Jakun & Technology Again - Submitting Tax Online - e-Filing

Have you all submit your tax? No, someone good news
(Click Here) The Star: New Deadline for e-Filing as long as you submit your BE form via online, you'll have until 31st May to do so. If you submit via the conventional way, then too bad lar, the deadline is this Friday!

I submitted mine (and my wife) via e-Filing. Overall, it was a pretty good experience. As I always tell people, of all the government agencies in Malaysia, IRB and EPF are the two most efficient one. Very responsive and they know what they are talking about.

For those whom have not tried the e-Filing, these are the steps you need to follow:

1. Go to any IRB branch to get your Digital Certificate - you need the pin number to log in
2. You can either fill up there and there or go home and do it at your own leisure (we chose the later)
3. Log on to https://e.hasil.org.my/ and the screen above will show

Tips:
You can collect the Digital Certificate on behalf of someone. What you need is the name of the person and his/her IC number. You can also ask someone to collect for you too.

Once you are in the e-Filing page, you first need to register your Digital certificate. I screwed up on this process twice! Screwed it up so badly that my wife have to collect the DC again from IRB office!

Here was what happened, somehow, I missed the page to key in the username and password (twice), the page just didn't go according to the order. Pay attention when you are in the page of setting security level (think is middle) by default (and that is how I screwed it up). You need to adjust it to "High".

Once you register your DC, you can now download the electronic BE form. Yes, you will need to download first, then install the program in your PC.

Tips:

You need to turn off your firewall to do so. If not, it will block the download. Also, pay extra attention on the setting of the security level as mentioned above.

This is the result after the installation. Just fill it up accordingly. Pretty cool, it has "copy" function (where you can copy the home address to mailing address). It also has the auto sum function to calculate your taxable income.

If you are not sure and screw up something, call their hotline number - 1-300-88-3010 Hell lot of difficult to get through (tried almost one hour) and that pissed me off. However, once they are on the line with you, they are damn bloody efficient. Super efficient and technologically super knowledgable. Hard to believe that they are from the government department.

Once you are done with the form, just go to "Tandatangan Dan Hantar", you are done.

Since my wife's digital signature is not working, I'll have to submit on her behalf. This is also acceptable according to the IRB super efficient customer service people.

The Digital Certificate is valid for three years only. Thus, after 3 years, you'll need to get the new one again.

Have fun trying. I find online submission a very convenient way compared to the old way. I can now submit my form in Shanghai next year.