Finance Act 2007 · Updated to 1 Oct 2018 · Part I · Amendments to the Income Tax Act 1967
109e. “Deduction of tax on the distribution of income of a family fund, etc.
Official textFrom Laws of Malaysia Online, unchanged
This section shall only apply to profits distributed or credited out of family fund, family re-takaful fund or general fund under section 60aa.
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Where a takaful operator (in this section referred to as “the payer”) distributes or credits any amount of income to a participant other than participant which is a resident company which is deemed to be derived from Malaysia, the payer shall upon distributing or crediting the amount—
deduct from the proportion of that amount, tax at the rate applicable to that proportion; and
whether or not that tax is so deducted, within one month after distributing or crediting such amount, render an account and pay the amount of tax to the
Director General.
The Director General may in relation to subsection (2)—
give notice in writing to the payer requiring him to deduct and pay tax at any other rates or to distribute or credit the income without deduction of tax; or
under special circumstances, allow extension of time for the amount of tax deducted to be paid over.
Where the payer fails to pay any amount due from him under subsection (2), that amount which he fails to pay shall be increased by an amount equal to ten per cent of the income liable to deduction of tax under that subsection and the total sum shall be a debt due from him to the Government and shall be payable forthwith to the Director General.
Where in pursuance of this section any amount is paid to the Director General by the payer or recovered by the Director General from the payer and if the payer has not deducted that amount in distributing the income under subsection (2) with respect to which that amount relates, the payer may recover that amount from that participant as a debt due to the payer.
The proportion of amount referred to in subsection (2)
shall be ascertained in accordance with the formula prescribed by the Minister.”.
Part XII
Part II
Saving and Transitional Provisions
Chapter III
Amendments to the Stamp Act 1949
Chapter IV
Amendments to the Petroleum (Income Tax) Act 1967
Chapter V