Sunday, January 10, 2016

IRB's Withholding Tax Management Does Not Fully Comply With Work Procedures

  

  

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KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 23 (Bernama) -- The Inland Revenue Board's withholding tax management in the implementation of external and desk auditing does not fully comply with work procedures, having not issued approval letters on payment by installments.According to the Third Series of the 2014 Attorney-General's Report, from 2012 to June 2014, no letters were issued to nine (10.1 percent) of the 89 tax payers involving payments of withholding tax amounted to RM1.47 million.The report said other pitfalls included the Work Procedure Manual was not prepared and the norms were not put in place for reference purposes and to monitor the performance of officers undertaking external and desk auditing.This resulted in external audit officers spending between 190 and 2,284 days to resolve 7.03 million cases, while desk audit officers taking between 34 and 3,617 days to issue Notice of Tax Increase Forms (CP17A) from the date of tax increase amounted to RM1.77 million in the ledger system of companies' own self-assessment.In addition, the report highlighted that the individual detection mechanism on non-residents, who are liable to pay withholding tax, was not really effective, while awareness of government agencies on the obligations of paying withholding tax is still low.

-- BERNAMA