KUALA LUMPUR: Pekan Umno Youth division chief Datuk Mohd Nizar Mohd Najib has recorded a consent judgment order with the Special Commissioners of Income Tax (SCIT) over the payment of RM13.16 million tax arrears.
Mohd Nizar is the son of former prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak.
His lawyer Wee Yeong Kang confirmed that the consent judgment was recorded before the SCIT on Aug 26.
Following the order, Wee said his client will be withdrawing his appeal at the Court of Appeal against a summary judgment entered against him in the Inland Revenue Board's (IRB) tax suit.
"Our client recorded his consent judgment order before the SCIT on Aug 26 and he will be withdrawing his appeal," the lawyer said.
Wee said a notice of discontinuance (NOD) of the appeal has been sent to the IRB's litigation branch in Kuala Lumpur via email today adding that the NOD would be filed once they get the board's approval.
He said during a case management proceeding on the appeal today, the Court of Appeal fixed Sept 9 for further case management for parties to update on the status of the NOD.
In the proceeding which was conducted online, Wee appeared for Mohd Nizar while senior revenue counsel Muhammad Nabil Abdul Halim acted for the IRB.
On Aug 7 last year, the Shah Alam High Court ordered Mohd Nizar to settled RM13.16 million in unpaid tax from 2011 to 2017.
The decision was made by Judicial Commissioner Datuk Julie Lack, after she allowed the IRB's summary judgment.
Lack, in her 14-page judgment ruled that there were no triable issues since the board's claims against Mohd Nizar were not time barred.
She had also in her decision said it is a settled law that a person who owes taxes must first pay up before appealing to the SCIT.
Mohd Nizar filed a notice of appeal over the decision on Aug 11 the same year.
On July 24, 2019, the IRB on behalf of the government filed the writ of summons claiming that Mohd Nizar owed RM13,159,821.94 in additional taxes imposed from 2011 to 2017.
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