Income chargeable to tax
Income chargeable to tax is the income earned from a business or a profession, an employment, or a passive activity.
a. Dividend
Dividend is the distribution of porfit by a company to its shareholders. Generally, dividend income is taxable. However, certain types of dividends are exempt from tax.
A taxpayer should declare the gross amount of dividend in the Income Tax Return Form. For example, if an individual receives dividend from Syarikat X Sdn. Bhd. in the year 2002 amounting to RM720 after deduction of tax RM280, he should declare RM 1000 and not RM 720. However, he may make a claim for RM280 as tax credit which be used to offset against the tax charged or as a tax repayment.
In the event where the offset is more than the tax liability, the excess amount used be refunded.
A taxpayer who intend to claim for the tax credit in respect of the tax deducted at source on the dividend received, should submit the original dividend voucher. The dividends should be declared in the Income Tax Return Form Part C and Part E.
b. Interest
In general, interest earned from the following sources are subject to tax.
i) Deposits in savings acconts with a bank or finance company
ii) Money lent to a person or an entity.
However, certain types of interest are exempt from tax. For a resident individual, interest which is not exempted from tax, is subject to a withholding tax of 5% of the gross interest income, and it is deducted by the bank or the finance company must be remitted to LHDNM. Hence such interest income need not be declared in the Income Tax Return Form.
c. Rental
Rents includes sum paid for the use of occupation of any premises or part thereof or for the hire of anything. RENs could either be received in the form of money or money equivalent or in any other form. Usually rental incomes received from the following sources are subject to tax.
i) The letting out of premises (houses, shop houses, land)
ii) The hire of motor vehicle, plant, machinery, furniture etc.
Taxpayer may claim deduction on expense which are wholly incurred on the asset concerned in the production of the rental income. Certaon expenses suc as quit rent, assessment rate, repair and maintenance, interest on loan taken to purchase the property, and fee for rent collection may be claimed as deductions against rental income. For the purpose of declaring the rental income and the related expenses against the rental income for a year of assessment, a taxpayer is required to fill the relevant columns in the statement of rental income and expenditure in the Income Tax Return Form.
d) Royalties
Royalty is money received by the owner of an asset or rights as consideration in respect of the publication of or for the us
e of the asset or rights. Royalty is money paid as consideration for the publiction of or for the use of or right to use any literary, artistic, scientific works, copyrights, patents, trademarks, recording discs or tapes or any similar rights or property. Royalty is also derived from the alienation of any property, and technical know-how. Income from royalties is taxable. HOwver, certain royalties are exempted from tax.
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