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IF YOU ARE UNSURE ABOUT YOUR STATUS, CLICK ON http://sspi2.imi.gov.my/ AND ENTER YOUR MYKAD NUMBER.
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IF YOU OWE THE INLAND REVENUE DEPARTMENT BACK TAXES, OR YOU DID NOT FILE YOUR TAX RETURN, THE IMMIGRATION DEPARTMENT WILL STOP YOU FROM DEPARTING.
The only consolation is that tax offenders you will not be held in detention at Immigration checkpoints.
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Star
Tuesday August 26, 2014 MYT 11:04:39 AM
Tax evaders barred from leaving country until they pay up
PUTRAJAYA: Kenneth Chin was flying in to KL International Airport 2 from Australia on Aug 15, a trip he has been making regularly for the past five years, when his passport was barred at an auto-gate.
He checked at a counter – and found out that he had been blacklisted by the Inland Revenue Board. He is one of thousands who now have to settle the matter or they cannot leave the country.
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The IRB has engaged the support of the Immigration Department to enforce the travel “blacklist”.
“Whether the purpose of leaving Malaysia is for leisure, business or migration, the no exit order will apply to all tax offenders,” IRB corporate communications director Nor Azirah Mohd Said told The Star.
“The law explicitly says the IRB director-general may issue to any Commissioner of Police or Director of Immigration a certificate containing particulars of the tax, sums and debts so payable with a request for that person to be prevented from leaving Malaysia unless and until he pays up,” she said.
The authority to issue a stoppage order, or to blacklist a tax defaulter from leaving the country, is granted to the IRB under Section 104 of the Income Tax Act 1967 (Act 53).
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Star, Tax defaulters get a rude awakening at the airport
(http://www.thestar.com.my/News/Nation/2014/08/26/Tax-defaulters-get-a-rude-awakening-at-the-airport/)
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