{
  "id": 19446818,
  "title": "Azeez gets leave to challenge LHDN’s cancellation of RM4.8mil tax settlement",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/11/azeez-gets-leave-to-challenge-lhdns-cancellation-of-rm4-8mil-tax",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-11-11T04:35:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Free Malaysia Today",
    "slug": "free-malaysia-today-freemalays",
    "url": "https://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/nation/2026/11/11/azeez-gets-leave-to-challenge-lhdn-s-cancellation-of-rm4-8mil-tax-settlement"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "KUALA LUMPUR - The High Court has granted former Tabung Haji chairman Abdul Azeez Abdul Rahim leave to challenge the Inland Revenue Board of Malaysia's (LHDN) decision to revoke a RM4.8 million tax settlement agreement and a subsequent composite assessment. Azeez's legal team, led by Amer Hamzah Arshad, argued before Justice S Indra Nehru that there were sufficient legal issues to warrant a judicial review. The court deemed the case worthy of proceeding, granting Azeez an interim stay to prevent LHDN from taking further action for two weeks. The court scheduled a hearing date for November 16 to set the dates for the judicial review and stay application. Azeez initiated his application for judicial review on September 6, challenging the cancellation of the tax settlement agreement signed on February 9, 2022, as well as the composite assessment issued on March 22, 2022, covering assessment years 2011 to 2020.",
  "summary": "He is also seeking an order to compel the board to abide by the agreement, which he contends is final and conclusive under the law.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
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  },
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}