KUALA LUMPUR: With the personal income tax filing deadline due in just slightly over a week, close to 450,00 taxpayers have filed their income tax returns via the online filing system.

The Inland Revenue Board is confident that it can achieve its target of over one million taxpayers filing their personal income tax electronically.

IRB deputy director-general (corporate affairs) Shahmin Ta Abdullah said since March 1 until Tuesday, 448,742 taxpayers had submitted their income tax return forms electronically - almost double that of last year.

"The response towards the e-Filing system this year is very good," he said Tuesday during a workshop on the e-Filing system for the media at the IRB headquarters here.

He said the highest number of taxpayers using the e-Filing system in one day was 30,000 on April 21.

Last year, more than 870,00 individual taxpayers filed their income tax return forms via the e-Filing system.

There are more than 6.4 million registered individual taxpayers this year compared with 6.4 million last year.

First time users of e-Filing can go to https://e.hasil.org.my, login using the personal identification number (PIN) number on the BE tax return form for 2007 and set their password before filing their returns.

Those who had filed their income tax returns online previously are only required to go to the website, go to the e-Forms login and key in their passwords and file their returns.

If they forget their passwords, they can check with the nearest IRB branch or call 1-300-88-3010.

The deadline for filing returns is April 30.