Or maybe I’m exaggerating. Or dreamt it up. Or maybe my poor abused mind has finally popped on the notion that meal allowances relating to meal expenses aren’t exempted when they proposed an exemption on meal allowances.
Anyway, Halijah Bulat announced at the Malaysian Tax Conference 2009 (which is the localised version of the National Tax Conference) that MOF has agreed to exempt “day allowance”. A few squints, blinks and one creative thought later, one should deduce that she meant per diems that employees usually get when they go overseas, because she spoke about trips overseas.
Be wary though. Can’t find anything in writing about this yet.
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zewt // June 23, 2009 at 5:48 pm
they better freaking make sure it applies to 2008. my per diem for my london trip cost me a bomb!
TD: Then begs the question… revision of EA forms and YA2008 Form BE/B and subsequent refunds. That’s probably why we’re not seeing anything about it yet.