Thursday, 31 Dec 2020 08:31 PM MYT
BY IDA LIM
Tun Tengku Maimun Tuan Mat speaks to the media at the Palace of Justice in Putrajaya January 3, 2020. Picture by Yusof Mat Isa
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KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 31 Malaysians may soon be able to use online methods to admit their guilt for traffic offences and traffic summons in court cases and to pay the fines digitally for such cases under the Malaysian judiciary’s plans for 2021, the chief justice said today.
Tun Tengku Maimun Tuan Mat pointed out that more than one million court cases involving traffic offences were registered in Malaysia in 2019, and that a similarly high number of at least 800,000 such court cases were recorded this year.
KUALA LUMPUR (Dec 22): The Inland Revenue Board (IRB) said, after hearing arguments and submissions by parties, the Federal Court judges had unanimously dismissed the application for leave to appeal filed by Malayan Banking Bhd (Maybank) with costs.
According to a media release issued by the IRB yesterday, Maybank previously applied with the High Court to quash the notification of reduced assessment for year of assessment (YA) 2014 and notices of additional assessment for YAs 2015, 2016, and 2017 raised by the IRB.
It did not state how much tax is being disputed.
The release noted that the High Court had rejected the application, and the Court of Appeal later affirmed the learnt High Court judge decision.