Are there differences if I take Director Salary vs Director Fee?
Director Salary | Director Fee | |
Frequency | Generally fixed and pay regularly | Generally irregular and subject to resolution of the company |
Need approval? | Not required | Decided by directors and subject to shareholders’ approval |
Compulsory subject to EPF/Socso/EIS | Yes | No |
Subject to PCB | Yes | Yes |
Need to declare in personal tax | Definitely Yes! | Definitely Yes! ** |
** With effective from YA2015, the director is deemed to be able to obtain on-demand the receipt of director fee in the basis period immediately following the relevant period. It means, the accrued director fee is deemed received in subsequent year & need to declare in personal tax, even though no payment is received by the director.