, the basis period (appropriate to the disposers
business for the purposes of which qualifying expenditure has been incurred in
relation to the asset) for the year of assessment which coincides with the first year
of assessment for which an initial or annual allowance may be made to the acquirer
in relation to the asset if it is used for the purposes of a business carried on by the
acquirer or as an industrial building.
40. Any qualifying expenditure incurred by the acquirer in relation to the asset to
which regard would be had but for this paragraph shall be disregarded for the
purposes of this Schedule and the acquirer shall be deemed to have incurred
qualifying expenditure in relation to the asset of an amount equal to the sum
ascertained under paragraph 39 in relation to the asset; and in relation to the asset
(a) the date on which the acquirer shall be treated as having incurred the
expenditure so deemed to have been incurred by him;
(b) the withdrawal of any allowance which would but for paragraph 39
and this paragraph fall to be made to the disposer;
(c) the amount of any allowance or charge to be made to or on the
acquirer; and
(d) such other matters as may be considered necessary by the Minister,
shall be determined in such manner as may be prescribed by rules to be made for
the purposes of paragraphs 38, 38A, 38B, 39 and this paragraph.
Asset used in more than one business

41. In any case where a person has incurred qualifying expenditure in relation to
an asset and any one or more of the following circumstances are found
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(a) that expenditure was incurred for and that asset is used for the
purposes of two or more businesses of his;
(b) that expenditure was incurred and the asset was used for the purposes
of one business of his and thereafter the asset is used in that business
and in another business, or two or more other businesses, of his;
(c) that expenditure was incurred and the asset was used for the purposes
of one business of his and thereafter the asset ceases to be used in that
business and is used in another business, or two or more other
businesses, of his; or
(d) after any of the circumstances referred to in the preceding
subparagraphs, the asset is disposed of or, where it was used in two or
more businesses of his, it was disposed of in relation to one or more
of those businesses,
the amount of any initial or annual allowances to be made to that person from time
to time in any of those circumstances and any balancing allowance or balancing
charge to be made on him on the disposal of the asset, and such other matters as
may be considered necessary by the Minister, shall be determined in such manner
as may be prescribed by rules made for the purposes of this paragraph.
Certain buildings treated as industrial buildings

42. (1) Where an industrial building is in use in the basis period for a year of
assessment for the purposes of a business of a person and a building is constructed
by him and provided by him as living accommodation for an individual employed
by him in that business, that last-mentioned building shall be treated as an
industrial building in use as an industrial building for the purposes of that business
at any time that it is occupied by an individual so employed, and there shall be
substituted for the amount of the initial allowance which would otherwise fall to be
made to him under paragraph 12 an initial allowance equal to two-fifths of the
qualifying expenditure incurred by that person on that last-mentioned building:
Provided that, where the expenditure incurred by that person on the construction
of that last-mentioned building is expenditure of a kind to which paragraph 7 or 8 is
applicable, that person may within three months (or within such further period as
the Director General may allow) of the beginning of the year of assessment in the
basis period for which that expenditure was incurred by notice in writing delivered
to the Director General elect that, in lieu of having allowances made to him under
paragraph 22 or 30 in relation to that expenditure, allowances be made to him under
this paragraph.
(2) For the purposes of this paragraph, in relation to a business of a person,
employee does not include a director, an individual having control of that
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business or an individual who is a member of the management, administrative or

clerical staff engaged in that business.
42A. (1) Where a person carrying on a manufacturing, hotel or tourism business
or an approved service project under Schedule 7 B has incurred in the basis period
for a year of assessment expenditure on the construction or purchase of a building
for the purposes of that business for the provision of living accommodation for
individuals employed by him in that business, that building shall be treated as an
industrial building for the purposes of that business at any time that it is occupied
by individuals so employed, and there shall be substituted for the amount of the
allowance which would otherwise fall to be made to him under paragraph 12, 16 or
42 an allowance equal to one-tenth of the qualifying expenditure for that year and
for each of the nine following years of assessment.
(2) Where a person has for the purposes of a business of his incurred in the
basis period for a year of assessment expenditure on the construction or purchase of
a building for the purposes of that business for the provision of child care facilities
for individuals employed by him in that business, that building shall be treated as
an industrial building for the purposes of that business at any time that it is used by
individuals so employed, and there shall be substituted for the amount of the
allowance which would otherwise fall to be made to him under paragraph 12, 16 or
42 an allowance equal to one-tenth of the qualifying expenditure for that year and
for each of the nine following years of assessment.
(3) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Schedule, for the purposes of
this paragraph the qualifying expenditure in the case of a purchased building shall
be the purchase price of that building.
(4) For the purposes of subparagraph (1), individuals employed by him does
not include a director, an individual having control of that business or an individual
who is a member of the management, administrative or clerical staff engaged in
that business.
42B. Where in the basis period for a year of assessment a person has for the
purposes of a business of his incurred capital expenditure on the construction or
purchase of a building for a school or an educational institution approved by the
Minister of Education or Minister of Higher Education or any relevant authority,
that building shall be treated as an industrial building for the purposes of that
business and there shall be substituted for the amount of the allowance which
would otherwise fall to be made to him under paragraph 12, 16 or 42 an allowance
equal to one-tenth of the qualifying expenditure for that year and for each of the
nine following years of assessment.
42C. Where in the basis period for a year of assessment a person has for the
purposes of a business of his incurred capital expenditure on the construction or
purchase of a building for the purposes of industrial, technical or vocational
training approved by the Minister, that building shall be treated as an industrial
building for the purposes of that business and there shall be substituted for the
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amount of the allowance which would otherwise fall to be made to him under
paragraph 12, 16 or 42 an allowance equal to one-tenth of the qualifying
expenditure for that year end for each of the nine following years of assessment.
Interpretation
43. In this Schedule asset, except where the context otherwise requires, means
an asset in relation to which qualifying expenditure, qualifying agriculture
expenditure or qualifying forest expenditure, as the case may be, has been incurred.
44. Any reference in this Schedule to any asset or to any relevant interest therein
shall be construed whenever necessary as including a reference to a part of any
asset or of any relevant interest therein (or, in the case of an asset or any relevant
interest therein held in undivided shares, the undivided share in the asset or in the
relevant interest therein); and, when it is so construed, the Director General shall
make such necessary apportionments as may be just and reasonable to give proper
effect to this Schedule.
45.
For the purposes of this Schedule, capital expenditure incurred on

(a) the provision of machinery or plant, includes capital expenditure
incurred on the reconstruction of that machinery or plant;
(b) the construction of a building, includes capital expenditure incurred
on the reconstruction or rebuilding of that building.
46. Where a person incurs capital expenditure under a hire purchase agreement
on the provision of any machinery or plant for the purposes of a business of his, he
shall for the purposes of this Schedule be taken to be the owner of that machinery
or plant; and the qualifying expenditure incurred by him on that machinery or plant
in the basis period for a year of assessment shall be taken to be the capital portion
of any instalment payment (or, where there is more than one such payment, of the
aggregate of those payments) made by him under the agreement in that period.
47. For the purposes of this Schedule, where an asset consists of a building the
owner thereof shall be taken to be the owner of the relevant interest in the building.
48. A building in respect of which qualifying expenditure has been incurred is
disposed of within the meaning of this Schedule on the occurrence of any of the
following events:
(a) the sale, transfer or assignment of the relevant interest in the building;
(b) where that interest depends on the duration of a concession, the
coming to an end of the concession;
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(c) where that interest is a leasehold interest, the determination of that

relevant interest otherwise than on the person entitled thereto
acquiring the reversion;
(d) the demolition or destruction of the building,
or on the building ceasing to be used as an industrial building.
49. In this Schedule relevant interest, in relation to a building on which
qualifying building expenditure has been incurred, means (subject to paragraphs 50
and 51) the interest in the building to which the person who incurred that
expenditure was entitled when he incurred it.
50.
Where
(a) a person is entitled to two or more interests in a building when he
incurs qualifying expenditure on it; and
(b) one of those interests is an interest which is reversionary on all the
others,
that reversionary interest shall be the relevant interest for the purposes of this
Schedule.
51. An interest shall not cease to be the relevant interest for the purposes of this
Schedule by reason of the creation of any lease or other interest to which that firstmentioned interest is subject; and, where the relevant interest is a leasehold interest
and is extinguished by the surrender thereof or on the person entitled thereto
acquiring the interest which is reversionary thereon, the interest into which that
leasehold interest merges shall thereupon become the relevant interest.
52. (1) An asset in relation to which qualifying agriculture expenditure has
been incurred by a person is disposed of within the meaning of this Schedule on the
occurrence of any of the following events:
(a) on the sale of the relevant interest in that asset;
(b) where the relevant interest is a leasehold interest and the lease comes
to an end, if an incoming lessee or the owner of the interest in
immediate reversion makes any payment to that first-mentioned
person;
(c) on the transfer or transmission of the asset for valuable consideration; or
(d) on the asset ceasing to be used by him for the purposes of a business
of his which consists wholly or partly of the working of a farm.
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(2) For the purposes of this paragraph, relevant interest shall have the
meaning which it would have if in paragraphs 49 and 50 the reference to
(a) a building, were to land or a building;
(b) qualifying building expenditure, were to qualifying agriculture
expenditure;
(c) the building, were to land or a building; and
(d) qualifying expenditure, were to qualifying agriculture expenditure.
53. (1) Any reference in this Schedule to the disposal, purchase, transfer or
transmission of any asset includes a reference to the disposal, purchase, transfer or
transmission, as the case may be, of that asset together with any other asset,
whether or not qualifying expenditure, qualifying agriculture expenditure or
qualifying forest expenditure, as the case may be, has been incurred on that lastmentioned asset, and in any such case so much of the disposal value or the
purchase price, as the case may be, of those assets as, on a just apportionment, is
properly attributable to the first-mentioned asset shall, for the purposes of this
Schedule, be deemed to be the disposal value or the purchase price, as the case may
be, of that first-mentioned asset.
(2) For the purposes of this paragraph, all the assets which are disposed of,
purchased, transferred or transmitted in pursuance of one bargain shall be deemed
to be disposed of, purchased, transferred, or transmitted, as the case may be,
together, notwithstanding that separate prices are or purport to be agreed for each
of those assets or that there are or purport to be separate disposals, purchases,
transfers or transmissions, as the case may be, of those assets.
(3) Subparagraphs (1) and (2) of this paragraph shall apply, with any necessary
modifications, to the disposal, purchase, transfer or transmission of any asset or the
relevant interest in any asset together with any other asset or relevant interest in any
other asset.
54. Where any person has incurred expenditure in relation to an asset which is
allowed to be deducted under Chapter 4 of Part III in computing the adjusted
income or adjusted loss of that person for the basis period for a year of assessment
from a business of his, that expenditure shall not be treated as qualifying
expenditure or qualifying agriculture expenditure or qualifying forest expenditure
or qualifying renovation or refurbishment expenditure in relation to that asset.
55.
For the purposes of this Schedule

(a) in the case of any expenditure incurred on the construction of a
building, the day on which that expenditure is incurred is the day on
which the construction of the building is completed and in the case of
any expenditure incurred on the provision of machinery or plant for
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the purposes of a business the day on which that expenditure is

incurred is the day on which the machinery or plant is capable of
being used for the purposes of the business; and
(b) in any other case, the day on which the amount of any expenditure
becomes payable is the day on which that amount of expenditure is
incurred:
Provided that, where a person incurs expenditure for the purposes of a business
of his which he is about to carry on, that expenditure shall be deemed to be incurred
when he commences to carry on the business.
56. For the purposes of this Schedule, an asset which is temporarily disused in
relation to a business of a person shall be deemed to be in use for the purposes of
the business if it was in use for the purposes of the business immediately before
becoming disused and if during the period of disuse it is constantly maintained in
readiness to be brought back into use for those purposes.
57. If an asset which is temporarily disused in relation to a business of a person
ceases to be ready for use for the purposes of the business or if its disuse can no
longer reasonably be regarded as temporary, it shall be deemed to have ceased at
the beginning of the period of disuse to be used for the purposes of the business,
and all such assessments shall be made as may be necessary to counteract the
benefit of any allowances made to him for any year of assessment by reason of the
application of paragraph 56 in relation to the asset.
58. For the purposes of this Schedule, a building is purchased by a person on the
sale, transfer or assignment to him of a relevant interest in the building.
59. Any reference in this Schedule to the date of any sale, purchase, transfer or
transmission shall be construed as a reference to the date of completion of the sale,
purchase, transfer or transmission, as the case may be, or the date when possession
of the asset the subject matter of the sale, purchase, transfer or transmission, as the
case may be (or of the asset in which there is a relevant interest which is the subject
matter of the sale, purchase, transfer or transmission, as the case may be) is given,
whichever is the earlier.
60. Where a person who owns a building grants a lease thereof and that building
is in use as an industrial building, then, in the application of this Schedule to that
person in relation to that building any reference to a business of his shall be taken
to be a reference to the source in respect of any income to which that person is
entitled under that lease, and any reference to a basis period (in relation to any such
reference to a business) shall be taken to be a reference to the basis period in
relation to that source.
61. Any plant or machinery which is used for the purposes of a business and in
respect of which qualifying expenditure has been incurred is disposed of within the
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meaning of this Schedule if it is sold, discarded or destroyed or if it ceases to be

used for the purposes of that business.
61A. (1) Notwithstanding paragraph 48 or 61, as the case may be, but subject to
this paragraph, where in the basis period for a year of assessment an asset for which
qualifying capital expenditure has been incurred is classified as asset held for sale
in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles, such asset shall be
deemed to have ceased to be used for the purposes of that paragraph.
(2) Where subparagraph (1) applies and the asset is sold in the basis period the
asset is classified as asset held for sale, the disposal value of the asset for the
purposes of this Schedule shall be an amount equal to its market value at the date it
was classified as asset held for sale or the net proceeds of the sale, whichever is
greater.
(3) Where in the basis period for a year of assessment an asset for which
qualifying capital expenditure has been incurred is classified as asset held for sale
in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles, such asset shall be
deemed to have ceased to be used for the purposes of paragraph 48 or 61, as the
case may be, in the following basis period
(a) where the asset is sold in the following basis period; or
(b) where the asset is not sold after the end of the following basis period.
(4) For the purpose of subsection (3), the disposal value of the asset shall be
(a) in the case where the asset is sold in the following basis period, an
amount equal to its market value at the end of the basis period such
asset is held for sale or the net proceeds of the sale, whichever is
greater;
(b) in the case where the asset is not sold in the following basis period,
the market value of the asset at the end of that following basis period.
(5) Where paragraph (4) applies, in determining the residual expenditure of such
asset for that following basis period, the total qualifying expenditure incurred by
that person shall be reduced by an amount of annual allowance which would have
been made to him for that following basis period as if the asset had been in use in
that following basis period for the purpose of business of his.
(6) Where an asset deemed ceased to be used in accordance with
subparagraph (3)(b) is brought into use by the person in a business of his in a
basis period for any year of assessment after the basis period the asset is
deemed ceased to be used
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(a) that person shall be deemed to have incurred qualifying capital

expenditure for that asset equal to its market value at the date it is
brought into use for the purpose of that business; and
(b) no initial allowance shall be made to that person in relation to an asset
under subparagraph (a).
(7) In this paragraph, market value in the case of an industrial building, means
the market value as determined by a valuation officer employed by the
Government.
62. (1) Subject to subparagraph (2), for the purposes of this Schedule, where an
asset is disposed of by a person, its disposal value shall be taken to be an amount
equal to its market value at the date of its disposal or, in the case of its disposal by
way of sale, transfer or assignment
(a) an amount equal to its market value at the date of the sale, transfer or
assignment, as the case may be; or
(b) the net proceeds of the sale, transfer or assignment as the case may be,
whichever is the greater:
Provided that, where the asset is disposed of in such circumstances that
insurance or compensation moneys are received by that person in respect of the
asset, its disposal value shall be taken to be an amount equal to its market value at
the date of its disposal or those moneys, whichever is the greater.
(2) Where an asset of the kind to which subparagraph 2(2) applies is disposed
of, the disposal value shall be deemed to be an amount which bears the same
proportion to the disposal value ascertained under subparagraph (1) as the
qualifying plant expenditure ascertained under subparagraph 2(2) bears to the
qualifying plant expenditure ascertained under subparagraph 2(1).
(3) Where pursuant to an agreement with the Government, State Government
or a local authority in respect of a privatization project an asset used in the
privatization project is disposed of to the Government, State Government or local
authority as the case may be, its disposal value shall be taken to be an amount equal
to the net proceeds of the disposal.
(4) Notwithstanding subparagraph 62(1) where an asset in relation to which the
person has incurred qualifying plant expenditure for the purposes of a business of
his is disposed of by way of gift, its disposal value shall be deemed to be zero if the
gift is made to
(a) a technical or vocational training institute established and maintained
by the government or a statutory body;
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(b) a technical or vocational training institute as approved by the

Minister; or
(c) an approved research institute as defined in section 34 B.
63. Subject to paragraphs 64 to 66, a building is an industrial building within the
meaning of this Schedule if it is used for the purposes of a business and
(a) it is used as a factory;
(b) it is used as a dock, wharf, jetty or other similar building;
(c) it is used as a warehouse and the business consists or mainly consists
of the hire of storage space to the public;
(d) the business is that of a water or electricity undertaking supplying
water or electricity for consumption by the public or is that of a
telecommunication undertaking providing telecommunication
services to the public;
(e) it is used in connection with the working of a farm and the business
consists or mainly consists of the working of the farm, with or without
other farms; or
(f) it is used in connection with the working of a mine and the business
consists or mainly consists of the working of a mine, with or without
other mines.
64.
In subparagraph 63(a) factory includes

(a) a building consisting of a mill, workshop (other than a workshop used
for the repair or servicing of goods, if the repair or servicing is carried
out in conjunction with or incidentally to the business of selling those
goods) or other building for the housing of machinery or plant of any
description for the manufacture of any product or the subjection of
goods or materials to any process or the generating of power used for
the purposes of that manufacture or process; and
(b) a building (within the same curtilage as a building which is used as a
factory) used for the storage of any raw material, fuel or stores
necessary for the manufacture of that product or the processing of
those goods or materials, or for the storage of that product or those
goods or materials when processed prior to the sale thereof.
65. (1) Where a building is an industrial building, any building provided as a

canteen, rest-room, recreation room, lavatory, bathhouse, bathroom, or wash-room
for persons employed in the business for the purposes of which that industrial
building is used shall be treated as an industrial building.
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(2) In the case of a farm, where a building is provided for the welfare of
persons, or as living accommodation for a person, employed in connection with the
working of a farm, then, if the building is likely to be of little or no value to any
person except in connection with the working of that farm or of another farm, that
building shall be treated as an industrial building.
(3) Subject to paragraph 67B, a building used as a dwelling house (not being
for accommodation of the kind mentioned in subparagraph (2)) or a retail shop,
showroom or office is not and shall not be treated as an industrial building.
66. Where part of a building or of an extension of a building is used as an
industrial building and the other part of the building or extension, as the case may
be, is not so used, then, if the capital expenditure incurred on the construction of
the part which is not so used is not more than one-tenth of the capital expenditure
incurred on the construction of the whole building or extension, as the case may be,
the building or extension, as the case may be, shall be treated as an industrial
building for the purposes of this Schedule; and, where the whole or some of the
capital expenditure incurred on the construction of the part not so used is not
identifiable as the capital expenditure incurred on the whole building or extension
as the case may be, that last-mentioned expenditure or the part thereof not
identifiable as incurred on the respective parts of the building or extension, as the
case may be, shall be apportioned by reference to the respective floor areas of those
respective parts or in such other manner as the Director General may direct.
67. Where capital expenditure is incurred on preparing, cutting, tunnelling or
levelling land in order to prepare a site for the installation of machinery or plant to
be used for the purposes of a business, then, if that expenditure amounts to more
than seventy-five per cent of the aggregate of that expenditure and the capital
expenditure incurred on that machinery or plant, the machinery or plant shall as
regards that aggregate expenditure be treated for the purposes of this Schedule as a
building so long as that machinery or plant is used for the purposes of that business;
and that aggregate expenditure shall be treated as the amount of the qualifying
expenditure incurred on that building, which shall be treated as disposed of if that
plant or machinery is disposed of.
67A. Where pursuant to an agreement with the Government a person incurs
capital expenditure on the construction, reconstruction, extension or improvement
of any public road and ancillary structures which expenditure is recoverable
through toll collection, the road and ancillary structures as regards such expenditure
shall, for the purposes of this Schedule, be treated as a building and the provisions
of this Schedule relating to industrial building shall apply, mutatis mutandis, to
such building:
Provided that
(a) the balance of residual expenditure under paragraph 68 of this
Schedule shall be reduced by the amount of any compensation
received; and
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(b) the disposal value of the asset shall be taken to be zero when the
agreement expires or is terminated.
67B. (1) A building constructed by a person pursuant to an agreement entered
into between that person and the Government on a build-lease-transfer basis shall,
subject to the approval of the Minister, be treated as an industrial building for the
purposes of this Schedule.
(2)
Where subparagraph (1) applies

(a) the balance of residual expenditure under paragraph 68 of this
Schedule shall be reduced by the amount of any compensation
received; and
(b) the disposal value of the asset shall be taken to be zero when the
agreement expires or is terminated.
67C. (1) For the purpose of this Schedule, where

(a) a person has incurred qualifying plant expenditure in respect of an
asset for the purposes of a business of his and in the basis period for a
year of assessment the asset is disposed of; and
(b) pursuant to any written law or agreement, that person is subsequently
required to dismantle and remove the asset and restore the site on
which the asset is located,
the residual expenditure under paragraph 68 of this Schedule shall be deemed to
include any amount incurred for dismantling and removing the asset and restoring
the site.
(2) Notwithstanding paragraph 61, in this paragraph disposed of means
discarded, destroyed or ceased to be used for the purposes of the business.
(3) This paragraph shall not apply if the asset which has been dismantled and
removed is subsequently used for any other business of that person or any other
person.
(4) The amount incurred in subparagraph (1) shall not include any amount paid
to a non-resident which are subject to section 109 B, if tax has not been deducted
therefrom and paid to the Director General under that section:
Provided that this paragraph shall not apply if the person has paid the amount
referred to in subsection 109B(2).
68. A reference in this Schedule to residual expenditure at any date in relation to
an asset in respect of which qualifying expenditure has been incurred by a person is
to be construed as a reference to the total qualifying expenditure incurred by him
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on the provision, construction or purchase of the asset before that date, reduced
by
(a) the amount of any initial allowance made to that person in relation to
that asset for any year of assessment;
(b) any annual allowance made to that person in relation to that asset for
any year of assessment before that date;
(c) any annual allowance which, if it had been claimed (or could have
been claimed, if the expenditure in respect of the asset had been
qualifying expenditure and if the asset had been in use for the
purposes of a business of his) by that person in relation to that asset,
would have been made to him for a year of assessment before that
date.
69. Any reference in this Schedule to an allowance made to a person for a year of
assessment or to an allowance to which a person is entitled under this Schedule for
a year of assessment is a reference to
(a) an allowance which is claimed for a year of assessment and is made
or is due to be made for that year (any such allowance being treated as
having been made at the end of the basis period for the appropriate
source consisting of a business for that year); and
(b) an allowance which would have been made or to which that person
would have been entitled in relation to a source consisting of a
business of his for a year of assessment but for an insufficiency or
absence of adjusted income or the existence of an adjusted loss for the
basis period for that year.
70. In this Schedule purchase price, in relation to the purchase of an industrial
building, includes any legal fee, stamp duty or other incidental expenditure incurred
by the purchaser in connection with the purchase, but does not include so much of
the purchase price of the building and of any land or an interest therein purchased
with the building as is attributable to the land or that interest; and, for the purposes
of paragraph 53, the building and that land or the interest therein, as the case may
be, shall be treated as being separate assets.
71. Where a person has incurred qualifying expenditure in relation to an asset
which is owned by that person for a period of less than two years, except by reason
of the death of that person or any other reasons as the Director General thinks
appropriate that any allowance which but for this paragraph would fall to be made
to him in relation to that asset shall not be made; and, where any such allowance
has been made, a balancing charge in an amount equal to any such allowance shall
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be made on him for the year of assessment in the basis period for which the asset
was disposed of by him (being the basis period appropriate to the source consisting
of the business for the purposes of which the expenditure was incurred).
72.
73. Where qualifying expenditure has been incurred by a person in relation to an

asset used for the purposes of a business of his, then, if the asset is used only partly
for the purposes of the business, any allowance to be made to that person under this
Schedule for a year of assessment in relation to the asset shall consist of so much of
what would have been the amount of the allowance claimed and due for that year if
the asset had been used in the basis period for that year wholly for the purposes of
the business, as shall be determined by the Director General having regard to all the
circumstances of the case:
Provided that in ascertaining the residual expenditure at any date in relation to
the asset regard shall be had, with respect to any allowance claimed in relation to
that asset for any year of assessment, to the full amount of that allowance which but
for this paragraph would then have been made to him for that year in relation to
that asset.
74. Where a person has a source within the meaning of sections 55 to 58, any
allowance or charge to be made to or on him for a year of assessment in relation to
a source and to an asset for a year of assessment shall be determined in such
manner as may be prescribed by rules made for the purposes of this paragraph.
75. Subject to paragraph 75A, where, by reason of an insufficiency or absence of
adjusted income of a person from a business of his for the basis period for a year of
assessment or by reason of the existence of an adjusted loss from the business for
that period, effect cannot be given or cannot be given in full to any allowance or to
the aggregate amount of any allowances falling to be made to him for that year in
relation to the source consisting of that business, that allowance or that aggregate
amount, as the case may be, which has not been so made (or so much thereof as has
not been so made to him for that year) shall be deemed to be an allowance to be
made to him for the first subsequent year of assessment for the basis period for
which there is adjusted income from that business, and so on for subsequent years
of assessment until the whole amount of the allowance or that aggregate amount to
be made to him has been made to him.
*75A. Any allowance or aggregate amount of allowances for a year of assessment
which has not been so made to a company as ascertained under paragraph 75 shall
not be made to that company for the purposes of this Schedule and section 42
unless the Director General is satisfied that the shareholders of that company on the
last day of the basis period for the year of assessment in which that allowance or
that aggregate amount has not been so made were substantially the same as the
shareholders of that company on the first day of the basis period for the year of
assessment in which that allowance or that aggregate amount would otherwise be
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made to that company under this Schedule and available for the purposes of that
section and that allowance or that aggregate amount which but for this paragraph
would have been made to the company in a year of assessment shall be disregarded
for subsequent years of assessment.
75AA. Where a partnership or a company is converted into a limited liability
partnership in accordance with section 29 or 30 of the Limited Liability
Partnerships Act 2012, any allowance or aggregate amount of allowance for a year
of assessment which has not been so made to that partnership or company as
ascertained under paragraph 75 shall be made to that limited liability partnership
for the purposes of this Schedule and section 42 for the following year of
assessment.
75B. (1)
For the purpose of paragraph 75A
(a) the shareholders of the company at any date shall be substantially the
same as the shareholders at any other date if on both those dates
(i) more than fifty per cent of the paid-up capital in respect of
the ordinary share of the company is held by or on behalf of
the same person; and
(ii) more than fifty per cent of the nominal value of the alloted
shares in respect of ordinary share in the company is held by
or on behalf of the same person;
(b) shares in the company held by or on behalf of another company shall
be deemed to be held by the shareholders of the last-mentioned
company; and
(c) any allowance or aggregate amount of allowances which has not been
so made for any year of assessment referred to in that paragraph shall
consist of an allowance falling to be made under this Schedule for that
year of assessment but shall not include any amount of allowance
deemed to have been made for that year of assessment pursuant to
paragraph 75.
(2) In this paragraph, ordinary share has the same meaning assigned to it
under subsection 44(5C).
75C. Where there is a substantial change in the shareholders of a company
referred to in paragraph 75A, the Minister may under special circumstances exempt
that company from the provisions of paragraph 75 A.
76. A person shall not be entitled to an allowance under this Schedule for a year
of assessment unless he makes a claim for the allowance for that year in accordance
with paragraph 77.
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76A. Where in a year of assessment a partnership or a company is converted into a

limited liability partnership in accordance with section 29 or 30 of the Limited
Liability Partnerships Act 2012, the limited liability partnership shall not be
entitled to an allowance under this Schedule in relation to an asset which is
transferred to that limited liability partnership for that year of assessment unless for
that year of assessment no allowance in relation to that asset has been claimed by
the partners of that partnership or that company in accordance with paragraph 77.
77. (1) Any claim by a person for an allowance under this Schedule for a year
of assessment shall be made in a written statement containing such particulars as
may be requisite to show that the claimant is entitled to the allowance and a
certificate signed by the claimant verifying those particulars.
(2) Any claim to be made by a person for a year of assessment in accordance
with this paragraph shall be furnished with a return of his income made under
section 77 or 77A for that year.
78. Where in the case of a business of a person the basis periods for two years of
assessment overlap, the period common to those periods shall be deemed for the
purposes of this Schedule to fall into the earlier of those periods and not into the
later of those periods.
79. Where as regards a business of a person the Director General has exercised
the power conferred upon him by subsection 21A(3) to direct that the basis period
for a year of assessment shall consist of a specified period, any allowance or charge
to be made on or to that person under this Schedule in relation to the source
consisting of that business for that year shall be ascertained by reference to such a
period as shall be determined by the Director General, and that last-mentioned
period shall be taken to be the basis period for that year in the application of this
paragraph with this Schedule.
80. The Minister may prescribe a building which is constructed or purchased by
any person and used by him for the purposes of his business as an industrial
building and the amount of the allowance or allowances which would otherwise fall
to be made to him under paragraph 12, 16 or 42.
81. The Minister may prescribe any capital expenditure incurred by a person in
his business as qualifying agriculture expenditure under paragraph 7 and the
amount of the allowance or allowances in respect of that qualifying agriculture
expenditure which would otherwise fall to be made to him under paragraphs 22 and
23.
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SCHEDULE 4
[Sections 43 and 44]
Expenditure on Prospecting Operations.
1. Qualifying prospecting expenditure for the purposes of this Schedule is
expenditure wholly and exclusively incurred in searching for, discovering or
winning access to deposits of minerals in an eligible area or in testing any such
deposits, but excludes expenditure on the acquisition of
(a) the site of the source of the deposits;
(b) the site of any works which are likely to be of little or no value when
the source is no longer worked;
(c) rights in or over any such site; or
(d) rights in or over the deposits.
2. (a) A person who has incurred qualifying prospecting expenditure in the
basis period for a year of assessment may elect to claim in a return of his income
for that year of assessment a deduction to be made under subparagraph 5(a) (in this
Schedule that person and that year of assessment being referred to as the
prospector and the relevant year respectively).
(b) Where no election has been made under subparagraph (a), a person who
has incurred qualifying prospecting expenditure may claim for the relevant year a
deduction under subparagraph 5(b).
3.
A claim under paragraph 2 shall

(a) if an election is made, be made in writing and shall be irrevocable;
(b) specify the eligible area to which the claim relates and the amount of
the qualifying prospecting expenditure claimed to be deductible;
(c) contain a declaration described in paragraph 4 if a claim is made for a
deduction under subparagraph 5(b); and
in the case of subparagraph (b) or (c),shall contain such other information as may
be necessary to enable the Director General to dispose of the claim in accordance
with this Schedule.
4. The declaration referred to in subparagraph 3(c) is a declaration by the
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(a) on a date before the end of the basis year for the relevant year he
permanently ceased to search for deposits of minerals in the area to
which the claim relates, to win access to any such deposits discovered
by him in that area and to test any such deposits; and
(b) he has not carried on and has formed the permanent intention not to
carry on any business consisting of or including the working of a
mine in that area.
5. Subject to this Schedule, there shall be deducted for the relevant year under
subsection 44(1)
(a) an amount equal to so much of the qualifying prospecting expenditure
as was incurred in the basis period for the relevant year:
Provided that where the area specified in subparagraph 3(b)
ceased to be an eligible area by reason of a lease, licence or certificate
(other than a prospecting licence or certificate) granted or issued
under any written law regulating mining being granted, issued or
assigned to the prospector in any year of assessment subsequent to the
relevant year, there shall be added under paragraph 43(1)(c) in
ascertaining the prospectors aggregate income for that year of
assessment subsequent to that relevant year an amount equal to that
prospecting expenditure or where a prospecting expenditure has been
made to him for more than one relevant year the aggregate of all those
expenditure for all those years; or
(b) an amount equal to so much of the qualifying prospecting expenditure
as was incurred before, but not more than ten years before, the end of
the basis year for the relevant year.
6.
Where
(a) a claim under this Schedule is not allowable because the area
specified under subparagraph 3(b) is not an eligible area or is
misdescribed or because the amount of expenditure so specified is
excessive; and
(b) the Director General is of the opinion that the claim would be wholly
or partly allowable, if amendments were made affecting the area or
amount so specified,
he may make those amendments and allow the claim (in whole or in part) as
amended.
7.
Subject to paragraph 8, where a claim under this Schedule in respect of any
area and expenditure has been allowed or disallowed, no other claim may be made
for any year of assessment in respect of that area or expenditure.
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8.
Where a claim under this Schedule in respect of any area and expenditure is
disallowed because the Director General is not satisfied as to any matter to which
the declaration described in paragraph 4 relates, a further claim in respect of that
area and expenditure may be made for a subsequent year of assessment.
9.
Where a claim is made under this Schedule in respect of any area and
expenditure, the amount of any deduction which would otherwise be made under
subsection 44(1) pursuant to this Schedule for any or all relevant years shall be
reduced to the extent provided by paragraphs 10 to 13 (that amount being referred
to in those paragraphs as the provisional deduction).
10. (1) Where machinery or plant has been purchased by the prospector and
used in any operation connected with any qualifying prospecting expenditure to
which the provisional deduction relates (whether or not is was first used in that
way), the provisional deduction under subparagraph 5(a) shall be reduced
(a) if the machinery or plant has been sold in the basis period for the
relevant year by the amount of any consideration for the sale
(ascertained in accordance with paragraph 11);
(b) by an amount equal to any sum received or receivable by the
prospector in the basis period for the relevant year for the use of the
machinery or plant otherwise than in any such operation; and
(c) if the machinery or plant has not been sold in the basis period for the
relevant year in which he permanently ceased to search for deposits of
minerals in the area to which the claim relates, to win access to any
such deposits discovered by him in that area and to test any such
deposits, by an amount equal to its market value at the date he
permanently ceased to prospect in that area.
(2) Where machinery or plant has been purchased by the prospector and used
in any operation connected with any qualifying prospecting expenditure to which
the provisional deduction relates (whether or not it was first used in that way), the
provisional deduction under subparagraph 5(b) shall be reduced
(a) if the machinery or plant has been sold before the date referred to in
subparagraph 4(a), by the amount of any consideration for the sale
(ascertained in accordance with paragraph 11);
(b) if the machinery or plant has not been sold before that date, by an
amount equal to its market value at that date; and
(c) by an amount equal to any sum received or receivable by the
prospector before that date (and, in the case of machinery or plant to
which paragraph 14 applies, after the date on which the machinery or
plant was first used in any such operation) for the use of the
machinery or plant otherwise than in any such operation.
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11. For the purposes of paragraph 10, the consideration for a sale of machinery
or plant shall be ascertained by taking the amount of any monetary consideration
and the amount of the market value of any non-monetary consideration or, where
there is only non-monetary consideration, by taking the amount of the market value
of either
(a) the non-monetary consideration; or
(b) the machinery or plant at the date of the sale,
whichever is the greater:
Provided that the consideration shall be taken to be the amount of the market
value of the plant or machinery at the time of the sale in any case where the
monetary consideration is less than the market value and the Director General is
satisfied that the sale is a transaction to which section 140 applies.
12.
The provisional deduction shall be reduced

(a) by an amount equal to any sum received or receivable by the
prospector at any time before the end of the basis year for the relevant
year or in the basis period for the relevant year, as the case may be,
from the sale of any rights or other benefits arising from or connected
with the area to which the provisional deduction relates, and by an
amount equal to the market value at the time of the sale of any nonmonetary consideration so received or receivable; and
(b) by an amount equal to any sum received or receivable by the
prospector at any time before the end of the basis year for the relevant
year or in the basis period for the relevant year, as the case may be, as
a grant or other payment by the Government, a State Government or a
statutory authority intended directly or indirectly to reduce the burden
of the qualifying prospecting expenditure to which the provisional
deduction relates.
13. Where, by reason of the fact that as regards the prospector there is for the
relevant year no or no sufficient defined aggregate, a deduction which would
otherwise be made under subsection 44(1) pursuant to this Schedule cannot be
made or can be made only in part, the deduction (or, where the deduction can be
made only in part, so much of the deduction as cannot be made) shall be made for
the first year of assessment (being a year of assessment subsequent to the relevant
year) for which in computing the total income of the prospector there is a defined
aggregate, and so on for the years of assessment subsequent to that first year until
the whole amount of the deduction has been made.
14. Where the operator uses in operations connected with qualifying prospecting
expenditure any machinery or plant acquired by him otherwise than for such a use,
the market value of the machinery or plant when first used in any of those
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operations (and not its price or market value when it was first acquired by him)
shall be deemed to be included in that expenditure.
15.
Where
(a) there has been made under paragraphs 10 to 13 a reduction consisting
of an amount equal to a sum receivable (but not received) by the
prospector; and
(b) within the five years following the relevant year the prospector
satisfies the Director General that the sum in question or a part of that
sum is irrecoverable,
such adjustments in the ascertainment of the prospectors total income for any year
of assessment shall be made as are necessary to compute the tax paid by him which
would not have been paid if there had been allowed to him the deduction which
would have been allowed if that sum or that part of that sum, as the case may be,
had not been taken into account as receivable; and a sum equal to any tax so
computed shall be repaid to the prospector by the Director General:
Provided that, where this paragraph has been applied to a part of that sum, that
part shall be left out of account in any subsequent application of this paragraph.
16. Where the prospector receives in the basis year for a year of assessment
subsequent to the relevant year which coincides with the year in which he
permanently ceased to search for, win access or test deposits of minerals in that
area
(a) an amount to which, if it had been received or receivable by him in the
basis year for the relevant year, paragraph 12 would have applied; or
(b) an amount on account or in respect of an amount treated as
irrecoverable with regard to which an adjustment has been made
under paragraph 15,
the amount so received shall be added under paragraph 43(1)(c) in ascertaining the
prospectors aggregate income for that subsequent year:
Provided that the amount (if any) so added in ascertaining the prospectors
aggregate income for a year of assessment by virtue of this paragraph, together
with any amount so added in ascertaining his aggregate income for any previous
year of assessment in relation to the same claim, shall not exceed the total
deductions allowed in pursuance of the claim under any of the foregoing
paragraphs for the relevant year and any subsequent year of assessment.
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In this Schedule
defined aggregate, in relation to the prospector and a year of assessment,

means his aggregate income for that year reduced by any deduction falling to be
made for that year pursuant to subsection 44(2);
eligible area means any particular area in Malaysia which does not consist of
or include an area with respect to which there is or has been in force at any time
before the end of the basis year for the relevant year any lease, licence or certificate
(other than a prospecting licence or certificate) granted or issued under any written
law regulating mining and granted, issued or assigned to the prospector before the
end of that basis year.
SCHEDULE 4A
SCHEDULE 4B:
Qualifying Pre-Operational Business Expenditure
1. Qualifying pre-operational business expenditure for purposes of this Schedule
is expenditure within the meaning of paragraph 2, incurred by a company resident
in Malaysia in connection with a proposal by that company to undertake investment
in a business venture as approved by the Minister in a country outside Malaysia.
2. Subject to paragraph 1, qualifying pre-operational business expenditure for the
purposes of this Schedule is
(a) expenses directly attributable to the conduct of feasibility studies;
(b) expenses directly attributable to the conduct of market research or the
obtaining of marketing information, or
(c) expenses by way of fares in respect of travel to a country outside
Malaysia by a representative of the company, being travel necessarily
undertaken for the purposes of conducting feasibility study or market
survey, and actual expenses, subject to a maximum of four hundred
ringgit per day, for accommodation and sustenance for the whole
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period commencing with the representatives departure from Malaysia

and ending with his return to Malaysia.
3. Subject to this Schedule, there shall be deducted for a year of assessment under
subsection 44(1) an amount equal to so much of the qualifying pre-operational
business expenditure as was incurred in the basis period for the year of assessment
(in this Schedule that year of assessment being referred to as the relevant year).
4. Where by reason of the fact that there is for the relevant year no or no
sufficient defined aggregate, a deduction which would otherwise be made under
subsection 44(1) pursuant to this Schedule cannot be made or can be made only in
part, the deduction (or, where the deduction can be made only in part, so much of
the deduction as cannot be made) shall be made for the first year of assessment
(being a year of assessment subsequent to the relevant year) for which in
computing the total income there is a defined aggregate, and so on for the years of
assessment subsequent to that first year until the whole amount of the deduction has
been made.
5. In this Schedule, defined aggregate, in relation to a year of assessment,
means the aggregate income for that year reduced by a deduction made pursuant to
subsection 44(2) or Schedule 4.
SCHEDULE 4c
[Sections 44]
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SCHEDULE 5
[Section 102]
Appeals
Hearing of appeals
1. (1)
Every appeal shall be heard by three Special Commissioners, at least
one of whom shall be a person with judicial or other legal experience within the
meaning of subsection 98(3).
(2) If a Chairman or Deputy Chairman of the Special Commissioners has been
appointed and is present at the hearing of an appeal, he shall preside at the hearing.
(3) Two or more hearing of appeals may be heard concurrently at any one time.
(4) If the Chairman or Deputy Chairman has not been appointed or is not
present at the hearing of the appeals, the Special Commissioners present at the
hearing of the appeals shall choose one of their number, who shall be a person with
experience of the kind mentioned in subparagraph (1), to preside at the hearing.
1A. If any one of the Special Commissioners who has commenced hearing any of
the appeals is unable to complete the hearing due to expiration of the term of his
appointment or other reason, the hearing may, with the consent of both parties, be
heard afresh or continued by the remaining Special Commissioners with another
Special Commissioner.
Place of sitting
2.
The Special Commissioners shall sit for the hearing of appeals in

(a) Ipoh;
(b) Kota Kinabalu;
(c) Kuala Lumpur;
(d) Kuching;
(e) Malacca;
(f) Penang; and
(g) such other places (if any) as they think appropriate.
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3. The Special Commissioners shall draw up in advance a programme for each

half-year of the places at which and the dates on which they intend to sit and shall
conform with their programme so far as is reasonably practicable, without
prejudice to their right to make such variations in the programme as circumstances
appear to them to require.
4. The Clerk shall inform the Director General of the programme drawn up under
paragraph 3 as soon as possible after it has been drawn up and shall, so far as may
be, keep him informed of any variations therein.
Sending forward of appeals, etc.
5. Where the Director General sends an appeal forward in pursuance of
section 102, he shall do so by forwarding to the Clerk a copy of the notice of
appeal given under section 99, together with an address for service and a
request for the appeal to be set down for hearing.
6. The notice forwarded under paragraph 5 shall constitute the petition of appeal
and the appellants address contained therein shall constitute the appellants
address for service.
7. Either party to an appeal may change his address for service by giving written
notice of the change to the Clerk and the other party.
Place and date of hearing

8. On receipt of a request under paragraph 5 for an appeal to be set down for
hearing, the Clerk shall fix a place and date of hearing which he considers suitable
and shall give the appellant and the Director General at least twenty-eight days
notice of the date and place so fixed:
Provided that, before sending an appeal forward, the Director General may
make an agreement in writing with the appellant fixing one of the places included
in any programme drawn up under paragraph 3 as the place of hearing of the
appeal, and, where he does so
(a) he shall forward a copy of the agreement to the Clerk when he sends
the appeal forward; and
(b) the Clerk shall fix as the place of hearing the place so agreed.
9. One of the Special Commissioners on the application of a party to an appeal
may, after giving the other party an opportunity to be heard, vary any date or place
fixed under paragraph 8 and may do so, in the case of a place so fixed,
notwithstanding that the appeal has been partly heard in that place.
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Appeals may be heard together

10.
One of the Special Commissioners may order

(a) two or more appeals by the same person; or
(b) two or more appeals by different persons, if they agree,
to be heard together.
11. One of the Special Commissioners may make an order under
subparagraph 10(a) either of his own motion or on the application of a party to one
of the appeals in question, but no such order shall be made until the parties to those
appeals have been given an opportunity to be heard.
Scope of argument
12. At the hearing of an appeal the appellant may rely on grounds of appeal other
than those stated in the petition of appeal and may vary any ground of appeal so
stated:
Provided that, where he does so without giving reasonable notice to the Director
General, the Special Commissioners shall adjourn the hearing for a reasonable
period if requested to do so by the Director General.
Onus of proof
13. The onus of proving that an assessment against which an appeal is made is
excessive or erroneous shall be on the appellant.
Representation and attendance

14.
For the purposes of an appeal

(a) the Director General may be represented by an authorized officer, a
legal officer or an advocate;
(b) the appellant may be represented by an advocate or a tax agent or by
bot an advocate and a tax agent; and
(c) if the appellant is the principal within the meaning of section 67, he
may be represented by the representative within the meaning of that
section.
15.
In paragraph 14
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legal officer means a legally qualified public officer entitled under the law in
force in any part of Malaysia to represent the Government in civil proceedings by
or against the Government.
16.
The Director General and the appellant may

(a) attend at the time and place fixed for the hearing of the appeal; and
(b) do any other thing or take any other action in connection with the
appeal,
either personally or by a representative of the kind referred to in paragraph 14.

16A. Where both parties to an appeal attend, either personally or by a
representative of the kind referred to in paragraph 14, at the time and place fixed
for the hearing of the appeal, the Special Commissioners may on the application of
either or both of the parties grant a postponement of the hearing on such terms as
they consider reasonable, including terms as to the costs of the postponement to the
Special Commissioners and to the party not applying for postponement, against the
party or parties (as the case may be) applying for the postponement.
17. (1) Where a party to an appeal fails to attend, either personally or by a
for the hearing of the appeal, the Special Commissioners
(a) if they are then and there satisfied that the defaulting party is
prevented from attending by sickness or other reasonable cause, shall
postpone the hearing for what appears to them to be an appropriate
time, or they may hear and decide the appeal in the absence of the
defaulting party if he requests them to do so;
(b) if they are not so satisfied, may hear and decide the appeal in the
absence of the defaulting party, or may dismiss the appeal if the
defaulting party is the appellant, or may postpone the hearing for what
appears to them to be an appropriate time.
(2) Where both parties to an appeal fail to attend, either personally or by a
for the hearing of the appeal
(a) if each of the parties fails to satisfy the Special Commissioners that he
is prevented from attending by sickness or other reasonable cause,
they may either decide or dismiss the appeal in the absence of both
parties or postpone the hearing for what appears to them to be an
appropriate time, and where they postpone the hearing they may order
either or both parties to pay to them such costs as they consider
reasonable;
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(b) if the Special Commissioners are then and there satisfied that one of
the parties is prevented from attending by sickness or other reasonable
cause and are not satisfied that the other party is so prevented, they
shall postpone the hearing for what appears to them to be an
appropriate time, or they may decide the appeal in the absence of the
parties if the party so prevented requests them to do so;
(c) if the Special Commissioners are satisfied that both parties are
prevented from attending by sickness or other reasonable cause, they
shall postpone the hearing for what appears to them to be an
appropriate time, or they may decide the appeal in the absence of the
parties if the parties request them to do so.
18. Where, after a deciding order has been made under paragraph 17 as the result
of a partys failure to attend at the time and place fixed for the hearing of an appeal,
the Special Commissioners are satisfied on an application made within a period of
thirty days after the making of the order that the defaulting party was prevented
from attending by sickness or other reasonable cause, they may set aside the order
and fix a time and place for a fresh hearing of the appeal.
Powers of Special Commissioners

19.
The Special Commissioners shall have

(a) power to summon to attend at the hearing of an appeal any person
who in their opinion is or might be able to give evidence respecting
the appeal;
(b) power, where a person is so summoned, to examine him as a witness
on oath or otherwise;
(c) power, where a person is so summoned, to require him to produce any
books, papers or documents which are in his custody or under his
control and which the Special Commissioners may consider necessary
for the purposes of the appeal;
(d) power, where a person is so summoned, to allow him any reasonable
expenses incurred by him in connection with his attendance;
(e) all the powers of a subordinate court with regard to the enforcement
of attendance of witnesses, hearing evidence on oath and punishment
for contempt;
(f) subject to subsection 142(5), power to admit or reject any evidence
adduced, whether oral or documentary and whether admissible or
inadmissible under the provisions of any written law for the time
being in force relating to the admissibility of evidence; and
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(g) power to postpone or adjourn the hearing of an appeal from time to

time (including power to adjourn to consider their decision).
Witnesses bound to tell truth, etc.

20. Every person examined as a witness by or before the Special Commissioners,
whether on oath or otherwise, shall be legally bound to state the truth and if
summoned under subparagraph 19(a) to produce such books, papers or documents
in his custody or under his control as the Special Commissioners may require under
subparagraph 19(c).
Witnesses expenses
21. (1) Expenses allowed under subparagraph 19(d) shall be assessed by the
Clerk on the scale used in civil proceedings in a subordinate court and shall be paid
by the appellant or the Government as the Special Commissioners may direct.
(2) In a case where section 67 applies, the Special Commissioners may direct
that expenses assessed under subparagraph (1) shall be paid by the representative
(within the meaning of that section); and, where they so direct, subsections (4) to
(7) of that section shall apply as if those expenses were tax due from the
representative.
Procedure
22. Subject to this Act and any rules made under paragraph 154(1)(d), the
Special Commissioners may regulate the procedure at the hearing of an appeal and
their own procedure.
Deciding orders
23. As soon as may be after completing the hearing of an appeal, the Special
Commissioners shall give their decision on the appeal in the form of an order
which shall be known as a deciding order and which, subject to this Schedule, shall
be final.
23A. For the purpose of paragraph 23, deciding order includes an order where
the Special Commissioners dismiss an appeal under paragraph 17.
24. A deciding order may, if the Special Commissioners think fit, be read or
summarized in the presence of the parties by one of the Special Commissioners or
the Clerk; but the fact that any deciding order is not so read or summarized shall
not affect its validity and the fact that any deciding order is so read or summarized
shall not relieve the Clerk of his obligation under paragraph 44 to cause a copy of
the order to be served on the parties.
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25. If the Special Commissioners differ among themselves as to the decision to

be given on an appeal
(a)
the opinion of the majority shall prevail; and
(b)
the Special Commissioner who dissents from the majority view shall
sign the deciding order as required by paragraph 44 (unless he is
incapacitated from doing so as mentioned in that paragraph), but in
doing so shall indicate the fact of his dissent and may, if he thinks fit,
add a statement of his reasons therefor.
26. Subject to paragraphs 25 and 31, a deciding order shall either confirm or
discharge the assessment to which the appeal relates or shall direct the Director
General to amend the assessment; and, where it directs amendment, the order
shall
(a) specify the appropriate amendments;
(b) require the appropriate amendments to be determined by agreement
between the parties or, failing agreement, by the Special
Commissioners; or
(c) specify some of the appropriate amendments and require the others to
be so determined.
27. Where a deciding order is made pursuant to subparagraph 26(b) or (c) in
respect of an appeal, section 101 shall apply as if references to the order were
substituted for references to the notice of appeal under subsection 99(1) (any
agreement come to pursuant to the order being deemed to be and to have the same
effect as an agreement of the kind mentioned in subsection 101(2)) and section 102
shall apply as it applies on a failure to come to an agreement of that kind:
Provided that
(a) if the Special Commissioners are required under paragraph 34 to state
a case in respect of the order, section 102 shall not come into
operation until all proceedings respecting the case have been
completed; and
(b) if the Director General has cause to send the appeal forward to the
Special Commissioners pursuant to section 102, he shall do so by
sending to the Clerk and the appellant a written statement that a
further hearing has become necessary by reason of the parties failure
to agree.
28. Where an appeal is set down for further hearing pursuant to paragraph 27, it
shall not be necessary for the further hearing to take place before the same Special
Commissioners as those who heard the earlier proceedings.
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Vexatious and frivolous appeals

29. (1) Where on an appeal the Special Commissioners do not discharge or
amend an assessment, they may, if in their opinion the appeal was vexatious or
frivolous, order the appellant to pay as costs to the Special Commissioners a sum
not exceeding five thousand ringgit.
(2) In a case where section 67 applies, the Special Commissioners may order
the representative (within the meaning of that section) to pay costs under
subparagraph (1); and, where they do so, subsections (4) to (7) of that section shall
apply as if those costs were tax due from the representative.
30. Subject to any representation made under paragraph 31 a sum ordered to be
paid under paragraph 29 shall become due and payable on the expiration of a
period of seven days starting on the date when the order for payment was served on
the appellant or the representative (within the meaning of section 67), as the case
may be, and shall be recoverable as a debt due to the Government.
31. (1) The Special Commissioners may make an order as to costs under
paragraph 29 notwithstanding that the appellant was not present at the hearing of
the appeal.
(2) Where the Special Commissioners make an order as to costs under
paragraph 29
(a) it shall be included in the deciding order made under paragraph 26; and
(b) the appellant or the representative (within the meaning of section 67)
may within twenty-one days of the service on him of the deciding
order make representation orally or in writing to the Special
Commissioners showing cause why the order as to costs ought not to
have been made or why the costs ordered ought to be reduced, and the
Special Commissioners if satisfied with the representation may remit
the costs ordered either wholly or partly.
Costs and fees

32. Except as expressly provided in this Schedule, the Special Commissioners
shall not make any order as to the payment of the costs of an appeal.
32A. (1) Except as provided in paragraph 30, any sum ordered to be paid by the
Special Commissioners as costs shall become due and payable on the order for
payment being made and shall be recoverable
(a) in the case of costs ordered to be paid to the appellant, as a debt due to
him; and
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(b) in the case of costs ordered to be paid to the Special Commissioners

or the Director General, as a debt due to the Government.
(2) In any proceedings for the recovery of costs ordered by the Special
Commissioners the production of a certificate signed by one of the Special
Commissioners giving the names and addresses of the persons to whom and by
whom such costs are to be paid and the amount of the costs due shall be sufficient
evidence of the amount so due and sufficient authority for the court to give
judgment for that amount.
33.
Further appeals
34. Either party to proceedings before the Special Commissioners may appeal on
a question of law against a deciding order made in those proceedings (including a
deciding order made pursuant to subparagraph 26(b) or (c)) by requiring the
Special Commissioners to state a case for the opinion of the High Court and by
paying to the Clerk at the time of making the requisition such fee as may be
prescribed from time to time by the Minister in respect of each deciding order
against which he seeks to appeal.
35. A requisition under paragraph 34 shall be in writing and shall be sent or
delivered to the Clerk within twenty-one days after the service on the intending
appellant of the order against which he seeks to appeal.
36. The High Court on the application of an intending appellant made by
summons in chambers may extend the period of twenty-one days mentioned in
paragraph 35.
37.
A case stated under paragraph 34

(a) shall set forth the facts as found by the Special Commissioners, the
deciding order and the grounds of their decision; and
(b) shall be signed by the Special Commissioners who heard the appeal
(or, if any of them are incapacitated from signing by reason of death,
illness, absence or any other cause, by such of them as are able to do
so).
37A. (1) The appellant shall pay to the Clerk the cost of preparing the case
stated at such rate as may be prescribed from time to time by the Minister.
(2) The Special Commissioners may at any time before a case stated is
transmitted to the High Court require the appellant to deposit with the Clerk a sum
which in their opinion will cover the cost of preparing copies of the case stated for
the High Court and the parties, and where they do so they may refrain from stating
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the case or prevent the case stated from being transmitted to the High Court unless
the required deposit is made.
(3) Any party to an appeal may obtain from the Clerk extra copies of the case
stated on payment of such fee as may be prescribed from time to time by the
Minister.
38. When a case has been stated and signed in accordance with paragraph 37,
the Clerk shall transmit it to the High Court and serve a copy of it on the parties to
the proceedings in respect of which it is stated.
39. The High Court shall hear and determine any question of law arising on a
case stated under paragraph 34 and may in accordance with its determination
thereof
(a) order the assessment to which the case relates to be confirmed,
discharged or amended;
(b) remit the case to the Special Commissioners with the opinion of the
court thereon; or
(c) make such other order as it thinks just and appropriate.
40. At any time before it determines the questions of law arising on a case stated
under paragraph 34, the High Court may
(a) cause the case to be sent back to the Special Commissioners for
amendment; or
(b) require the Special Commissioners to find further facts and state a
supplementary case,
and may postpone or adjourn the proceedings before it until the amendment has
been made or the requisition complied with.
41. There shall be such rights of appeal from decisions of the High Court on
cases stated under paragraph 34 as exist in respect of decisions of the High Court
on questions of law in its appellate civil jurisdiction.
42. Unless it is otherwise provided by rules of court, the rules of court for the
time being in force in relation to appeals in civil matters from a subordinate court to
the High Court and from the High Court in its appellate jurisdiction to the Court of
Appeal and the Federal Court shall, subject to this Schedule, apply with the
necessary modifications to appeals under this Schedule to the High Court, the Court
of Appeal and the Federal Court respectively.
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42A. Where any matter of procedure or practice is not provided for in this
Schedule, the procedure and practice for the time being in force or in use in the
subordinate court or in the High Court, as the case may be, shall be adopted and
followed with the necessary modifications.
43. (1) Proceedings under this Schedule before the Special Commissioners or
the court shall take place in camera:
Provided that where the Director General applies to the Special Commissioners
or the court, as the case may be, that the proceedings, or such part thereof as he
may deem necessary, be heard by way of a hearing open to the public, the Special
Commissioners or the court, as the case may be, shall direct that the proceedings or
the part thereof, as the case may be, shall be so heard, notwithstanding any
objection from any other party to the proceedings:
Provided further that, where in the opinion of the Special Commissioners or the
court any proceedings or part thereof heard in camera ought to be reported, the
Special Commissioners or the court, as the case may be, may publish or authorize
publication of the facts of the case, the arguments and the decision relating to the
proceedings or the part thereof heard in camera, but without identifying the parties
(other than the Director General) where the whole proceedings were heard in
camera.
(2) Any publication authorized under subparagraph (1) may be obtained from
the Special Commissioners or the court on payment of such fee as may be
prescribed from time to time by the Minister.
44. Where a deciding order or any other order is made by the Special
Commissioners or one of the Special Commissioners in or in connection with
proceedings under this Schedule
(a) the order shall be dated and signed by the Special Commissioners or
Special Commissioner making it; and
(b) a copy of the order shall be served by the Clerk on the parties to the
proceedings:
Provided that, if any of the Special Commissioners who have made a deciding
order are incapacitated from signing by reason of death, illness, absence or any
other cause, the order shall be signed by such of them as are able to do so.
45. Directions for the settlement or disposal of any matter of a procedural nature
arising in connection with proceedings before the Special Commissioners, the High
Court, the Court of Appeal or the Federal Court under this Schedule may, if no
other provision is made by or under this Act or rules of court for the settlement or
disposal of the matter, be given
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(a) in relation to proceedings before the Special Commissioners, by one

of the Special Commissioners on an application made in whatever
manner he considers appropriate; and
(b) in relation to proceedings before the High Court, the Court of Appeal
or the Federal Court, by the High Court on an application made by
summons in chambers.
46. The Special Commissioners in the exercise of their functions shall enjoy the
same judicial immunity as is enjoyed by the person presiding in a subordinate
court.
47. In sections 193 and 228 of the Penal Code the words judicial proceeding
shall be deemed to include an appeal.
48.
In this Schedule
appeal, except in paragraphs 34 to 42, means an appeal to the Special

Commissioners under section 99;
deciding order means a deciding order made under paragraph 23;
subordinate court means a sessions court or the court of a magistrate of the first
class;
High Court, in relation to an appeal heard by the Special Commissioners,
means (unless the parties to the appeal agree otherwise in writing) the High Court
having jurisdiction in the place where the appeal begins to be heard by the Special
Commissioners.
SCHEDULE 6:
[Section 127]
Exemption from tax.
PART I
INCOME WHICH IS EXEMPT
1.
The official emoluments of a Ruler or Ruling Chief as defined in section 76.
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1A. The official emoluments of the Consort of a Ruler of a State having the title
of Raja Perempuan, Sultanah, Tengku Ampuan, Raja Permaisuri, Tengku
Permaisuri, or Permaisuri:
Provided that where there are two or more consorts of a Ruler of a State having
the above titles, the exemption shall be given only to the one recognized to be the
official Consort.
1B. The official income of a former Ruler or Ruling Chief as defined in section 76
(excluding a former Governor or Yang di-Pertua Negara of a State) or a Consort of
a former Ruler of a State previously having the title of Raja Perempuan, Sultanah,
Tengku Ampuan, Raja Permaisuri, Tengku Permaisuri, or Permaisuri.
Provided that where a person is paid more than one pension, this paragraph shall
apply to the higher or the highest pension paid, as the case may be.
2. The official emoluments received by any person in respect of the exercise by
him of the functions of a State Authority in a temporary or acting capacity.
3. Any income which is exempt by virtue of the Diplomatic Privileges (Vienna
Convention) Act 1966 [Act 24 of 1966], or by virtue of an order made under Part III of the
*Diplomatic and Consular Privileges Ordinance 1957 [Ord. 53 of 1957] or under the
Foreign Representatives (Privileges and Immunities) Act 1967 [Act 541].
4. The official emoluments of consular officers and consular employees (as
defined in the Diplomatic and Consular Privileges Ordinance 1957) in the service
of a country to which Part IV of that Ordinance applies, to the extent provided by
any consular convention between Malaysia and that country or, in the absence of a
consular convention, to the extent that reciprocal treatment is accorded by that
country to persons exercising corresponding functions in the service of Malaysia.
5.
The income of the Government or a State Government.
6.
The income of a local authority.
7.
Wound and disability pensions granted to persons in respect of

(a) service in the armed forces of Malaysia or a Commonwealth country;
(b) service on and after Merdeka Day in the armed forces;
(c) service before Merdeka Day in the Malay Regiment, the Federation
Regiment, the Johore Military Forces, any volunteer force or local
defence corps within the meaning of the Volunteer Forces and Local
Defence Corps (Demobilization) Ordinance 1946 [Ord. 16 of 1946],
or any force raised or established by or under the Malayan Auxiliary
Air Force Ordinance 1950 [Ord. 1 of 1950], the Volunteer Force
*NOTEThis Ordinance has been repealed by Act A1064 w.e.f.3-9-1999
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Ordinance 1951 [Ord. 5 of 1951], the Malayan Royal Naval

Volunteer Reserve Ordinance 1952 [Ord. 3 of 1952], or the Military
Forces Ordinance 1952 [Ord. 47 of 1952]; or
(d) service in the Sarawak Volunteer Force or the Sarawak Rangers,
and pensions granted to wives or dependant relatives of members of any of those
forces or local defence corps killed on war service.
8. Disability pensions granted in respect of war service injuries to members of civil
defence organizations in any territory comprised in Malaysia on 1 January 1968.
9. Sums payable out of moneys provided by Parliament by way of bounty to
members of any of the following reserve forces, that is to say
(a) Royal Malaysian Naval Volunteer Reserve;
(b) Malaysian Territorial Army;
(c) Royal Malaysian Air Force Volunteer Reserve.
10. The emoluments of any person who is a member of the armed forces of a
Commonwealth country or in the service of the government of a Commonwealth
country, if
(a)
he is in Malaysia for the purpose of performing his duties as a

member of those forces or as a person in that service, as the case may
be; and
(b)
those emoluments are payable from the public funds of that country
and subject to foreign tax of that country.
11.
12.
(1)
The income of any co-operative society

(a) in respect of a period of five years commencing from the date of
registration of such co-operative society; and
(b) thereafter where the members funds of such co-operative society as
at the first day of the basis period for the year of assessment is less
than seven hundred and fifty thousand ringgit.
(2) For the purposes of this paragraph members funds means the aggregate
of the paid up capital (in respect of shares and subscriptions and not including any
amount in respect of bonus shares to the extent they were issued out of capital
reserve created by revaluation of fixed assets) statutory reserve fund, reserves
(other than any capital reserve which was created by revaluation of fixed assets and
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provisions for depreciation, renewals or replacements and diminution in value of

assets), balance of share premium account (not including any amount credited
therein at the instance of issuing bonus shares at premium out of capital reserve
created by revaluation of fixed assets), and balance of profit and loss appropriation
account.
12A. Any dividend paid, credited or distributed to any member by a co-operative
society.
12B. Any dividend paid, credited or distributed to any person where the company
paying such dividend is not entitled to deduct tax under this Act and any expenses
incurred in relation to such dividend shall be disregarded for the purpose of this
Act.
12C. Any profit paid, credited or distributed to partners by a limited liability
partnership.
13.
(1)
The income, other than divided income, of

(a) an institution or organization approved for the purposes of
subsection 44(6) so long as the approval remains in force; or
(b) a religious institution or organization which is not operated or
conducted primarily for profit and which is established in Malaysia
exclusively for the purposes of religious worship or the advancement
of religion.
14. Sums received by way of death gratuities or as consolidated compensation for

death or injuries.
15. (1) A payment (other than a payment by a controlled company to a director
of the company who is not a whole-time service director) made by an employer to
an employee of his as compensation for loss of employment or in consideration of
any covenant entered into by the employee restricting his right to take up other
employment of the same or a similar kind
(a) if the Director General is satisfied that the payment is made on
account of loss of employment due to ill-health; or
(b) in the case of a payment made in connection with a period of
employment with the same employer or with companies in the same
group, in respect of so much of the payments as does not exceed an
amount ascertained by multiplying the sum of ten thousand ringgit by
the number of completed years of service with that employer or those
companies:
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Provided that this subsubparagraph shall apply to the payment

made in respect of an individual who has ceased employment on or
after 1 July 2008.
(2) For the purposes of this paragraph the Director General may direct that a
period of employment in a business with different employers where the control and
management of that business substantially remains with the same person or persons
or where the employment is with different employers whose businesses are
conducted by or through a central agency shall be treated as a period of
employment with the same employer.
(3) In this paragraph, compensation for loss of employment shall include any
payment made by an employer to an employee of his pursuant to a separation
scheme where employees are given an option for an early termination of an
employment contract provided that such scheme from which payment was made
does not expressly or impliedly provide for the employee to be reemployed under
any other scheme of employment by the same or any other employer.
16. Pensions granted to any person under any written law relating to widows,
widowers and orphans pensions (or under any approved scheme within the
meaning of any such law) and pensions paid under an approved scheme to or for
the benefit of the widow, widower, child or children of a deceased contributor to
the scheme.
17. The income of a trade union registered under any written law relating to trade
unions, in so far as the income does not consist of the gains or profits from a
business carried on by the union:
Provided that the exemption under this paragraph shall not apply to income
consisting of a dividend.
18. Any income for the basis period for a year of assessment derived by a person
who was not resident for the basis year for that year of assessment from trading in
Malaysia through consignees in any commodity of the following kind, that is to
say, rubber, copra, pepper, tin, tin ore, gambier, sago flour or cloves being a
commodity produced outside Malaysia.
19. Interest paid or credited to any person in respect of any savings certificates
issued by the Government.
20.
The income of any approved scheme.
20A. Any income of a life insurer or takaful operator from an investment made out
of a life fund or family fund in respect of a deferred annuity established in
accordance with the Retirement Savings Standards approved by the Central Bank
of Malaysia.
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21. Subject to paragraph 22, the income of an individual from an employment

exercised by him in Malaysia
(a) for a period or periods which together do not exceed sixty days in the
basis year for a year of assessment; or
(b) for a continuous period (not exceeding sixty days) which overlaps the
basis years for two successive years of assessment); or
(c) for a continuous period (not exceeding sixty days) which overlaps the
basis years for two successive years of assessment and for a period or
periods which together with that continuous period do not exceed
sixty days,
if he is not resident for that basis year or for each of those basis years, as the case
may be.
22. Paragraph 21 shall not apply to the income of an individual from an
employment
(a) if that individual has income derived from Malaysia from that
employment for a period or periods amounting in all to more than
sixty days in the basis year referred to in that paragraph or in the
period consisting of the basis years so referred to; or
(b) if the income is income from an employment exercised by a public
entertainer (that is to say, any professional entertainer, artiste, athlete
or other individual who entertains whether in public or private for
profit on stage, radio or television, at a stadium or sports ground, or
otherwise) and no part of that income is paid out of the public funds
of the government of a country outside Malaysia.
23. Education allowances paid to designated officers under the Overseas Service
(North Borneo) Agreement 1961, or the Overseas Service (Sarawak) Agreement
1961.
24. Any sums paid by way or in the nature of a scholarship or other similar grant
or allowance to an individual, whether or not in connection with an employment of
that individual.
25.
(1)
Sums received by way of gratuity on retirement from an employment

(a) if the Director General is satisfied that the retirement was due to ill-health;
(b) if the retirement takes place on or after reaching the age of 55, or on
reaching the compulsory age of retirement from employment
specified under any written law and in either case from an
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employment which has lasted ten years with the same employer or
with companies in the same group; or
(c) if the retirement takes place on reaching the compulsory age of
retirement pursuant to a contract of employment or collective
agreement at the age of 50 but before 55 and that employment has
lasted for ten years with the same employer or with companies in the
same group.
(2) For the purposes of this paragraph the Director General may direct that a
period of employment in a business with different employers where the control and
management of that business substantially remains with the same person or persons
or where the employment is with different employers whose businesses are
conducted by or through a central agency shall be treated as a period of
employment with the same employer.
25A. Sum received by way of gratuity or by way of payment in lieu of leave paid
out of public funds on retirement from an employment under any written law.
25B. Sums received by way of gratuity paid out of public funds on termination of
a contract of employment (less the employers contribution to the Employees
Provident Fund, if any, and interest thereon).
25C. Perquisite consisting of long service, past achievement, service excellence,
innovation or productivity award, whether in money or otherwise, provided to an
employee pursuant to his employment, limited to a maximum amount or value of
two thousand ringgit for each employee for a year of assessment provided that
exemption in respect of long service award shall apply only after the employee has
exercised an employment for more than ten years with the same employer.
26.
The income of
(a) any national amateur sports organization certified by the President
and Secretary of the Olympic Council of Malaysia to be affiliated to
that Council during the basis year for any year of assessment; and
(b) any State amateur sports organization certified by the President (or
corresponding officer) and Secretary of an organization to which
paragraph (a) applies to be affiliated to that organization during the
basis year for any year of assessment,
being in each case income for that year of assessment:

Provided that the exemption under this paragraph shall not apply to income
consisting of a dividend.
27. Income of any person not resident in Malaysia for the basis year for a year of
assessment in respect of interest derived from Malaysia on an approved loan.
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28. (1) Income of any person, other than a resident company carrying on the
business of banking, insurance or sea or air transport, for the basis year for a year
of assessment derived from sources outside Malaysia and received in Malaysia.
(2) Paragraphs 5 and 6 of Schedule 7A shall apply mutatis mutandis to the
amount of income derived and received by a resident company exempted under
subparagraph (1).
29. Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection 44(6), the aggregate income of
any person remaining after the reductions made pursuant to paragraphs 44(1)(a),
(b) and (c) to the extent of the amount of any contribution made by him during the
basis period for a year of assessment to the National Monument Restoration Fund
established for the purpose of restoring the National Monument in Kuala Lumpur.
30. Pensions derived from Malaysia and paid to a person on reaching the age of
55, or on reaching the compulsory age of retirement from employment specified
under any written law or if the Director General is satisfied that the retirement was
due to ill-health
(a) in respect of services rendered in exercising a former employment in
Malaysia; and
(b) where the pension is paid other than under any written law, from a
pension or provident fund, scheme or society which is an approved
scheme.
Provided that where a person is paid more than one pension, this paragraph shall
apply to the higher or the highest pension paid, as the case may be.
30A. Gratuity or pension derived from Malaysia and paid to a person resident for
the basis year for a year of assessment under any written law applicable to the
President or Deputy President of the Senate, Speaker or Deputy Speaker of the
House of Representatives, Speaker of the State Legislative Assembly, member of
the Senate, member of the House of Representatives or member of the State
Legislative Assembly:
Provided that
(a) the exemption in respect of pension shall apply only when the person
has attained the age of fifty-five or if the Director General is satisfied
that such person ceased to be President, Deputy President, Speaker,
Deputy Speaker or member due to ill-health; and
(b) where such person is eligible for exemption in respect of pension
under this paragraph and also under paragraph 30 of this Schedule,
exemption shall be applicable only to the higher or the highest
pension payable, as the case may be.
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32. Income of ten thousand ringgit for the basis year for a year of assessment
derived by an individual resident in Malaysia for that basis year from royalty or
payment in respect of the publication of, or the use of or the right to use, any
artistic work (other than any original painting), and from royalty in respect of
recording discs or tapes.
32A. Income of twelve thousand ringgit for the basis year for a year of
assessment, derived by an individual resident in Malaysia, being payment received
in that year in respect of any translation of books or literary work at the specific
request of any agency of the Ministry of Education or Ministry of Higher Education
or the Attorney Generals Chambers:
Provided that the exemption shall not apply where the payment arises to the
individual as part of his emoluments in the exercise of his official duties.
32B. Income of twenty thousand ringgit for the basis year for a year of assessment
derived by an individual resident in Malaysia for that basis year from royalty (other
than royalty in respect of recording discs or tapes) or payment in respect of the
publication of, or the use of or the right to use, any literary work or any original
painting.
32C. Income of an individual resident in Malaysia in that basis year in respect of
his performances in cultural performances approved by the Minister:
32D. Income of twenty thousand ringgit for the basis year for a year of
assessment, derived by an individual resident in Malaysia, being payment in respect
of any musical composition:
32E. Income of an individual for the basis year for a year of assessment being
payment by way of fee or honorarium in respect of services provided for purposes
of validation, moderation or accreditation of franchised educational programmes in
higher educational institutions and the services are verified by the Lembaga
Akreditasi Negara:
33. Income of any person not resident in Malaysia for the basis year for a year of
assessment, in respect of interest derived from Malaysia(other than such interest
accruing to a place of business in Malaysia of such person) and paid or credited by
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any person (whether the same person or not) carrying on the business of banking or
finance in Malaysia and licensed under the Banking and Financial institutions Act
1989 or the Islamic Banking Act 1983, or by any other institution approved by the
Minister:
Provided that the exemption under this paragraph shall not apply to interest paid
or credited on funds required for purposes of maintaining net working funds as
prescribed by the Central Bank of Malaysia pursuant to section 37 of the Banking
and Financial Institutions Act 1989 and subsection 5(2) of the Islamic Banking Act
1983, as the case may be.
33A. Interest paid or credited to any company not resident in Malaysia, other than
such interest accruing to a place of business in Malaysia of such company
(a) in respect of securities issued by the Government; or
(b) in respect of Islamic securities or debenture issued in Ringgit
Malaysia, other than convertible loan stock, approved by the
Securities Commission.
33B. Interest paid or credited to any person in respect of Islamic securities
originating from Malaysia, other than convertible loan stock
(a) issued in any currency other than Ringgit; and
(b) approved by the Securities Commission or the Labuan Offshore
Financial Services Authority.
34. (1) Income of an individual derived from exercising an employment on
board a ship used in a business operated by a person being a registered owner of a
ship under the Merchant Shipping Ordinance 1952 who is resident in Malaysia.
(2) For the purpose of this paragraph ship means a seagoing ship other than a
ferry, barge, tug-boat, supply vessel, crew boat, lighter, dredger, fishing boat or
other similar vessel.
34A. Interest paid or credited to any individual in respect of Merdeka Bonds
issued by the Central Bank of Malaysia.
35. Interest or discount paid or credited to any individual, unit trust and listed
closed-end fund
(a) in respect of securities or bonds issued or guaranteed by the
Government; or
(b) in respect of debentures, or Islamic Securities other than convertible
loan stock, approved by the Securities Commission; or
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(d) in respect of Bon Simpanan Malaysia issued by the Central Bank of
Malaysia.
35A. Income of a unit trust in respect of interest derived from Malaysia and paid
or credited by any bank or financial institution licensed under the Banking and
Financial Institutions Act 1989 or the Islamic Banking Act 1983.
36. Sums received by way of annuities granted under annuity contracts issued by
Malaysian life insurers.
For the purposes of this paragraph Malaysian life insurers means life insurers
and takaful operators whose ownership or membership are held in majority by
Malaysian citizens.
PART II
SCHEDULE 7
Double Taxation Relief
Bilateral credit
1. Subject to this Schedule, the amount of Malaysian tax payable for a year of
assessment shall be reduced by the amount of any bilateral credit.
2. Bilateral credit shall not be allowed against Malaysian tax for any year of
assessment unless the person chargeable to the Malaysian tax is resident for the
basis year for that year of assessment.
3. Where foreign income charged to foreign tax is income for a period which
overlaps the basis period for a year of assessment, that income shall be apportioned
in the manner provided by subsection 25(4) and for that year of assessment bilateral
credit may be given only in respect of so much of that income as is apportioned to
the part of the overlapping period which overlaps the basis period.
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4. Where foreign income (being income for a particular period) is charged to

Malaysian tax for more than one year of assessment or is charged to foreign tax
more than once, bilateral credit may be allowed for a year of assessment for the
total amount of foreign tax charged on that foreign income:
Provided that
(a) the credit so allowed should not exceed the total amount of Malaysian
tax charged on that foreign income; and
(b) where credit has been allowed for a year of assessment for any
foreign tax, no credit shall be given for the same tax for any other
year of assessment.
5. The bilateral credit to be allowed to a person in respect of any foreign income
for a year of assessment shall not exceed a sum equal to so much of the Malaysian
tax payable by him for that year (before the allowance of any credit under this
Schedule) as bears to the whole of that Malaysian tax the same proportion as his
statutory income in respect of that foreign income bears to his total income for that
year.
6. Notwithstanding paragraph 5, the total bilateral credit to be allowed to a person
for a year of assessment shall not exceed the total Malaysian tax payable by him on
his chargeable income for that year before the allowance of any credit under this
Schedule.
7. Bilateral credit shall not be allowed against Malaysian tax payable by a person
for a year of assessment if he elects that credit shall not be allowed for that year.
8.
9. Any claim for bilateral credit for a year of assessment shall be made in writing
to the Director General not more than two years after the end of that year; and,
where the claimant is aggrieved by the Director Generals decision on the claim,
subsection 131(5) shall apply (with any necessary modifications) as it applies
where an applicant is aggrieved by the Director Generals decision on an
application under subsection 131(1).
10. Where the amount of any bilateral credit given is rendered excessive or
insufficient by reason of any adjustment of the amount of any Malaysian tax or
foreign tax, nothing in this Act limiting the time for making assessments, for
making applications for relief or for giving notice of appeal shall apply to any
assessment, application for relief or notice of appeal to which the adjustment gives
rise, being an assessment, application or notice made or given not more than two
years after the time when all such assessments, adjustments and other
determinations have been made (in Malaysia or elsewhere) as are material in
determining whether any and if so what bilateral credit falls to be given.
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Special provisions for trusts

11. Where the trust body of a trust is resident for the basis year for a year of
assessment and the total income of the trust body includes foreign income which
has suffered foreign tax, every beneficiary of the trust who is resident for that basis
year shall be deemed for the purposes of this Schedule
(a) to have a part of that foreign income proportionately equal to the
share of the total income of the trust body to which he is entitled; and
(b) to have paid on that part of that foreign income a part of that foreign
tax proportionately equal to that share of the total income of the trust
body.
12. Where a trust is not resident for the basis year of a year of assessment, any
beneficiary of the trust (including an annuitant) who is resident for that basis year
shall, if he satisfies the Director General that
(a) he has paid or suffered foreign tax on his income from his further
source (within the meaning of subsection 61(5)) in relation to the trust
body or on so much of the annuity as is derived from outside
Malaysia; or
(b) any income from such further source or any annuity so derived was
paid by the trust body from income which had suffered foreign tax,
be allowed bilateral credit in respect of that foreign tax in accordance with this
Schedule.
Unilateral credit
13. Subject to paragraphs 14 and 15, unilateral credit shall be allowed in the same
way as bilateral credit, and paragraphs 1 to 12 shall apply accordingly.
14. The unilateral credit allowed in respect of any foreign income for a year of
assessment shall not exceed half the foreign tax payable on that income for that
year.
15. Where an employee pays Malaysian tax and foreign tax in respect of income
from an employment exercised outside Malaysia, then, whether or not he was
resident for the basis year for the year of assessment for which the Malaysian tax
was paid, unilateral credit may be allowed for foreign tax.
Interpretation
16.
In this Schedule
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bilateral credit means credit in respect of foreign tax which, by virtue of any
arrangements having effect under section 132, is to be allowed as a credit against
Malaysian tax;
foreign income means income derived from outside Malaysia or in the case of
bilateral credit, includes income derived from Malaysia charged to foreign tax;
Malaysian tax means tax imposed by this Act;
unilateral credit means credit in respect of foreign tax payable under the laws
of a territory outside Malaysia with respect to which no arrangements under section
132 are in force.
SCHEDULE 7A
[Section 133A]
Reinvestment Allowance
1.
Subject to this Schedule, where a company which is resident in Malaysia

(a) has been in operation for not less than thirty- six months; and
(b) has incurred in the basis period for a year of assessment capital
expenditure on a factory, plant or machinery used in Malaysia for the
purposes of a qualifying project referred to under subparagraph 8(a);
(c) (Deleted by Act 591),
there shall be given to the company for that year of assessment a reinvestment
allowance of an amount equal to sixty per cent of that expenditure:
Provided that such expenditure shall not include capital expenditure incurred on
plant or machinery which is provided wholly or partly for the use of a director, or
an individual who is a member of the management, or administrative or clerical
staff.
1A. Subject to this Schedule, where a company which has been in operation for
not less than thirty-six months and is resident in Malaysia for the basis year for a
year of assessment has incurred in the basis period for that year of assessment,
capital expenditure in relation to an agricultural project in Malaysia for the
purposes of any qualifying project referred to under subparagraph 8(c) there shall
be given to the company for that year of assessment a reinvestment allowance of
sixty per cent of that expenditure.
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1B. (1) Where a company has incurred capital expenditure in respect of an asset
for the purposes of a qualifying project and that asset is acquired by a person (in
this paragraph referred to as the the acquirer) from that company or from any
other person (in this paragraph referred to as the disposer) and at the time of the
acquisition
(a) the disposer of the asset is a person over whom the acquirer of the
asset has control;
(b) the acquirer of the asset is a person over whom the disposer of the
asset has control;
(c) some other person has control directly or indirectly over the disposer
and acquirer of the asset; or
(d) the acquisition is effected in consequence of a scheme of
reconstruction or amalgamation of companies,
this Schedule shall not apply to the acquirer in respect of the asset.
(2)
In this paragraph
asset means a factory, plant or machinery referred to in paragraph 1, or plant,

machinery or building referred to in the definition of capital expenditure in
paragraph 9;
control, in relation to a company, means the power of a person to secure, by
means of the holding of shares or the possession of voting power in or in relation to
that or any other company, or by virtue of any powers conferred by the articles of
association or other document regulating that or any other company, that the affairs
of the first mentioned company are conducted in accordance with the wishes of that
person.
2. An allowance under paragraph 1 or 1A shall be given in respect of capital
expenditure incurred in the basis periods for fifteen consecutive years of
assessment beginning from the year of assessment for the basis period in which a
claim for that allowance was first made in the return of his income in respect of that
capital expenditure.
2A. Where an asset is disposed of at any time within five years from the date of
acquisition of that asset, an allowance given under paragraph 1 or 1A in respect of
that asset shall be deemed to have not been given to the person to which it would
otherwise be entitled.
3. Where an allowance is given to a person under paragraph 1 or 1A for a year of
assessment, so much of the statutory income of that business of that person for that
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year of assessment as is equal to the amount of the allowance (or to the aggregate
amount of any such allowances as the case may be) but not exceeding seventy per
cent of the statutory income shall be exempt from tax for that year of assessment:
Provided that where the qualifying project has achieved the level of productivity
as prescribed by the Minister, the amount to be exempt shall be equal to the
allowance (or to the aggregate amount of any such allowances as the case may be)
but not exceeding the statutory income for that year of assessment.
4. Where, by reason of the restriction of the allowance to seventy per cent of the
statutory income or of an insufficiency or absence of statutory income from a
business of the person for the basis period for a year of assessment, effect cannot be
given or cannot be given in full to any allowance or allowances to which the person
is entitled under this Schedule for that year of assessment in relation to the source
consisting of that business, so much of the allowance or allowances as cannot be
given for that year shall be given to the person under this Schedule for the first
subsequent year of assessment for the basis period for which there is statutory
income from that business, and for subsequent years of assessment until the person
has received the whole of the allowance or allowances to which it is so entitled.
5. (1) In the case of a company as soon as any amount of income has become
exempted under paragraph 3, that amount shall be credited to an account to be kept
by that company for the purposes of this paragraph (that account and company
being in this paragraph and paragraph 6 referred to as the exempt account and the
relevant company respectively).
(2) Where the exempt account is in credit at the date on which any dividends
are paid by the relevant company out of income which has been exempted under
paragraph 3, an amount equal to those dividends or that credit, whichever is the
less, shall be debited to the exempt account.
(3) So much of the amount of any dividends debited to the exempt account
under subparagraph (2) as is received by a shareholder in the relevant company
shall, if the Director General is satisfied with the entries in the exempt account, be
exempt from tax in the hands of that shareholder.
(4) Any dividends debited to the exempt account under subparagraph (2) shall
be treated as having been distributed to the shareholders (or any particular class of
shareholders) of the relevant company in the same proportions as those in which
the shareholders in question were entitled to payment of the dividends giving rise to
the debit.
(5) Until the Director General is satisfied that there is no further need to
maintain the exempt account, the relevant company shall deliver to the Director
General a copy of the exempt account made up to a date specified by him whenever
it is called upon to do so by notice in writing sent by the Director General to the
companys registered office.
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Where
(a) an amount is received by way of dividend from the relevant company
by a shareholder;
(b) that amount is exempt from tax under subparagraph (3); and
(c) that shareholder is a company,
any dividends paid by that shareholding company to its shareholders shall, to the
extent that the Director General is satisfied that the dividends so paid are paid out
of that amount, be exempt from tax in the hands of those shareholders.
(7)
6. Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Schedule, where paragraph 2 A

applies or where it appears to the Director General that any income of the relevant
company exempted under paragraph 3 or any dividend exempted in the hands of a
shareholder under paragraph 5 ought not to have been exempted, he may at any
time within five years after the expiration of the year of assessment for which the
exemption was given make such assessment or additional assessment upon any
person as appears to him to be necessary in order to counteract any benefit obtained
from the exemption, or direct the relevant company to debit the exempt account
with such amount as the circumstances require.
6A. Where in the case of a business of a person the basis periods for two years of
assessment overlap, the period common to those periods shall be deemed for the
purposes of this Schedule to fall into the earlier of those periods and not into the
later of those periods.
7.
This Schedule shall not apply to a company

(a)
for the basis period during which the company

(i) has been granted pioneer status under the Promotion of
Investments Act 1986 in respect of a promoted activity or
promoted product and which is applying or intends to apply
for the grant of a pioneer certificate; or
(ii)
(b)
has been granted pioneer certificate under the Promotion of

Investments Act 1986 in respect of a promoted activity or
promoted product and whose tax relief period has not ended
or ceased;
for the basis period for which the company has been granted
approval for investment tax allowance under the Promotion of
Investments Act 1986 in respect of a promoted activity or promoted
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product for the period prescribed under the relevant provisions of

that Act;
(c)
(Deleted by Act 578);
(d)
for the basis period during which that company, notwithstanding the
repeal of the Investment Incentives Act 1968
(i) has been given approval under section 5, 12 A or 12B of that
Act and whose tax relief period has not ended; or
(ii)
8.
has been given approval under section 26 of that Act and

incurs capital expenditure which qualifies for investment tax
credit; or
(e)
for the basis period for which the company has been granted approval
under section 31C of the Promotion of Investments Act 1986 prior to the
coming into operation of section 37 of the Promotion of Investments
(Amendment) Act 2007 [Act A1318] in respect of a manufacturing activity
or manufactured product for the period prescribed under paragraph
31E(2)(b) of that Act.
(f)
In this Schedule, qualifying project means

(a) a project undertaken by a company, in expanding, modernizing or
automating its existing business in respect of manufacturing of a
product or any related product within the same industry or in
diversifying its existing business into any related product within the
same industry;
(c) an agricultural project undertaken by a company in expanding,
modernizing or diversifying its cultivation and farming business
excluding the business of rearing chicken and ducks; or
(d)
9. In this Schedule
capital expenditure, in relation to an agricultural project referred to in
paragraphs 1A and 1C, means capital expenditure incurred in respect of
(a) the clearing and preparation of land;
(b) the planting of crops;
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(c) the provision of irrigation or drainage systems;

(d) the provision of plant and machinery;
(e) the construction of access roads including bridges;
(f) the construction or purchase of buildings (including those provided
for the welfare of persons or as living accommodation for persons)
and structural improvements on land or other structures; or
(g) (Deleted by Act 755),
for the purposes of any of the following activities:
(aa)
cultivation of rice and maize;
(bb)
cultivation of vegetables, tuber and roots;
(cc)
cultivation of fruits;
(dd)
livestock farming;
(ee)
spawning, breeding or culturing of aquatic products;
(ff)
any other activities approved by the Minister; and
(gg)
(Deleted by Act 755);
disposed of means sold, conveyed, transferred, assigned, or alienated with or

without consideration;
factory means portion of the floor areas of a building or an extension of a
building used for the purposes of qualifying project to place or install plant or
machinery or to store any raw material, or goods or materials manufactured prior to
sale:
Provided that in respect of portion of the building or extension of the building
used for the storage of raw material, or goods or materials, or both, it shall not be
more than one-tenth of the total floor areas of that building or extension;
incurred has the same meaning assigned thereto in paragraphs 46 and 55 of
Schedule 3;
manufacturing means
(a) conversion by manual or mechanical means of organic or inorganic
materials into a new product by changing the size, shape,
composition, nature or quality of such materials;
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(b) assembly of parts into a piece of machinery or products; or

(c) mixing of materials by a chemical reaction process including
biochemical process that changes the structure of a molecule by the
breaking of the intra molecular bonds or by altering the spatial
arrangement of atom in the molecule,
but does not include
(aa)
the installation of machinery or equipment for the purpose of

construction;
(bb)
a simple packaging operations such as bottling, placing in boxes,

bags and cases;
(cc)
a simple fixing;
(dd)
a simple mixing of any products;
(ee)
a simple assembly of parts;
(ff)
any activity to ensure the preservation of products in good

condition during transportation and storage;
(gg)
any activity to facilitate shipment and transportation;
(hh)
any activity of packaging or presenting goods for sale; or
(ii)
any activity that may be prescribed

notwithstanding the above interpretation;
by
the
Minister,
operation means an activity which consists of the carrying on of a business

referred to in paragraph 8;
simple generally describes an activity which does not need special skills,
machines, apparatus or equipment especially produced or installed for carrying out
the activity.
10. Except for paragraphs 1 and 5, this Schedule shall also apply to an agro-based
co-operative society (within the meaning assigned to it under the Farmers
Organization Act 1973 [Act 109]), an Area Farmers Association, a National
Farmers Association, a State Farmers Association (within the meanings assigned
to them under the Farmers Organization Act 1973), an Area Fishermens
Association, a National Fishermens Association and a State Fishermens
Association (within the meanings assigned to them under the Fishermens
Association Act 1971 [Act 44]).
11.
For the purpose of paragraph 1C, where
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(a)
a company or a partnership (hereinafter referred to in this

subparagraph as new partnership) commences to carry on a
business of rearing chicken and ducks; and
(b)
that business is a continuation of a business carried out by a sole

proprietor or a partnership (hereinafter referred to in this
subparagraph as old partnership) for a period of not less than
thirty-six months prior to that commencement,
that period, in relation to that company and the new partnership, shall be taken into
account in ascertaining the period of not less than thirty-six months referred to in
that paragraph:
Provided that the sole proprietor or any of the partners in the old partnership
holds any share in that company or is the partner of the new partnership, as the case
may be.
12. Where a person has a source within the meaning of sections 55 to 58, the
rules prescribed under paragraph 74 of Schedule 3 shall apply, mutatis mutandis, in
ascertaining the allowance to be made to that person for a year of assessment under
this Schedule.
SCHEDULE 7B
[Section 133A]
Investment Allowance for Service Sector
1. Where a company which is resident in Malaysia for the basis year for a year of
assessment has incurred in the basis period for that year of assessment capital
expenditure for the purpose of an approved service project, there shall be given to
the company for that year of assessment an investment allowance of an amount
approved by the Minister, such allowance being not less than sixty per cent of that
expenditure.
2. The Minister may grant approval in respect of an application made in writing
for an investment allowance under this Schedule on such terms and conditions as
he deems fit.
3. An allowance for expenditure given under paragraph 1 shall be given in
respect of expenditure incurred within five years from the date from which the
approval is to take effect.
4. Where an allowance is given to a company under paragraph 1 for a year of
assessment, so much of the statutory income of the business of the company in
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respect of an approved service project for that year of assessment as is equal to the
amount of the allowance (or to the aggregate amount of any such allowance, as the
case may be) shall be exempt from tax and the amount so exempt shall not exceed
seventy per cent (or any other rate as the Minister may determine) of the statutory
income of that business of the company for that year of assessment.
5. Where, by reason of an absence or insufficiency of statutory income of a
company from a business for the basis period for a year of assessment, effect
cannot be given or cannot be given in full to any allowance or allowances to which
the company is entitled to under this Schedule for that year in relation to the source
consisting of that business, then, notwithstanding the foregoing paragraphs, so
much of the allowance or allowances in question as cannot be given for that year
shall be deemed to be an allowance to be given to the company under this Schedule
for the first subsequent year of assessment for the basis period for which there is
statutory income from that business, and so on for subsequent years of assessment
until the company has received the whole of the allowance or allowances to which
it is so entitled.
6. Paragraphs 5 and 6 of Schedule 7A shall apply as if any reference in those
paragraphs to any income exempted or which has become exempted under
paragraph 3 of that Schedule were a reference to income credited to the exempt
account under paragraph 4.
7. This Schedule shall not apply to a company for the period during which the
company has been granted exemption under section 127.
8. For the purposes of this Schedule any expenditure incurred in relation to an
approved service project prior to the commencement of the business, shall be
deemed to be incurred on the day when the business commences.
9.
For the purposes of this Schedule
approved service project means a project in the service sector in relation to

transportation, communications, utilities or any other sub-sector as approved by the
Minister;
capital expenditure, in relation to approved service project, means capital
expenditure incurred on plant, machinery, fixtures, premises, buildings, structures
or works of a permanent nature and shall not include capital expenditure incurred
on buildings, plant or machinery which are provided wholly or partly for the use of
a director or an individual who is a member of the management, administrative or
clerical staff;
incurred has the same meaning assigned to it in paragraphs 46 and 55 of
Schedule 3.
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SCHEDULE 8
[Section 155]
Repeals
No. and year
Short title
Extent of repeal
29 of 1956
Income Tax Ordinance 1956 of Sabah
The whole
13 of 1960
Inland Revenue Ordinance 1960 of

Sarawak
The whole
M.U. 48 of 1947
Income Tax Ordinance 1947
The whole
F.M. 62 of 1950
Housing Trust Ordinance 1950
The
words
and
income tax and or
income
tax
in
subsection 35 (1) and
the words Income
Tax in the marginal
note to section 35
F.M. 36 of 1954
Petaling Jaya Ordinance 1954
The
words
and
income tax and or
income tax in section
29 and the words and
income tax in the
marginal note to that
section
F.M. 20 of 1956
Land Development Ordinance 1956
The
words
and
income tax and or
income
tax
in
subsection 63 (1)
F.M. 61 of 1958
Central Bank of Malaysia Ordinance

1958
The words from the

provisions of any law
relating to income
taxation or company
taxation,
and
in
section 50 and the
words taxation and
in the marginal note to
that section
F.M. 10 of 1961
Racing (Totalizator Board) Act 1961
Subsection 19(2)
F.M. 25 of 1962
Sarawak
Electricity
Corporation 1962
Section 32
Supply
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SCHEDULE 9
[Section 156]
Transitional and Saving Provisions
PART I
General
Interpretation
1.
(1)
In this Schedule
pre-basis period, in relation to a pre-year of assessment, means the period

which would have been the basis period for that year if that year had been a year of
assessment in relation to which this Act has effect by virtue of subsection 1(3);
pre-basis year, in relation to a pre-year of assessment, means the calendar year
immediately preceding that pre-year of assessment;
previous tax means any tax imposed by a repealed law;
pre-year of assessment means a calendar year preceding the year of assessment
1968;
repealed laws means the Sabah Ordinance, the Sarawak Ordinance and the
West Malaysian Ordinance, and repealed law means any of those Ordinances;
Sabah Ordinance means the Income Tax Ordinance 1956, of Sabah;
Sarawak Ordinance means the Inland Revenue Ordinance 1960, of Sarawak;
West Malaysian Ordinance means the Income Tax Ordinance 1947, of West
Malaysia.
(2)
In the marginal note to any paragraph of this Schedule

(a) a reference to any specific Part, section or Schedule is a reference to
the Part or section of this Act, or Schedule to this Act, to which that
paragraph relates; and
(b) a reference to a specific Schedule followed by a colon and a number
or numbers is a reference to the paragraph or paragraphs of that
Schedule bearing that number or those numbers.
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This Part of this Schedule shall be subject in its operation to Parts II, III
and IV thereof.
Power to make further transitional or saving provisions

2. (1)
The Minister at any time may by statutory order make such further
transitional or saving provisions as he considers necessary or expedient (including
provisions amending any of the paragraphs of this Schedule except this paragraph).
(2)
Rakyat.
Any order made under subparagraph (1) shall be laid before the Dewan
Repealed laws saved for certain purposes

3. (1) Subject to subparagraph (2) and the other provisions of this Schedule,
each of the repealed laws shall remain in force for all purposes in relation to the
year of assessment 1967 under the law in question and to previous years of
assessment under that law.
(2) Any function of a public officer under a repealed law may for the purposes
of subparagraph (1) be exercised by any public officer referred to in section 134
whose office substantially corresponds to that of an officer by whom the function
was exercisable under that law or by any public officer so referred to who is
designated in that behalf by the Director General.
(3) Subsections 136(2) to (5) shall not apply to the exercise of the Director
Generals functions under subparagraph (2).
References to repealed law
4. Unless the context otherwise requires, a reference in a written law to any
provision of a repealed law shall be construed in relation to the year of assessment
1968 and subsequent years of assessment as a reference to the corresponding
provision (if any) of this Act.
References to Malaysia before 1968
5. Subject to any express provision of this Act, references in this Act to Malaysia
shall be construed, in relation to any time before 1 January 1968, as references to
the territories comprised in Malaysia on that date or any one or more of those
territories.
Section 7
6. References in section 7 to years of assessment preceding a particular year of
assessment and to the basis years for those preceding years include references to
pre-years of assessment and pre-basis years respectively.
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Section 8
7. Where a company or body of person falls to be treated as resident in Sabah,
Sarawak or Peninsular Malaysia under the appropriate repealed law for a year of
assessment under that law coinciding with the calendar year 1966 or 1967, then, for
the purposes of subsection 8(2)
(a) if the calendar year in question is 1966, it shall be presumed until the
contrary is proved that the company or body was resident in Malaysia
for the purposes of this Act for the basis years for the year of
assessment 1968 and every subsequent year of assessment;
(b) if the calendar year in question is 1967, it shall be taken to have been
established as between the Director General and the company or body
that the company or body was resident in Malaysia for the basis year
for the year of assessment 1968.
Section 10
8. References in section 10 to years of assessment preceding a particular year of
assessment and to the basis years for those preceding years including references to
pre-years of assessment and pre-basis years respectively.
Section 13
9. In subsections 13(2) and (3) period includes a period which elapsed or began
before 1 January 1968.
Section 21
10. (1) In subsections 21(2) and (3) financial year and accounting period
include, in relation to the year of assessment 1968, a financial year or accounting
period, as the case may be, beginning before 1 January 1967.
(2) Where under subsection 28(2) of the Sabah Ordinance, subsection 25(2) of
the Sarawak Ordinance or subsection 31(2) of the West Malaysian Ordinance a
direction has been given (or purports to have been given) with respect to the years
of assessment 1967 and 1968 under the Ordinance in question, the period which the
direction indicates (or purports to indicate) with respect to the year of assessment
1968 under that Ordinance shall be taken to be the basis period for the year of
assessment 1968 under this Act unless the Director General having regard to the
circumstances of any particular case directs that some other period shall be taken to
be the basis period for that year of assessment under this Act.
(3) Where the accounts for the financial year of a company or the accounts of a
business were made up for a period of twelve months to some day in the calendar
year 1966 other than 31 December and accounts were not made up to the
corresponding day in the calendar year 1967, the Director General may act under
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subsection 21(3) in relation to the years of assessment 1968 and 1969 under this
Act and, where appropriate, may act under any of the provisions of the repealed
laws mentioned in subparagraph (2) in relation to the year of assessment 1967
under any repealed law.
Section 23
11. (1) In paragraph 23(c) any tax includes previous tax deducted in paying,
crediting or distributing any gross income
(a) if that previous tax was deducted in the calendar year 1967; or
(b) if part of the basis period for the year of assessment 1968 elapsed
before 1 January 1967, and that previous tax was deducted in that part
of that basis period from gross income which is gross income for that
basis period.
(2) In paragraph 23(d) tax, in relation to a dividend, includes previous tax
(a) if the dividend was paid or credited in the calendar year 1967; or
(b) if part of the basis period for the year of assessment 1968 elapsed
before 1 January 1967, and the dividend, being gross income for that
basis period, was paid or credited in that part of that basis period.
(3) Where a dividend was paid or credited or distributed in specie in the year of
assessment 1966 or 1967 under the Sarawak Ordinance by a company resident in
Sarawak by virtue of that Ordinance for the year of assessment in which the
dividend was paid, credited or distributed, section 23 shall operate in relation to the
dividend so that, for the purposes of sections 24 to 28, it shall be deemed to have
been paid, credited or distributed after deduction of tax at the rate in force for
corporation profits tax in Sarawak for the year of assessment in question and to be
of such a gross amount as after deduction of tax at that rate would be equal to
(a) the amount of the dividend so paid or credited; or
(b) where the dividend consists of property other than money, the amount
of the market value of that property at the time of the dividends
distribution.
Section 24
12. (1) An amount treated under any repealed law as income from a source
other than a source consisting of a business shall not be treated as gross income
under this Act if it is a debt arising in the manner described in paragraph 24(1)(c).
(2) In subsection 24(4) dividend does not include any dividend which is
treated under any repealed law as income from a source other than a source
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consisting of a business, and in subsection 24(5) interest does not include any
interest which is so treated under any repealed law.
PART III
13. Where, in the application of Chapters 3 and 4 of Part III to a person and a
source of his, regard is to be had to any particular period commencing prior to the
basis period for a year of assessment, regard may be had to that particular period
notwithstanding that it commenced prior to the basis period for the year of
assessment 1968.
Sections 30 and 34
14.
Where
(a) a person is chargeable to previous tax in respect of the income or
assessable profits from a business of his or would have been so
chargeable but for an insufficiency of any such income or profits; and
(b) this Act is applicable to him in respect of gross income from that
business for the basis period for the year of assessment 1968 or any
subsequent year of assessment,
any provision of this Act which is necessary for the proper application of
subsections 30(1) and (4) and 34(2) to him, to that business and to any such year of
assessment may be deemed to have been applicable to him and that business for the
pre-basis period, in relation to that business, for any pre-year of assessment.
Section 33
15. Where any particular part of the subject matter of any particular deduction
which but for this paragraph would fall to be made under subsection 33(1) in
computing the adjusted income of a person from a source for the basis period for a
year of assessment has formed the whole or part of the subject matter of a
deduction under any corresponding provision of a repealed law, that particular
deduction, if the amount from which it was deducted is not gross income for the
basis period for that year of assessment, shall be reduced in the application of
subsection 33(1) to that year of assessment by so much thereof as relates to that
particular part.
Section 34
16. Where any particular part of the subject matter of any particular deduction
which but for this paragraph would fall to be made under subsection 34(1) in
accordance with subsection (4), (6) or (7) of that section in computing the adjusted
income of a person from a business for the basis period for a year of assessment has
formed the whole or part of the subject matter of a deduction under any
corresponding provision of a repealed law, that particular deduction, if the amount
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from which it was deducted is not gross income for the basis period for that year of
assessment, shall be reduced in the application of subsection 34(1) and those
subsections to that year of assessment by so much thereof as relates to that
particular part.
Section 35
17. Where the relevant period for the purposes of section 35 is a basis period for
the year of assessment 1968, paragraph (3)(b) of that section shall be so modified
that the value of any particular item of the stock at the beginning of the relevant
period (except where the business was commenced by the relevant person in the
relevant period) shall be taken
(a)
to be an amount equal to the value which would be arrived at if

paragraph (3)(a) were applied at the beginning and not at the end of
the relevant period; or
(b)
if a value in respect of that item was had regard to for the purposes of
any repealed law at the end of an accounting period ending
immediately before the relevant period, to be an amount equal to that
value:
Provided that, where the value of an item to which subparagraph (b) applies was
had regard to as mentioned in that subparagraph for the purposes of two or more
repealed laws, regard shall be had for the purposes of that subparagraph to such one
of those laws as the relevant person may elect by notice in writing given to the
Director General within three months after the beginning of the year of assessment
1968 (or within such further period as the Director General may allow) or, if the
relevant person fails so to elect, as the Director General may direct.
Section 43
18. (1) Where a person has incurred, in relation to a source of his, a loss of a
kind deductible under any repealed law, there shall be ascertained the amount
thereof, if any, unallowed after the application of that law to all years of assessment
under that law for which that law was in force:
Provided that, if in the application of this subparagraph to a person and a loss in
relation to a source an amount is so ascertained under the Sabah Ordinance and if
under that Ordinance that loss is one incurred anywhere, this subparagraph shall not
apply to any part of that loss in relation to any repealed law other than that
Ordinance.
(2) Where an amount has been ascertained under subparagraph (1) in its
application to a person and a source, then, in the application of section 43 to that
person, that amount (in subparagraph (3) referred to as the specified amount) shall
be treated as the amount ascertained under subsection 44(4) for the pre-year of
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assessment 1967, which shall be treated as the particular year of assessment

preceding the relevant year for the purposes of subsection 43(2).
(3) Where the proviso to subparagraph (1) is applicable to a person and that
person is not ordinarily resident for the basis year for the relevant year to which
regard is had in the application of section 43, subsection 43(5) shall apply in order
to ascertain how much of the specified amount is to be taken to be the amount of
the Malaysian loss for the purposes of paragraph 43(5)(a) and the proportion
thereof to be substituted for the purposes of paragraph 43(5)(b).
Section 44
19. (1) Where a loss has been deducted in calculating the assessable income or
the assessable profits (as the case may be) for the year of assessment 1967 under a
repealed law no part of that loss shall be taken into account for the purposes of
section 44.
(2) Where approval has been given for the purposes of any of the repealed laws
to an institution of a public character, the approval, if it was still effective on
31 December 1967, shall be deemed to have been given (subject to any conditions
effective on that date) under section 44.
Section 54
20. (1) Where a person has incurred, in relation to a source of his consisting of
a business of a kind to which subsection 54(2) applies, a loss of a kind deductible
under any repealed law, there shall be ascertained the amount thereof, if any,
unallowed after the application of that law to all years of assessment under that law
for which that law was in force.
(2) Subparagraph (1) shall apply to a depreciation allowance to which regard is
had under a repealed law as it applies to a loss.
(3) Where an amount has been ascertained under subparagraph (1) or (2) or
both in respect of a person and a source, then, in the application of paragraph
54(4)(a) to that person, that amount (or, where an amount has been ascertained
under either or both of those subparagraph in relation to more than one repealed
law, the aggregate of the amounts so ascertained) shall be treated as the amount
ascertained under paragraph 54(4)(b) for the pre-year of assessment 1967, which
shall be treated as a year of assessment preceding the relevant year for the purposes
of paragraph 54(4)(a).
(4)
Paragraph 18 shall not apply to a loss to which this paragraph applies.
Section 60
21. In the application of subparagraphs 60(5)(a)(v) and (6)(a)(v) to the general
business of an insurer for the basis period for the year of assessment 1968,
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subsection 60(9) shall not apply and for the amount of his reserve fund for
unexpired risks regard shall be had to the amount taken by him to be the reserve for
unexpired risks at the end of the basis period for the year of assessment 1967 under
a repealed law or, where two or more repealed laws apply, the aggregate of the
amounts taken by him to be the reserves for unexpired risks at the end of the basis
period for the year of assessment 1967 under each of those laws.
Section 68
22. Where an appointment has been made under any repealed law of any person
to be the agent of any other person for any of the purposes of that law, the
appointment, if it was still effective on 31 December 1967, shall be deemed to have
been made under section 68 for any purposes of this Act similar to those firstmentioned purposes.
Section 74
23.
In subsections 74(5) and (6) tax includes previous tax.
Section 75
24. In subsection 75(2) the references to tax, this Act and section 107 include
references to previous tax, any repealed law and any provision of a repealed law
corresponding to section 107; and subsection 75(3) shall be construed accordingly.
PART VII
25. Part VII (except sections 108, 109 and 110) shall apply, with any necessary
modifications, for the recovery of and otherwise in relation to any previous tax
which is the subject of an assessment made under a repealed law on or after
1 January 1968, and any sum due in connection with any such previous tax.
Section 104
26. In section 104 the references to tax, sums and debts include references to
previous tax and to sums and debts of a corresponding kind under the repealed
laws.
Section 107
27. Where a direction has been given for the year of assessment 1968 under
the Deduction of Income Tax (Employments) Rules 1948 of West Malaysia
[G.N. 3305/ 1948], the direction shall be deemed to have been given under
the Income Tax (Deduction from Emoluments: West Malaysia) Rules 1967
[P.U. 636/1967].
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Section 108
28. (1) Where subsection 108(4) applies to a company for the year of
assessment 1968
(a)
any tax which the company is entitled to deduct (or which is deemed
to be deducted by the company) under the Sabah Ordinance or the
West Malaysian Ordinance from a dividend paid or distributed in the
calendar year 1967, and any tax deemed to be deducted by the
company under paragraph 29 from a dividend paid, credited or
distributed in that calendar year, shall be disregarded in arriving at
the compared total for the purposes of subsection 108(4); and
(b)
the reference in subsection 108(4) to the balance (if any) shall be

construed
(i) as a reference to the balance (if any) which would have been
carried forward under subsection 40(5) of the West
Malaysian Ordinance or subsection 37(5) of the Sabah
Ordinance if the said section 40 or the said section 37, as the
case may be, was applicable to the company for the year of
assessment 1967 under the West Malaysian Ordinance or the
Sabah Ordinance and would have been so applicable for the
year of assessment 1968 under the West Malaysian
Ordinance or the Sabah Ordinance but for the repeal of the
Ordinance in question; or
(ii)
if the company was resident in Sarawak for the year of

assessment 1967 under the Sarawak Ordinance, as a
reference to such a balance (if any) as is ascertained under
paragraph 29.
(2) In the application of subsection 108(8) to any case to which

subparagraph (1) applies, the references in the said subsection 108(8) to a
year of assessment, any assessment and any repayment of tax shall be deemed
to include references to a year of assessment, any assessment and any
repayment of tax under any repealed law.
(3)
For the avoidance of doubt it is declared that

(a)
any reference in section 108 to a company entitled to deduct tax from

dividends includes a company entitled to declare itself a resident of
Malaysia under paragraph 3 of Article VII of the Double Taxation
Relief (Singapore) Order 1968 [P.U.(A) 518/68]; and
(b)
any reference in subsection 108(8) to repayment of tax includes

payment of the Sabah credit, Sarawak credit or West Malaysian
credit, as the case may be, which payment shall be deemed to have
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been made in the year of assessment in which the company became

entitled to the credit.
(4)
Where
(a)
a company, which is entitled to a Sabah credit, Sarawak credit or

West Malaysian credit, is a non-resident company the payment of the
Sabah credit, Sarawak credit or West Malaysian credit, as the case
may be, to the company; or
(b)
any of the provisos to subparagraphs 69(1), 85(1) and 109(1) applies

to a non-resident company, the payment to a transferee company of
the Sabah credit, Sarawak credit or West Malaysian credit, as the
case may be, to which the non-resident company would have been
entitled but for that proviso,
shall not be deemed to be a repayment of tax under subsection 108(8).

(5) For the purposes of subparagraph (4), a non-resident company refers to a
company which is not resident in the basis year for the year of assessment 1967 but
does not include a company which is entitled to declare itself a resident of Malaysia
under paragraph 3 of Article VII of the Double Taxation Relief (Singapore) Order
1968.
Section 108
29.
(1)
Where subsubparagraph 28(1)(b)(ii) applies to a company

(a) any dividend paid, credited or distributed by the company in any of
the years of assessment 1964 to 1967 inclusive for which the
company was resident in Sarawak under the Sarawak Ordinance (any
such years for which the company was so resident being in this
paragraph referred to as the residential years) shall be deemed to have
been paid, credited or distributed after deduction of Sarawak tax at the
rate in force for the year in question and to be of such a gross amount
as after deduction of Sarawak tax at that rate would be equal to
(i) the amount of the dividend so paid or credited; or
(ii) where the dividend consists of property other than money,
the amount of the market value of that property at the time of
the dividends distribution,
and a sum equal to the difference between that gross amount and the
amount of the dividend so paid, credited or distributed shall be
deemed to be the amount of the Sarawak tax deducted from that
dividend;
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(b) for the first of the residential years there shall be ascertained the
excess, if any, of the amount of the federal tax payable by the
company for that first year (that amount being computed after giving
any relief due to the company for that first year by virtue of section 59
or 61 of the Sarawak Ordinance or the corresponding provisions of
the Sabah Ordinance or the West Malaysian Ordinance) over the total
of all amounts so deemed to have been deducted from dividends paid,
credited or distributed by the company in that first year;
(c) for each of the residential years subsequent to that first year there
shall be ascertained the excess, if any, of the aggregate of the federal
tax payable by the company for that subsequent year, and the excess,
if any, for the latest of the residential years preceding that subsequent
year (as ascertained under this subparagraph or, where this
subsubparagraph does not apply to that preceding year, under
subparagraph (b)) over the total of all amounts so deemed to have
been deducted from dividends paid by the company in that subsequent
year; and
(d) the excess ascertained under subparagraph (c) (or, where
subparagraph (c) does not apply, under subparagraph (b)) for the year
of assessment 1967 in relation to the company shall be deemed to be
the balance.
(2) Where this paragraph has applied to a dividend which has been credited, it
shall not apply to that dividend when paid.
Section 108
30.
In paragraph 29
federal tax means any one or more of the following, that is to say, the income
tax imposed by the Sabah Ordinance, the corporation profits tax imposed by the
Sarawak Ordinance and the income tax imposed by the West Malaysian Ordinance,
but does not include tin profits tax or development tax imposed under any repealed
law;
Sarawak tax means the corporation profits tax imposed by the Sarawak
Ordinance, but does not include development tax imposed by that Ordinance;
year of assessment, in relation to Sarawak tax, means a year of assessment for
the purposes of the Sarawak Ordinance, and in relation to federal tax means a year
of assessment for the purposes of any one or more of the repealed laws.
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Section 110
31. (1) Subject to subparagraph (2), in the application of section 110, other than
subsections (8), (9), (10) and (12) thereof, any reference to tax shall include a
reference
(a) to any previous tax deducted from any dividend or interest paid in the
calendar year 1967; or
(b) where part of the basis period for the year of assessment 1968 elapsed
before 1 January 1967, to any previous tax deducted in that part of
that basis period from any dividend or interest which is gross income
for that basis period.
(2) Subparagraph (1) shall not apply to any tax imposed under the West
Malaysian Ordinance or the Sabah Ordinance and deducted from any dividend or
interest if by virtue of subparagraph 12(2) that dividend or interest is not to be
included as gross income for the basis period for a year of assessment.
(3) Where an amount of previous tax is deemed by virtue of
subparagraph 11(3) to have been deducted from a dividend and the dividend
is included in the gross income of a person from a source for the basis
period for a year of assessment, that amount shall be deemed for the
purposes of section 110 to be tax deducted under section 108.
Section 115
32. In subsection 115(1) the references to tax, sums and debts include references
to previous tax and sums and debts of a corresponding kind under the repealed
laws.
Section 127
33. Any exemption from any previous tax or from any provision of a repealed law
shall, if it was made under a repealed law and was effective on 31 December 1967, be
deemed to have been made by an order under section 127 in relation to tax imposed by
this Act or in relation to the corresponding provision of this Act, as the case may be:
Provided that this paragraph shall not apply in relation to
(a) any such exemption for which provision is made, with or without
modification, in this Act; or
(b) subsection 44(3) of the Sarawak Ordinance.
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Section 131
34. In subsection 131(3) the references to tax, years of assessment and
assessments include references to previous tax and to years of assessment and
assessments under any repealed law.
Section 134
35.
(1)
With effect from 1 January 1968

(a)
the person holding on 31 December 1967, the office of Director

General of Inland Revenue shall become Director General of Inland
Revenue within the meaning of subsection 134(1);
(b)
all other persons holding on 31 December 1967, federal public

offices in the Inland Revenue Department shall become federal
public officers for the purposes of subsection 134(2); and
(c)
the Director General may with the concurrence of the Director

General of Establishments make such changes (if any) in the
designation of the offices held by those other persons as he considers
necessary and appropriate in order to implement and conform with
subsection 134(2):
Provided that nothing in this paragraph shall be construed as altering any

officers terms of service.
(2) Subsections 136(2) to (5) shall not apply to the exercise of the Director
Generals functions under subsubparagraph (1)(c).
(3) To such extent as may be necessary for the proper application of this Act in
relation to the year of assessment 1968, subparagraph (1) shall have effect as if any
references therein to 1 January 1968, and 31 December 1967, were references to 28
September 1967, and 27 September 1967, respectively.
Section 138
36. Where for the purposes of any repealed law a person has made a declaration
of a kind corresponding to a declaration required by subsection 138(1), the
declaration so made shall be treated as a declaration that he will regard and deal
with classified material as confidential and as a declaration made and subscribed by
him for the purposes of section 138.
Section 142
37. Where by virtue of paragraph 25 civil proceedings are taken under section
106 for the recovery of previous tax or any other sum due under a repealed law,
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section 142 shall apply in relation to those proceedings and that tax or sum as it
applies in relation to proceedings for the recovery of tax due under this Act.
Section 149
38. Section 149 shall not apply to an order deemed to have been made under
paragraph 33.
Section 150
39. Where approval has been given for the purposes of any of the repealed laws
to a retirement scheme or to a pension or provident fund or society, the approval, if
it was still effective on 31 December 1967, shall be deemed to have been given
(subject to any conditions effective on that date) under section 150.
Section 154
40. (1) In paragraph 154(1)(e) the references to tax include a reference to
previous tax and the reference to sums due includes a reference to sums of a
corresponding kind due under the repealed laws.
(2) Rules made under section 154 may include such transitional and saving
provisions as may be expedient in the circumstances.
Schedule 2:6
41. For the purposes of Schedule 2, where the operator owned an asset at the
beginning of the basis period for the year of assessment 1968 and has incurred
capital expenditure as defined in the Income Tax (Mining Operations) Rules 1949,
of West Malaysia [F.L.N. 534/49] on or for the asset in connection with the
working of the mine
(a)
the asset shall be deemed to be included in the definition of mining

asset in paragraph 6 of that Schedule; and
(b)
that capital expenditure to the extent allowed or determined to rank

as capital expenditure under the Income Tax (Mining Operations)
Rules 1949, of West Malaysia shall be treated as qualifying mining
expenditure.
Schedule 2:15
42. Paragraph 15 of Schedule 2 shall not apply where the operator (within the
meaning of that Schedule) permanently ceases to work a mine in the basis period
for the year of assessment 1968; and, where he permanently ceases to work a mine
in the basis period for any of the years of assessment 1969 to 1972 inclusive
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(a) the reference to preceding years of assessment in subparagraph (a) of

that paragraph shall include a reference to years of assessment under
the West Malaysian Ordinance; and
(b) the references to repayments of tax and assessments in subparagraph
(b) of that paragraph shall include references to repayments of
previous tax and assessments under the West Malaysian Ordinance.
Schedule 2:22
43. Where any capital expenditure is included by virtue of paragraph 41 in the
total qualifying mining expenditure mentioned in the definition of residual
expenditure in paragraph 22 of Schedule 2, that total, apart from any other
deductions made for the purposes of that definition, shall be reduced by the
amount
(a) by which capital expenditure incurred prior to the commencement of
the basis period for the year of assessment 1948 exceeds the residue
of capital expenditure for that year of assessment as computed in
accordance with rule 2(vii)(a) of the Income Tax (Mining Operations)
Rules 1949;
(b) of any deductions made under paragraph 14(1)(h) of the West
Malaysian Ordinance in respect of that capital expenditure in
computing the income of the operator in question from the business in
question for any period in ascertaining the statutory income from the
business for any year of assessment under that Ordinance ending
before 1 January 1968; and
(c) of any recoupment of that capital expenditure in relation to the mine
in question received by the operator before that date and taken into
account in computing any allowance under that Ordinance.
Schedule 3:5
44. For the purposes of paragraph 5 of Schedule 3 in its relation to a building, in
any case where the expenditure on the construction of the building in question was
incurred prior to 1 January 1968, references in that paragraph to year of
assessment and basis period shall be deemed to include references to any preyear of assessment and to any pre-basis period respectively.
Schedule 3:10, 11 and 22
45. (1) Where in a case to which paragraph 10 or 11 of Schedule 3 or
subparagraph (2) of this paragraph applies the basis period for the year of
assessment 1967 under a repealed law overlaps the basis period for the year of
assessment 1968, then, for the purposes of paragraph 10, 11 or 22, as the case may
be, of Schedule 3, expenditure incurred in the period common to those two basis
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periods shall not be treated as incurred in the basis period for the year of
assessment 1968.
(2) Where a person has for the purposes of a business of his incurred prior to the
basis period for the year of assessment 1968 qualifying plantation expenditure on the
construction of a building, then, if but for the repeal of the repealed laws he would have
been entitled to an allowance in respect of that expenditure for a particular year of
assessment under any of the repealed laws commencing after 31 December 1967, there
shall be made to him under paragraph 22 of Schedule 3 in relation to the source consisting
of that business for the year of assessment under this Act which coincides with that
particular year an allowance equal to the amount of any allowance or allowances to which
he would have been so entitled for that particular year.
Schedule 3:23
46. (1) For the purposes of paragraph 23 of Schedule 3, where in the basis
period for the year of assessment 1967 under any repealed law a person has for the
purposes of a business of his incurred qualifying plantation expenditure other than
expenditure on the construction of a building, there shall be made to him in relation
to the source consisting of that business for the year of assessment 1968 an
allowance equal to one-half of that expenditure:
Provided that this subparagraph shall not apply in relation to any expenditure
incurred in Sarawak.
(2) Where a person has for the purposes of a business of his incurred (prior to
31 December 1964) capital expenditure within the meaning of section 14 of the
Sabah Ordinance upon a plantation or (prior to 31 December 1961) capital
expenditure within the meaning of section 18 A of the West Malaysian Ordinance,
then, if but for the repeal of those Ordinances he would have been entitled to an
allowance in respect of that expenditure for a particular year of assessment (under
the appropriate one of those Ordinances) commencing after 31 December 1967,
there shall be made to him under paragraph 23 of Schedule 3 in relation to the
source consisting of that business for the year of assessment which coincides with
that particular year an allowance equal to the amount of the allowance to which he
would have been so entitled for that particular year.
(3) Where in a case to which subparagraph (1) or (2) applies the basis period
for the year of assessment 1967 under a repealed law overlaps the basis period for
the year of assessment 1968, then, for the purposes of paragraph 23 of Schedule 3,
expenditure incurred in the period common to those two basis periods shall not be
treated as incurred in the basis period for the year of assessment 1968.
Schedule 3:26
47. For the purposes of paragraph 26 of Schedule 3, if any sum as therein
mentioned falls into charge to tax imposed under the West Malaysian Ordinance or
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the Sabah Ordinance for the year of assessment 1967, that paragraph shall not
apply to that sum.
Schedule 3:27
48. (1) Paragraph 27 of Schedule 3 shall not apply in relation to a person, an
asset or a business of his where, under subsection 18 A(3) of the West Malaysian
Ordinance or subsection 14(3) of the Sabah Ordinance, any sum of money or
consideration is deemed to be that persons income for the year of assessment 1967
under the Ordinance in question, and the whole or any part of the sum or
consideration relates directly or indirectly to that asset.
(2) In relation to a person, an asset and a business of his, the reference in
paragraph 27 of Schedule 3 to qualifying agriculture expenditure shall when
appropriate include capital expenditure (as defined in section 18 A of the West
Malaysian Ordinance and in section 14 of the Sabah Ordinance) incurred on that
asset; and, when there is such an inclusion, then, if the preliminary conditions of
that paragraph are satisfied, the references in subsubparagraph (b) of that paragraph
to agriculture allowance, year of assessment and allowances shall include
respectively
(a) any allowance made to that person under the said section 18A or 14
which relates directly or indirectly to any such capital expenditure
incurred on that asset;
(b) any year of assessment under either of those Ordinances; and
(c) any such allowances,
and the reference in the proviso to that paragraph to year of assessment shall
include any year of assessment under either of those Ordinances.
Schedule 3:35
49. Paragraph 35 of Schedule 3 shall not apply to an asset disposed of by a person
if a balancing charge in relation to that asset has been made on him under any
repealed law.
Schedule 3:36
50. In the application of paragraph 36 of Schedule 3 to a person and an asset, if
the asset is disposed of by him in the basis period for the year of assessment 1968,
the reference in that paragraph to an initial or annual allowance shall be taken to be
a reference to an initial or annual allowance of a kind allowed under any repealed
law.
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Schedule 3:37
51. In the application of paragraph 37 of Schedule 3 to a person and an asset,
there shall be included in the total therein mentioned all allowances of a kind
similar to allowances under that Schedule made to him under any repealed law in
relation to that asset.
Schedule 3:39 and 40
52. Paragraphs 39 and 40 of Schedule 3 shall not apply to an asset disposed of if
a balancing allowance or charge in relation to that asset has been made on a person
(being the disposer in relation to that asset for the purposes of paragraphs 38 and 39
of that Schedule) under any repealed law.
Schedule 3:40 and 41
53. Rules made under paragraph 40 or 41 of Schedule 3 may be made applicable
for transitional purposes to any repealed law and to any matter to which that law
has been applicable.
Schedule 3:42
54. Paragraph 42 of Schedule 3 shall not apply to a building constructed prior to
the basis period for the year of assessment 1968.
Schedule 3:57
55. Where in relation to an asset and a business of a person the period of any
disuse for the purposes of paragraph 57 of Schedule 3 is a period which
commenced prior to the basis period for the year of assessment 1968, all such
assessments shall be made under any repealed law as may be necessary to
counteract the benefit of any allowance made to that person for any year of
assessment under that law in relation to that asset.
Schedule 3:68
56. (1) Subject to this paragraph, in the application of paragraph 68 of Schedule
3 in relation to an asset and a person as therein mentioned, any capital expenditure
incurred by him on the asset shall be treated as qualifying expenditure incurred by
him for the purposes of that paragraph and, where the total qualifying expenditure
has been ascertained under that paragraph as construed with this subparagraph, that
total shall be reduced in the manner provided by that paragraph (if applicable) and
by any allowance made to him in relation to that asset.
(2)
Subject to subparagraph (3), in subparagraph (1)
allowance means any allowance made under any provision of any repealed law
corresponding to any provision of Schedule 3 or any amount written off under any
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repealed law for any year of assessment for which no initial or annual allowance
falls to be made in relation to an industrial building or any amount which was
deducted from the capital expenditure under the provisions of any repealed law in
connection with the computation of the value of an asset acquired before the basis
period for the first year of assessment under any repealed law;
capital expenditure means capital expenditure as defined in any repealed law
for the purposes of any provisions thereof corresponding to any provisions of
Schedule 3.
(3) In the application of subparagraphs (1) and (2) in relation to a person and
an asset if, but for this subparagraph, regard would be had to the same amount in
respect of any capital expenditure or allowance by reference to more than one
repealed law, regard shall be had to that amount only by reference to the
appropriate repealed law, that is to say
(a) the repealed law by virtue of which he is resident in the territory to
which the law applies; or
(b) if there are two or more such laws, one of those laws elected by him
when he first makes a claim for an allowance under Schedule 3 in
respect of the asset or, in default of such an election, specified by the
Director General.
Schedule 3:69
57. Where for the purpose of this Schedule and Schedule 3 it is necessary to have
regard to an allowance made under any repealed law, paragraph 69 of Schedule 3
shall apply (with such modifications as may be necessary) by reference to the
repealed law relating to any such allowance.
Schedule 3:75
58. (1) In relation to a person, an asset and a business of his, if effect cannot be
given or cannot be given in full to any allowance or allowances of the kind defined
in subparagraph 56(2) to which paragraph 57 applies, that allowance or those
allowances (or, as the case may be, the amount thereof to which effect has not been
so given) shall be deemed to be an allowance to be made to him for the purposes of
paragraph 75 of Schedule 3, the reference therein to the first subsequent year of
assessment being treated as a reference to the year of assessment 1968 if there is
adjusted income from that business for the basis period for that year or, in the
absence of any such adjusted income, as a reference to the first year of assessment
subsequent to the year of assessment 1968 for the basis period for which there is
any such adjusted income:
Provided that, where this paragraph has been applied to any allowance or
allowances or to any part thereof in relation to a business, this paragraph shall not
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apply to that allowance, those allowances or that part in relation to any other
business of his.
(2) Subparagraph 56(3) shall apply to allowances affected by this paragraph as it
applies to allowances within the meaning of subparagraph 56(1).
Schedule 3: general
59. Unless the context otherwise requires and subject to this Schedule, any
reference in Schedule 3 to expenditure includes a reference to expenditure incurred
before the basis period for the year of assessment 1968 and any reference in that
Schedule to anything done or to any event includes a reference to a thing or event
of the kind in question done or occurring before that basis period.
Schedule 4
60. (1) Subject to this paragraph, where in any case a person makes a claim
under Schedule 4 for a deduction for a year of assessment in respect of qualifying
prospecting expenditure, then, for the purposes of applying that Schedule to that
case regard may be had to any such expenditure incurred (and any event which
took place) not more than ten years before the end of the basis year for that year of
assessment notwithstanding that the whole or part of that period of ten years
elapsed before the commencement of this Act; and, whenever necessary, the
reference in the proviso to paragraph 11 of that Schedule to a transaction to which
section 140 applies shall be construed to include a transaction to which that section
would have applied if it had been in force at the date of that transaction.
(2) Subparagraph (1) shall not apply to any expenditure incurred in Sabah or
Sarawak, prior to the basis year for the year of assessment 1968 or to any
expenditure with respect to which any deduction has been made under section 14 A
of the West Malaysian Ordinance.
Schedule 5
61. Where a notice of appeal against an assessment is given under the Sabah
Ordinance or the West Malaysian Ordinance or a notice of objection to an
assessment is given under the Sarawak Ordinance, then
(a) if the notice was given before 1 January 1968, and the hearing of the
appeal has not commenced before that date, the person to whom the
notice was given shall forward it to the Clerk to the Special
Commissioners as soon as may be after that date;
(b) if the notice is given after that date, it shall, notwithstanding any other
provision of this Schedule, be given to the Clerk to the Special
Commissioners and not to the person who would otherwise have
received it,
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and, where a notice relating to an assessment is forwarded or given to the Clerk to

the Special Commissioners in pursuance of this paragraph, an appeal against the
assessment shall be deemed to have been forwarded to the Special Commissioners
and shall be disposed of as nearly as may be in accordance with Schedule 5.
Application of this Act to assessment made under repealed law
61A. (1) Where an assessment under a repealed law is made on a person on or
after 1 January 1972, the provisions of section 97 and Chapter 2 of Part VI of this
Act shall apply to such assessment as if the assessment was made under section 90
or 91, as the case may be, of this Act.
(2) Where subparagraph (1) applies, the provisions to the contrary relating to
appeal or objection against an assessment contained in a repealed law shall not
apply.
Income related back
62.
Where
(a) by the operation of this Act any income of a person from a source of
his is to be regarded as income receivable in respect of a period before
the basis period for the year of assessment 1968; and
(b) that income would have been gross income for the pre-basis period
for a pre-year of assessment if this Act had been in operation at the
material time,
that income, if not otherwise subject to previous tax, shall be treated as income for
the year of assessment under the appropriate repealed law which corresponds to
that pre-year of assessment or, if there is no such corresponding year of assessment,
as income for the year of assessment under that law which includes the 1 July of
that pre-year of assessment.
PART II
SPECIAL PROVISIONS FOR SABAH
Application and power of remission
63.
(1)
This Part shall apply only to Sabah.
(2) Any tax paid or payable by virtue of this Part may be remitted by the
Director General on grounds of undue hardship; and section 129 shall apply in
relation to any tax so remitted as it applies in relation to tax remitted under that
section.
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Interpretation
64.
In this Part
appropriate date, in relation to a person, means the date on which the

appropriate event mentioned in paragraphs 71 to 74 which gives him entitlement to
payment of the Sabah credit of a company apportioned to him occurs;
old tax means income tax (excluding any tax deemed to be income tax under
the Sabah Ordinance) imposed under the Sabah Ordinance;
relevant date, in relation to a company, means the date on which the
appropriate event mentioned in paragraph 69 which gives it entitlement to payment
of the Sabah credit occurs;
Sabah credit means the amount ascertained under paragraph 68;
statutory income, in relation to a person, a source and a year of assessment
under the Sabah Ordinance, means the amount of his income from that source for
the basis period under that Ordinance for that year of assessment increased by any
balancing charge falling to be made in relation to that source for that year of
assessment and reduced by any allowance falling to be made for that year under
sections 14 to 21 of that Ordinance in relation to that source;
year of assessment 1966/67 means the year of assessment commencing
on 1 July 1966, under the Sabah Ordinance;
year of assessment 1967 means the year of assessment 1967 under the Sabah
Ordinance;
year of assessment 1967/68 means the year of assessment commencing
on 1 July 1967, under the Sabah Ordinance.
No chargeable income in certain cases
65. In the application of subparagraph 3(1) of this Schedule, a person shall be
deemed not to have any chargeable income under the Sabah Ordinance for the year
of assessment 1967/68.
Provisions as to statutory income for certain years of assessment
66.
(1)
In the case of a person other than a company, the aggregate of

(a) so much of his statutory income for the year of assessment 1967/68
from each source of his other than a source consisting of a business
(or, where paragraph (b) applies, from each source of his) as bears the
same proportion to that statutory income as the number of days of the
interval period bears to the number of days in the basis period in
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relation to that source under the Sabah Ordinance for that year of
assessment; and
(b) where the accounts of a business of that person were made up for a period
of twelve months ending on a day in the second half of the calendar year
1965 and the Commissioner has made a direction under subsection 28(2)
of the Sabah Ordinance to treat that period as the basis period under that
Ordinance for the year of assessment 1966/67, so much of what would
have been the statutory income from each source of his other than a
source consisting of a business for the year of assessment commencing on
1 July 1968, under the Sabah Ordinance, but for its repeal, as bears the
same proportion to that statutory income as the number of days of the
interval period bears to the number of days in the basis period in relation
to that source under that Ordinance for the year of assessment
commencing on 1 July 1968, under that Ordinance,
shall be deemed to be statutory income of his for the year of assessment 1966/67
from a source of his.
(2) The amount of the statutory income of a person for the year of assessment
1966/67 from a source of his as ascertained under subparagraph (1) shall be
charged to old tax for that year at the effective rate of tax; and Parts XI to XIII of
the Sabah Ordinance shall apply to that amount as if that amount had been
additional chargeable income of that person for that year.
(3) Where subparagraph (1) applies to a person and in his case there is no
effective rate of tax, then, if none of the sources of income of that person was
possessed by him for the whole of the basis period, in relation to each source, under
the Sabah Ordinance for the year of assessment 1966/67, and the amount of his
statutory income ascertained under subparagraph (1) exceeds the aggregate of the
statutory income from each source of that person for that year
(a) the effective rate of tax shall be ascertained by substituting that
amount for that aggregate; and
(b) the total of that amount and the assessable income for the year of
assessment 1966/67 (or, where there is no assessable income for that
year, the total of that amount and the aggregate of the statutory
income, if any, from each source of that person for that year reduced
by the amount of any loss falling to be deducted under section 32 of
the Sabah Ordinance in ascertaining the assessable income of that
person for that year) shall be charged to old tax for that year at the
effective rate of tax so ascertained; and Parts XI to XIII of the Sabah
Ordinance shall apply as if that total (or, as the case may be, that total
as so reduced) had been the chargeable income of that person for that
year and that effective rate of tax had been the rate set forth in Part I
of the Third Schedule to that Ordinance in relation to that person for
that year.
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(4) Where subparagraph (1) applies to a person and in his case the amount of
any loss or the aggregate of the amount of any losses falling to be deducted under
section 32 of the Sabah Ordinance in ascertaining the assessable income of that
person for the year of assessment 1966/67 exceeds the aggregate of the statutory
income from each source of that person for that year, the excess shall be deducted
from the amount of his statutory income ascertained under subparagraph (1); and in
the application of paragraph 18 in relation to that person, regard shall be had only
to the balance (if any) of any such loss or losses after the application of this
subparagraph.
(5) Where by the operation of paragraph 62 any income of a person from a
source falls to be treated as income for the year of assessment 1967/68, that
income
(a) shall be added to his statutory income from that source for the year of
assessment 1967/68; or
(b) where he has no statutory income from that source for that year
(i) if there is an amount of loss in relation to that source (being a
loss which would fall to be deducted under section 32 of the
Sabah Ordinance, but for its repeal, in ascertaining the
assessable income for that year) the amount of that loss shall
be reduced by the amount of that income or where that
income exceeds that loss the excess shall be deemed to be
statutory income from that source for that year;
(ii)
if there is no such loss, the amount of that income shall be

taken to be his statutory income from that source for that
year,
and this paragraph shall apply to that loss as so reduced or, as the case may be, that
statutory income.
(6) For the purposes of this paragraph, except where the context in
subparagraphs (3) and (4) otherwise requires
basis period, in a case where a person other than a company possesses a source
for a part or parts, but not for the whole, of a basis period, is to be construed as
meaning that part or those parts of the basis period in question;
effective rate of tax in relation to a person, means the rate determined by
dividing the amount of old tax chargeable on the chargeable income (excluding any
additional chargeable income created under subparagraph (2)) of that person for the
year of assessment 1966/67 by the amount of the assessable income of that person
for that year;
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interval period, in relation to the year of assessment 1967/68 or the year of

assessment commencing on 1 July 1968, under the Sabah Ordinance means that
part of the basis period for that year which elapsed before 1 January 1967.
Ascertainment of old tax payable by company
67. For the purposes of this Part, in the case of a company the accounts of a
business of whom were made up for a period of twelve months ending on a day in
the calendar year 1966 other than 31 December (being a company with respect to
which the Commissioner has not made a direction under subsection 28(2) of the
Sabah Ordinance to treat that period as the basis period under that Ordinance for
the year of assessment 1967) there shall be ascertained
(a) the total amount of all old tax payable by that company, whether
assessed under one or more assessments for that year of assessment,
that total being computed after giving any relief due to that company
for that year on or before the relevant date by virtue of section 41 or
43 of the Sabah Ordinance; and
(b) the amount of that total paid by the company on or before the relevant
date and not refunded or repaid to it on or before the relevant date.
Ascertainment of Sabah credit
68. (1) There shall be ascertained with respect to the old tax paid by a company
as ascertained under paragraph 67 the Sabah credit in accordance with the
following subparagraphs.
(2) In the case of a company to which paragraph 67 applies, the Sabah credit
shall be so much of the old tax paid for the year of assessment 1967 as bears the
same proportion to that old tax as the total of the statutory income from each source
for the overlapping period bears to the assessable income of the company for that
year.
(3)
In this paragraph
overlapping period means that part of the basis period under the Sabah
Ordinance in relation to a source for a year of assessment under that Ordinance
which overlaps the basis period in relation to that source for a year of assessment
under this Act;
total of the statutory income from each source for the overlapping period, in
relation to a company, means so much of the aggregate of the statutory income
from each source of that company for a year of assessment under the Sabah
Ordinance, reduced by any amount falling to be deducted under section 32 of that
Ordinance in ascertaining the assessable income of the company under that
Ordinance for that year, as bears the same proportion to that aggregate as so
reduced as the aggregate of the number of days of the overlapping period in
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relation to each source bears to the aggregate of the number of days in the basis
period in relation to each source under that Ordinance for that year.
Events in which Sabah credit is payable to company
69. (1) Subject to paragraph 76, the Sabah credit of a company shall be
payable upon the date of the occurrence of such one of the following events as
first occurs in relation to the company, that is to say, on the dissolution of the
company after 31 December 1967, or on its satisfying the Director General that
it has not gone into dissolution before 1 January 1988, or, in the case of a
company which ceases to have income (other than dividends) derived from
Malaysia in the basis year for a year of assessment, on its satisfying the
Director General that it was not resident for that basis year or for a year
subsequent thereto and that it is not likely to have any income (other than
dividends) derived from Malaysia in any of the two years following that basis
year or, as the case may be, that subsequent year:
Provided that this paragraph shall not apply on the dissolution of a particular
company after 31 December 1967, if at or about the time of the dissolution any of
the assets of that particular company available for distribution to its members are
transferred
(a) to a company which together with that particular company is a
member of the same group;
(b) to a company more than fifty per cent of the shares of which are held
by members of that particular company; or
(c) to the members of that particular company or to a person or persons
having control of that particular company within the meaning of
section 139.
(2) Where the proviso to subparagraph (1) applies on the transfer of a
companys assets, the Sabah credit to which, but for that proviso, the company
would have been entitled shall be paid in accordance with the following
subparagraphs.
(3)
Subject to subparagraph (4)

(a) where all the assets of a company are transferred to the members of
the company or to persons having control of the company within the
meaning of section 139, the Sabah credit of the company shall be
apportioned among them in the proportion in which they held as
beneficial owners the ordinary share capital of the company at the
date of its dissolution (ordinary share capital here having the same
meaning as in the definition of director in subsection 2(1)), or, in
the case of persons having such control, in the proportion in which
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they held their controlling interest, and shall be paid to each of them
on the appropriate date;
(b) where all the assets of a company are transferred to a single person
having such control, the Sabah credit of the company shall be
regarded as his and shall be paid to him on the appropriate date.
(4) Where a member or person to whom a Sabah credit (or any portion thereof)
is to be paid under subparagraph (3) is a company, the amount to be paid shall be
treated as a Sabah credit of the company and subparagraph (1) shall apply with
respect to the payment of that credit.
(5) Where subparagraph (3) does not apply, the Sabah credit of a company
shall be treated as a Sabah credit of the transferee and subparagraph (1) shall apply
with respect to the payment of that credit.
(6) In a case where there are two or more transfers (other than transfers to
members of the company or to a person or persons having control of the company
within the meaning of section 139) to which the proviso to subparagraph (1)
applies, subparagraph (5) shall be applied by making such apportionment of the
Sabah credit among the transferees as the Director General considers to be
reasonably necessary in order to give proper effect to subparagraph (5) in the
circumstances.
Credit payable to company before dissolution in certain cases
70. Where the Director General is satisfied that the dissolution of a company is
imminent and that the company will be entitled on its dissolution to the Sabah
credit, he may make the amount of the Sabah credit available to the liquidator of
the company; and, if the company is not dissolved within three months (or such
longer period as the Director General may consider reasonable in the
circumstances) after the making available of that amount to the liquidator, it shall
be the duty of the liquidator to return that amount to the Director General upon
being called upon to do so.
Events in which companys credit apportioned to individual is payable
71. Subject to paragraph 76, so much of the Sabah credit of a company as is
apportioned under subparagraph 69(3) to an individual who was a member of that
company at the time of its dissolution shall be payable on the date of the occurrence
of such one of the following events as first occurs in relation to him:
(a) on his satisfying the Director General that he attained the age of
fifty-five years before 1 January 1968;
(b) on his death at any time after 31 December 1967;
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(c) on his attaining at any time after 31 December 1967, the age of
fifty-five years;
(d) on his departure from Malaysia, if he is not a citizen and if he satisfies
the Director General as to the matters set out in paragraph 72;
(e) if he was not resident for the basis year (being the year in which the
company was dissolved or a year subsequent thereto) for a year of
assessment and is not a citizen, on his satisfying the Director General
that in that basis year or prior thereto he ceased to have any income
(other than dividends) derived from Malaysia and that he is not likely
to have any income (other than dividends) derived from Malaysia in
any of the two years following that basis year;
(f) on his satisfying the Director General that he was not entitled
before 1 January 1988, to payment of the amount of the Sabah
credit apportioned to him;
(g) on his satisfying the Director General that he was prevented by
serious disability from being gainfully employed for a period of not
less than twelve months and during that period he did not have any
source of income; or
(h) on his satisfying the Director General that he is in receipt of a pension
derived from Malaysia and that he does not have and is not likely to
have any other source of income:
Provided that subsubparagraph (d) shall not apply to the individual if at the time
of his departure from Malaysia he has any source (being a source the income from
which is wholly or partly derived from Malaysia) other than
(i) a source from which dividends arise;
(ii) a source from which interest arises;
(iii) a source consisting of a pension derived from Malaysia; or
(iv) a source consisting of an employment which n the expiration
of a period of leave which commences on his departure or at
the end of a period of travel which commences on his
departure.
Matters as to which Director General is to be satisfied for the purposes of
paragraph 71
72. For the purposes of subsubparagraph 71(d), an individual is required to satisfy
the Director General that the individual
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(a)
has not at the date of his departure from Malaysia obtained a

Malaysian entry or re-entry permit or other like document;
(b)
has not at the date under any written law any right of entry or reentry into Malaysia; and
(c)
is not likely to be resident in any of the basis years for the five years
of assessment commencing with the year of assessment which
follows the year of assessment in the basis year for which the
departure took place.
Trustees and executors

apportioned under subparagraph 69(3) to the trustees of a trust or the executors of a
deceased person (the trustees or the executors, as the case may be, being members
of the company at the time of its dissolution) shall be payable
(a) on the termination of the trust or on the ascertainment of the residue
of the estate of the deceased person, as the case may be;
(b) on their satisfying the Director General that the trust has not
been terminated (or, as the case may be, the residue ascertained)
before 1 January 1988; or
(c) where the trust body ceases, or the executors cease, to have income
(other than dividends) derived from Malaysia in the basis year (being
the year in which the company was dissolved or a year subsequent
thereto) for a year of assessment, on their satisfying the Director
General that the trust body was not, or the executors were not,
resident for that basis year, and that the trust body is not, or the
executors are not, likely to have any income (other than dividends)
derived from Malaysia in any of the two years following that basis
year.
Provisions applicable when paragraphs 71 to 73 do not apply
apportioned under subparagraph 69(3) to a person (being a member of the company
at the time of its dissolution) to whom none of paragraphs 71 to 73 applies shall be
payable
(a) on application to the Director General in the year of assessment 1988;
or
(b) on application to the Director General before that year if the Director
General is satisfied that there are circumstances similar to those in
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which a company would be entitled to payment of a Sabah credit

before that year.
Married women
75. Where the Sabah credit of a company is apportioned under
subparagraph 69(3) to a woman who was a member of the company at
the time of its dissolution, so much of that credit as is so apportioned to her
shall be paid if she is married, whether at that time or subsequently thereto, and
before the date on which she would otherwise have been entitled to payment
thereof to her husband on the appropriate date in relation to him as if that credit had
been apportioned to him:
Provided that
(a) where the husband becomes entitled to payment of the credit so
apportioned by virtue of subsubparagraph 71(d), that paragraph shall
be so modified as to require the husband to satisfy the Director
General as to the matters set out in paragraph 72 not only in respect of
himself but also in respect of his wife, or, if paragraph 72 is not
applicable to her, as to the matters set out in subsubparagraph 71(e) in
respect of his wife;
(b) where the husband becomes so entitled by virtue of
subsubparagraph 71(e), that paragraph shall be so modified
as to require the husband to satisfy the Director General as to the
matters set out therein not only in respect of himself but also in
respect of his wife, or, where subsubparagraph 71(e) is not applicable
to her as to the matters set out in paragraph 72 in respect of his wife.
Power to set off credit against tax payable

76. Notwithstanding the foregoing paragraphs of this Part, where in any calendar
year any company becomes entitled to payment of a Sabah credit or a person
becomes entitled to payment of the Sabah credit of a company apportioned to him,
the Director General may withhold payment thereof for the purposes of setting off
the amount thereof against any tax or previous tax payable by that company or, as
the case may be, by that person.
Construction of references to certain years of assessment
77. Where in any case regard is to be had by virtue of this Schedule to the year of
assessment 1966 or 1967 under the Sabah Ordinance or to a year of assessment
under the Sabah Ordinance coinciding with the calendar year 1966 or 1967, and in
that case the appropriate year of assessment under that Ordinance is the year of
assessment commencing on 1 July 1965, or the year of assessment 1966/67, regard
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shall be had to the year of assessment commencing on 1 July 1965, or the year of
assessment 1966/67, as the case may be, and the basis period therefor in relation to
a source, and not to the year of assessment 1966 or 1967 or the year of assessment
coinciding with the calendar year 1966 or 1967, or the basis period therefor.
PART III
SPECIAL PROVISIONS FOR SARAWAK
78.
(1)
This Part shall apply only to Sarawak.
section.
Interpretation
79.
In this part
old tax means the profits tax (excluding any tax deemed to be profits tax under
the Sarawak Ordinance) imposed under the Sarawak Ordinance;
relevant date, in relation to any person means the date on which the appropriate
event mentioned in paragraphs 83 to 88 which gives him entitlement to payment of
the Sarawak credit occurs;
Sarawak credit means the amount ascertained under paragraph 82;
year of assessment 1967 means the year of assessment 1967 under the Sarawak
Ordinance.
No chargeable income in certain cases
80. Subject to paragraph 93, in the application of subparagraph 3(1) of this
Schedule a person chargeable to salaries tax under the Sarawak Ordinance shall be
deemed not to have any chargeable income under that Ordinance for the year of
assessment 1967.
Ascertainment of old tax payable by a person
81. In the case of a person the accounts of a business of whom were made up to a
date in the calendar year 1966 other than 31 December that business being a
business with respect to which the Commissioner has not made a direction under
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subsection 25(1) of the Sarawak Ordinance to treat that period as the period by
reference to which the assessable profits or loss from the business was to be
computed there shall be ascertained for the purposes of this Part
(a) the total amount of all profits tax payable by that person whether
assessed under one or more assessments for the year of assessment
1967, that total being computed after giving any relief due to him for
that year on or before the relevant date by virtue or section 59 or 61 of
the Sarawak Ordinance; and
(b) the amount of that total paid by him on or before the relevant date and
not refunded or repaid to him on or before the relevant date.
Ascertainment of Sarawak credit
82. (1) There shall be ascertained with respect to the total amount of the old tax
paid by a person as ascertained under paragraph 81 the Sarawak credit in
accordance with the following subparagraphs.
(2) In any case to which paragraph 81 applies, the Sarawak credit of a person
shall be so much of the profits tax paid by him for the year of assessment 1967 as
bears the same proportion to that profits tax as the assessable profits for the
overlapping period bears to the aggregate of the assessable profits from each source
of his for that year reduced by the amount of any loss incurred by him which would
be set off against those assessable profits under section 28 of the Sarawak
Ordinance for the year of assessment 1967.
(3) In the application of subparagraph (2) to the trustees of a trust, the reference
therein to profits tax paid for the year of assessment 1967 shall be taken to be a
reference to so much of that profits tax paid by the trustees for that year as bears the
same proportion to that profits tax as the aggregate of the assessable profits from
each source of the trustees for that year, reduced first by the amount of any loss
incurred by the trustees which would be set-off against those assessable profits
under section 28 of the Sarawak Ordinance for the year of assessment 1967 and
thereafter by so much thereof as falls to be treated as assessable profits for that year
of a beneficiary or beneficiaries of the trust, bears to that aggregate reduced by the
amount of any such loss for that year.
(4)
In this paragraph
assessable profits for the overlapping period, in relation to a person, means so

much of the aggregate of the assessable profits from each source of that person
under the Sarawak Ordinance for a year of assessment under that Ordinance,
reduced by the amount of any loss incurred by him which would be set-off against
those assessable profits under section 28 of the Sarawak Ordinance, as bears the
same proportion to that aggregate as so reduced as the aggregate number of days of
the overlapping period in relation to each source bears to the aggregate of the
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number of days of the basis period in relation to each source under that Ordinance
for that year of assessment;
overlapping period means that part of the basis period under the Sarawak
Ordinance in relation to a source for the year of assessment 1967 which overlaps
the basis period in relation to that source for a year of assessment under this Act.
Events in which Sarawak credit is payable to an individual
83. Subject to paragraph 92, the Sarawak credit of an individual shall be payable
upon the date of the occurrence of such one of the following events as first occurs
in relation to him:
(a) on his satisfying the Director General that he had attained the age of
fifty-five years prior to 1 January 1968;
(c) on his attaining the age of fifty-five years after 31 December 1967;
(d) on his departure from Malaysia, if he is not a citizen and if he satisfies the
Director General as to the matters set out in paragraph 84;
(e) if he was not resident in the basis year (being the year in which he
ceases to have income, other than dividends, derived from Malaysia
or a year subsequent thereto) for a year of assessment and is not a
citizen, on his satisfying the Director General that he is not likely to
have any income (other than dividends) derived from Malaysia in any
of the two years following that basis year;
(f) on his satisfying the Director General that he was not entitled to
payment of the Sarawak credit prior to 1 January 1988;
Provided that subsubparagraph (d) shall not apply to the individual if at the time
of his departure from Malaysia he has any source (being a source the income from
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(iv) a source consisting of an employment which will cease upon
the expiration of a period of leave which commences on his
departure or at the end of a period of travel which
commences on his departure.
Matters as to which the Director General is to be satisfied for the purposes of
paragraph 83
84. For the purposes of subsubparagraph 83(d), an individual is required to satisfy
the Director General that the individual
(a)
has not at the date of his departure from Malaysia obtained a

(b)
has not at that date under any written law any right of entry or reentry into Malaysia; and
(c)
is not likely to be resident in any of the basis years for the five years
of assessment commencing with the year of assessment which
follows the year of assessment in the basis year for which the
departure took place.
Events in which Sarawak credit is payable to a company

85. (1) Subject to paragraph 92, the Sarawak credit of a company shall be
payable upon the date of the occurrence of such one of the following events as first
occurs in relation to the company, that is to say, on the dissolution of the company
after 31 December 1967, or on its satisfying the Director General that it has not
gone into dissolution before 1 January 1988, or, in the case of a company which
ceases to have income (other than dividends) derived from Malaysia in the basis
year for a year of assessment, on its satisfying the Director General that it was not
resident for that basis year or for a year subsequent thereto and that it is not likely
to have any income (other than dividends) derived from Malaysia in any of the two
years following that basis year or, as the case may be, that subsequent year:
transferred
(a) to a company which together with that particular company is in the
same group;
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section 139.
company's assets, the Sarawak credit to which, but for that proviso, the company
would have been entitled shall be paid in accordance with the following
subparagraphs.
(3)

meaning of section 139, the Sarawak credit of the company shall be
apportioned among them in the proportion in which they held as
beneficial owners the ordinary share capital of the company at the
meaning as in the definition of director in subsection 2(1)), or, in
the case of persons having such control, in the proportion in which
they held their controlling interest, and shall be paid to each of them
on the relevant date as if the amount apportioned to each were a
Sarawak credit of his: and
having such control, the Sarawak credit of the company shall be
regarded as his and shall be paid to him on the relevant date.
(4) Where a member or person to whom a Sarawak credit (or any portion
thereof) is to be paid under subparagraph (3) is a company, the amount to be paid
shall be treated as a Sarawak credit of the company and subparagraph (1) shall
apply with respect to the payment of that credit.
(5) Where subparagraph (3) does not apply, the Sarawak credit of a company
shall be treated as a Sarawak credit of the transferee and subparagraph (1) shall
apply with respect to the payment of that credit.
Sarawak credit among the transferees as the Director General considers to be
reasonably necessary in order to give proper effect to subparagraph (5) in the
circumstances.
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Sarawak credit payable to company before dissolution in certain cases

86. Where the Director General is satisfied that the dissolution of a company is
imminent and that the company will be entitled on its dissolution to the Sarawak
credit, he may make the amount of the Sarawak credit available to the liquidator of
the company; and, if the company is not dissolved within three months (or such
longer period as the Director General may consider reasonable in the
circumstances) after the making available of that amount to the liquidator, it shall
be the duty of the liquidator to return that amount to the Director General upon
being called upon to do so.
87. Subject to paragraph 92, the Sarawak credit of the trustees of a trust or the
executors of the estate of a deceased person shall be payable
(b) on their satisfying the Director General that the trust has not
been terminated (or, as the case may be, the residue ascertained)
before 1 January 1988; or
(other than dividends) derived from Malaysia in the basis year for a
year of assessment, on their satisfying the Director General that the
trust body was not, or the executors were not, resident for that basis
year or a year subsequent thereto, and that the trust body is not, or the
year or, as the case may be, that subsequent year.
Provisions applicable where paragraphs 83 to 87 do not apply
88. Subject to paragraph 92, the Sarawak credit of a person to whom none of
paragraphs 83 to 87 applies shall be payable
or
(b) on application to the Director General before that year, if the Director
which a company would be entitled to payment of the Sarawak credit
before that year.
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Married persons: general

89. Where section 47A of the Sarawak Ordinance applies to a married woman and
her husband for the year of assessment 1967, then, in the application of the
foregoing paragraphs of this Part to the husband
(a) a source of hers shall be taken to be a source of his;
(b) any reference to assessable profits or loss in relation to him shall be
taken to include a reference to any assessable profits or loss of hers
from a source so taken to be his source;
(c) any old tax paid by her for the year of assessment 1967 shall be
treated as paid by him.
Married persons: disposal of wifes credit
90.
Where
(a) a marriage took place before 31 December 1967, but section 47A of
the Sarawak Ordinance did not apply to the wife of that marriage and
her husband for any year of assessment under the Sarawak Ordinance;
or
(b) a marriage takes place after 31 December 1967,
the wife of that marriage shall not be entitled to any Sarawak credit to which she
would otherwise have been entitled, and any such credit shall be payable to the
husband of that marriage as if it were a credit ascertained as regards him under
paragraphs 81 and 82 or under paragraph 85.
Married persons: modification of paragraphs 89 and 90
91. In any case where paragraph 89 or 90 applies to the husband and wife of a
marriage
(a) subsubparagraph 83(d) shall be so modified as to require the husband to
satisfy the Director General as to the matters set out in paragraph 84 not
only in respect of himself but also in respect of that wife, or, if paragraph 84
is not applicable to her, as to the matters set out in subsubparagraph 83(e) in
respect of that wife;
(b) subsubparagraph 83(e) shall be so modified as to require the husband
to satisfy the Director General as to the matters set out therein not
only in respect of himself but also in respect of that wife, or, where
subsubparagraph 83(e) is not applicable to her, as to the matters set
out in paragraph 84 in respect of that wife.
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Power to set-off Sarawak credit against tax payable

92. Notwithstanding the foregoing paragraphs of this Part, where any person
becomes entitled to a Sarawak credit in any calendar year, the Director General
may withhold payment thereof for the purposes of setting off the amount thereof
against any tax or previous tax payable by that person.
Certain income to be disregarded
93. (1) Where in the calendar year 1967 a person ceased to possess a source the
income from which is chargeable to profits tax under the Sarawak Ordinance, then,
if by reference to income from that source up to the date of cessation an assessment
has been made under the Sarawak Ordinance for the year of assessment 1968 under
that Ordinance, the income from that source included in that assessment shall be
disregarded for the purposes of this Act unless that assessment falls to be amended
for any reason on or after 1 January 1968.
(2) Where in the calendar year 1967 a person ceased to possess a source the
income from which is chargeable to salaries tax under the Sarawak Ordinance for
that year of assessment, then, if
(a) that person does not have income from any other source for the basis
period in relation to any such other source for the year of assessment
1968; and
(b) subparagraph (1) does not apply to him,
paragraph 80 shall not apply to that person and to the income from that source; and
where this subparagraph applies to a person his income from that source which is
chargeable to salaries tax under that Ordinance for the year of assessment 1967
shall be disregarded for the purposes of this Act.
(3) Where paragraph 80 applies to a person and by the operation of paragraph 62
any income of a person from a source chargeable to salaries tax under the Sarawak
Ordinance falls to be treated as gross income for the pre-basis period for a pre-year of
assessment, paragraph 62 shall be so modified in its application to that person and that
income to treat that income as being income for the year of assessment under the
Sarawak Ordinance which coincides with that pre-basis period.
Allowance for industrial building under Sarawak Ordinance to continue
94. In the case of a building which is an industrial building under the Sarawak
Ordinance, the rate at which annual allowances were given in respect of that
industrial building under the Sarawak Ordinance shall continue to apply to that
building, and the allowances to which a person is entitled by virtue of paragraph 6
of the Fifth Schedule to the Sarawak Ordinance shall be given for the remainder of
the years for which that allowance would have been given but for the repeal of that
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Ordinance instead of any allowance to which that person might otherwise be

entitled under this Act.
PART IV
SPECIAL PROVISIONS FOR PENINSULAR MALAYSIA

95.
(1)
This Part shall apply only to Peninsular Malaysia.
section.
Interpretation
96.
In this Part
old tax means income tax (excluding any tax deemed to be income tax under
the West Malaysian Ordinance) imposed under the West Malaysian Ordinance;
relevant date, in relation to any person, means the date on which the
appropriate event mentioned in paragraphs 107 to 113 which gives him entitlement
to payment of the West Malaysian credit occurs;
statutory income, in relation to a source and a year of assessment under the
West Malaysian Ordinance, means the amount of the income from that source for
the basis period under the West Malaysian Ordinance in relation to that source for a
year of assessment under that Ordinance increased by any balancing charge falling
to be made in relation to that source for that year and reduced by any allowance
falling to be made for that year under sections 16 to 22A of that Ordinance in
relation to that source;
West Malaysian credit means the amount ascertained under paragraph 102;
year of assessment 1967 means the year of assessment 1967 under the West
Malaysian Ordinance.
No statutory income in certain cases
97. Where a person in the calendar year 1967 commenced to carry on a business
or commenced to exercise an employment or commenced to derive income from a
source other than a business or an employment (being a source of a kind to which
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subsection 31(6) of the West Malaysian Ordinance would, but for this paragraph,
have applied for the year of assessment 1967), he shall be deemed not to have any
statutory income from that source for the year of assessment 1967.
Provisions for certain cases where subsection 31(5) or (7) of West Malaysian
Ordinance would have been applicable
98. (1) Subject to paragraph 99, where a person in the calendar year 1965 or
1966 commenced to carry on a business or commenced to exercise an employment
or commenced to derive income from a source of the kind referred to in paragraph
97, the following subparagraphs shall apply if subsection 31(5) or (7) of the West
Malaysian Ordinance would, but for its repeal, have applied in relation to any such
source for the year of assessment 1968 under that Ordinance and the year of
assessment 1967.
(2) With respect to the year of assessment 1967, the calendar year 1967 shall
be taken to be the basis period in relation to any such source for that year of
assessment, if the income for that basis period is greater than what would, but for
this paragraph, have been the basis period under the West Malaysian Ordinance for
that year of assessment, in relation to that source.
(3) With respect to the year of assessment 1968, the calendar year 1968 shall
be taken to be the basis period for that year of assessment, in relation to any such
source.
(4) With respect to the year of assessment 1969, the person in question shall be
deemed not to have statutory income from any source of the kind in question.
Paragraph 98 not to apply in certain cases
99.
Paragraph 98 shall not apply in relation to a person and a source if

(a) there in an acquisition (as defined in paragraph 105) of that source; or
(b) that source being a source the income from which falls within a
particular paragraph of section 4, there is an acquisition by him of a
new source (the income from which falls under that paragraph of
section 4) prior to 1 January 1970, and the Director General does not,
having regard to all the circumstances of the case, direct that this
paragraph shall not apply,
and all such assessments or additional assessments or repayments of tax shall be

made as may be necessary in consequence of this paragraph.
Tax chargeable for year of assessment 1969
100. (1) Notwithstanding subparagraph 98(4), for the purposes of this
paragraph the statutory income of a person from a source for the year of assessment
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1968 (being a source in relation to which the calendar year 1968 is to be taken to be
the basis period for that year of assessment) shall be taken into account in
ascertaining the chargeable income of that person for the year of assessment 1969
as if that statutory income were statutory income of his from that source for the
year of assessment 1969 and there shall be ascertained the tax chargeable on the
chargeable income so ascertained for the year of assessment 1969.
(2) In the case of a person to whom subparagraph (1) applies, the tax
chargeable for the year of assessment 1969 on the chargeable income (ascertained
without having regard to subparagraph (1)) for that year shall be taken to be so
much of the tax chargeable as ascertained under subparagraph (1) as bears to the
tax so ascertained the same proportion as the total income of that person for that
year ascertained without having regard to subparagraph (1) bears to the total
income of that person for that year ascertained by having regard to that
subparagraph.
Ascertainment of old tax payable by a person
101. (1)
For the purposes of this Part, there shall be ascertained
(a) the total amount of all old tax payable by a person, whether assessed
under one or more assessments, for the year of assessment 1967, that
total being computed after giving any relief due to him for that year,
on or before the relevant date, by virtue of section 44 or 46 of the
West Malaysian Ordinance; and
(b) the amount of that total paid by him on or before the relevant date and
not refunded or repaid to him on or before the relevant date.
(2) In ascertaining under subparagraph (1) the total amount of all old tax
payable by a person for the year of assessment 1967 and the amount of that total
paid by him, any old tax payable by reason of subparagraph 98(2) for that year and
the amount of old tax paid in respect thereof shall be disregarded.
Ascertainment of West Malaysian credit
102. (1) Subject to paragraphs 103 and 104 with respect to the amount of the
old tax paid by a person as ascertained under paragraph 101, there shall be
ascertained an amount (in this Part referred to as the West Malaysian credit) which
bears the same proportion to the amount so paid as the total amount of his statutory
income bears to the assessable income of that person for the year of assessment
1967.
(2) In the application of subparagraph (1) to the trustees of a trust, the reference
therein to old tax paid for the year of assessment 1967 shall be taken to be a
reference to so much of that old tax as the aggregate of the statutory income of the
trust body from all sources for that year reduced first by any amount falling to be
deducted under subsection 33(2) of the West Malaysian Ordinance in ascertaining
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the assessable income of the trust body for that year and thereafter by so much of
that aggregate (as so reduced) as falls to be treated as statutory income for that year
of a beneficiary or beneficiaries of the trust, bears to the assessable income of the
trust body for that year.
(3) In this paragraph total amount of his statutory income means the
aggregate of his statutory income for the year of assessment 1967 from each source
of income of a kind to which subsection 31(5) or (7) of the West Malaysian
Ordinance would have applied (but for its repeal) at some time subsequent to that
year, less any amount falling to be deducted under subsection 33(2) of that
Ordinance in ascertaining the assessable income for that year.
Exclusion and inclusion of certain income for purposes of paragraph 102
103. For the purposes of paragraph 102, in ascertaining in relation to a person the
total amount of his statutory income as therein mentioned
(a) there shall be excluded
(i) statutory income of that person from a source to which
paragraph 97 or 98 applies;
(ii) income of his received in West Malaysia from outside West
Malaysia in respect of which there is any statutory income of
his for the year of assessment 1967, if he is not ordinarily
resident for the basis year for the year of assessment 1968;
and
(b) there shall be included, if paragraph 104 is applicable to him, the
amount of his statutory income from any source therein referred to for
the year of assessment 1967.
Provisions consequent upon acquisition of source
104. Where the circumstances are such that a person has an amount of statutory
income from a source (in this paragraph referred to as the old source) of a kind to
which subsection 31(5) or (7) of the West Malaysian Ordinance has applied (or, but
for this paragraph, would have applied) for both the year of assessment 1967 and
the preceding year of assessment under the West Malaysian Ordinance, then, if
(a) there is an acquisition of the old source on or after 15 June 1967; or
(b) the old source being a source the income from which falls within any
paragraph of subsection 10(1) of the West Malaysian Ordinance, there
is an acquisition by him of a new source (the income from which falls
or would have fallen under that paragraph of the West Malaysian
Ordinance but for its repeal) prior to 1 January 1969, and the Director
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General does not, having regard to all the circumstances of the case,
direct that this paragraph shall not apply,
subsection 31(1) or (2), as the case may be, of the West Malaysian Ordinance shall
apply to him in relation to the old source for both those years, and all such
assessments or additional assessments or repayments of old tax under that
Ordinance (or, if subsection 31(5) or (7) has been applied to him in relation to the
old source, all such assessments or additional assessments or repayments of old tax
under that Ordinance) shall be made as may be necessary in consequence of this
subparagraph.
Meaning of acquisition
105. In subsubparagraph 99(a) and in subsubparagraph 104(a) acquisition
means acquisition of a source
(a) in the case of a particular company
(i) by a company in the same group;
(ii) by a company the shareholders of which hold or have held
more than fifty per cent of the shares of that particular
company; or
(iii) by a person having control of that particular company;
(b) in the case of an individual
(i) by a relative of his (relative here and in
subsubparagraph (c)(iii) having the same meaning as in
section 65);
(ii) by a partnership of which he has, or he and associates of his
have, control (associates and control here having the
same meaning as in section 139 and paragraph 38 of
Schedule 3 respectively);
(iii) by a company of which he has control; or
(iv) by a partner of his in any other business, otherwise than for
valuable and adequate consideration;
(c) in the case of a source of a partnership
(i) by a partner of the partnership;
(ii) by another partnership of which some or all of the partners of
the first partnership are partners; or
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(iii) by a partnership the partners of which are relatives of the

partners of the first-mentioned partnership, otherwise than
for valuable and adequate consideration; and
(d)
in any other case, where the circumstances are similar to those in

which, if the person effecting the acquisition was a company, there
would be an acquisition.
Additional provisions where subsubparagraph 104(a) applies

106. Where subsubparagraph 104(a) applies to a person and an old source, then,
if that source is the only source of his in 1967 or if all sources of his ceased in
1967, the West Malaysian credit to the payment of which he would otherwise be
entitled under this Part shall be payable to the person who acquired that old source
at the relevant date in relation to that last-mentioned person and, where an old
source was acquired by more than one person or two or more old sources were
acquired by different persons, that credit shall be apportioned between the acquirers
in such proportion as the Director General having regard to the circumstances
considers just and reasonable and shall be payable to each of them on the relevant
date as if the amount apportioned to each were a West Malaysian credit ascertained
as regards him.
Events in which West Malaysian credit is payable to individual
107. Subject to paragraph 117, the West Malaysian credit of an individual shall
be payable upon the date of the occurrence of such one of the following events as
first occurs in relation to him:
(a) on his satisfying the Director General that he had attained the age of
fifty-five years prior to 1 January 1968;
(c) on his attaining the age of fifty-five years after 31 December 1967;
(d) on his departure from Malaysia, if he is not a citizen and if he satisfies
the Director General as to the matters set out in paragraph 108;
(e) if he was not resident in the basis year (being a year in which he
ceases to have income, other than dividends, derived from Malaysia
or a year subsequent thereto) for a year of assessment and is not a
citizen, on his satisfying the Director General that he is not likely to
have any income (other than dividends) derived from Malaysia in any
of the two years following that basis year;
(f) on his satisfying the Director General that he was not entitled to
payment of the West Malaysian credit prior to 1 January 1988;
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Provided that subparagraph (d) shall not apply to the individual if at the time of
his departure from Malaysia he has any source (being a source the income from
(iv) a source consisting of an employment which will cease upon
the expiration of a period of leave which commences on his
departure or at the end of a period of travel which
commences on his departure.
Matters as to which the Director General is to be satisfied for the purposes of
subsubparagraph 107(d)
108. For the purposes of subsubparagraph 107(d), an individual is required to
satisfy the Director General that the individual
(a) has not at the date of his departure from Malaysia obtained a
(b) has not at that date under any written law any right of entry or reentry into Malaysia; and.
(c) is not likely to be resident for any of the basis years for the five years
of assessment commencing with the year of assessment which follows
the year of assessment in the basis year for which the departure took
place.
Events in which West Malaysian credit is payable to company
109. (1) Subject to paragraph 117, the West Malaysian credit of a company
shall be payable upon the date of the occurrence of such one of the following
events as first occurs in relation to the company, that is to say, on the dissolution of
the company after 31 December 1967 or on its satisfying the Director General that
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it has not gone into dissolution before 1 January 1988 or in the case of a company
which ceases to have income (other than dividends) derived from Malaysia in the
basis year for a year of assessment, on its satisfying the Director General that it was
not resident for that basis year or for a year subsequent thereto and that it is not
likely to have any income (other than dividends) derived from Malaysia in any of
the two years following that basis year or, as the case may be, that subsequent year:
transferred
(a) to a company which together with that particular company is a
member of the same group;
section 139.
companys assets, the West Malaysian credit to which, but for that proviso, the
company would have been entitled shall be paid in accordance with the following
subparagraphs.
(3)

meaning of section 139, the West Malaysian credit of the company
shall be apportioned among them in the proportion in which they held
as beneficial owners the ordinary share capital of the company at the
meaning as in the definition of director in subsection 2(1)) or, in the
case of persons having such control, in the proportion in which they
held their controlling interest, and shall be paid to each of them on the
relevant date as if the amount apportioned to each were a West
Malaysian credit of his;
having such control, the West Malaysian credit of the company shall
be regarded as his and shall be paid to him on the relevant date.
(4) Where a member or person to whom a West Malaysian credit (or any
portion thereof) is to be paid under subparagraph (3) is a company, the amount to
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be paid shall be treated as a West Malaysian credit of the company and

subparagraph (1) shall apply with respect to the payment of that credit.
(5) Where subparagraph (3) does not apply, the West Malaysian credit of the
company shall be treated as a West Malaysian credit of the transferee and
subparagraph (1) shall apply with respect to the payment of that credit.
West Malaysian credit among the transferees as the Director General considers to
be reasonably necessary in order to give proper effect to subparagraph (5) in the
circumstances.
West Malaysian credit payable to company before dissolution in certain cases
110. Subject to paragraph 117, where the Director General is satisfied that the
dissolution of a company is imminent and that the company will be entitled on its
dissolution to the West Malaysian credit, he may make the amount of the West
Malaysian credit available to the liquidator of the company; and, if the company is
not dissolved within three months (or such longer period as the Director General
may consider reasonable in the circumstances) after the making available of that
amount to the liquidator, it shall be the duty of the liquidator to return that amount
to the Director General upon being called upon to do so.
111. Subject to paragraph 117, the West Malaysian credit of the trustee of a trust
or the executors of the estate of a deceased person shall be payable
(b) on their satisfying the Director General that the trust has not been
terminated (or, as the case may be, the residue ascertained) before
1 January 1988; or
(other than dividends) derived from Malaysia in the basis year for a
year of assessment, on their satisfying the Director General that the
trust body was not, or the executors were not, resident for that basis
year or a year subsequent thereto and that the trust body is not, or the
year or, as the case may be, that subsequent year.
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Hindu joint families

112. Subsubparagraphs 107(a), (b), (c), (e) and (f) shall apply in relation to a
Hindu joint family as if those subparagraphs referred to the familys manager or
karta.
Provisions applicable where paragraphs 107 to 112 do not apply
113. Subject to paragraph 117, the West Malaysian credit of a person to whom
none of paragraphs 107 to 112 applies shall be payable
or
(b) on application to the Director General before that year if the Director
which a company would be entitled to the payment of the West
Malaysian credit before that year.
Married persons: general
114. Where section 47 of the West Malaysian Ordinance applies to a married
woman and her husband for the year of assessment 1967, then, in the application of
the foregoing paragraphs of this Part to the husband
(a)
any reference to a source shall be taken to include a reference to a

source of hers as if it were a source of his;
(b)
any reference to statutory income in relation to him shall be taken to

include a reference to any statutory income of hers from a source so
included as his source;
(c)
any reference to an acquisition by him shall be taken to include an

acquisition by her; and
(d)
any old tax paid by her for the year of assessment 1967 shall be
treated as paid by him.
Married persons: disposals of wifes credit

115. Where a marriage takes place after 31 December 1967, the wife of that marriage
shall not be entitled to any West Malaysian credit to which she would otherwise have
been entitled, and any such credit shall be payable to the husband of that marriage as if
it were a credit ascertained as regards him under paragraphs 101 to 105 or under
paragraph 109.
Income Tax
499
Married persons: modification of paragraphs 107 and 108

116. In any case where paragraph 107 or 108 applies to the husband and wife of a
marriage
(a) subsubparagraph 107(d) shall be so modified as to require the
husband to satisfy the Director General as to the matters set out in
paragraph 108 not only in respect of himself but also in respect of that
wife, or, if paragraph 108 is not applicable to her, as to the matters set
out in subsubparagraph 107(e) in respect of that wife;
(b) subsubparagraph 107(e) shall be so modified as to require the
husband to satisfy the Director General as to the matters set out
therein not only in respect of himself but also in respect of that wife,
or, where subsubparagraph 107(e) is not applicable to her, as to the
matters set out in paragraph 108 in respect of that wife.
Power to set off West Malaysian credit against tax payable
117. Notwithstanding the foregoing paragraphs of this Part, where any person
becomes entitled to a West Malaysian credit in any calendar year, the Director
General may withhold payment thereof for the purposes of setting off the amount
thereof against any tax or previous tax payable by that person.
Certain income to be disregarded
118. Subject to paragraph 104, where any person ceases to possess a source in the
calendar year 1967 (being a source to which subsection 31(5) or (7) of the West
Malaysian Ordinance is applicable for both the year of assessment 1967 and the
preceding year of assessment under that Ordinance), any income of that person
from that source shall be disregarded for the purposes of this Act.
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Act 53
INCOME TAX ACT 1967
LIST OF AMENDMENTS
Amending law
Short title
In force from
Act A77/1967
Income Tax (Amendment) Act 1967
14-12-1967
P.U. 144/1968
Income Tax (Transitional Provisions)

Order 1968
14-12-1967
Act A13
1. Assessment
year 1968 and
subsequent years
2. Section 8
Assessment
year 1969 and
subsequent years
P.U.(B) 146/1969
Resolution under s.127 (2)
04-07-1969
P.U.(A) 510/1969
Income Tax (Amendment to Schedule

6) Order 1969
12-12-1969
P.U.(A) 256/1970
Emergency
(Essential
Ordinance No. 38, 1970
(Various dates as
per Schedule to the
Ordinance)
Act A32
Assessment year
1971 and
subsequent years
Act A60
Income Tax (Amendment) (No. 2)

Act 1971
(Various date as per

Schedule to the Act)
Act A98
01-01-1972
Powers)
Income Tax
Amending law
Short title
501
In force from
Act A108

Act 1972
04-04-1972
Act A158
Assessment year
1973 and
subsequent years
except expressly
provided
P.U.(A) 266/1974
Amendment to Part II of Schedule 6
Assessment year
1973 and
subsequent years
P.U.(A) 267/1974
Assessment year
1968 and
subsequent years
P.U.(A) 328/1974
Assessment year
1963 and
subsequent years
Act A225
1. Sections 2 and
3
01-01-1974
2. Remaining
provisions
29-02-1974
Act A226

Act 1974
Assessment year
1974 and
subsequent years
except expressly
provided
Act A227

Act 1974
Assessment year
1974 and
subsequent years
Act A273
Assessment year
1975 and
subsequent years
except section 6
which shall have
effect for the year of
502
Amending law
Laws of Malaysia
Short title
ACT 53
In force from
assessment 1974
Act 160
Malaysian Currency (Ringgit) Act

1975
29-08-1975
Act A344
Assessment year
1976 and
subsequent years
P.U.(B) 50/1976
Amendment to Part I of Schedule 6
Assessment year
1976 and
subsequent years
P.U.(B) 303/1976
Assessment year
1976 and
subsequent years
P.U.(B) 186/1977
Assessment year
1973 and
subsequent years
P.U.(B) 187/1977
Assessment year
1968 and
subsequent years
P.U.(B) 363/1977
01-12-1974
P.U.(B) 364/1977
Assessment year
1973
P.U.(B) 365/1977
Assessment year
1977
Act A380
1. Paragraph 2(b)
and section 8
01-01-1977
2. Remaining
provisions
Assessment year
1977 and
subsequent years
Income Tax
Amending law
Act A429
Short title
503
In force from
1. Assessment year
1978 and
subsequent years
2. Section 2
01-01-1977
3. Paragraph
12(b)
Assessment year
1977 and
subsequent years
Act A434
Subordinate Courts (Amendment)

Act 1978
01-07-1978
Act A451
1. Assessment
year 1979 and
subsequent years
2. Sections 2 and
4
Assessment
year 1973 and
subsequent years
3. Sections 10, 11,
12 and 14
01-01-1979
4. Sections 15 and
18
Assessment year
1980 and
subsequent years
P.U.(B) 421/1979
Amendment to Part I of Schedule 6
Assessment year
1977 and
subsequent years
P.U.(B) 422/1979
Assessment year
1977 and
subsequent years
P.U.(B) 423/1979
Assessment year
1980
504
Amending law
Act A471
Laws of Malaysia
Short title
ACT 53
In force from
1. Section 3
Assessment year
1978 and
subsequent years
2. Section 16
Assessment year
1968 and
subsequent years
3. Section 14
Assessment year
1980 and
subsequent years
4. Remaining
provisions
Assessment year
1980 and
subsequent years
Act 241
Finance Act 1981
1. Section 8,
paragraph 10(b),
sections 11, 12, 16
and paragraph
18(a)
Assessment year
1980 and
subsequent years
2. Remaining
provisions
Assessment year
1981 and
subsequent years
P.U.(A) 161/1981
Revision of Laws (Income Tax Act

1967) Order 1981
05-06-1981
Act 264
Finance Act 1982
1. Section 10
01-01-1982
2. Remaining
provisions
Assessment year
1982 and
Income Tax
Amending law
Short title
505
In force from
subsequent years
Act 274
Finance (No. 2) Act 1982
1. Sections 4, 5, 6
and 14
Assessment year
1984 and
subsequent years
2. Sections 7, 8, 9,
10, 11 and 12
01-01-1983
3. Paragraph
15(a)
22-10-1982
4. Remaining
provisions
Assessment year
1983 and
subsequent years
Act 293
Finance Act 1983
9, 10, 11, 15, 16, 17,
18, 19, 20, 21 and
22
21-10-1983
2. Section 7
01-01-1984
3. Sections 12, 13
and 14
Assessment year
1984 and
subsequent years
4. Remaining
provisions
Assessment year
1984 and
subsequent years
Act 309
Finance Act 1984
1. Sections 16 and
18
19-10-1984
506
Amending law
Laws of Malaysia
Short title
ACT 53
In force from
2. Sections 5, 8 and
14
21-10-1983
3. Sections 4(b),
section 13,
paragraphs 15 (b)
and 19(g)
Assessment year
1984 and
subsequent years
4. Section 7
19-10-1984
5. Remaining
provisions
Assessment year
1985 and
subsequent years
Act 315
Finance Act 1985
Assessment year
1985 and
subsequent years
Act 323
Finance Act (No. 2) 1985
1. Paragraph 4(d)
Assessment year
1984 and
subsequent years
2. Section 23
Assessment year
1985 and
subsequent years
3. Paragraphs 6(a),
6(b), 7(c) and
section 22
Assessment year
1987 and
subsequent years
4. Paragraphs 4(a),
4(b), sections 8, 17
and 19
25-10-1985
Income Tax
Amending law
Short title
507
In force from
5. Section 24(b)
25-10-1986
6. Remaining
provisions
Assessment year
1986 and
subsequent years
Act A643
1. Section 7
01-01-1986
2. Remaining
provisions
Assessment year
1987 and
subsequent years
Act 328
Finance Act 1986
12
21-10-1983
2. Sections 4, 6, 10,
11, 13, 15, and 18
24-10-1986
3. Section 8
01-01-1986
4. Section 16
Assessment year
1984
5. Paragraph
19(h)
Assessment year
1988 and
subsequent years6.
Remaining
provisions
Assessment year
1987 and
subsequent years;
508
Amending law
Laws of Malaysia
Short title
ACT 53
In force from
Provided that
paragraphs 9(c) and
(e) shall cease to
have effect from
(i)
year
of
assessment
1988
where the gross
premiums receivable
by the insurer during
the basis period for
year of assessment
1986 on account of
all Malaysian life
policies in force at
the end of that
period, amount to
fifty million ringgit
or more;
(ii)
year
of
assessment
1990
where the gross
premiums receivable
year of assessment
1986 on account of
all Malaysian life
the end of that
period, amount to
ten million ringgit or
more but less then
fifty million ringgit;
and
(iii)
year
of
assessment
1992
where the gross
premiums receivable
year of assessment
1986 on account of
all Malaysian life
Income Tax
Amending law
Short title
509
In force from
the end of that

period, is less than
ten million ringgit
Act 337
Finance Act 1987
1. Section 10
24-10-1986
2. Section 13
01-01-1989
3. Remaining
provisions
Assessment year
1988 and
subsequent years
Act 364
Finance Act 1988
1. Paragraphs 14(b)
and (e)
Assessment year
1990 and
subsequent years
2. Remaining
provisions
Assessment year
1989 and
subsequent years
P.U.(A) 212/1989

Order 1989
Assessment year
1968
Act 420
Finance Act 1990
15
Assessment year
1989 and
subsequent years
2. Section 13
01-01-1989
3. Section 16
Assessment year
1991 and
subsequent years
510
Amending law
Laws of Malaysia
Short title
ACT 53
In force from
4. Remaining
provisions
Assessment year
1990 and
subsequent years
P.U.(A) 266/1990

Order 1990
Assessment year
1968
Act 421
1. Sections 5 and
6
Assessment year
1990 and
subsequent years
2. Remaining
provisions
Assessment year
1991 and
subsequent years
Act A774
Assessment year
1991 and
subsequent years
Act 451
Finance Act 1991
1. Chapter II except
for sections 7, 8, 10,
paragraphs 11(a),
11(b), section 19,
paragraphs 20(b),
sections 21, 23, 26,
27, paragraphs 28(d)
and 28(e)
Assessment year
1991 and
subsequent years
2. Section 19,
paragraph 20(b),
sections 23 and 27
14-12-1990
3. Sections 7, 8, 10,
paragraphs 11(a),
11(b) and section
26
Income Tax
Amending law
Short title
511
In force from
Assessment year
1992 and
subsequent years
4.
Section
21,
paragraphs
28(d)
and 28(e)
01-10-1989
P.U.(A) 406/1991
Act 476
Revision of Laws (Rectification)

Order 1991
Finance Act 1992
01-11-1971
12 and paragraph
18(a)
Assessment year
1992 and
subsequent years
2. Sections 6, 11,
12, and paragraph
18(a)
Assessment year
1991 and
subsequent years
3. Section 7
01-01-1990
Act 497
Finance Act 1993
for section 4,
paragraph 6(b) and
section 7
Assessment year
1993 and
subsequent years
2. Section 4
Assessment year
1994 and
subsequent years
3. Paragraph 6(b)
Assessment year
1989
512
Amending law
Laws of Malaysia
Short title
ACT 53
In force from
4. Section 7
30-10-1992
Act 513
Finance Act 1994
for sections 4, 7,
paragraphs 8(d),
10(a), sections 11,
12, 13, 14, 17, 18,
19, 20, 21, 22, 23,
24, 25, paragraph
28(d) and section
29
Assessment year
1994 and
subsequent years
2. Section 4,
paragraph 10(a) and
section 11
01-06-1991
3. Section 7,
paragraph 8(d),
sections 12, 14 and
29
01-01-1994
4. Section 13
01-01-1993
5. Paragraph 28(d)
16-02-1993
6. Sections 17, 18,
19, 20, 21, 22, 23,
24 and 25
25-02-1994
Act 531
Finance Act 1995
for section 6,
paragraphs 19(c)
and 19(e)
Assessment year
1995 and
subsequent years
Income Tax
Amending law
Short title
513
In force from
2. Section 6 (except
for subparagraph
6(a)(i))
Assessment year
1994 and
subsequent years
3. Subparagraph
6(a)(i)
Assessment year
1991
4. Paragraphs 19(c)
and 19(e)
28-10-1994
Act 544
Finance Act 1996
for paragraphs
10(a), 10(b),11(a),
16(c) and section
17
Assessment year
1996 and
subsequent years
2. Paragraphs 10(a),
10(b), 11(a), 11(b)
and 16(c)
Assessment year
1995 and
subsequent years
3. Section 17
Assessment year
1997 and
subsequent years
Act A955
02-08-1996
Act 557
Finance Act 1997
for paragraphs 4(a),
4(b), 19(a), 19(b),
sections 5, 7, 15, 16,
17, 18, 20 and 21
Assessment year
514
Amending law
Laws of Malaysia
Short title
ACT 53
In force from
1997 and
subsequent years
2. Paragraphs 4(a)
19(b), sections 16,
17 and 18
25-10-1996
3. Paragraphs 4(b)
and 19(a), sections
5, 7, 15 and 21
01-01-1997
4. Section 20
02-08-1996
Act A998
01-08-1997
Act 578
Finance Act 1998
14, 15, 18,
paragraphs 21(d)
and 21(g)
Assessment year
1998 and
subsequent years
2. Sections 7, 8, 14,
15 and paragraph
21(g)
01-01-1999
3. Section 10
17-10-1997
4. Section 18
20-03-1998
5. Paragraph 21(d)
Assessment year
1999 and
subsequent years
Act A1028
Tax Laws (Amendment) Act 1998
1. Chapter I except
section 6
02-07-1998
Income Tax
Amending law
Short title
515
In force from
2. Section 6
Assessment year
1998 and
subsequent years
Act 591
sections 4, 6, 10 and
13
Assessment year
1999 and
subsequent years
of assessment
2. Section 4
24-10-1998
3. Sections 6 and
10
Assessment year
2000 and
subsequent years of
assessment
4. Section 13
Assessment year
1998 and
subsequent years of
assessment
Act A1055
1. Sections 2, 3, 5
and 6
01-01-2000
2. Sections 20, 21,
77 and 92
Assessment year
2000 in respect of
the basis period
ending in the year
2000 and
subsequent years of
assessment
3. Section 4
Assessment year
1999 and
516
Amending law
Laws of Malaysia
Short title
ACT 53
In force from
subsequent years of
assessment
4. Sections 7 to
16
Assessment year
2000 in respect of
the basis period
ending in the year
1999
5. Section 17
01-01-2000
Act A1069

Act 1999
01-01-2000
1. Subsection
107C(3) of
section 12
Assessment year
2002 and
subsequent years of
assessment
2. Sections 13, 14,
15 and 16
01-01-2000
3. Section 17
Assessment year
2001
4. Remaining
provisions
Assessment year
2001 and
subsequent years of
assessment
Act 600
Finance Act 2000
8, 11, 12 and 15
Assessment year
2000 in respect of
the basis period
ending in the year
2000 (current year
basis) and
Income Tax
Amending law
Short title
517
In force from
subsequent years
of assessment
2. Sections 4, 9, 10
and 14
16-06-2000
3. Section 13
Assessment year
2000 in respect of
the basis period
ending in the year
1999 (preceding
year basis) and
subsequent years of
assessment
Act A1093
1. Sections 211,
1318 and 21
Assessment year
2001 and
subsequent years of
assessment
2. Section 12
Assessment year
2000 in respect of
the basis period
ending in the year
2000 and
subsequent years of
assessment
3. Section 16
Only for assessment
year 2000 in respect
of the basis period
ending in the year
2000
4. Sections 19, 20
and 2228
01-01-2001
518
Amending law
Act 608
Laws of Malaysia
Short title
Finance (No.2) Act 2000
ACT 53
In force from
1. Sections 4-14 and

16-27
Assessment year
2001 and
subsequent
years of assessment
2. Section 15
Assessment year
1986 and
subsequent
years of assessment
Act 619
Finance Act 2002
paragraphs 8(a),
8(b), 8(d), 8(e), 8(f),
8(g), 8(h), 8(i), 8(j),
8(l) and 8(m) ,
section 9 and
paragraphs 10(a),
10(b) and 10(c)
Assessment year
2002 and
subsequent years of
assessment
2. Paragraph 8(c)
01-01-2000
Assessment year
2000 and
subsequent year of
assessment
3. Paragraph 37F of
Schedule 3 as
inserted by
paragraph 8(k)
Assessment year
2002 and
subsequent years of
assessment
4. Paragraphs 37G
and 37H of Schedule
3 as Inserted by
paragraph 8(k)
Income Tax
Amending law
Short title
519
In force from
Assessment year
2001 and
subsequent years
5. Paragraph 10(d)
Assessment year
1998 and
subsequent years of
assessment
Act A1151
1. Sections 2, 3 4, 5,
6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12,
13, 14, 15, 16, 17,
18, 19, paragraph
20(a), subparagraph
21(b)(i),
subparagraphs
21(c)(i) and (ii),
sections 22 and 23,
paragraphs 24(b)
and 25(a) and
subparagraph
25(b)(ii)
Assessment year
2004 and
subsequent years of
assessment
2. Paragraphs 20(b)
and (c), paragraph
21(a),subparagraph
21(b)(ii) and
paragraph 21(d)
Assessment year
2001 and
subsequent years of
assessment
3. Paragraph 24(a)
and subparagraph
25(b)(i)
Assessment year
2002 and
subsequent years of
assessment
520
Amending law
Laws of Malaysia
Short title
ACT 53
In force from
4. Section 26
Assessment year
2004
5. Section 27
Assessment year
2002
6. Sections 28, 29,
30 and 31
Assessment year
2003
P.U.(A) 338/2002
Revision of Laws (Rectification of

Income Tax Act 1967) Order 2002
23-08-2002
Act 624
9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 16,
17, paragraph 19(a),
23, 28 and 29
Assessment year
2003 and
subsequent years of
assessment
2. Section 5
Assessment year
2002 and
subsequent years of
assessment
24
21-09-2002
4. Sections 14, 15
and 27 shall have
effect on the coming
into operation of Act
624 [27-12-2002]
5. Paragraph 19(b)
Assessment year
2001 and
Income Tax
Amending law
Short title
521
In force from
subsequent years of
assessment
6. Sections 25 and
26
Assessment year
2000 (current year)
and subsequent
years of assessment
Act 631
Finance Act 2003
1. Sections 4, 6, 8
and 16 and
paragraph 19(b)
Assessment year
2003 and
subsequent years of
assessment
2. Sections 12 and
15
Assessment year
2003
11, 13, 14, 18 and
20
Assessment year
2003 and
subsequent years of
assessment
4. Section 10
Assessment years
2003, 2004 and
2005
5. Paragraph 17(b)
01-01-2001
6. Subparagraph
19(a)(i)
13-09-2003
7. Subparagraph
19(a)(ii)
522
Amending law
Laws of Malaysia
Short title
ACT 53
In force from
Assessment year
2000 (current year)
and subsequent
years of assessment
Act 639
Finance Act 2004
and subparagraph
7(b)(ii) and sections
8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13,
14, 15, 16, 17, 18,
19, 23, 27, 28, 29,
30, 31 and 32
Assessment year
2005 and
subsequent years of
assessment
2. Paragraph 7(a)
Assessment year
2001 and
subsequent years of
assessment
3. Subparagraph
7(b)(i) and sections
20 and 22
Assessment year
2001 and
subsequent years of
assessment
4. Sections 24, 25
and
26
01-01-2005
5. Paragraph 33(a)
Assessment
year
2003
and
subsequent years of
assessment
6. Paragraph 33(b)
11-09-2004
Income Tax
Amending law
Act 644
Short title
Finance Act 2005
523
In force from
7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12,
13, 14, 15, 16, 17,
18, 21, 22, 24, 32,
33, 34, 35, 36 and
37 have effect for
the year of
assessment 2006
and subsequent
years of assessment
2. Sections 23 and
30 come into
operation on 1
January 2006
3. Section 25 is
deemed to have
come into operation
on 1 October 2005
Act 661
Finance Act 2006
1. (1) Sections 4, 6,
7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12,
13, 14, 15, 16,17,
19, 25, paragraph
30(a), section 31,
paragraphs 32 (a),
(b), (c) and (e) and
section 33 have
assessment 2007
and subsequent
years of assessment
(2) Section 5,
paragraph 24(a),
29 and paragraph
30(b) come into
operation on 1
January 2007
(3) Section 18 has
assessment 2006
524
Amending law
Laws of Malaysia
Short title
ACT 53
In force from
and subsequent
years of assessment
(4) Section 20
comes into
operation on the
coming into
operation of this Act
(5) Sections 21,22,
23, paragraph 24(b),
paragraph 32 (d) and
section 34 are
deemed to have
come into operation
on 2 September
2006
Act 683
Finance Act 2007
(1) Sections 4, 5, 8,
paragraphs
10(a)
and
(d),
subparagraphs
12(a)(i) and (iv) in
respect of paragraph
46(1)(l)
of
the
Income Tax Act
1967, sections 14,
15, 17, 19, 20, 21,
23, 24, 25, 26, 27,
29,
33,
34,
paragraphs
36(a)
and (f) and sections
38, 39, 40, 41, 42,
43, 44, 45, 46, 47,
48, 49, 50, 51, 52,
53, 54, 55, 56 and
57 have effect for
the
year
of
assessment
2008
and
subsequent
years of assessment
(2) Sections 6 and
22
come
into
operation on 1
January 2008
Income Tax
Amending law
Short title
525
In force from
(3) Subparagraphs
12(a)(ii), (iii) and (iv)
in respect of
paragraph 46(1)(k) of
the Income Tax Act
1967, section 16 and
paragraph 36(d) have
assessment 2007 and
subsequent years of
assessment
(4) Sections 7, 9, 11
and 13 are deemed
to have effect for the
year of assessment
2006 and
subsequent years of
assessment
(5) Section 28
comes into
operation on 1
August 2008
(6) Section 32 is
deemed to have
come into operation
on
21 February 2007
Act 693
Finance Act 2009
(1) Paragraph 45(a)

has effect for the
year of assessment
2008 and
subsequent years of
assessment
(2) Sections 4, 6, 7,
11, 12, 13, 14, 16,
17, 18, 19, 20, 21,
22, 23, 24, 27, 29,
38, paragraphs 42(a)
and
526
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In force from
(b), paragraphs
43(b), (c), (d), (e)
and (f), paragraph
45(b), paragraphs
46(a), (c), (d), (f)
and (g) and
subparagraphs
46(e)(i) and (ii) have
assessment 2009
and subsequent
years of assessment
(3) Sections 8, 9, 26,
28, 30, 31, 33, 34,
35, 36, paragraph
43(a), section 44,
paragraph 46(b) and
sections 47, 48, 49
and 50
9-1-2009
(4) Sections 5, 10,
15, 25, 37, 39, 40
and 41 and
paragraph 42(d)
come into
operation on 1
January 2009
(5) Paragraph 42(c)
has effect from 1
January 2009 to 31
December 2011
(6) Subparagraph
46(e)(iii) has effect
for the year of
assessment 2009
and 2010
(7) Section 32 has
assessment 2010
and subsequent
Income Tax
Amending law
Short title
527
In force from
years of assessment
P.U.(B) 62/2009
Corrigendum
Act A1349
(1) Sections 2, 3 and

4 are deemed to
have effect for the
years of assessment
2008, 2009 and
2010
(2) Sections 5 and 6
have effect for the
year of assessment
2009 and
subsequent years of
assessment
(3) Section 7 is
deemed to have
come into operation
on 1 July 2008
Act 702
Finance Act 2010
(1) Sections 4 and

4A, subparagraph
5(a)(i), sections 6, 7,
14, 15 and 16 have
assessment 2010
and subsequent
years of assessment
(2)Subparagraphs
5(a)(ii), (iii), (iv)
and paragraph 5(b)
have effect for the
years of assessment
2010, 2011 and
2012
(3) Section 8 has
effect for the year
ending 31 December
2009 and
subsequent years
528
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Short title
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In force from
(4) Sections 9, 11,

12 and 13 come into
operation on the
coming into
(5) Section 10 has
assessment 2011
and subsequent
years of assessment
Act 719
Finance Act 2011
(1) Subparagraphs
4(a)(ii), (iii) and (iv)
and paragraph 4(b)
are deemed to have
come into operation
on 11 February 2010
(2) Sections 5, 6, 8,
paragraph 9(a),
13, 14, 15, 16, 24
and 25 have effect
for the year of
assessment 2011
and subsequent
years of assessment
(3) Section 7 is
deemed to have
effect from the year
of assessment 2010
(4) Paragraphs 9(b),
(c) and (d) have
effect from 1
January 2011 for the
year of assessment
2011 and
subsequent years of
assessment
(5) Subparagraph
4(a)(i), sections 17,
18, 20, 21, 22 and
Income Tax
Amending law
Short title
529
In force from
23 commence on the
coming into
(6) Section 19 has
assessment 2012
and subsequent
years of assessment
Act 742
Finance Act 2012
(1) Sections 4, 6, 7,
9, 11, 12, 21, and
22, paragraphs 23(a)
and (c), sections 24
and 25 have effect
for the year of
assessment 2012
and subsequent
years of assessment
(2) Section 5 comes
into operation from
1 January 2012 until
31 December 2016
(3) Sections 8, 13,
15, 16, 17 and 19
come into
operation on 1
January 2012
(4) Section 10
comes into
operation from the
year of assessment
2012 until the year
of assessment 2021
(5) Sections 14
10 February 2012
(6) Section 20
30 January 2012
(7) Paragraph 23(b)
530
Amending law
Laws of Malaysia
Short title
ACT 53
In force from
is deemed to have
effect from the year
of assessment 2011
Act A1429
23-06-2012
Act 755
Finance Act 2013
(1) Subparagraphs
4(a)(i) and (iii),
paragraphs 4(b) and
(c), sections 7 and
23, and paragraph
35(c) in relation to
business trust come
into operation on the
coming into
operation of the
corresponding
provisions of the
Capital Markets and
Services
(Amendment) Act
2012 [Act A1437]
relating to business
trust
28-12-2012
(2) Subparagraph 4
(a)(ii), sections 20
and 22, and
paragraph 35(a)
come into operation
on the coming into
operation of this
Act:
11-01-2013
(3) Subparagraphs
4(a)(iv), (v) and
(vi), sections 7,8,9,
14, 15, 23, 24, 25,
27, 28 and 29,
paragraphs 33(b)
and (c), and
paragraphs 35(c),
35(f) and 37(a) in
Income Tax
Amending law
Short title
531
In force from
relation to limited
liability partnership
come into operation
on the coming into
operation of the
Limited Liability
Partnerships Act
2012 [Act 743]:
26-12-2012
(4) Subparagraph 4
(a)(vii), sections
5,10,13,18,
paragraphs 33(a)
and (d), paragraphs
35(d) and (e),
paragraphs 38(a) ,
(b), (c), (d) , (e), (g),
(h) and (i), and
sections 39 and 40
have effect for the
year of assessment
2013 and
subsequent years of
assessment.
(5) Sections 6 and
30, and paragraph
33(e) come into
operation on 1
January 2013.
(6) Sections 11, 12,
16, 26, 31, 32 and
34, paragraph 35(b),
section 36 and
paragraph 38(f)
come into operation
on 1 January 2014.
(7) Section 17 has
effect for the years
of assessment 2012,
2013, 2014, 2015,
2016 and 2017.
532
Amending law
Laws of Malaysia
Short title
ACT 53
In force from
(8) Sections 19 and

21, and paragraph
37(b) have effect for
the year of
assessment 2012
and subsequent
Act 761
Finance Act 2014
(1) Sections 4, 5, 7,
8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13,
14, 15, 16, 17, 18,
19, 21, 22, 25, 26
and 30 have effect
for the year of
assessment 2014
and subsequent
years of assessment
(2) Sections 6, 20,
23, 24, 27, 28, 29,
31 and 32 come into
operation on the
coming into
operation of this
Act.
24 January 2014.
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INCOME TAX ACT 1967
LIST OF SECTIONS AMENDED
Section
Amending authority
In force from
Act 77/1967
14-12-1967
P.U.(A) 256/1970
01-01-1970
Act A60
01-01-1970
Act A98
01-01-1972
Act A108
Year of assessment 1968 and

subsequent years of assessment
Act A158

Act A226

Act A273

Act A380

subsequent years of assessment;
para. 2(b) 01-01-1977
Act A429
01-01-1977
Act A451

Act 293
21-10-1983
534
Laws of Malaysia
Section
ACT 53
Amending authority
In force from
Act 323
para. 4(a), (b) 25-10-1985;

para.
4(c)
Year
of
assessment1986 and subsequent
years of assessment;
para.
4(d)
Year
of
assessment1984 and subsequent
years of assessment
Act 328
24-10-1986
Act 337

Act 420

Act A774

Act 513
01-06-1991
Act A955
02-08-1996
Act 557
para. 4(a) 25-10-1996;

para. 4(b) 01-01-1997
Act 600
16-06-2000
Act A1093

Act 608

Act 631

Act 639

Act 661

Income Tax
Section
535
Amending authority
In force from
Act 693

Act 702

Act 719
11-02-2010
28-01-2011
Act 742

Act 755
26-12-2012
28-12-2012
11-01-2013
Act 761

Act A226

3A
Act A273

Act A471

Act 309
para. 4(a) Year of assessment

1985 and subsequent years of
assessment;
para. 4(b) Year of assessment
assessment
Act 323

Act 337

536
Laws of Malaysia
Section
ACT 53
Amending authority
In force from
Act 451

Act A774

Act 683

Act 531

Act 578

Act 693

4A
Act 293
21-10-1983
Act 309
21-10-1983
Act 328
21-10-1983
Act 557
01-01-1987
4B
Act 755

4C
Act 761

Act A273

Act A471

Act 241

3B
3C
Income Tax
Section
537
Amending authority
In force from
Act 323
para. 6(a), (b) Year of

assessment 1987 and subsequent
para. 6(c) Year of assessment
assessment
Act 337

Act 683

Act 77/1967
14-12-1967
Act A98
01-01-1972
Act A158

Act A273

Act A380

Act A451

Act 293
21-10-1983
Act 323

assessment;
years of assessment
Act 420

Act 451

538
Laws of Malaysia
Section
Amending authority
In force from
Act 544

Act 624

Act 639

Act 661
01-01-2007
Act 683
01-01-2008
Act 693
01-01-2009
Act 742
6A
ACT 53
01-01-2012 until 31-12-2016
Act 755
01-01-2013
Act 761
24-01-2014
Act A380

Act A429

Act 309

Act 451

Act 513

Act 531

Act 578

Act 608

Income Tax
Section
6B
6C
539
Amending authority
In force from
Act 639

Act 661

Act 693

Act 702

Act 742

Act 241

Act 264

Act 661

Act 578

Act 719

Act 77/1967
14-12-1967
Act A13

Act A226

Act 241

Act 337

540
Laws of Malaysia
Section
ACT 53
Amending authority
In force from
Act 624

Act 693

Act 693
09-01-2009
Act 755
26-12-2012
Act A226

10
Act 77/1967
14-12-1967
Act A226

Act 624

Act 693

Act 755
01-01-2014
Act 693

Act 755
01-01-2014
P.U.(A) 256/1970

Act A60

Act A226

Act 293
01-01-1984
Act 309
For a passage commencing on or

after 19-10-1984
Act 323
25-10-1985
11
12
13
Income Tax
Section
13A
14
15
15A
541
Amending authority
In force from
Act 557

Act 591
24-10-1998
Act 661

Act 693

Act 241

Act 293

Act A1093

Act 693

Act A158

Act A451

Act 328
24-10-1986
Act 693
09-01-2009
Act 293
21-10-1983
Act 309
21-10-1983
Act 328
21-10-1983
Act 557
01-01-1997
Act 624
21-09-2002
Act 693
09-01-2009
542
Laws of Malaysia
ACT 53
Section
Amending authority
In force from
15B
Act 693
01-01-2009
16
Act 693

Act 719

Act 755
01-01-2014
Act A226

Act 693

Act 755
Year of assessment 2012, 2013,

2014
Act A13

Act A471

Act 241

Act 323

Act A643

Act 364

Act 476

Act 624

17
18
Income Tax
Section
19
20
21
543
Amending authority
In force from
Act 693

Act 761

Act 77/1967
14-12-1967
Act 420

Act 451

Act 644

Act 693

Act A1055
01-01-2000
Act 693

Act 742
10-02-2012
Act A13

Act A1055
01-01-2000
Act A1093

Act A1151

Act 693

Act 755
26-12-2012
544
Laws of Malaysia
ACT 53
Section
Amending authority
In force from
21A
Act A1093

Act A1151

Act 755
26-12-2012
Act A13

Act 241

Act 661

Act 683
01-01-2008
Act 693

Act A226

Act 693

Act A226

Act 293
21-10-1983
Act 693

Act 755

Act 761

Act 77/1967
14-12-1967
22
23
24
25
Act A13
Income Tax
Section
Amending authority
545
In force from
26
27
Act A226

Act A273

Act A380

Act 578
01-01-1999
Act 644

Act 693

Act 755
01-01-2014
Act A226

Act A1093

Act 755
01-01-2014
Act 761

Act 77/1967
14-12-1967
Act A226

Act 578
01-01-1999
Act 683

Act 693

546
Laws of Malaysia
Section
29
30
31
32
33
ACT 53
Amending authority
In force from
Act 755
01-01-2014
Act A226

Act 693

Act 761

Act 77/1967
14-12-1967
Act A226

Act 661

Act 77/1967
14-12-1967
Act 624

Act 755
01-01-2014
Act 77/1967
14-12-1967
Act A273

Act 644

Act 693

Act 755
01-01-2014
Act 77/1967
14-12-1967
Act A13

P.U.(A)256/1970
Income Tax
Section
Amending authority
547
In force from
34
Act A60

Act 761

Act A226

Act 274

Act A643

Act 476

Act 497

Act 513

Act 661

Act 544

Act 557

Act 578

Act 591

Act 608

548
Laws of Malaysia
Section
ACT 53
Amending authority
In force from
Act 619

Act 639

assessment;
para. 7(b)(i) Year of assessment
assessment
34A
34B
Act 661

Act 683

Act 693

Act 719
Year of assessment 2010
Act 755
01-01-2014
Act 274

Act A643

Act 421

Act 631

Act 693

Act 451

Act 513
01-01-1994
Income Tax
Section
549
Amending authority
In force from
Act 531

para. 6(a)(i) for year of
assessment 1991
Act 742

Act 683

Act 719

34D
Act 755

35
Act 77/1967
14-12-1967
Act A108

Act A226

Act 274

Act 631

Act 661

35(b)
Act 755
01-01-2014
36
Act 309

Act 631

Act 755
01-01-2014
34C
550
Laws of Malaysia
ACT 53
Section
Amending authority
In force from
37
Act 77/1967
14-12-1967
Act 624

Act 77/1967
14-12-1967
Act 624

Act 693

38A
Act 364

39
Act A13

Act A273

Act A344

Act A451

Act 241

para. 10(b) Year of assessment
assessment
Act 274
01-01-1983
Act 293
21-10-1983
Act 309

Act A643

38
Income Tax
Section
551
Amending authority
In force from
Act 661

Act 364

Act 421

Act 451

Act 531

Act 557

Act 578
17-10-1997
Act 608

Act 619

Act 631

Act 644

Act 693
01-01-2009
Act 719

01-01-2011 for the year of
years of assessment
Act 742
01-01-2012
552
Laws of Malaysia
Section
ACT 53
Amending authority
In force from
Act 755
26-12-2012
Act 761

Act A643

Act A1055

42A
Act 693

42B
Act 693

43
Act A226

Act 364

Act 451

Act 476

Act 644

Act 661

43B
Act 693

43C
Act 693

43D
Act 693

42
Income Tax
553
Section
Amending authority
In force from
43E
Act 693

43F
Act 693

44
Act A226

Act A429

Act 309

Act 323

Act 328
01-01-1986
Act 364

Act 420

Act 421

Act 451

years of assessment
Act 476
01-01-1990
Act 513

para. 8(d) 01-01-1994
Act 531

Act 557
554
Laws of Malaysia
Section
Amending authority
ACT 53
In force from
44A
Act 578

Act 591

Act A1093

Act 608

Act A1151

Act 639

Act 644

Act 661

Act 683

Act 693

Act A1349
Years of assessment 2008, 2009

and 2010
Act A1429
23-06-2012
Act 755
26-12-2012
Act 761

Act 644

Income Tax
Section
555
Amending authority
In force from
Act 661

Act 683

Act 693

Act 755
01-01-2014
44B
Act A1349

and 2010
45
Act 77/1967
14-12-1967
P.U.(A) 256/1970

Act A60

Act A273

Act A429

Act A471

Act 315

Act 323

Act 337

Act 451

Act 608
556
Laws of Malaysia
Section
Amending authority
ACT 53
In force from

Act 742

Act 608

Act 639

Act 644

45B
Act 693

46
Act A273

Act A429

Act A471

Act 451

Act 476

Act 531

Act 544

Act 557

Act 600
Year of assessment 2000 in

respect of the basis period
ending in the year 2000 and
45A
Income Tax
Section
Amending authority
557
In force from

Act 608

Act 639

Act 644

Act 661

Act 683

Act 702

and 2012
46A
Act 719

Act 755
Year of assessment 2012, 2013,

2014, 2015, 2016 and 2017
Act 761

Act 631

and 2005
Act 683

Act 693

558
Laws of Malaysia
ACT 53
Section
Amending authority
In force from
46B
Act A1349

and 2010
46C
Act 693

46D
Act 693

46F
Act 693

46G
Act 693

46E
Act 693

47
P.U.(A) 256/1970

Act A60

Act A227

Act A273

Act A429

Act A471

Act 241

Act 323

Act 451
Income Tax
Section
Amending authority
559
In force from
48
Act 476

Act 531

Act 639

Act 77/1967
14-12-1967
Act A226

Act A227

Act A273

Act A429

Act A451

Act A471

Act 309

Act 323

Act 451

Act 476

Act 513
560
Laws of Malaysia
Section
Amending authority
ACT 53
In force from
49
Act 531

Act 544

Act 578

Act A1151

Act 631

Act 644

Act 755

Act 77/1967
14-12-1967
Act A273

Act A429

Act A451

Act 241

Act 323

Act 451

Act 476

Income Tax
Section
50
561
Amending authority
In force from
Act 513

para. 10(a) 01-06-1991
Act 544

Act 557

Act 600

Act 608

Act 639

Act 702

Act 719

Act 742
Year of assessment 2012 until

the year of assessment 2021
Act 761

Act 77/1967
14-12-1967
Act A13

Act A108

Act A273

562
Laws of Malaysia
Section
ACT 53
Amending authority
In force from
Act A429

Act 323

Act 451

Act 476

Act 513
01-06-1991
Act 544

Act 600

Act 608

Act 719

51
Act A471

53
Act 693

53A
Act 693

54
Act 77/1967
14-12-1967
Act A226

Act A451

Act 264
Income Tax
Section
Amending authority
563
In force from

Act 293

Act A451

Act 264

Act 293

Act 309

Act 591

Act 683

Act 693

Act 742

Act 264

Act 293

55
Act 77/1967
14-12-1967
56
Act 77/1967
14-12-1967
59
Act 77/1967
14-12-1967
60
Act 77/1967
14-12-1967
Act A13

54A
54B
564
Laws of Malaysia
Section
ACT 53
Amending authority
In force from
Act A471

Act 264

Act 328

Act 337

Act 476

Act 531

Act 544

para.10(c) Year of assessment
assessment
60A
Act 578

Act 591

Act 608

Act 644

Act 742

Act A227

Income Tax
Section
60AA
60AB
60B
60C
60D
565
Amending authority
In force from
Act A471

Act 323

Act 608

Act 755

Act 761

Act 683

Act 755

Act 531

Act A471

Act 264

Act 264

Act 624

Act 420

Act 476

Act 513
01-01-1994
566
Laws of Malaysia
Section
ACT 53
Amending authority
In force from
Act 600

Act 420

Act 476

Act 513
01-01-1993
Act 531

Act 544

Act 578
01-01-1999
Act 624

Act 497

Act 644

Act 661

Act 719

Act 761

60FA
Act 644

60G
Act 544

60F
Income Tax
Section
60H
60I
61
61A
567
Amending authority
In force from
Act 557

Act 755
11-01-2013
Act 557

Act 719

Act 761

Act 683

Act 702

Act 755

Act 77/1967
14-12-1967
P.U.(A) 256/1970

Act A60

Act A226

Act 420

Act 639

Act 639

Act 661

568
Laws of Malaysia
ACT 53
Section
Amending authority
In force from
62
Act A226

63A
Act 420

Act 639

Act 420

Act 639

Act 719

Act 761

63C
Act 639

63D
Act 639

64
Act 77/1967
14-12-1967
Act A226

Act A471

Act A226

Act 719

Act A380

63B
65
65A
Income Tax
Section
569
Amending authority
In force from
Act A429

Act 451

Act 531

Act 755
11-01-2013
Act A226

Act 274
01-01-1983
Act 293
21-10-1983
Act 683

Act 742
01-01-2012
68
Act 77/1967
14-12-1967
69
Act 77/1967
14-12-1967
70
Act 77/1967
14-12-1967
72
Act 77/1967
14-12-1967
74
Act A226

Act A1151

Act 719
28-01-2011
Act 619

Act 624
27-12-2002
Act 624
27-12-2002
67
75
75A
570
Laws of Malaysia
Section
ACT 53
Amending authority
In force from
Act 644
01-01-2006
Act 761
24-01-2014
75B
Act 755
26-12-2012
76
Act 513

77
Act A1055
01-01-2000
Act A1069
01-01-2000
Act A1093

Act A1151

Act 631

Act 639

Act 755
26-12-2012
Act A1151

Act 631

Act 755
26-12-2012
Act 761

77B
Act 693

77C
Act 761

78
Act 451
14-12-1990
77A
Income Tax
571
Section
Amending authority
In force from
80
Act 77/1967
14-12-1967
P.U.(A) 256/1970
01-01-1968
Act A60
01-01-1968
Act A1069
01-01-2000
Act 683
29-12-2007
Act A13

P.U.(A) 256/1970

Act A60

Act 742
10-02-2012
Act 337
24-10-1986
Act 451
14-12-1990
Act A1093

Act A1151

Act 624

82A
Act 624

83
Act A158

Act 337

Act 557
01-01-1997
81
82
572
Laws of Malaysia
Section
ACT 53
Amending authority
In force from
Act 702
Year ending 31 December 2009

and subsequent years
83A
Act 742
01-01-2012
84
Act 77/1967
14-12-1967
86
Act 77/1967
14-12-1967
Act A13

Act A226

Act A1151

Act 639

89
Act 77/1967
14-12-1967
90
Act A1069
01-01-2000
Act A1093

Act A1151

Act 578
01-01-1999
Act 644
01-01-2006
Act 661

Act 755
01-01-2014
91A
Act 693

92
Act 77/1967
14-12-1967
91
Income Tax
Section
93
95
96
96A
573
Amending authority
In force from
Act A13

Act A108

Act A226

Act A1055
01-01-2000
Act A1093

Act A1069
01-01-2000
Act A1151

Act 693

Act 476

Act 644

Act A1069
01-01-2000
Act A1151

Act 693

P.U.(A) 256/1970
01-01-1970
Act A60
01-01-1970
Act A1069
01-01-2000
Act A1151

574
Laws of Malaysia
ACT 53
Section
Amending authority
In force from
97
Act A108
In respect of an appeal made on

or after 01-01-1972
97A
Act 693
01-01-2009
Act 742
01-01-2012
Act 77/1967
14-12-1967
Act 693
09-01-2009
Act 77/1967
14-12-1967
98
99
Act A1093
For year of assessment 2000
Act 761
24-01-2014
100
Act A108
01-01-1972
101
Act 77/1967
14-12-1967
P.U.(A) 256/1970
01-01-1970
Act A60
01-01-1970
Act A108
01-01-1972
Act 600
16-06-2000
Act 761
24-01-2014
Act 77/1967
14-12-1967
P.U.(A) 256/1970
01-01-1970
Act A60
01-01-1970
Act A451
01-01-1979
Act 264
01-01-1982
Act 274
01-01-1983
Act 293
21-10-1983
102
103
Income Tax
Section
103A
104
575
Amending authority
In force from
Act 557
25-10-1996
Act A1069
01-01-2000
Act 608

Act A1151

Act 631

Act 639

Act 693

Act 755
26-12-2012
Act A1069
01-01-2000
Act A1093

Act A1151

Act 631

Act A451
01-01-1979
Act 274
01-01-1983
Act 293
21-10-1983
Act A1151

Act 693
09-01-2009
576
Laws of Malaysia
Section
106
107
107A
107B
ACT 53
Amending authority
In force from
Act 719
28-01-2011
Act A451
01-01-1979
Act A1069
01-01-2000
Act A1151

Act 693

Act 77/1967
14-12-1967
Act A158

Act A451

Act 337

Act 702
15-01-2010
Act 274
01-01-1983
Act 293
21-10-1983
Act 328
24-10-1986
Act 557
25-10-1996
Act 661
02-09-2006
Act 624
21-09-2000
Act 693
09-01-2009
Act 337
01-01-1989
Act A1069
01-01-2000
Income Tax
Section
107C
577
Amending authority
In force from
Act 600
For the year of assessment 2000

in respect of the basis period
Act A1151

Act 693
09-01-2009
Act 755
26-12-2012
Act A1069

Act A1093

Act A1151

Act 631

Act 644

Act 683

Act 693

Act 702

Act 719

Act 755
26-12-2012
Act 761

578
Laws of Malaysia
ACT 53
Section
Amending authority
In force from
108
Act 77/1967
14-12-1967
P.U.(A) 256/1970

Act A60

Act A273

Act A380

Act 241

Act 337

Act 364

Act A774

Act 497

para 6(b) for the year of
assessment 1989
Act 513

Act 531

Act 578

Act A1093

Act A1151

Income Tax
Section
579
Amending authority
In force from
Act 631

assessment;
para. 17(b) 01-01-2001
109
109A
Act 77/1967
14-12-1967
Act A98
01-01-1972
Act A158

Act A226

Act A380
01-01-1977
Act A451
01-01-1979
Act 241

Act 323
25-10-1985
Act 328
24-10-1986
Act 497
30-10-1992
Act 557
25-10-1996
Act 683

Act 661

Act 683

Act 693
09-01-2009
Act A158

580
Laws of Malaysia
ACT 53
Section
Amending authority
In force from
109B
Act 293
21-10-1983
Act 309
21-10-1983
Act 328
21-10-1983
Act 557
para. 19(a) 01-01-1997;

para. 19(b) 25-10-1996
109C
109D
Act 661
02-09-2006
Act 693
09-01-2009
Act 323
01-01-1986
Act A643
01-01-1986
Act 639

Act 661
02-09-2006
01-01-2007
Act 693
09-01-2009
Act 683
01-01-2008
Act 693
09-01-2009
Act 742
01-01-2012
Act 761

109F
Act 693
01-01-2009
109G
Act 755
01-01-2013
Act 761
24-01-2014
Act 755
01-01-2013
109E
109H
Income Tax
581
Section
Amending authority
In force from
110
Act 77/1967
14-12-1967
Act A13

Act A158

Act 293
21-10-1983
Act 364

Act 420

Act 497

Act 513

Act 531

Act 578

Act A1093

Act 608

Act A1151

Act 683

Act A774

Act 683

110A
582
Laws of Malaysia
ACT 53
Section
Amending authority
In force from
110B
Act 683

111
Act 77/1967
14-12-1967
Act A158
01-01-1973
Act A226

Act A1093

Act 661

Act 683

Act 719
28-01-2011
Act 755
01-01-2014
Act A774

Act 683

Act 639
01-01-2005
Act 644
01-01-2006
111C
Act 639
01-01-2005
112
Act 77/1967
14-12-1967
Act 513
25-02-1994
Act A1069
01-01-2000
Act A1151

111A
111B
Income Tax
Section
583
Amending authority
In force from
Act 702
15-01-2010
Act 77/1967
14-12-1967
Act 513
25-02-1994
Act 513
25-02-1994
Act A1069
01-01-2000
115
Act 513
25-02-1994
116
Act 77/1967
14-12-1967
Act 513
25-02-1994
Act A1069
01-01-2000
117
Act 513
25-02-1994
118
Act 513
25-02-1994
119
Act 513
25-02-1994
119A
Act A1093
01-01-2000
120
P.U.(A) 256/1970
01-05-1970
Act A60
01-05-1970
Act A158

Act 328
24-10-1986
Act 513
25-02-1994
Act 578
01-01-2000
Act A1069
01-01-2000
Act A1093
01-01-2001
Act 683
01-08-2008
113
114
584
Laws of Malaysia
Section
ACT 53
Amending authority
In force from
Act 702
15-01-2010
Act 742
01-01-2012
123
Act A1028
02-07-1998
124
Act 77/1967
14-12-1967
125
Act 77/1967
14-12-1967
Act 644

Act 77/1967
14-12-1967
Act 274
01-01-1983
Act 293
21-10-1983
Act 337

Act 608

Act 644
01-10-2005
Act 683

127A
Act 608

128
Act 241

Act 274

Act 328

Act 608

127
Income Tax
585
Section
Amending authority
In force from
129A
Act 608

130
Act 77/1967
14-12-1967
Act A13

Act A226

Act A273

Act A380

Act 451

Act 591

Act 608

Act 693

131
Act 755
01-01-2014
132
Act 719
28-01-2011
132A
Act 719
28-01-2011
132B
Act 761
24-01-2014
133A
Act A451

Act 544

Act 77/1967
14-12-1967
134
586
Laws of Malaysia
ACT 53
Act A998
01-08-1997
Amending authority
In force from
Act 644
01-01-2006
Act 742
30-01-2012
Act 323
25-10-1985
Act A955
02-08-1996
Act 557
02-08-1996
Act A1028
02-07-1998
Act 644
01-01-2006
137
Act A955
02-08-1996
138
Act 77/1967
14-12-1967
Act A225
01-01-1974
Act A955
02-08-1996
138A
Act 661
01-01-2007
138B
Act 661
01-01-2007
138C
Act 661
01-01-2007
138C
Act 693
01-01-2009
140
Act A1151

Act 761
24-01-2014
140A
Act 693
01-01-2009
140B
Act 761

141
Act 77/1967
14-12-1967
142
Act A225
01-01-1974
Section
136
Income Tax
587
Section
Amending authority
In force from
142A
Act 683
29-12-2007
143
Act 77/1967
14-12-1967
144
Act A955
02-08-1996
145
Act 293
21-10-1983
Act 420
01-01-1989
146
Act 644
01-01-2006
147
Act A158
01-01-1973
Act 644
01-01-2006
148
Act 77/1967
14-12-1967
151
Act 639
01-01-2005
152A
Act A1093

Act 683
29-12-2007
Act 702
15-01-2010
Act 77/1967
14-12-1967
Act 328
24-10-1986
Act 451
14-12-1990
Act 644
01-01-2006
Act 661

Act 683
21-02-2007
Act 77/1967
14-12-1967
Act 531

153
154
588
Laws of Malaysia
ACT 53
Act 661
01-01-2007
Amending authority
In force from
Act 693
01-01-2009
Act 719
28-01-2011
154A
Act A158

156
Act 608

Schedule 1
Act A32

Act A158

Act A226

Act A273

Act A344

Act A380

Act A451

Act A471

Act 241

Act 264

Act 293

Section
Income Tax
Section
589
Amending authority
In force from
Act 309

Act 323

Act 328
From year of assessment 1984
Act 337

Act 364

Act 420

Act 451

Act 476

Act 497

Act 513

Act 531

Act 544

Act 557

Act 578

Act 600
For the year of assessment 2000

in respect of the basis period
590
Laws of Malaysia
Section
ACT 53
Amending authority
In force from
Act A619

Act 631

Act 639

Act 661

01-01-2007
Act 683

Act 693

01-01-2009
01-01-2009 to 31-12-2011
Act 702

Act 742

Act 755

26-12-2012
01-01-2013
Schedule 2
Act 761
24-01-2014
Act 77/1967
14-12-1967
Act A226

Income Tax
Section
Schedule 3
591
Amending authority
In force from
Act A429

Act 309
19-10-1984
Act 755
01-01-2014
Act 77/1967
14-12-1967
Act A13

P.U.(A) 256/1970

Act A60

Act A108

Act A158

Act A226

Act A273

Act A429

Act 241

Act 274

Act 293

Act 309

592
Laws of Malaysia
Section
ACT 53
Amending authority
In force from
Act 323

Act A643

Act 328

Act 421

Act 451

Act A1028

Act 476

Act 513

Act 531

Act 544

Act 557

Act 578

Act 600
Act 608

Act A619

Act A1151

Income Tax
Section
593
Amending authority
In force from
Act 631

Act 639

Act 644
Act 661

Act 683

Act 693

09-01-2009
Act A1349

Act 755
26-12-2012
11-01-2013
01-01-2014
28-12-2012
Schedule 4
Act 761
24-01-2014
Act 77/1967
14-12-1967
Act A13

Act A471

594
Laws of Malaysia
Section
Schedule 4A
Schedule 4B
Schedule 4C
Schedule 5
ACT 53
Amending authority
In force from
Act 309

Act 755
01-01-2014
Act 364

Act 420

Act 639

Act 644

Act 451

Act 742

Act 591

Act 608

Act 644

Act 77/1967
14-12-1967
Act A108
01-01-1972
Act A225
01-03-1974
Act A434
01-07-1978
Act 328
24-10-1986
Act 451
14-12-1990
Act 600
16-06-2000
Income Tax
Section
Schedule 6
595
Amending authority
In force from
Act 683
29-12-2007
Act 693
09-01-2009
Act 77/1967
14-12-1967
Act A13

P.U.(B) 146/1969
10-12-1969
P.U.(A) 510/1969

Act A158

P.U.(A) 266/1974

P.U.(A) 267/1974

P.U.(A) 328/1974

Act A226

P.U.(B) 50/1976

P.U.(B) 303/1976

P.U.(B) 186/1977
P.U.(B) 187/1977

P.U.(B) 363/1977
01-12-1974
P.U.(B) 364/1977
P.U.(B) 365/1977
596
Laws of Malaysia
Section
ACT 53
Amending authority
In force from
Act A380

P.U.(B) 421/1979

P.U.(B) 422/1979

Act A429

Act A451

P.U.(B) 423/1979

Act A471

Act 241

assessment;
assessment;
Act 264

Act 274

Act 293

Act 309

para. 19(h) Year of assessment
assessment
Act 323

Income Tax
Section
597
Amending authority
In force from
Act 328

para. 19(h) Year of assessment
assessment
Act 364

Act 451
01-10-1989
Act 476

Act 497

Act 513

para 23(d) 16-02-1993
Act 544

Act 557

Act 591

Act 600
Act 608

Act 631

Act 639

Act 644

598
Laws of Malaysia
Section
ACT 53
Amending authority
In force from
Act 661
02-09-2006
01-01-2007
Act 683

Act 693

Act A1349
01-07-2008
Act 702

Act 719

Act 755
26-12-2012
Schedule 7
Schedule 7A
Act A226

Act 591

Act 661

Act A451

Act A471

Act 274

Income Tax
Section
599
Amending authority
In force from
Act 323

Act A643

Act 328

Act 364

para. 14(b),(e) Year of
years of assessment
Act 420

Act 421

Act 451

Act 513
01-01-1994
Act 544

Act 557

Act 578

Act 755
01-01-2014
Act 591

Act 619

Act 644
600
Laws of Malaysia
Section
Amending authority
ACT 53
In force from

Act 661
02-09-2006
Act 683
29-12-2007
Act 693

09-01-2009
Act 719

Act 742
Year of assessment 2011

Act 755

01-01-2014
Schedule 7B
Schedule 9
Act 544

Act 702

Act 77/1967
14-12-1967
P.U. 144/1968
14-12-1967
Act A13

P.U.(A) 256/1970

Act A60

Act A108
01-01-1972
Income Tax
Section
601
Amending authority
In force from
Act A158

Act A471

P.U.(A) 212/1989
P.U.(A) 266/1990

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LAWS OF MALAYSIA

ONLINE VERSION OF UPDATED

INCOME TAX ACT 1967

INCOME TAX ACT 1967

1967 (Act No. 47 of 1967)

Revised ... 1971 (Act 53 w.e.f. 21

See section 3 of Act 761

INCOME TAX ACT 1967

Short title and commencement

Charge of income tax

Non-chargeability to tax in respect of offshore business activity

Classes of income on which tax is chargeable

Special classes of income on which tax is chargeable

Manner in which chargeable income is to be ascertained

Residence: companies and bodies of persons

12. Derivation of business income in certain cases

14. General provisions as to dividend income

Chapter 2Basis years and basis periods

Chapter 3Gross income

23. Interpretation of sections 24 to 28

Basis period to which income obtainable on demand is related

Special provisions applicable to gross income from a business

Special provisions applicable to gross income from an employment

Chapter 4Adjusted income and adjusted loss

Chapter 5Statutory income

42. Statutory income

Chapter 6Aggregate income and total income

Chapter 7Chargeable income

Deduction for husband

46. Deduction for individual and Hindu joint family

Chapter 8Special cases

Club, association or similar institution

54. Sea and air transport undertakings

Exemption of shipping profits

56. Successive partnerships

60AB. Chargeable income of life fund subject to tax

Investment holding company

60FA. Investment holding company listed on Bursa Malaysia

66. Personal chargeability: general principle

83. Return by employer

103. Payment of tax

104. Recovery from persons leaving Malaysia

Deduction of tax from contract payment

Estimate of tax payable and payment by instalments for companies

108. Non-deduction of tax from dividend

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

Deduction of tax from special classes of income in certain cases derived

Deduction of tax from interest paid to a resident

Deduction of tax on the distribution of income of a unit trust

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

Deduction of tax from gains or profits in certain cases derived from

Deduction of tax from income derived from withdrawal of contribution

Appeal by the payer

Set-off for tax deducted

Set-off for tax charged on actuarial surplus

Establishment of fund for Tax Refund

Non applicability of section 14A of the Financial Procedure Act 1957

Compensation for over-payment of tax

Failure to keep records

120. Other offences