Malaysia: Inland Revenue Board investigation into businesses operating on electronic commerce platforms for non-compliance with tax payments under Income Tax Act

Progress

Current status
under deliberation
04 Mar 2025 under deliberation

Scope

Implementers
Malaysia
Policy Area
Taxation
Policy Instrument
Direct taxes including Digital Service Taxes
Regulated Economic Activity
platform intermediary: e-commerce
Government Branch
executive
Government Body
other regulatory body
Implementation Level
national

Timeline of events

04 Mar 2025
under deliberation

Inland Revenue Board announced investigation into businesses operating on electronic commerce platforms for non-compliance with tax payments under Income Tax Act

On 4 March 2025, the Inland Revenue Board (HASiL) announced an investigation into businesses operating on e-commerce platforms that had issued approximately 4 million e-Invoices but were found to have no record of income tax return submissions or es…

Source
Event type investigation
Action type announcement
Government branch executive
Government body other regulatory body