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HASIL INTELLIGENCE · DIRECT TAX · NATIONAL
How much direct tax has HASiL collected since 2019?
Malaysia's published direct-tax collection series from 2019 to the record RM203.991 billion collected in 2025.
SHOW ME THE DATA2019 → 2025 · direct tax collection · RM billion
VIEW DATA ASSame source · different visual lens
PULSEKITA TIMELINE2019 — 2025
LHD
SourceLembaga Hasil Dalam Negeri Malaysia (HASiL)
2019145direct tax collection · RM billion
145
LHDLembaga Hasil Dalam Negeri Malaysia (HASiL)direct tax collection · RM billion
SourceLembaga Hasil Dalam Negeri Malaysia (HASiL) ↗2025 collection announced 24 Apr 2026HIGH CONFIDENCE
Method & notes
The long-run collection series is useful for fiscal context, but it should be kept separate from enforcement or compliance statistics.
METHOD & LIMITATIONSHow the numbers were calculated
PulseKita transcribes HASiL's published 2019–2024 collection series from the Kenali HASiL 2025 presentation, then appends the separately announced 2025 record of RM203.991 billion. Values are preserved as published rather than silently harmonised with later revised tables.
- The series fell in 2020 before recovering above its pre-pandemic level.
- HASiL announced RM203.991 billion for 2025, the first annual direct-tax collection above RM200 billion since incorporation in 1996.
- The 2022 figure is kept at RM175.40 billion because that is the value in the selected 2019–2024 source series; another HASiL annual-report table publishes RM175.46 billion, so PulseKita does not merge the two silently.
- Collection totals describe revenue administration, not taxpayer guilt, compliance status or enforcement outcomes.
Evidence trail
EVIDENCE CHAINtransformation inherited from methodology
- 1Primary evidenceHASiL Direct Tax & Compliance Intelligence
- 2TransformationPulseKita transcribes HASiL's published 2019–2024 collection series from the Kenali HASiL 2025 presentation, then appends the separately announced 2025 record of RM203.991 billion. Values are preserved as published rather than silently harmonised with later revised tables.
- 3Published visualTimeline
Source
HIGH CONFIDENCEofficial primary
COVERAGE2019 → 2025
UNITdirect tax collection · RM billion
SOURCEofficial publication
UPDATED2025 collection announced 24 Apr 2026