Budget 2023: RM4,000 income tax relief to help children with learning disabilities


KUALA LUMPUR: The government is expanding income tax relief to ease financial commitments on early intervention for children with learning disabilities.

Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim, while tabling Budget 2023, said that the scope of income tax relief for medical expenses would be expanded to include the intervention expenditure for autism, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), Global Developmental Delay (GDD), intellectual disability, Down Syndrome and specific learning disabilities.

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