The Income Tax Act does not bar the government from revealing the total amount of income taxes collectively paid by the richest people in Malaysia, Kelana Jaya MP Wong Chen said.
This is in contradiction of what Deputy Finance Minister Ahmad Maslan said, when replying to a question by Opposition Leader Anwar Ibrahim.
“There is no provision in section 138 that says that a collective number cannot be disclosed.
“(The Inland Revenue Board) is happy to say that it will collect RM140 billion this year from 2.3 million tax payers and 100,000 companies. That's a collective number.
“So why can't they announce a collective number of how much the combined 20 richest persons pay?” he asked in a Facebook post last night.
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