CHAPTER 6: CORPORATE TAXATION

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Accounting Fees
- Accounting, Audit fees, and expenses incurred
- Payments made to accountant for tax advice
Advances and Loans
- Advances to supplier to secure source of supply
- Advanced of money to a new company.
- Losses incurred as a result of advance to a subsidiary.

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Advertising cost(Allowable under section 33(2)

- Advertising expenditure incurred on foreign country of
Malaysian branded goods.
- Promotional activities relating to sports and cultures not
qualify as advertisement expenditure but full on
entertainment.

Bonus

Travelling expenses
- Travel between home and work.
- Travelling from home which is also the office or base
- Travelling between places of work
- Travelling in the course of work
- Travelling to attend conferences

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Defending capital assets(improvement/fixed capital asset)

(must be no alteration)

Devaluation losses

Fines and Penalties

Terminating of redundant employees

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10 Legal expenses incurred in a restructuring exercise

- generally disallowable, but refer to some cases
11 Audit fees

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12 Medical expenses for the director of the companies

13 Guarantee fees related to syndicated loans

14 Stamp duties
- Revenue Expenditure
- Capital Expenditure

15 Insurance premiums
- Incurred by business
- Professional insurance premiums( Key-man)

16 Renovation of workplace for disabled employees

17 Gift of new computer and broadband consm. For employees

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18 Community projects

19 Employees recruitment expenses incurred prior to

commencement of business

20 Registration of patents and trademarks

21 Cost of sales
- Depreciation on fixed assets
- Royalty paid
22 Remunerations
- Director's salaries
- EPF directors (19% x salaries) ( < 19% )
- Medical insurance
- Leave passage
- Employees salaries for an unemployed
- Employees salaries for disabled staff
- EPF employees ( 19% x salaries+allowance+bonus)
(approved fund) (cannot be unapproved fund !!! )
- Contribution to unapproved fund
23 - Insurance expenses paid to foreign country for the goods
imported by the company
- Insurance premium for imported cargo (incorporated in
Malaysia)
24 Repairs and maintenance
- Repainting of office premisses
- Replacement of a corrugated iron roof with tile roof/
Replacement from an old one to a new one
- Rebuilding of a retaining wall that collapsed
- Resurfacing part of damaged factory car park
- Depreciation of fixed assets
- Extension of the factory punch of the M. Director's parking
- Upgrading of the factory's security system
- Directors motor vehicle

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Elements of : Improvement
Enlargement
25 Employees benefits: (business purpose-allowable)
- Entertainment allowances (50%)
- Accomodation provided to employees
- Entrance fee to a club for the managing director's
- Subsidized meals for employees
- Business entertainment expenses(entertain supplier/tax
agents) (50%)
- Dinner for clients(50%)
- Sponsorship of a cultural activity (approved) S34
- Cost of souvenirs to promote Malaysia's product

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- Annual dinner for employees

- Gift with business logo for customer's annual dinner. (100%)
- Gift without business logo for customer's annual dinner.
(50%)
- Wedding gift to customer (100%)
- Entertainment to suppliers (50%)
- Free trip as an incentive to sales agent for achieving the
sales target (100%)

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26 Professional fees
- Registration of a new trademarks
- Renewal of trademarks
- Accounting, tax and secretarial services
- Appeal to Special Commissioner of Income Tax
- Advice from local consultants
- Recruitment of staff
- Technical assistance fees
- Legal fees
- Legal fees on recovery of trade debt
- Legal fees for handling income tax appeal
- Business zakat ( add first/ to be deduct later)
27 Bad debts
- Write off (trade)
- Recovered (trade)
- General
- Specific

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28 Lease rental
- Payments in respect of MV other than those qualifying are
restricted to a maximum of RM 50,000 per vehicle.
- Payments in respect of MV other than those qualifying are
restricted to a maximum of RM 100,000 per vehicle.
Conditions:
- The vehicle must be a new vehicle. It must not be been used
by any person for any purpose prior to the rental.
- The total cost of the vehicle does not exceed RM 150,000.

29 Compensation during process in business

30 Interest
- Loan buying assets
- Loan business

31 Approved donations: sec 44(6)

- Approved cash donations
- An amount equal to the payment of zakat perniagaan which
is paid in the basis period.
- Contributions towards sport activities approved by the
Minister of Finance and sport bodies approved by the

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Commissioner of Sports
- Contributions for projects of national interest approved by
the Minister of Finance.
32 Double Deductions:
- Interest on Loan to small business
- Employment of Disabled Employees
- Insurance Premium for Import of Cargo
- Training of Handicapped Persons
- Export Credit Insurance Premium
- Freight Charges
- Research Expenditure
- Contributions to Approved Research Institutes
- Overseas Expenses for Promotion of tourism
- Expenditure for Approved Training
- Expenses Incurred in International Trade Fairs
- Halal certification Expenses
- Fees Incurred in Packaging Design
- Expenditure on Advertising Malaysian branded products.
- Expenses on promoting brand names
- Contributions to Low Cost Housing Fund
- Expenses incurred to promote export of services
- Expenses for promotion of exports
- Expenses for promotion of Higher Education
- Expenditure Incurred in Employing unemployed Graduates
- Employing of retrenched workers
- Promoting Malaysia as an International Islamic Financial
Centre.
FORMULA:
Profit before tax
(-) Non-Allowable expenses
(-) Other income
Adjusted income
(-) Capital allowances
(-) Capital allowances *new
Statutory Income
(-) Unabsorbed loss
(+) Other income : Dividend & Interest (exempted/NIL)
Aggregate income
(-) Donation ( < 10% x AI )
(-) Zakat ( 2.5% x AI )
Chargeable income
Tax payable (25% x CI )

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