Malaysia legislation

Section 5

of FINANCE ACT 2002

Section 5

Section 39 of the principal Act is amended in subsection (1)—

(a)

by deleting paragraph (h); and

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(b)

by substituting for paragraph (k) the following paragraph:

“(k) any sum paid by way of rentals in respect of a motor vehicle, other than a motor vehicle licensed by the appropriate authority for commercial transportation of goods or passengers, in excess of fifty thousand ringgit:

Provided that if the motor vehicle has not been used by any person for any purpose prior to the rental and the total cost of the motor vehicle does not exceed one hundred and fifty thousand ringgit, any sum paid by way of rental in excess of one hundred thousand ringgit:

Provided further that the maximum amount of deduction in respect of the rentals of such motor vehicle in the year of assessment and subsequent years of assessment shall not in the aggregate exceed fifty thousand ringgit or one hundred thousand ringgit, as the case may be, in respect of that motor vehicle;”.

Amendment of section 75