E-Invoice – Compliance Requirement for Business Transactions to avoid Pitfalls

07 Aug, 2025, Remote Online Training - Public

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TAN KOK TEE
DBA, MBA-Finance, FAIA, MIPA, MCCS, ACTIM,
International Accountant (UK),
Public Accountant (Aust.)
Certified Company Secretary.
HRDF Certified Trainer
Registered GST Agent.


MR. TAN KOK TEE has 40 years of working experience in Accounts & Financial, Strategic and General Management field. He has held a variety of leadership and senior management roles in various organizations, starting in the Accounts & Finance Department until CFO level and the last being Group Chief Executive Officer. More than half of these times were spent in the Manufacturing, Marketing & Distribution and Services organizations.


He is a Fellow member of the Association of International Accountants, UK; Member of the Institute of Public Accountants, Aust.; Certified Commercial Accountant, (M); Member of the Chartered Tax Institute of Malaysia; Member of the Malaysia Associations of Company Secretaries (M) and a Gold Mastery Holder in Reinventing Strategic Planning and Management from the Haines Centre for Strategic Management, sponsored by University of San Diego, USA.


He is also a Certified Trainer with PMSB’s (HRDF) Train The Trainer Certificate since 2009, a GST Agent registered with MOF & Holder of the GST MyGCAP certificate from RMCD and a Life Member of the Malaysian Institute of Directors.
Mr. Tan has been involved in Advisory, Training and Facilitation since beginning 2009. To-date he has conducted about 400 training workshops throughout Malaysia on topics on Budgeting & Cashflow Planning; GST; SST; Practical Accounting for Accounting Staffs; Reading, Analyzing and Interpreting Financial Statement; Accounting and Finance for Non-Finance Managers; Customers Credit Evaluations and Collection Strategies; Incoterms, LC Operations and Trade Financing; Reinventing the Strategic Planning and Management and Financial Statement Hands On Application to MBRS, for both in-house as well as public.


Among the organizations that Tan Kok Tee has been providing training for, include Government Authorities, Chamber of Commerce, Government Link Companies, Banks, Malaysian Institute of Accountants, Chartered Institute of Management Accountants, CPA Australia, Malaysian Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators, Selangor State Human Resource Development Centre (SHRDC), Negeri Sembilan State Skills Development Centre (NSSDC), Penang Skill Development Centre (PSDC), NGOs and many others public training providers.


His other clients include Shin Yang Group, MIRI, Bintulu Port, Deleum Bhd., Boustead Plantation Bhd., Takahata, FBK Manufacturing, Brothers Industries, Integrated Logistics, Mega Logistics, Chung Hwa Picture Tubes, Ohara Melaka, Safran Aerospace, NEC Corp. of Malaysia, Kobe Precisions, Tecktronic & Sons Holdings, Julie’s Biscuits, Ornapaper Melaka, Sunway University, Sime Darby Properties, Lion Group and many more.


To-date Mr. Tan has trained more than 15,000 Executives. He combines a wide range of practical and hands-on training experience in lively and challenging interactive training sessions

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FOCUSING ON
  • Fundamentals
  • E-Invoice Mechanism
  • Application of E-Invoice for Various Accounting of Business
    Transactions, including clarification feedback from LHDN
  • Readiness for Implementation
OBJECTIVES

The application of E-invoice in documenting of commercial activities tax purpose as announced by LHDN implemented in phases from August 2024 onwards, is not solely a tax matter of about how much tax to pay or when to do your tax filing. A major part of it is all about your Accounting for the Revenue and Cost of the organization and the Business Operation at large, such as Sales, Purchasing, HRM, IT and all other Business Operations.

The 3rd phase implementation for organizations whose revenue is above RM5.0m is already in place w.e.f. 1/7/2025. The 4th phase is for those organizations whose revenue above RM1.0m will take place w.e.f. 1/1/2026. While they will enjoy the 6 months grace period from its mandatory date of implementation, businesses also need to know what to do during their 6 months grace period to lead them to full implementation thereafter. What happen if you forget to implement, what should you do?

HENCE IT IS ALWAYS WISE FOR TAX PAYER TO HAVE AN UNDERSTANDING OF E-INVOICE TREATMENT FOR DIFFERENT BUSINESS TRANSACTIONS TO ENSURE CORRECT TREATMENT TO AVOID PITFALLS DURING AND AFTER THE GRACE PERIOD.

Hence this course is to provide the necessary content of e-invoice mechanism and to equip all Accounting and Operational Staffs of the organization on their e-invoice compliance requirement for your business transactions.

The need to know when to issue an E-Invoice to customers to capture the revenue, when to issue self-bill invoice to capture the cost, when suppliers are not required to issue E-invoice but require to issue consolidated e-invoice, etc. are all essential knowledge and skills that all staff in the organization need to know and possess, to avoid pitfalls.

It is therefore essential that all the Accounting and other Operational function staff, get equip with the E-Invoice mechanism in our daily Accounting and Business operation.

AFTER ATTENDING THIS COURSE YOU WILL RETURN TO YOUR JOB…
  1. Understanding what E-Invoice is and what does it entails.
  2. Understanding the mechanism of E-Invoice.
  3. Applying E-Invoice for different types of Business Transactions.
  4. Preparing and getting ready for E-Invoice implementation.
  5. Obtaining guidance on actions to be taken to capture revenue and cost for your business operation and for tax purposes.
WHO SHOULD ATTEND
  • Entrepreneurs, Business owners & Directors.
  • Accountants, Accounts Executives and all Accounting Staffs,
  • Company Secretaries and Secretarial Assistance
  • Other Functional Staffs (Sales, Purchasing, Human Resource, Gen. Admin. etc.) Managers, Executives and Staffs.
  • All other persons who are involved in and/or interested in learning about E-Invoice.
METHODOLOGY
  • Interactive Lectures and Discussions
  • Presentation Course Notes and 100s of trainer’s
    past training Q & A for self-reading and future reference.
  • Q & A during the training session
  • POST TRAINING Q & A SUPPORT VIA EMAIL
COURSE CONTENT
9:00

FUNDAMENTALS

  • What is E-Invoice what does it entail in comparison with current invoicing practice?
  • The worldwide development of E-Invoice and its implication on tax.
  • Malaysian implementation threshold and phases and its partial and full mandatory implementation dates.
  • What to do during the first 6 months grace period.
  • Timing of issuing E-Invoice for the transactions.
  • E-Invoice Processes and steps.
  • Compulsory and Optional information to be disclosed for E-Invoice
    - Compulsory fields – what to put in
    - Optional fields – purpose of putting in.
    - Transaction Classification Code
    - Tax Type disclosure for each transaction
  • Scope of coverage: - (i) Parties, (ii) Documents and (iii) transactions
  • Parties and activities exempted.
  • When to apply General TIN number and on who.
  • Impact of E-Invoice on business operation after full implementation by IRB.
  • Scenarios of one party implemented E-Invoice and dealing with other parties have not.
  • Examples on scenario where one party is exempted whereas the other party is not.
  • Penalties for non-compliance
10.45

E-INVOICE MECHANISM

  • Two Transmission Mechanism – Processes and Steps.
    - IRB’s MyInvois model (cloud based)
    - Application Program Interface (API) model
    - Difference in the Steps between the 2-transmission mechanism.
  • Salient Points of E-Invoice to note, including:
    - E-Invoice Creation and submission to IRB for validation
    - Application of UTC time. (Coordinate Universal Time).
    - Error in Validation, Rejections and Cancellation
    - Notification of validation, rejections and cancellation by IRBM
    - Sharing of E-Invoice to customer
    - Window time for rejection/cancellation of invoice by buyer
    - Storing of E-Invoice in IRB’s porter and its dash-board services.
  • Steps to add Director’s role as employer and appointment of representatives of companies to do E-Invoice.
1:00 Lunch
2:00

APPLICATION OF E-INVOICE FOR VARIOUS ACCOUNTING OF BUSINESS TRANSACTIONS, INCLUDING CLARIFICATION FEEDBACK FROM LHDN.

  • Issuance of E-Invoice:
    - Individual transaction E-Invoice
    - Consolidated transactions E-Invoice
    - Industries where consolidated E-Invoice is not allowed.
    - Self-billed E-Invoice for specific situations such as payment of commission, payment of interest, e-commerce, imports, etc.
    - Situation where consolidated self-billed is allowed.
    - Business transactions under periodic basis.
  • E-Invoice treatment for:
    - Reimbursement and Disbursements with e-invoice and without E-Invoice.
    - Billing of Penalties charges
    - Employment perquisite and benefits, etc.
    - Employees Claims – Mileage, Travelling and Accommodation allowance, General Outstation allowance, entertainment,
    hotel, tolls, parking, Telephone, Medical, Overseas expenses, etc.
    - Salary in lieu of notice matters.
    - Import and export transactions
    - Commission payment to agents, dealers and distributors
    - Loyalty and Volume Rebates or discounts given to customers
    - Interest received from Banks
    - Interest charge to employees’ loan/ advances
    - Interest payment to Banks, HP companies.
    - Inter-company interest charge and payment.
    - Sales with trade-ins like car, goldsmith, etc.
    - Profit sharing vs. Rental arrangement
    - Foreign income remit back to Malaysia.
    - Rental or expenditure incurred from parties exempted from E-Invoice.
    - E-Commerce treatment
    - Utility Bills under Landlord’s name
  • - Giving samples.
    - Consignment sales
    - Sending of goods to be kept in overseas warehouses
    - Sales of cash vouchers
    - Issuance of cash vouchers on target purchase
    - Payment to Foreign workers who are non- employees
    - Sponsorship for company events, like annual dinner by goods and cash.
    - Pay for training and allowance for customers’ staffs.
    - Inter-branch sales,
    - Advance payment to suppliers.
    - Received Insurance compensation
    - Disposal of total damaged goods after insurance compensation.
    - Recoup of insurance claims from the fault party’s insurance.
    - Developer pays legal fees, stamp duties, etc. on behalf of buyers.
    - Developers pay guarantee rental to property buyers,
    - Money Lending, and
    - Many more other situations via Sharing of 100s of past training Q & A to participants
    for their own readings and future reference.
3:45

READINESS FOR IMPLEMENTATION.

  • Avenue/Guide for Taxpayers familiarization
  • Steps to take – What should you do now
    - Employees handbook update or development
    - Gap arising and resolution on the current invoice, D/N and C/N issuance process Vs. the E-Invoice requirement processes
    - Policies and procedures for different basis of E-Invoice issuance.
  • Grants and Tax incentives available for E-Invoice implementation for MSME
  • Change Management
5:00 End of Course