Tax officer: I wasn't asked to assess RM1m received by Shahrir

An officer of the Inland Revenue Board (IRB) told the High Court in Kuala Lumpur yesterday that an investigating officer of the MACC did not ask him to make an assessment to determine whether a sum of RM1 million allegedly received by former minister Shahrir Ab Samad was regarded as income or not.

Deputy Head of the Celebrity, Public, and Various Entertainers Desk Audit Unit, IRB Assessment Division, Zulkfli Tuan Lah, 48, said the investigating officer also did not furnish any documents relating to the receipt of the RM1 million, but merely told him that Shahrir received the money...