Thursday 25 March 2010

E-filing Acknowledgement

IN CASE you forgot to save a copy of the submitted e-BE form as well as Acknowledgment form - you can always:

1) Go back to the e-Filing website
2) Click "Print Form Acknowledgement", select the year of assessment, key in your IC no & password, then submit



3) You'll be able to print the particular year's submitted e-BE form as well as the Submission Acknowledgment form.


you are able to get acknowledgement up to two years in the Print Form Acknowledgement page

If you are not sure that you submitted the tax assessment for a particular year, you can always call IRB (phone# 1300-88-3010 ) and check it out.

How to complete your e-filing for employment income group

Filling up e-Filing isn't that hard as it seems - all you need to do is to match the section with those info from your EA form.


The form to select for folks with employment income only
NOTE: this guide is based on my EA form - there might be extra info that you'll need to input for your OWN e-BE form.

Conclusion: This post serves as a basic idea on how to do the e-Filling - not the exact idea on how to.

Let's go thru section by section:

I) Particulars of Individual


In this section you can cross check if the info is current, from your EA form, update if necessary (click on the image to enlarge)

based on my experience: you are required to provide the bank account number if you which to expedite your tax credit refund (if any)

The relevant EA form section (click on the image to enlarge)

II) Statutory Income and Total Income


(click on the image to enlarge)I only find two relevant info from my EA form -
1) The total income for "Employment" column in BE form
2) PCB for BE form (the column wording is confusing - "...SELF and HUSBAND / WIFE if joint assessment.." <- that's the column to fill in)


3) Income of Preceding Years Not Declared

This section is to declare any prior years (i.e. before 2009) income / arrears payment you received during 2009. this exclude 2008 bonus/directors fee which you received in 2009 whereby such income received in 2009 should be brought to tax in 2009.

As I have none in my EA form, this section is skipped :-)



4) Deduction Claim
This is the most important section - where most of the people can get the tax return.

The only relevant info found from the EA form is the KWSP/EPF amount.


For the rest, such as medical or/and life insurance - you can get the cover letter from the insurance agent.

Book, computer, medical checkup etc receipts are to be kept for 6 years in case of the inspection from IRB.

you might want to keep a simple workings on how to arrive at respective claim

5) Rebate Claim / Tax Deduction / Tax Relief

this is the section where you put in your ZAKAT
and if you received taxable dividend during the year. please remember to input the coresponding tax deducted at the column where you see HK3

I don't have anything to input hence this section is skipped :-)


6) Tax Summary
Calculation is done by e-Filing website - you'll know immediately on the amount returned/ or the amount you have to pay

If the info is correct, click "Save & Continue"


7) You'll reach the second last page - where you can save the (auto generated) PDF of the e-BE form that you'll just filled up.

Then, click on "Sign & Send"


8) This is the last page of e-Filing, before the submission. Check your info - if everything is correct, click on "Setuju". Note that after clicking this button, you can't amend any info anymore.


9) You'll see a small login screen that needs your credential again.


10) You're done! Click on the "Save & Print Acknowledgment" button to save the (auto generated) PDF for your reference - to show that you've done your filing (in case of any inspection)



11) (OPTIONAL) Store your e-BE form & Acknowledgment form online
There is always a risk to store the files on your computer - chances are you might forget where you store or, if the Hard disk crashed - that's it.


So I chose Google Doc to store my document securely - yes you can upload the PDF and view it or download it again in the future.


File uploaded

Registration of Digital Cert for e-filing

Within one/two business day you will be able to receive the pin to access to the e-Filing website.

The following example is a step by step guide on how to use the pin received in Gmail to logon to the e-Filing website.



i) Clicked on "View" to view the htm file attached in the email - it contains the registration info.


ii) The page you are about to view contains the e-Filing Pin No,


Pin Number to be used for the purpose of registration of e-Filing

After you retrieve your pin number, you have to perform the following steps to register your Digital Cert for e-Filing:-
iii) Log on to e-Hasil website at https://e.hasil.gov.my/.
     or https://spsd.hasil.gov.my/Pki/ (for Malay) and https://spsd.hasil.gov.my/PKI/e/mainpage.html  (for english)

iv) Click on First Time Login. Key in Pin No and Identification No to register your Digital Certificate

Example in Malay language page (which will be able to load faster i guess), English language page is available as well.

v) You'll be directed to second page, fill up the necessary info.


vi) Confirm the info before you submit for registration.



vii) You should see the following page. Click on e-Form Login. Choose your form by clicking at Login button.


and now you are very much ready to start your e-filing for the very first time :)

Wednesday 24 March 2010

How to Request for Pin Number from IRB (for first time user)

For the first time user, you are unable to find your pin number to create your digital cert on IRB when you get your hard copy of Form BE 2009 this year.
(Digital cert serves as a key for you to login for all your personnal online e-filing transaction)

You have to either e-mail / fax / call the IRB to get your pin number for that.

You may request the pin number using the sample email template below.

(Our personal experience is that it will take less than a business day for IRB to respond to our request.)

To: pin@hasil.gov.my

Subject: Permohonan nombor PIN SG XXXXXXXX-XX(0) (to insert your tax reference number)

Message Body:

Dear Sir / Madam,

With reference to the above, I would like to apply for the pin number to submit my tax return via e-filing.

Please find my details below for your attention and further action:-

i) Tax Reference Number (to complete)
ii) Latest Address (to complete)
iii)Copy of Identification Card (front and back) as attached (to attach)
iv) Telephone Number (to complete)

Your immediate attention and assistance is much appreciated.

Thank you.
What you have to do next is to sit back and wait for your pin number before you can start to do e-filing
p.s. please request earlier to avoid last minute rush