KUALA LUMPUR, Sept. 18 -- Malaysia introduced e-invoicing in August 2024 with a promise to stamp out tax fraud and plug revenue leakages.

However, two years on, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) still grapple with administrative burden and compliance costs to switch to e-invoicing.

Those exempted from the obligation, thanks to the higher threshold for mandatory e-invoicing, also lament about practical problems that still persists in transactions with major corporations.

The government first pushed up the threshold for mandatory e-invoicing from RM150,000 to RM500,000 in July 2024 before hiking it to RM1 million in December 2025.

Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim raised the threshold again to RM3 million effective Septemb...