Oct 5 hearing for LHDN’s appeal in Najib’s daughter’s income tax case
PUTRAJAYA: The Court of Appeal has fixed Oct 5 to hear the Inland Revenue Board’s (LHDN) appeal against a High Court’s dismissal of its application for a summary judgment to be entered on former prime minister Najib Razak’s daughter, Nooryana Najwa, over alleged unpaid income tax. Lawyer Wee Yeong Kang…
PUTRAJAYA: The Court of Appeal has fixed Oct 5 to hear the Inland Revenue Board’s (LHDN) appeal against a High Court’s dismissal of its application for a summary judgment to be entered on former prime minister Najib Razak’s daughter, Nooryana Najwa, over alleged unpaid income tax.
Lawyer Wee Yeong Kang representing Nooryana, when contacted, confirmed the hearing date following a case management held before Court of Appeal deputy registrar, Norshakinah Ahmad Kamarudin, yesterday.
On Aug 26, 2020, Shah Alam High Court judge Faizah Jamaludin dismissed the LHDN’s application to obtain a summary judgment against Nooryana to recover RM10.3 million in unpaid income tax.
On July 24, 2019, the Malaysian government as the plaintiff, filed a writ of summons through the LHDN in the High Court naming Nooryana as the defendant.
According to the statement of claim, the LHDN alleged that Nooryana failed to submit the individual Income Tax Return Forms, under Section 77 of the Income Tax Act 1967, for the years of assessment from 2011 to 2017.
LHDN contended that to date, she had not paid the amount of income tax owed including the increases, amounting to RM10,335,292.36.
Meanwhile, the Federal Court has set July 15 for another case management in Najib and his son Nazifuddin’s appeal over the summary judgment entered against them regarding the payment of income tax amounting to RM1.69 billion and RM37.6 million respectively.
Both were given leave to proceed with their appeals in the Federal Court in May this year on nine questions of law for the Federal Court to decide.
Wee, who also represented Najib and Nazifuddin, confirmed the date following a case management before Federal Court deputy registrar, Norhafizah Zainal Abidin today.
Two separate High Courts had allowed the LHDN’s applications to enter the summary judgment to recover tax arrears of RM1.69 billion from Najib and RM37.6 million from Nazifuddin for the period between 2011 and 2017.
A summary judgment is obtained when the court decides on a case, through written submissions, without a full trial and witnesses.
Both Najib and Nazifuddin lost their appeals in the Court of Appeal in September, last year, to set aside the summary judgment. — Free Malaysia Today