KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 26 (Reuters) - Malaysia has maintained its February export tax for crude palm oil at 8% and raised its reference price, a circular on the Malaysian Palm Oil Board website showed on Thursday.

The world's second-largest palm exporter calculated a reference price of 3,893.25 ringgit ($917.14) per tonne for February.

The January reference price was 3,889.52 ringgit a tonne. ($1 = 4.2450 ringgit) (Reporting by Rozanna Latiff; Editing by Martin Petty)