The Malaysian Inland Revenue Board issued a series of releases 20-25 March 2020 that provides tax relief measures including postponed tax filing deadlines. Under this, taxpayers have been granted an extension of time two-month grace period to submit tax returns. For instance, companies for year of assessment (YA) 2019 whose accounting period ends: (i) 31 August 2019, was due 28 February 2020, now due 30 April 2020 (ii) 30 September 2019, was due 31 March 2020, now due 31 May 2020. The extension applies to companies with accounting period ending 31 July 2019, 31 August 2019, 30 September 2019, 31 October 2019 and 30 November 2019.
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