Tax
Tax Alert 10 July 2019
Further to the Income Tax (Restriction on Deductibility of Interest) Rules 2019 covered in our Tax Alert dated 3 July 2019 to restrict the deduction of interest expense in connection with or on any financial assistance in a controlled transaction, also known as “ESR”, the Inland Revenue Board of Malaysia (“IRBM”) has recently issued Guidelines on Restriction on Deductibility of Interest to provide further guidance and clarification on the application of the abovementioned Rules and Section 140C of the Act.