KICK THEM OUT !!
- I received this just now.
- Dont know who wrote it.
- But the message is spot on.
- Stop Delaying Rakyat’s Overpaid Tax – Return Every Sen, It’s Not Your Grandfather’s Money!
- Enough is enough.
- Your latest "grand gesture" – declaring a measly RM4 billion for tax refunds this December – is like tossing breadcrumbs to a starving crowd while feasting on the loaf yourself.
- Why just RM4 billion? What is RM4 billion when your shiny new "Kota" project is slated to cost exactly that – RM4 billion
- Stop stealing the rakyat's money.
- Stop spending what isn't rightfully yours on pet projects and foreign handouts.
- And for heaven's sake, stop punishing the very SMEs and hardworking Malaysians who are the backbone of this economy, contributing billions in taxes only to be choked further by your delays.
- Why cap it at RM4 billion at all? Why not declare you'll return every single sen owed?
- And while you're at it, why never disclose how much in total is currently held hostage by LHDN?
- Earning a living in Malaysia is already brutal – inflation biting, costs soaring, global headwinds – so why strangle us even more?
- These overpaid taxes are the rakyat's lifeline: cash flow for businesses to pay wages, buy stock, or just survive.
- Yet you treat them like your personal piggy bank.
- Tax refunds do not require “allocation” at all. They are not expenditure. They are not a government handout.
- They are the immediate return of money that was never the government’s in the first place.
- Yet for three years running, the Finance Ministry has been treating overpaid taxes exactly like a secret slush fund?
- The Four-Year Instalment Scam: A National Insult
- Tax agents are now openly laughing – bitterly – at LHDN’s latest innovation: the four-year refund repayment plan. Thannees Tax Consulting Services revealed the official schedule on 30 June 2025:
- Year 1 → 5 %
- Year 2 → 10 %
- Year 3 → 10 %
- Year 4 → remaining 65 %
- So if you’re owed RM400,000 (a real case from a struggling SME), LHDN graciously sends you RM20,000 and tells you to come back in 2029 for the rest.
- And no, you cannot offset the RM380,000 balance against your current-year tax liability.
- You must keep paying fresh taxes in full while the government earns interest on your money.
- Imagine owing LHDN RM400,000 and telling them: I’ll pay RM20,000 this year, another RM40,000 next year, and the balance in 2029?
- Late payment by taxpayer? Automatic 10% penalty + 5% after 60 days. Compounded. Can reach 40% plus 5% annual interest.
- Late payment by LHDN? Zero penalty, zero interest.
- One law for the rakyat. No law for the government.
- If the country is so broke that it cannot repay its own citizens’ overpaid taxes immediately, how does it have spare hundreds of millions for foreign causes?
- The answer is simple: because your money is easier to steal than to raise new debt or cut wasteful spending.
- You can wire RM200 million to Palestine in days, but a kopitiam uncle waits years for his RM50,000?
- It takes the USA just 3 weeks for most refunds.
- Australia and Canada? 2 weeks.
- Singapore? A brisk 10 days.
- Yet Malaysia needs more than 4 years?
- What’s the excuse?
- Inefficient systems? Understaffed LHDN?
- Or just plain unwillingness to part with the "float" that pads your books?
- Other nations treat refunds as rights – automatic, swift, with interest if delayed.
- Here, it’s a privilege doled out like alms.
- Return every sen.
- Pay interest for every day of delay.
- Abolish the insulting four-year instalment plan.
- Publish the full backlog figure and commit to clearing it – no caps, no excuses.
- Stop delaying the rakyat’s overpaid tax.
- It’s not your grandfather’s money.
- It’s not a slush fund.
- It’s our hard earned money – earned through sweat, risk, and resilience.
MY COMMENTS: Never forget that we are a democracy. There is a super easy method to effect change and solve our problems. Go to the polls and KICK THEM OUT.
