KUALA LUMPUR (June 11): The Inland Revenue Board today denied at the High Court here that there was any malice on its part in filing a bankruptcy notice against former prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak for owing RM1.69 billion in taxes to the government.
Senior tax counsel Norhisham Ahmad said since obtaining the court’s judgement on July 22, 2020 to recover the tax arrears from Najib, the agency had waited about six months to file the bankruptcy notice on Najib, which it served him in April this year.
It took almost eight months from the July 22 High Court order for us to enforce it, and there had been no (attempts on Najib’s part to initiate) discussions with the IRB on his means to settle the sum. It is a normal situation when …
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