Friday, June 28, 2013

IRB Appoints Bank Rakyat Collection Agent

KUALA LUMPUR, June 27 (Bernama) -- The Inland Revenue Board (IRB) has appointed Bank Rakyat as its 13th collection agent, said its deputy chief executive officer of tax operations, Datuk Mohammad Sait Ahmad.

Source from (Bernama): http://www.bernama.com/bernama/v7/bu/newsbusiness.php?id=959381
Published: Jun 28, 2013

Mohammad Sait said with the appoint of Bank Rakyat, the tax payments could be done at the bank's 141 branches nationwide.

"Besides Bank Rakyat, the other collection agents are CIMB Bank, Public Bank, RHB Bank, Maybank, Alliance Bank, Hong Leong Bank, Citibank, POS Malaysia, Ambank, OCBC Bank, Affin Bank and HSBC Bank," he said after the signing of the memorandum of understanding with the bank here Thursday.

He said the bank's services will be strengthened with the introduction of its Internet banking, i-Rakyat, in the second half of this year.

Meanwhile, IRB's director of payment services and information division, Azizol Ahmad, said 20 per cent of the tax payments to the board was done electronically.

-- BERNAMA 

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