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Tax

How has the 2009 Budget benefitted you?

August 29, 2008

At first glance of the 2009 Budget, it didn’t seem to bring me much at all. Rather, I felt that it was a budget with the interests of the lower and higher income groups in mind, but nothing much for middle income earners like myself.
Some of the more immediate benefits that the lower income group [...]

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Online tax assessment

April 12, 2008

Since last year I’ve been skeptical of the online tax assessment system called E-filing. Despite the department coming to our office to do a roadshow and explain the benefits of E-filing and providing us easy access to our passwords, I still didn’t register for it. I much prefered to do it the manual hardcopy way.
Many [...]

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How to compute your tax income

April 2, 2008

I read an article about tax assessment from The Star 3 days ago. It’s written by Lee Voon Siong who is an executive director of RKT Tax Consultants Sdn Bhd, an independent member firm of RSM International, an affiliation of independent consulting and accounting firms with the 7th largest worldwide network. The article is reproduced [...]

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A few ways to save on taxes

February 27, 2008

It’s that time of the year again where we dreadfully fill out the tax assessment and grudgingly pay off any arrears. Every year, I keep telling myself to find ways to minimise tax payable (through legitimate means, of course) but I never remember to find out until the year is over. By then it is [...]

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