Academy / Lessons / Personal tax

Personal tax

Income tax for the salaried and for the boss: how to read a payslip, how to claim reliefs properly, and how to read five years of your own filings.

• EP16

  LTT Tahu Tax Pulse: take your personal income tax's pulse

  Over the last five years, how much tax have you actually paid? Send us your assessments and we will draw you a five-year pulse line, free.

• EP17

  RM19,000 a month — how much reaches your account? Form EA, CP58 and CP500

  A salary of RM19,000 a month is not RM19,000 into your account. Where the missing slice goes is something plenty of people have never worked out in ten years of working.

• EP18

  A full tour of personal tax reliefs: why does he earn more and pay less?

  The same living expenses — he put them in the boxes they belonged in, and you did not. The tax is not too high. The reliefs were simply not fully claimed.