Payroll

Business 6 min Five years' service lifts Peninsular Malaysia's statutory severance pay for every year worked In Peninsular Malaysia and Labuan, the Employment (Termination and Lay-Off Benefits) Regulations 1980 set seve... DA Daniel Koh 8 Oct Finance 5 min Hong Kong salaries tax for 2026/27, with the allowances that changed this year Hong Kong's 2026/27 salaries tax, as legislated so far, takes HK$790 more from many single taxpayers than 2025... SA Sarah Chew 3 Oct Finance 7 min Taiwan labour and health insurance deductions, grade by grade What comes off a Taiwan salary for labour, employment and health insurance in 2026, why it is never salary tim... SA Sarah Chew 30 Sep Finance 8 min Why China withholds more tax from the same salary by December A ¥20,000 salary in China is withheld ¥318 in January and ¥1,060 from May. The tax is annual and the payslip i... SA Sarah Chew 27 Sep Finance 6 min How much MPF comes out of your salary in Hong Kong You and your employer each pay 5% of your relevant income, you pay nothing below HK$7,100 a month, and neither... SA Sarah Chew 27 Sep Business 6 min Malaysia's minimum wage sets three daily rates, not one RM1,700 a month is the headline, but the same order sets a daily rate that rises as the working week shortens... EV Eva Chin 18 Sep Finance 7 min Philippine 13th month pay is a wage, and a Christmas bonus can count as it Thirteenth month pay has been compulsory in the Philippines since 1975, but a December bonus worth at least a... SA Sarah Chew 18 Sep Business 5 min Thai severance pay now reaches 400 days, and so does the tax exemption Thailand's severance table stopped at 300 days' wages until 2019. The Labour Protection Act now has a sixth ti... EV Eva Chin 17 Sep Business 5 min In the Philippines, the service charge belongs to the staff Since 2019, Philippine law requires every peso of a collected service charge to go to non-managerial employees... EV Eva Chin 17 Sep Business 4 min Singapore's Employment Act has no overtime pay cap The Ministry of Manpower publishes an overtime cap of S$2,600, or S$13.60 an hour. The Employment Act's Fourth... EV Eva Chin 13 Sep Business 5 min In Malaysia a lorry driver on RM6,000 still gets overtime and a clerk on RM4,100 may not A lorry driver on RM6,000 and a coordinator on RM4,100 work for the same employer, and on the face of the Firs... EV Eva Chin 13 Sep Finance 7 min What Our Payslip Tool Will Not Tell You Our payslip decoder describes 39 lines across Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia and declines to give you a fig... DA Daniel Koh 15 Aug Finance 11 min How to Read Your Payslip in Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia Every line on your payslip, what it actually is, who pays it, and which ones you can change. Including the Sin... DA Daniel Koh 31 Jul Finance 8 min What Changed in the Statutory Rates This Year If you earn S$60,000 in Singapore, your tax bill this year is S$200 higher on identical income — and no rate c... DA Daniel Koh 29 Jul Finance 7 min How BPJS Kesehatan & Ketenagakerjaan Deductions Work (2026) What BPJS Kesehatan and Ketenagakerjaan take from an Indonesian salary in 2026: rates, the two different wage... DA Daniel Koh 15 Jul Finance 7 min CPF Contributions Explained: Rates, Ceilings & What Changed in 2026 The 2026 CPF rate table, the $8,000 OW ceiling, the AW bonus formula, and a full worked example — plus the sen... DA Daniel Koh 15 Jul Finance 9 min How to Read Your Malaysia PCB (MTD) Deduction — the Formula Explained (2026) Your PCB deduction is an estimate of your annual tax, spread across the months. Here's the LHDN formula behind... DA Daniel Koh 15 Jul Finance 9 min How to Calculate EPF, SOCSO & EIS Deductions in Malaysia (2026) Most Malaysian employees pay 11% EPF plus small SOCSO (0.5%) and EIS (0.2%) deductions — here's how the 2026 b... DA Daniel Koh 15 Jul