FINANCE ACT 2000

LAWS OF MALAYSIA REPRINT Act 600 FINANCE ACT 2000 Incorporating all amendments up to 1 January 2006 PUBLISHED BY THE COMMISSIONER OF LAW REVISION, MALAYSIA UNDER THE AUTHORITY OF THE REVISION OF LAWS ACT 1968 IN COLLABORATION WITH PERCETAKAN NASIONAL MALAYSIA BHD 2006 2 FINANCE ACT 2000 Date of Royal Assent…… … … Date of publication in the Gazette … … 30 May 2000 … … 15 June 2000 ... 2001 PREVIOUS REPRINT First Reprint ... ... ... ... 3 LAWS OF MALAYSIA Act 600 FINANCE ACT 2000 ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS CHAPTER I PRELIMINARY Section 1. Short title 2. Amendments of Acts CHAPTER II AMENDMENTS TO THE INCOME TAX ACT 1967 3. Commencement of amendments to the Income Tax Act 1967 4. Amendment of section 2 5. Amendment of section 46 6. Amendment of section 49 7. Substitution of section 50 8. Deletion of section 60D 9. Amendment of section 101 10. Amendment of section 102 11. Amendment of section 107B 12. Amendment of Schedule 1 13. Amendment of Schedule 3 14. Amendment of Schedule 5 15. Amendment of Schedule 6 4 Laws of Malaysia ACT 600 CHAPTER III AMENDMENTS TO THE PETROLEUM (INCOME TAX) ACT 1967 Section 16. Commencement of amendments to the Petroleum (Income Tax) Act 1967 17. Amendment of section 13 A 18. Amendment of Second Schedule CHAPTER IV AMENDMENTS TO THE STAMP ACT 1949 19. Commencement of amendments to the Stamp Act 1949 20. Amendment of First Schedule 21. Amendment of Second Schedule Finance 5 LAWS OF MALAYSIA Act 600 FINANCE ACT 2000 An Act to amend the Income Tax Act 1967, the Petroleum (Income Tax) Act 1967 and the Stamp Act 1949. [ ] ENACTED by the Parliament of Malaysia as follows: C HAPTER I PRELIMINARY Short title 1. This Act may be cited as the Finance Act 2000. Amendments of Acts 2. The Income Tax Act 1967 [Act 53], the Petroleum (Income Tax) Act 1967 [Act 543] and the Stamp Act 1949 [Act 378] are amended in the manner specified in Chapters II, III and IV respectively. C HAPTER II AMENDMENTS TO THE INCOME TAX ACT 1967 Commencement of amendments to the Income Tax Act 1967 3. (1) The amendments in sections 5, 6, 7, 8, 11, 12 and 15 shall have effect for the year of assessment 2000 in respect of the basis period ending in the year 2000 (current year basis) and subsequent years of assessment. (2) The amendments in sections 4, 9, 10 and 14 shall have effect upon the coming into operation of this Act. 6 Laws of Malaysia ACT 600 (3) The amendments in section 13 shall have effect for the year of assessment 2000 in respect of the basis period ending in the year 1999 (preceding year basis) and subsequent years of assessment. Amendment of section 2 4. The Income Tax Act 1967, which in this Chapter is referred to as the “principal Act”, is amended in subsection 2(1) by inserting after the definition of “market value” the following definition: ‘ “Minister” means the Minister for the time being charged with the responsibility for finance;’. Amendment of section 46 5. Subsection 46(1) of the principal Act is amended— (a) by substituting for paragraph (a) the following paragraph: “(a) eight thousand ringgit for that individual in respect of himself and his dependent relatives (if any), or for that Hindu joint family;”; (b) by deleting paragraph (b); and (c) in the further proviso to paragraph (g), by inserting after the word “income” the words “, any amount expended by the wife in that basis year shall be deemed to have been expended by that individual and”. Amendment of section 49 6. Section 49 of the principal Act is amended— (a) in paragraph (1)(a), by inserting after the word “annuity” the words “other than an insurance policy to which subsection (1C) applies”; (b) in subsection (1A), by substituting for the words “section 50(3)(b) or (c)” the words “subsection 50(2) or 50(3)”; (c) in subsection (1B )— (i) in paragraph (a), by substituting for the word “two” the word “three”; Finance 7 (ii) in paragraph (b)— (A) by substituting for the words “section 50(3)(b)” the words “subsection 50(2)”; and (B) by substituting for the word “two” the word “three”; and (iii) in the proviso, by substituting for the word “two” the word “three”; (d) by inserting after subsection (1B) the following subsection: “(1C ) In the case of an individual resident for the basis year for a year of assessment who in that basis year has utilized any amount standing to his credit in the Employees Provident Fund to purchase an insurance policy determined by the Employees Provident Fund Board, there shall be allowed for that year of assessment a deduction of one thousand ringgit and where subsection 50(2) applies there shall be allowed for that year of assessment, in addition to the deduction already allowed under this subsection, a deduction of one thousand ringgit: Provided that where the wife has no total income the total deduction under this subsection shall not exceed one thousand ringgit.”; and (e) in subsection (3), by substituting for the words ‘this section “insurance” and “deferred annuity”, in relation to an individual claiming a deduction under subsection (1),’ the words ‘relation to an individual claiming a deduction under subsection (1), “insurance” and “deferred annuity” ’. Substitution of section 50 7. The principal Act is amended by substituting for section 50 the following section: “Application of section 49 where husband and wife are living together 50. (1) Where an individual who is resident for the basis year for a year of assessment has a wife living together with him at any time in that basis year, and they did not in that basis year— (a) cease to live together; or 8 Laws of Malaysia ACT 600 (b) cease to be husband and wife of each other, the application of section 49 to that individual shall be subject to this section. (2) Where the wife makes an election under subsection 45(2) or where the wife has no total income for the year of assessment, any premium for any insurance or deferred annuity within the meaning of subsection 49(3), or for any insurance on education or medical benefits within the meaning of subsection 49(4), or for any insurance policy determined by the Employees Provident Fund Board referred to in subsection 49(1C ) which has been paid by the wife in that year shall be deemed to have been paid by the husband. (3) Where subsection 45(2) applies to the husband and the wife for the year of assessment and in that year the wife has made or suffered the making of a contribution as an employee to an approved scheme or as a self-employed person within the meaning of the Employees Provident Fund Act 1991 [Act 452] to the Employees Provident Fund— (a) the contribution shall be deemed to have been made by the husband in that year; and (b) the reference to a contract of employment in paragraph 49(2)(a) shall be deemed to include a reference to a contract of employment of the wife.”. Deletion of section 60 D 8. The principal Act is amended by deleting section 60D. Amendment of section 101 9. Section 101 of the principal Act is amended— (a) in subsection (1), by substituting for the words “may review” the words “shall, within twelve months from the date of receipt of the notice of appeal, review”; and (b) by inserting after subsection (1) the following subsections: “(1A) Where the Director General requires a period longer than twelve months to carry out the review under subsection (1), the Director General may apply Finance 9 to the Minister for an extension of that period not later than thirty days before the expiry of the twelve month period. (1B) On receipt of an application under subsection (1A), the Minister may grant such extension as he thinks proper and reasonable in the circumstances provided that such extension shall not exceed a period of six months from the date of expiry of the twelve-month period. (1C) The decision of the Minister under subsection (1B) shall be notified in writing to the Director General and shall be final.”. Amendment of section 102 10. Section 102 of the principal Act is amended— (a) in subsection (1), by inserting after the words “at any time” the words “within the twelve-month period from the date of receipt of the notice of appeal or, if an extension under subsection 101(1B) has been granted, within the extended period”; and (b) by deleting subsection (2). Amendment of section 107 B 11. The proviso to subsection 107B(2) of the principal Act is amended by substituting for the words “fifteenth day of April” the words “thirtieth day of June”. Amendment of Schedule 1 12. Schedule 1 to the principal Act is amended— (a) in Part I— (i) in paragraph 1, by substituting for the existing rates the following rates: “Chargeable Income RM Rate of Income Tax For every ringgit of the first 2,500 0 per cent For every ringgit of the next 2,500 1 per cent 10 ACT 600 Laws of Malaysia Chargeable Income RM Rate of Income Tax For every ringgit of the next 5,000 3 per cent For every ringgit of the next 10,000 5 per cent For every ringgit of the next 15,000 9 per cent For every ringgit of the next 15,000 15 per cent For every ringgit of the next 20,000 20 per cent For every ringgit of the next 30,000 25 per cent For every ringgit of the next 50,000 28 per cent For every ringgit exceeding 150,000 29 per cent”; and (ii) in paragraph 1A, by substituting for the words “30 per cent” the words “29 per cent”; and (b) in Part IV, by substituting for the existing rates the following rates: Chargeable Income RM Rate of Income Tax For every ringgit of the first 10,000 0 per cent For every ringgit of the next 10,000 1 per cent For every ringgit of the next 10,000 4 per cent For every ringgit of the next 10,000 7 per cent For every ringgit of the next 10,000 10 per cent Finance 11 Chargeable Income RM Rate of Income Tax For every ringgit of the next 25,000 13 per cent For every ringgit of the next 25,000 17 per cent For every ringgit of the next 50,000 21 per cent For every ringgit of the next 100,000 24 per cent For every ringgit of the next 250,000 27 per cent For every ringgit exceeding 29 per cent”.; 500,000 Amendment of Schedule 3 13. Schedule 3 to the principal Act is amended— (a) by inserting after paragraph 16 the following paragraph: “16A. Subject to this Schedule, where a person has incurred qualifying building expenditure on the construction of a building to which paragraph 67B applies and at the end of the basis period for a year of assessment the building was on lease to the Government, there shall be made to him in relation to the income from that lease for that year an allowance equal to threefiftieths or such other fraction as may be prescribed of that expenditure.”; (b) in subparagraph 65(3), by substituting for the word “A” the words “Subject to paragraph 67B , a”; and (c) by inserting after paragraph 67A the following paragraph: “67B. (1) A building constructed by a person pursuant to an agreement entered into between that person and the Government on a build-lease-transfer basis shall, subject to the approval of the Minister, be treated as an industrial building for the purposes of this Schedule. (2) Where subparagraph (1) applies— (a) the balance of residual expenditure under paragraph 68 of this Schedule shall be reduced by the amount of any compensation received; and 12 Laws of Malaysia ACT 600 (b) the disposal value of the asset shall be taken to be zero when the agreement expires or is terminated.”. Amendment of Schedule 5 14. Schedule 5 to the principal Act is amended— (a) in paragraph 42— (i) by substituting for the words “to the Supreme Court” the words “to the Court of Appeal and the Federal Court”; and (ii) by substituting for the words “and the Supreme Court” the words “, the Court of Appeal and the Federal Court”; (b) in the part headed “Supplemental provisions”, by inserting before paragraph 43 the following paragraph: “42 A. Where any matter of procedure or pra