Unpaid CP500 tax instalments won't trigger automatic travel ban

Key points

• "The actual tax liability is only determined after taxpayers submit their income tax return forms for the relevant assessment year," he told the Dewan Rakyat.
• He was responding to a question from Chow Yu Hui (PH-Raub), who asked whether the IRB could prevent taxpayers from travelling overseas over unpaid CP500 instalments and whether such restrictions were justified before their tax liabilities had been finalised.
• Liew said the actual tax payable would be calculated after taxpayers submitted their annual income tax returns, with any CP500 instalments already paid deducted from the final amount.

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