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Income Tax Processing Malaysia: Enter child relief

What child relief point to enter?

Updated over 2 weeks ago

Child relief point is important to ensure that your employee gets the correct tax relief computation in your payroll. Complete the following steps to complete the child's information in the income tax record:

  1. Go to Payroll module, Modules, and Income Tax Details.

  2. Search for the employee and click Family/Other Contact.

  3. Complete the child information, click Get from Family, and Save.

  4. You can also manually enter the child relief point as follows:
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    • Enter the Number of Children Eligible for Relief

    • Enter Child Relief Point

    • Enter the Number of Children Below 18 and click Save.

  5. Below are the summaries of child relief points to be entered in EasyPay. Each point represents RM2000 tax relief.

    • Child below 18 years old = 1 point

    • Child above 18 years old studies Certificate/Matriculation = 1 point

    • Child above 18 years further studies in diploma and higher = 4 points

    • Disable child = 4 points

    • Disable child's further studies in diploma and higher = 4 points

  6. For the relief point details, you can refer to the LHDN website.

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