KUALA LUMPUR: Datuk Seri Najib Razak's daughter Nooryana Najwa said she was thankful that the legal tussle between her and the Inland Revenue Board (IRB) since two years ago finally ended today.
Nooryana in her Instagram post said the IRB had agreed that the dowry and financial support from her husband as well as the house her in-laws purchased for them using funds from abroad were not taxable.
The government has withdrawn its bid to recover RM10.3 million of alleged unpaid income taxes from Nooryana Najwa.
The IRB withdrew its appeal on the High Court's dismissal of its application for a summary judgement at the Court of Appeal.
"I won the case against LHDN at the High Court level back in August 2020.
"Alhamdulillah…today, LHDN formally withdrew their appeal of my tax case.
"We had already settled my tax issues after my tax agents and IRB went through my case and they finally agreed that 'wang hantaran' (dowry), 'nafkah' (financial support) my husband and a house fully purchased by my in-laws using funds from abroad are not taxable.
"It never was and made no sense," she said.
Nooryana also accused the former Pakatan Harapan government of trying to persecute members of Najib's family through the IRB.
"Just like my father's nonsensical RM1.7 billion tax case, the then Pakatan Harapan government's sole objective was to persecute my family using LHDN (IRB) even if it meant breaking all laws and rules, relying on abusing the 'pay first, talk later' clause," she said.
Najib's income tax case is now at the Federal Court level after he failed to dismiss the High Court's decision in allowing IRB's summary judgement to recover RM1.69 billion in taxes at the Court of Appeal on Sept 9 last year.