Lawyer Wee Yeong Kang, representing Nazifuddin, said LHDN wanted a judgment without going through trial, after case management before High Court judge Ahmad Zaidi Ibrahim.

Senior counsel Al-Hummidallah Idrus appeared for LHDN.

Wee said LHDN filed the application under Order 14 of the High Court Rules 2012 yesterday, but that his client was not served with court papers.

He said Nazifuddin had also filed an application to stay the proceeding before Ahmad Zaidi, pending the appeal on assessment decided by LHDN.

“The appeal (before LHDN commissioners) will be heard tomorrow,” he added.

He said Zaidi had fixed Nov 28 for another case management.

The government, as the plaintiff, filed a writ of summons and statement of claim against Nazifuddin on July 24.

It claimed that Nazifuddin had unpaid taxes for the assessment years 2011 to 2017, as stated in an assessment notice dated March 15, 2019.

The statement of claim said Nazifuddin had failed to pay taxes for seven years. It said this should have been done within 30 days of the date of assessment notice, as stipulated under Section 103 of the Income Tax Act 1967.

This resulted in the imposition of an additional 10% payment.

The government claimed Nazifuddin then failed to settle the amount within 60 days in accordance with the act, resulting in a further 5% payment which brought the total to RM37,644,810.73.

The amount comprised RM1,780,837.70 for the assessment year of 2011; RM6,604,851.81 for 2012; RM6,279,834.41 for 2013; RM4,360,278.87 for 2014; RM2,074,950.76 for 2015; RM2,623,943.76 for 2016; and RM13,920,113.42 for 2017.

The government is seeking a sum of RM37,644,810.73, with interest of 5% per annum from the day of judgment until the sum is fulfilled, as well as costs and other relief deemed fit by the court.

Najib himself has been slapped with charges of unpaid taxes amounting to RM1.69 billion and his daughter, Nooryana Najwa, for RM10.3 million, both for 2011 to 2017. They are also contesting the matters.