Principaux dossiers

• Acted for Perusahaan Sadur Timah Malaysia (Perstima) Bhd in filing an anti-dumping petition to seek appropriate trade remedies and imposing anti-dumping duties on companies from four different countries.
  
• Acted for Dyson Manufacturing Sdn Bhd in an appeal before the Court of Appeal against the High Court’s dismissal of its judicial review application to quash a RM27 million GST Bill of Demand issued by the Royal Malaysian Customs. The case proceeded to the Federal Court, which ultimately also ruled in favour of Dyson Malaysia.
  
• Acted for Lush Development Sdn Bhd & Tanda Bestari Sdn Bhd in challenging the Director General of Inland Revenue’s refusal to refund taxes following the Federal Court’s ruling on the unconstitutionality of Section 4C of the Income Tax Act 1967.
  

Principaux dossiers

• Acted for Ann Joo Integrated Steel Sdn Bhd (AJIS) before the High Court, Court of Appeal and the Federal Court in a stamp duty appeal to challenge the Collector of Stamp Duties’ decision to disallow the taxpayer’s claim for remission of stamp duty.
  
• Acted for UEM Land Berhad in an appeal on the granting of leave in judicial review re whether the MOF had committed an error of law by failing to respond to the taxpayer’s application pursuant to Section 135 and/or Section 127(3A) to exempt or set aside the assessment amounting to approximately RM 8m.
  
• Acted for the client in a case-stated appeal against the Director General of Inland Revenue where the Court of Appeal allowed the client’s claim for a full deduction of the interest expenses incurred.
  

Principaux dossiers

• Acted for Kind Action (M) Sdn Bhd following the position taken by the Revenue to subject the gains arising from the realization of the taxpayer’s investments in agricultural land to income tax under the Income Tax Act 1967 (“ITA”) even though the taxpayer had already been subjected to real property gains tax under the Real Property Gains Tax Act 1976 (“RPGTA”) in respect of the same transactions.
  
• Acted as counsel for the Penang Development Corporation (“PDC”) in the Federal Court for PDC’s appeal to the Federal Court against the decision of the Court of Appeal (which was in favour of the Collector of Stamp Duties).
  
• Acted for approximately 170 Labuan companies in more than 100 judicial review applications filed before the High Court of Labuan to challenge the decisions of the Director General of Inland Revenue (“DGIR”) and Minister of Finance (“MOF”) requiring the taxpayers to file income tax returns under the Income Tax Act 1967 (“ITA”) instead of the LBATA and to seek appropriate relief from the Court.
  

Principaux dossiers

• Acted for the Malaysian subsidiary of a US-based multinational company in a tax appeal at the Court of Appeal on a tax dispute which involved the sale of IP rights in the sum of MYR 821.6m.
  
• Advised and represented Gentari at the High Court to appeal against the IRB’s decision to impose MYR 8.5m ($1.89m) stamp duty.
  

Principaux dossiers

• Acted for the client in a case relating to the applicability of real property gains tax, we succeeded in an appeal before the Court of Appeal, which ordered the case to be reheard in the High Court.
  
• Acted for Syarikat SESCO Berhad in its appeal to the Customs Appeal Tribunal in a claim for refund of tax that had been overpaid.
  
• Acted on behalf of the Association of Trust Companies, Malaysia, where the firm applied to the Minister of Finance for a remission/exemption of stamp duty under the Stamp Act 1949 on assignments of life insurance policies by way of gift/trust and successfully procured a change in the law.
  

Principaux dossiers

Principaux dossiers

• Represented Bursa-listed Comfort Gloves Berhad Group in judicial reviews challenging MYR99m in additional taxes and penalties following the tax authority’s reversal of basis period approvals.
  
• Acted for Easteel (a subsidiary of Natsteel Singapore) in a transfer pricing dispute, successfully securing the release of retrospective surcharges imposed by the tax authority.
  
• Represented Lagenda Properties Berhad’s subsidiary in successfully overturning a stamp duty assessment, securing a refund and setting an important precedent for property developers facing inflated valuations.
  

Principaux dossiers

• Represented Gulatis Exclusive Sdn Bhd in its appeal to the Court of Appeal against a decision of the Customer Appeal Tribunal to summarily dismiss the client’s appeal in the absence of the client’s then appointed lawyer on the ground that the Tribunal did not have jurisdiction to hear the appeal.
  
• Acting for 2 individuals in their appeal to the High Court against the decision of the Special Commissioners of Income Tax in relation to a real property gains tax dispute.