KUALA LUMPUR: Close to 450,000 taxpayers have filed their tax returns via the online filing system.

On Monday, 30,000 taxpayers filed their income tax returns electronically – the highest number recorded in a day.

“The response towards e-Filing system this year is very good,” said Shahmin Ta Abdullah, the Inland Revenue Board deputy director-general (corporate affairs).

The IRB was confident of getting over one million taxpayers to file their returns electronically, he said during a workshop on e-Filing.

Last year, more than 870,000 individuals filed their returns via e-Filing.

There are more than 6.4 million registered individual taxpayers and they have up to April 30 to file their returns.

First time users of e-Filing can go to https://e.hasil.org.my, log in 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 via online before are only required to go to the website's e-Forms log in 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.

This year, the system had been simplified by using the Roaming Public Key Infrastruction (PKI) solution.