CTIM Malaysian Tax, the first-of-its-kind web portal on Malaysia tax, provides free access to latest Malaysian tax developments. The Portal at malaysiantax.com covers all categories of Malaysia tax information: tax news, tax legislation, tax judgments and tax rulings, public rulings and technical guidelines from Inland Revenue Board Malaysia (IRBM), tax events, books, tax articles and tax rates.

CTIM Malaysian Tax provides periodic e-mail alerts and syndication of updates by way of RSS feeds. It allows the users to search its archives for a stipulated period of time.

The information provided by CTIM Malaysian Tax benefits a number of people including tax practitioners, accountants, auditors, company secretaries, lawyers, corporate counsels, company officials (directors, senior officers, risk and compliance officers), professional bodies, students and faculty members of law and business faculties, government departments, statutory and regulatory bodies, enforcement officers including police and customs, small businesses and the general public.

CTIM Malaysian Tax portal covers all areas of tax in Malaysia: Malaysia income tax, Malaysia service tax, Malaysia sales tax, goods and services tax in Malaysia (GST), stamp duty, customs duty, withholding tax, capital gains tax, Malaysia property tax, real property gains tax, road tax, import tax, export tax, Labuan offshore tax, tax treaties and double Taxation Agreements.

CTIM Malaysian Tax also carries several articles about Malaysian taxation and taxes, with particular emphasis on income tax in Malaysia. The articles explain what is tax, what is income tax, how to file income tax returns, how to electronically file tax returns (efiling), matters related to e-filing, applicable tax rates in Malaysia, and computation of income tax.

CTIM Malaysian Tax is promoted by Chartered Tax Institute of Malaysia (CTIM), and published on behalf of CTIM by Muttath Knowledge Management Services Sdn Bhd.

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CTIM Malaysian Tax updates its users of all latest Malaysian tax developments. The developments are classified under eight categories: (1) News, (2) Legislation, (3) Judgments and Rulings, (4) Regulatory, (5) Events, (6) Books and Articles, (7) Students, and (8) Industry Updates. The tax updates are in due course archived. The updates are stored in the database as long as the original copyright owners permit, and may be searched and retrieved by the visitors using the search facility.

All areas of Malaysian tax are covered: Personal Income Tax, Corporate Income Tax, Capital Gains Tax, Real Property Gains Tax, Stamp Duty, Customs Duty, Goods and Services Tax, Withholding Tax, Road Tax, Service Tax, Sales Tax, Import and Export Tax, Property Tax, Customs Duties, Indirect Taxes, Labuan Offshore Tax, and Tax Treaties including Double Taxation Agreements.

News: includes the full text of news items related to tax, sourced from leading newspapers and news agencies, professional bodies, industry newsletters, regulatory bodies and government departments.

Legislation: includes selected Federal Acts and Amendment Acts, Federal Bills, Federal PU(A)s and PU(B)s, and State Legislation. This section makes available, where possible, the full text of the legislation.

Judgments and Rulings: contains selected judgments and rulings from the Federal Court, Court of Appeal, High Court of Malaya, High Court of Sabah and Sarawak, Special Commissioners of Income Tax and Customs Appeal Tribunal. This section provides the full text of the judgments with key legal principles highlighted, catch phrases for easy identification of issues, and commentaries on landmark judgments.

Regulatory: contains selected guidelines, regulations, public rulings, operational guidelines, technical guidelines, events, decision impact statements, guidelines on advance ruling, circulars, notices, etc issued by regulatory bodies, statutory bodies and government departments. This section provides full text of each item, press releases accompanying the items, and summaries/commentaries on landmark regulatory developments.

Events: contains information on events (seminars, workshops, conferences, networking sessions, etc) related to tax, organized by academic institutions, public/private organizations, and seminar producers/event managers.

Books and Articles: includes information on new books and articles on tax, sourced from leading publishers, publications (newsletters, etc) of legal and tax firms, newspapers and other publications, journals, and directly from authors.

Students: contains information relevant to students who are doing law, accounting, business or related courses: campus news; events by and/or for students; articles and notes by, or relevant to, students; information on courses, exams, etc.

Industry Updates: contains information relevant to the tax industry.