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PUTRAJAYA (July 7): The Court of Appeal has fixed Oct 5 to hear the Malaysian government's appeal against the Shah Alam High Court's decision regarding former premier Datuk Seri Najib Razak' daughter Nooryana Najwa Najib’s purported unpaid taxes.

In August 2020, the High Court refused the Inland Revenue Board’s (IRB) application for a summary judgment on the alleged unpaid taxes of RM10.3 million.

The hearing date was fixed following case management on Wednesday (July 6) before appellate court deputy registrar Norshakinah Ahmad Kamaruddin.

Lawyer Wee Yeong Kang for Nooryana Najwa confirmed the date when contacted by theedgemarkets.com.

Prior to this, the hearing of the government's appeal was initially fixed for August and December last year, and then deferred to April this year, before yet another adjournment.

Shah Alam High Court Judge Datuk Faizah Jamaludin had on Aug 26, 2020 dismissed the IRB's application for a summary judgment be entered against Nooryana Najwa for the unpaid taxes as it found the IRB documentation to court was not in order.

This follows the government, via the IRB, suing Nooryana Najwa for alleged failure to submit her individual income tax return forms to the tax agency under Section 77 of the Income Tax Act 1967, for the years of assessment 2011 to 2017.

The IRB contended that to date, Nooryana Najwa had not paid the amount of income tax owed, including increases, totalling RM10,335,292.

Meanwhile, the Federal Court had on Thursday (July 7) fixed July 15 for another case management with regard to Najib's and his son Datuk Nazifuddin Najib's merits of appeal over the summary judgment entered against them by the High Court, whose decision was upheld by the Court of Appeal.

Wee confirmed the date following case management before Federal Court deputy registrar Norhafizah Zainal Abidin on Thursday.

On May 10, the apex court bench, led by Chief Justice Tun Tengku Maimun Tuan Mat, granted leave to Najib and his son to challenge the summary judgment entered against them to pay RM1.69 billion and RM37.64 million respectively to the IRB based on nine questions of law posed before the court to be decided.

Edited BySurin Murugiah
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