Cost of Living in Kuala Lumpur

I have been looted badly in Kuala Lumpur. Payed 50% more than 200K RM for a business startup. This group of Malaysian took the money and since then it was all promises. No where to go to. Police advices to put case and the guys walk free with no guilt feeling and even inviting me to join for a drink. Ruthless criminals driving very expensive cars and looking rich. Zero integrity or shame. This is not my single experience. Even my Malaysian and foreigner friends has similar experience. I even took a lawyer for the initial agreement, when things go wrong. The lawyer acted very helpless.

Next is racism and discrimination. Chinese and Indians are highly discriminated. It’s a well known factor. But it’s funny, even they are so used it that, they are in denial. Discrimination being dark coloured skin is very high, doesn’t matter from which part of the world you are from.

During beginning of 2020 as the COVID hit the whole world. Most of the employees was helpless in KL and never bothered to renew foreign workers visa. Especially as the business was closed for months and as they no need to pay salary. If visa’s are running they are liable to pay salary. In few days these foreigner staff all became illegal immigrants and was hunted by the Malaysian authorities along with the other illegal immigrants. The sad part is, these illegal immigrates has always been the backbone of the businesses in KL. There is an YouTube video about this by Al Jazeera which had major criticism. https://youtu.be/zyl_xsdpteI
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Hello,

I am from India. Soon I'll be joining a Company at Kuala Lumpur and I'll be getting RM 6000 as monthly income.
I want to know is it reasonable amount to survive there. I am single (Unmarried), will be sending some part of income back to india to my parents.
Is it okay for a person to survive on this (RM 6000/month) income.
Thanks.

Hello,

I am from India. Soon I'll be joining an MNC at Kuala Lumpur and I'll be getting 115k MYR as annual income.
I want to know is it reasonable amount to survive there. I am single (Unmarried), will be sending some part of income back to india to my parents.
Is it okay for a person to survive on this (115K MYR/annum) income.
Thanks.

Starting next month, 1rst Oct, INDIA will waive tax for hotel stay under 1000 Rupee in India.

So zero tax for hotel stay in India is a bargain unlike immoral double taxes imposed in Malaysia which are daily tourism tax + daily hotel tax.

Shame on you Malaysia

Double taxation of both accommodation tax and tourism tax to foreign tourist in Malaysia is not fair.

Accommodation is said to the biggest expense for traveller but it seems to be wrong to the unethical shameless ripoff country called Malaysia where tourist are ripped off 10 ringgit extra daily openly on top of accommodation + accomodation tax as well as departure tax of 40 ringgit + 35 ringgit for the anti terror screening fee.

People should stay away from the most shameless ripoff country called Malaysia until the ripoffs such as tourism tax, anti-terror screen fee, departure tax, double taxation are removed for fair's sake or else Ripoff Malaysia would become an example for other unethical countries to follow for ripoff if you supported goddamned Malaysia by visiting it.

The current tourism minister is a moron with no whatsoever wisdom to answer questions appropriately at a national level.

Furthermore, the tourism industry has been badly hurt since the tourism tax was introduced which targets only the foreign tourist unfairly and costs all foreign tourist a whopping 10 ringgit a day which is really expensive and is not sustainable as indicated by the gradual falling number of foreign tourist arrival in a recent report.

Instead of healing the backsliding situation currently encountered by tourism industry by removing the unsustainable tourism tax, this moron tourism minister instead endorses the tourism tax to further destroy the tourism industry.

This moron tourism minister has no ability for his position and is not dutiful in his position to enhance the tourism industry.
So this moron must quit his position of the tourism minister as he's not worthy at all and would badly harm the tourism industry further if he foolishly stays on.

If you're a budget traveller or backpacker staying at a hostel of 20 Malaysia dollar per night, don't assume that what you pay for the night either at booking app such as booking.com, pagoda, hotel, etc is inclusive of everything for the accommodation of the night just like what you normally pay for accommodation at all of the other countries where there are no additional tax to pay for, BUT as a foreign tourist in Malaysia, you are forced to pay an additional 50% tax which is 10 Malaysia dollar for the 20 Malaysia dollar accommodation per night.

So for a hostel of 20 Malaysia dollar per night, you must pay a total of 30 Malaysia dollar per night, an extra 50% above 20 Malaysia dollar where the Malaysia government rips foreign tourist off an additional 10 Malaysia dollar per night which is incredibly inhumane, greedy and shameful as never seen before among countries all over the world.

So Malaysia has truly a shameless government which targets helpless foreign tourist guest in their country Malaysia for tourism ripoff which never happen among their own people Malaysian which ripoff is well aware of as Malaysia tourism promotion at abroad by almost everyone, foreigners who are planning for foreign trips so it is useless for Malaysia to spend a cent abroad to promote Malaysia tourism market because foreign tourist with brain will stay away from the ripoff trap of tourism tax of the stupid Malaysia government.

Furthermore, the shame of the Malaysia government doesn't stop here but Malaysia politicians are vying among themselves for a share of the ripoff where is forcefully collected from foreign tourist as mentioned at the splendid news of the link below.
Since tourism tax is not enough to the extent of Malaysia politicians fighting among each other for a share, suggest Malaysia politicians might earn more by sitting with a steel cup banging on the floor at the entrance of the airport begging for money as beggers.

So observing the struggle of the
Malaysia politicians for the ripoff money collected through the distress, sorrow, injustice, etc of foreign tourist, you should understand the shortsigness of the Malaysia politicians regarding the tourism tax which will certainly follow and destroy the prosperity of Malaysia tourism market.
When bad thing happens at the Malaysia tourism market, Malaysia politicians should remember their action of this foolishness of collecting tourism tax unnecessarily and should not blame this and that but blame themselves and resign their jobs for their unworthiness and foolishness.

If you're a budget traveller or backpacker staying at a hostel of 20 Malaysia dollar per night, don't assume that what you pay for the night either at booking app such as booking.com, pagoda, hotel, etc is inclusive of everything for the accommodation of the night just like what you normally pay for accommodation at all of the other countries where there are no additional tax to pay for, BUT as a foreign tourist in Malaysia, you are forced to pay an additional 50% tax which is 10 Malaysia dollar for the 20 Malaysia dollar accommodation per night.

So for a hostel of 20 Malaysia dollar per night, you must pay a total of 30 Malaysia dollar per night, an extra 50% above 20 Malaysia dollar where the Malaysia government rips foreign tourist off an additional 10 Malaysia dollar per night which is incredibly inhumane, greedy and shameful as never seen before among countries all over the world.

So Malaysia has truly a shameless government which targets helpless foreign tourist guest in their country Malaysia for ripoff which is well aware of as Malaysia tourism promotion at abroad by almost everyone who are planning for foreign trips so it is useless for Malaysia to spend a cent abroad to promote Malaysia tourism because foreign tourist with brain will stay away from the ripoff trap of tourism tax of the stupid Malaysia government.

Furthermore, the shame of the Malaysia government doesn't stop here but Malaysia politicians are vying among themselves for a share of the ripoff where is forcefully collected from foreign tourist at the news of the link below.

Guan Eng: Settle tourism tax, don't get emotional
https://www.malaymail.com/news/malaysia/2019/01/06/sarawak-minister-to-guan-eng-settle-tourism-tax-dont-get-emotional/1709692

Since tourism tax is not enough to the extent of Malaysia politicians fighting among each other for a share, suggest Malaysia politicians might earn more by sitting with a steel cup banging on the floor at the entrance of the airport begging for money as beggers.

So observing the struggle of the
Malaysia politicians for the ripoff money collected through the distress, sorrow, injustice, etc of foreign tourist, you should understand the shortsigness of the Malaysia politicians regarding the tourism tax which will certainly follow and destroy the prosperity of Malaysia tourism market.

When bad thing happens to the Malaysia tourism market in the near future, Malaysia politicians should remember their action of this foolishness of collecting tourism tax unnecessarily and should not blame this and that but should blame themselves, take responsibility and resign their jobs proactively consequently and immediately for their unworthiness and foolishness.

Is it possible ringgit 3500 too cover living expenses for one person per month?

I have been offered 11000 MYR per month to live in kualalumpur. I am married person and my wife also works in IT. We both work in India. Will RM 11000 be enough for us both to live comfortably in KL?

Is 3,500 RM Salary per month an OK offer to live in KL?

‘Did we lose over 300,000 tourists with tourism tax?’
http://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/nation/2017/12/20/did-we-lose-over-300000-tourists-with-tourism-tax/

Melaka budget hotels forced to pick up tab as tourists refuse to pay S$3 levy
https://www.todayonline.com/world/asia/budget-hotel-operators-melaka-forced-pick-tab-tourists-refuse-pay-s3-levy

ANTI-TERROR SCREENING FEE

Most recently, it was announced that passengers flying out of Malaysia will now have to pay a fee of 35 MYR (11.55 SGD) to bear the cost of their airports' new anti-terror screening system.

This is not very logical, as their screening system costs many times more than those used in first-world countries like Australia, and the cost of such security systems is usually paid by governments rather than passengers.

TOURISM TAX

Beginning in 2017, foreigners staying at hotels, hostels, Airbnb apartments and any other form of paid lodging started being charged a tourism tax of 10 MYR (3.30 SGD) a night. Malaysians are exempt from this charge.

Plead Dr Mahathir to remove the tourism tax which was imposed under Najib and only tagets the foreign tourist unfairly.
Consequently, foreign tourist are not visiting Malaysia gradually unlike before imposing the foreign tourism tax.
It is time to revive the foreign tourism market to its golden day by removing the foreign tourism tax

I really like the basic run down and general % split. This is really useful.

An additional daily toursim tax of 10 Malaysia dollar would be charged to all tourist staying in all kind of hostels or hotels in Malaysia starting from Sept 11, 2017.
So if tourist choose to stay at budget hostels or hotels, the burden of the tourism tax shall be as much as additional 30% on top of the room cost everyday.

Nazri, the ministry of toursim said the additional daily tourism tax of 10 Malaysia dollar for tourist stay in Malaysia was needed for the tourism promotion, but most tourist including me, potential tourist to Malaysia, feel differently to his message, and instead feel as an indication to tourist not to come to Malaysia or else we, tourist shall be fined 10 Malaysia dollar everyday staying in Malaysia. I myself planning to visit Malaysia and even checked flight tickets today, but after finding this horrible news of panalizing 10 Malaysia dollar daily to tourist, I decided to cancel visiting Malaysia and planning again to visit other reasonable countries.
http://www.webintravel.com/malaysias-tourism-tax-finally-enforced-still-faces-long-road-smooth-implementation/

This additional daily tourism tax of 10 Malaysia dollar for tourist stay in Malaysia is indeed kind of the first unique invention by Malaysia seemingly with the potential power of destroying tourism market in Malaysia as well as closing of many hotels follows gradually due to less and less tourist visiting to Malaysia due to this very unreasonable tourism tax.

Worker Union is supposed to protect worker from losing job, but instead the Worker Union is demanding a higher pay for existing workers without considering the suffering of lots of jobless people who can't find job in Malaysia. What about lowering the minimum wage which would certainly create a lot of hiring which should certainly lessen the burden of the jobless people, but unfortunately the Worker Union never consider this option at all just because of seemingly its greed. Even the fresh graduate, Ms Nor Asma Arifin spent 1 year looking for a job but couldn't find it so eventually decided to work as a maid.
http://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/poverty-drives-malaysian-women-to-work-as-maids

"Don't kill a chicken that lays eggs for a delicious meal, and instead for the sake of eggs, don't kill the chicken", Cambodia PM Hun Sen said it recently that is a vision with future that is also exactly what the ministry of tourism and the Worker Union should learn to stay away from evil greed. Or else tourism job shall be lost across the tourism industry UNCONTROLLABLY or even worse as well as with higher minimum wage, employers have to let go many existing employees so as to be able to maintain a profit margin of the business.

Kindly plead Malaysia not to kill the chicken that lays egg in order to not further deteriorate the current bad employment market of Malaysia, or else lots more unpredictable jobless people from the tourism industry shall be created on top the lots of current jobless people in Malaysia. Then what solution Malaysia has in hand to resolve the future suffering of additional jobless people from the tourism sector due to lack of normal income.

#Vincent you must be mistaking in counting. Either its 8,000 MYR per month or 80,000 MYR annual. 80,000 MYR is almost $20,000 per month. Who would pay such insane salary unless you are an expert of black magic :D

Hi, my Husband has an ecsepted a job in KL for 19,000rm pm, we are set to move the beginning of next month. will this be enough for us both (2 adults) to live comfortably on? we are looking at living in Bangsar and are hoping to also try to save. is this something we could achieve on this wage?
any help would be much appreciated.

I am getting 1L INR in Bangalore India and I got offer oh 11K RM in KL; can I anybody tell how much the expense is in KL with family of 4 in KL. am I able to save 5K RM monthly. I heard that the Income Tax & PF is very high there.

#Zeenat International schools are expensive around KL.
#Rajashekar you need around 2100 RM per month for a decent place.
#saif, #siti 5,000 RM is somewhat on edge. You'll need 7,000 RM to save something. I was on 12,000 RM when I worked there.
#vincent 55K SGD per month is insane. normal people get 3.5K to 4.5K, the better ones get 7K up per month. and 80,000 RM per month in Malaysia is good enough for 10 families with 2 kids each.

#KL Guy Yes that looks just right. Just increase by a bit for 2017