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.
- EP77
Medical tax relief: there are six things inside that one box
"I was in hospital three days last year and it cost me eight thousand — that is deductible, isn't it?" Most of the time: no. "I was hospitalised" is not the same as "I can claim". But the other way round — even if you were perfectly healthy this year, you can still use this relief.
- EP79
Personal reliefs (1): single, not yet married, and everyone living on commission
"I am not married, I have no children, I am not supporting my parents — what is there to claim?" The people who say that usually miss the most. Because they think reliefs are for people with families.
- EP80
Personal reliefs (2): two incomes, and the years when the children are still small
The years when the children are small are the years with the most reliefs. They are also your busiest and most forgetful years. The question was never whether you qualify — it is that in March, when you file, you cannot find the receipts.
- EP81
Personal reliefs (3): one income, grown children, and parents above you
"I am supporting a whole family on my own." Children at university below, parents needing the doctor above, a wife at home caring for everyone full time. One income, three generations — and the tax law recognises both ends. The trouble is that most people only claim one of them.