Towards Readiness for Employer’s and Payroll Audit by LHDNM

INTRODUCTION

Being an employer brings responsibilities. In the Employment taxation in-house training session participants will be updated with recent employment tax developments as well as looking at recent tax issues which arises during a tax audit.

IRB has now focus on employers/employee’s failure to comply with tax rules and regulations and tax audits are on the rise. With the current stringent tax laws and tax audit carried out by the Inland Revenue Board (“IRB”), employers have to keep abreast of changes to tax laws and regulations in order to discharge its obligations. Non-compliance will lead to substantial penalties and heavy compounds being imposed by the IRB.

COURSE OUTLINE

PROFILE(s)

Yong Mei Sim has served over 35 years in the Inland Revenue Board of Malaysia (“IRB”) and held the last position as the Principal Assistant Director of the Penang branch, before retiring in 2016. She obtained a Bachelor of Science Degree majoring in Economics with a Second Class Upper from the University Science of Malaysia in Penang. She was later awarded the prestigious JPA scholarship to pursue and successfully completed her Master’s of Science in Taxation from the Golden Gate University in San Francisco, USA. During her tenure in office, she has been, inter alia, an audit manager in charge of the Payroll Taxes Unit, Field Audit and Desk Audit Unit. She had actively assisted the Federal Councils of the IRB in handling tax litigation cases. Among the landmark tax litigation cases which she was directly involved are ICTSB vs DGIR, PSSB vs DGIR and Marigold (M) Sdn Bhd vs DGIR. With her vast knowledge and experience in the field of Malaysian taxation, she has been invited by the IRB and other professional bodies to speak extensively around the country and to share her valuable experience and expertise on income tax updates and all other relevant taxation matters.