Two weeks ago, I received a letter from the Income Tax Dept (Lembaga Hasil Dalam Negeri) asking me to present the original copies of my EA form, book purchase receipts and my share dividend vouchers for 2007. I was told it's pasrt of a random audit, which was fine to me.
A few days ago, I received another letter from LHDN but this time, it gave me a shock because it was asking me to pay for additional taxes accumulated since 2005 till now. WHAT??? Additional taxes? Since when did I owe them money? And guess what? I supposedly owe them 4.4K!!! I almost wanted to start cursing them in the presence of my parents!
Today, I went to the LHDN office in Cheras to ask them about the whole thing. After much explanation from them, I had to accept the fact that it wasn't their fault; it was my company's fault! I now know that I'm working for a company that has incompetent fools running the HR Dept. and causing me to be misled into filling my tax forms wrongly.
With the explanation from LHDN, I managed to obtain a letter from them to be given to my employer for scheduled monthly deductions to pay that 4.4K over six months. And that, my friends, is something that's gonna make my life more difficult for the next few months, as I'll be short by RM700 monthly from July to December. Fuel hikes, rising price of goods, and now THIS!
Brother, can you spare a dime?
30 June 2008
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