Publications

May 5, 2020 Malay Mail MAY 5 — The rumoured merger between our national flag carrier, Malaysia Airlines Berhad (MAS), and our largest low-cost airline carrier, AirAsia Group (AirAsia), has been the talk of the town for a few weeks amid the Covid-19 pandemic. With many airlines across the globe slumping into voluntary administration, including Virgin Australia Group (Virgin), Australia’s first big corporate casualty of the pandemic, the aviation industry faces a threat of sign

April 23, 2020 Malay Mail APRIL 23 — The first movement control order (“MCO”) commencing from March 18, 2020 has been extended thrice via MCO Phase 2 from April 1, 2020 to April 14, 2020, MCO Phase 3 from April 15, 2020 to April 28, 2020, and again from April 29 to May 12 for MCO Phase 4. If the MCO truly ends on May 12, 2020, Malaysians would have been in a partial lockdown for a total of 56 days. In the United States of America, President Trump is seen as instigating the ci

March 30, 2020 Malay Mail MARCH 30 — In light of the movement control order (MCO), the Inland Revenue Board (IRB) andthe Royal Malaysian Customs (RMC) have made various announcements in respect of managing our tax affairs. This is timely as March is when individual taxpayers with business source income finalise their CP 500 instalment plan and make their first instalment payment. Meanwhile, individual taxpayers with non-business income ordinarily file their tax returns by e

March 27, 2020 Malay Mail MARCH 27 — In response to the Covid-19 pandemic, a nationwide movement control order came into force beginning 18 March 2020. Many businesses are left in perplex dealing with time-sensitive contracts. This article aims to shed some light on the effect of the Covid-19 pandemic to the inevitable disrupt in contractual performances. The MCO is in place as a measure to combat the surge of Covid-19 in the country. As many are aware, the MCO was initially