March 27, 2005

have you declared your tax today ?

*straight from the keyboard rant …

I do not understand, why LHDN keep changing our tax declaration form ? It’s almost like every year, that we have different format of forms. And everytime, we’ll have to waste a shitload of thinking energy figuring out those fucked up instructions in BM to do our declaration. I do not know if this is some indication of inefficiency in the government workforce … or is this just me.

You see, we’re just a bunch of working class people. Not some high profile businessmen earning millions (if I were to earn millions, I’m very sure those tax officers would have gladly exempted the laborious task to fill the fucking forms). On our EA, there are just a few lines of figures for fuck’s sake. And we’ll have to put up with heaps of troubles filling in the same information from that friggin’ EA … INTO the tax declaration form. Not to mention, again, the profile information which has already existed in their files. I mean, HELLO !? This is the 21st fucking century… why do we still need to waste so much time filling in PAPER FORMS ?

We’re wasting a lot of time and money following this ridiculous procedure. Oh and let me list them out here
- the amount of postage money spent sending these cheebye forms to our homes
- the amount of trees and papers and dyes and inks wasted printing these motherfucking forms
- the amount of corruption involved to procure these pukimak forms.
- the manhours of postmen it took to deliver these forms to all the fucking homes (not including the fuel/vehicle cost of transporting the posts)
- the amount of time it took for one to fill up the form
- the amount of ink wasted to fill in these forms
- the amount of saliva wasted licking those cheebye dirty envelopes
- the amoutn of postage wasted returning those forms to LHDN
- for those who delivers the forms themselves to LHDN office, amount of fossil fuel burnt to commute, not including the pollution contributed to the environment.
- tyres, lubricants, metal particles released into the air, amount of cuss energy wasted on other reckless motorists (you know malaysian traffic)
- the amount of cuss energy spent when getting frustrated filling in these confusing forms
- the amount of time taken to train up people how to fucking fill these forms (i’m referring to those seminar organized) – which includes electricity, classroom materials like whiteboard, markers and an assload of airconditioning due to the hot weather
- the workload of handling those missing forms in post
- the amount of money spent to advertise that shitty rap song to be played on national radio
- many more

And these costs ? would make up millions if not billions. With that amount of money, why can’t the government hire a couple hundred thousands of LCCI clerks to help us fill up these forms, online ? The employers would just download the list of EA forms into soft copy (PDF or something) … and bulk transfer a whole assload of information to LHDN office. Then these clerks (basic salary of say, a thousand five ?), will just need to copy whatever information from EA form into their database, and with some programming, get the friggin’ J form printed out and mail it accordingly to the taxpayer. Simple. Fast.

For those who intend to claim for deductions, just fill in a simple table based form on what they may want to deduct, and get it processed accordingly. And with all that, I reckoned that we would still save enough money to build better quality roads (no .. not another world’s biggest something something… please).

well, “Berdikari” my ass. If we aren’t berdikari, we wouldn’t be working out there in the first place. If they wanted to stress the berdikari point so fucking much, then why can’t the government berdikari themselves ? (see my suggestion above)

Morons.

michaelooi  | rantings  | 

10 Comments to “have you declared your tax today ?”

  1. fish fish says:

    Wow!!! Impressive. Michael u got every nice different foul word for omost each line. Cool down… u want them to ‘berdikari’… you better find a nice shaded tree to wait for the sun to get out from the west then. :P

  2. tEo says:

    Yalor..y must they change the tax declaration form huh?And y don’t they print it in bilingual;BM & BI?Easier mah.My dad can fill himself if it’s in BI.But now…i have to help him to fill pulak.Sigh..

  3. MrsT says:

    I cannot say .. i enjoy watching my spouse declare his taxes yearly..! it suxs.. !! big time..!! Everything here is done electronically….. not really much hassle.. but it is damn sickening.. because of the format they used. I hate it.. and am glad i didn’t have to help with the T4s for the employees this year. Yay!

  4. michaelooi says:

    it’s sad here… they keep building the world’s biggest something something … but in the end, we still fill in our tax forms with pen and paper. in 21st century.

    world’s biggest assholes.

  5. lilian says:

    I had stopped working for six long years and NOW only they send me a notice that I still owe them RM799! TNS, where am I going to find RM799 if I had been jobless for six years? Wonder if Lorong Gaharu is hiring? (Penang ppl joke)

  6. flo says:

    I read about news that some people even sought for consultancy firm to fill the form for them. isn’t this added redundant expenses to the tax payers? kolian~~

  7. cmos says:

    Mahai… this year’s tax declaration form is almost impossible unless you get the 24898 pages guidebook from LHDN. And that’s just after I’m getting a hang of their old format. Tiu… feel like shoving the whole telephone directory size guide book up their big kahuna’s @$$… bleh… :P

  8. michaelooi says:

    And also, identification card. For god’s sake, how many times have we been asked to change to a new one ?

  9. Dana says:

    until now also no one can tell me if I need to submit the $$ I owe them this year together with the form, or wait for them to notify me to pay later~

    I am just so blur with this whole damn thing

  10. momof2 says:

    FYI this year u will need to send the filled up forms to KL LHDN headquarters. No more sending to branch offices. So much hassle!!! and we don’t even get rebate for the poslaju or registered mail! *heh! i can get petty*

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