Guess what! I found a sequel to my previous post from The Star frontpage on Labor Day. The IRB is not sending out tax forms next year, everyone's required to use e-Filing next year due to OVERWHELMING REQUESTS ... dejavu? :)
I just wanted to highlight a few 'brilliant ideas' from the IRB that made my day:
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“Response from taxpayers has been very good although this is the first year e-Filing has been introduced. As at 6.30pm today, about 100,000 taxpayers have filed their returns electronically,” he told The Star yesterday. “Our target for e-Filing this year was only 50,000 submissions but we have already doubled this number.”
“This year, our strategy is to get taxpayers to switch to e-Filing and the good response speaks volumes about Malaysians being IT savvy,” he added.
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The department of statistics states that our population is 26.13 million in 2005. Our dear IRB expected 0.19% of the population to e-file but the response was a whopping 0.38% of the population !! So guess what happened, yup our beloved hoo-hah began. Apparently we are now sophisticated 'IT savvies'. Therefore they need to work on yet another world-class project. How? Lets switch everything to e-filing to accomodate our 'highly advanced' society. Sorry Mr Fisherman and Mr Farmer, guess what, you'll have to get your Windows XP going.
I sincerely hope that in 2020, we will be declared a developed country NOT just because we have ONE developed street. There are no shortcuts to it whether you like it or not. To have a well-developed country, we need well-developed towns. To have well-developed towns, we need well-developed streets. To have well-developed streets, we need well-developed buildings. To have well-developed buildings, we need well-developed bricks. Lets not build our country on hollow bricks and tumble with a delicate tap.
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