Tips on e-Filing for Year of Assessment (YA) 2013

• Getting Ready 
• Online Help
• Income, Deductions and Reliefs Statement (IDRS) 
• Declaration of income and claiming of reliefs
• Latest Tax Changes
• Points to note when e-Filing
• Common Filing Mistakes (for Employees) 
• Common Filing Mistakes (for Self-employed) 
• Need additional help to e-File? 
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Getting Ready

Before you start filing, please get ready the relevant information required to complete the tax return. These include:

• Form IR8A from your employer -  (if your employer is not participating in the Auto-Inclusion Scheme for Employment Income)
• Particulars of your dependants (e.g. child, parent) for only new relief claims
• Details (e.g. gross rent and allowable expenses) of your property if you had rented it out
• Sole-proprietorship Unique Entity Number/Partnership Tax Reference Number, if applicable (for self-employed and partners only)

This electronic tax return may take you 5 - 10 minutes to complete. To guide you through the e-Filing process, you can refer to the e-Filing of Form B1/B" e-Learning Guide. Please clear your cache (temporary internet files) before and after your e-Filing. Learn more on how to clear cache.

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Online Help

If you need help during e-Filing, please:

• Click on the icon < >, known as ‘i-help’; or 
• Click on "Ask IRAS" at the top of the page.

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Income, Deductions and Reliefs Statement (IDRS)

The IDRS is a statement of your income, deductions and reliefs that IRAS has prefilled based on information provided by employers participating in the Auto-Inclusion Scheme for Employment Income and other organisations.

For YA 2013, we have also included your personal reliefs and deductions based on your preceding year’s assessment record as at December 2012, if any.

At the IDRS, please click on the relevant buttons:

• "No, I have nothing to declare other than the information shown in the IDRS above" to submit your tax return, if you have no additional income/deductions/reliefs to declare/claim (i.e. all your income/deductions/reliefs are as shown in the IDRS).

• "Yes, i have additional income to declare or changes to make to my relief claims" to declare additional income or claim any deductions/reliefs that is not shown in the IDRS. This option will bring you to the ‘Main Tax Form’.

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Declaration of income and claiming of reliefs

If you have other income/deductions/reliefs not shown in the IDRS or changes to your relief claims, please declare them in the Main Tax Form.

Main Tax Form - Income Page
Enter your income in the boxes provided or click on the relevant hyperlinks, where applicable, to declare additional income

If your employer is participating in the Auto-Inclusion Scheme for Employment Income but details are not shown in the IDRS, tick the box under item 1. ‘Employment' in Section A of the Main Tax Form Income Page.

Main Tax Form - Deductions And Reliefs Page

Enter your deductions/reliefs in the boxes provided or click on the relevant hyperlinks, to change or make new claims for deductions/reliefs. You may view and download the full version of the Quick Guide for e-Filers (333KB).

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Latest tax changes for the YA 2013

Personal income tax rebate for resident individual taxpayers^NEW

All resident individual taxpayers will be given a personal income tax rebate for the Year of Assessment 2013. The amount of rebate granted will depend on the age of the individual as at 31 Dec 2012:

You need not apply for the rebate as IRAS will include it in your tax assessment.

Resident individual taxpayers who were issued the Notice of Assessment for YA 2013 prior to the Budget Announcement on 25 Feb 2013 can expect to received the revised assessment with the tax rebate included from mid Apr 201

Increase in Earned Income Relief

With effect from Year of Assessment 2013, the earned income relief has been increased for:

(a) Resident individuals who have income from employment, pension, trade, business , profession or vocation and are 55 years old and above; and

(b) Handicapped resident individuals who have income from employment, pension, trade, business, profession or vocation

This revised earned income relief claimable is based on the amount of your actual earned income, up to the maximum shown below:

Year of Assessment 2013 onwards

Changes to employer’s and employee’s compulsory CPF contribution rates in respect of older employees

With effect from 1 September 2012, the employer’s and employee’s compulsory CPF contribution rates for employees above 50 years old has been increased as follows:

Points to note when e-Filing

"Save as draft" facility
If you are not able to complete your filing at one session, please save the return as ‘draft’. The draft will be retained in the portal for 14 days. You can access the draft and make the necessary amendments before you submit your return.

Timeout
Please do not leave your filing session idle for more than 20 minutes. Otherwise, the session will expire and you will be required to log in to the portal again. If you are unable to complete your filing, you may save a ‘draft’ of your filing before you log out from the portal.

Re-filing
You can only re-file once. Re-filing must be done within 14 days of your previous submission or before the e-Filing due date, whichever is earlier.

When you re-file, you must include all your income details and expenses/donations/reliefs claims. Once you have re-filed successfully, your new submission will override the previous submission.

However, if you wish to make amendments after you have re-filed, you may email us.

Update Contact Details
To make it convenient for taxpayers to transact with IRAS, we will be introducing new services through the mobile channel. Please update your mobile number with us once you file at myTax Portal.

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