Dylan Chong
Tax Lawyer | Advocate & Solicitor
Bachelor of Law (LLB), University of Malaya
Practising Number.:BC/D/440
Member of the Bar Council
Legal Profession Committee (2018-2022)
Licensed Company Secretary [SSM]
(Practising Certificate Registration No.: 202308000486)
HRDCorp Trainer
(ID No.:16853)
Dylan is the founder of Dylan Chong & Co based in Kelana Square, Petaling Jaya, Selangor. He works with Associate Professor Dr. Choong Kwai Fatt on tax appeal cases and strategize tax planning for his clienteles.
Dylan is the co-author for Practical Guide on Civil Procedure (2019) with tax expert Associate Professor Dr. Choong Kwai Fatt. He had also assisted with the research on the All Malaysian Tax Cases (AMTC) publication by Sweet & Maxwell.
Dylan graduated from the University of Malaya with a LLB Degree and was called to the Malaysian Bar. He is a member of the Legal Profession Committee of the Malaysian Bar Council since 2019.
Dylan has represented clients in various tax appeals with Custom Appeal Tribunal and also Special Commissioners of Income Tax on GST disputes, defending tax summary judgment, expenditure deduction on Section 33 of the Income Tax Act 1967 (“ITA 1967”) for construction companies, and also tax evasion under Section 140 of ITA 1967 for directors. He has also assisted large sized audit companies to convert from Partnership to Limited Liability Partnership.
Dylan is also a licensed Company Secretary and advised on business owner's dispute on Companies Act 2016 such as Shareholders' dispute, disposal of properties by Company, and Director's liability under section 75A of the Income Tax Act 1967
Dylan has worked with major developers such as UEM Sunrise, Exsim Group, Glomac Berhad, Weststar Property for their residential and commercial projects such as Mossaz, AVA Residency, D’Series Project (Damansara Perdana), Millerz, D’ivo, Zefer Residency, Serin Cristal Residency, Serin Residency. He has handled and perfected more than 300 cases for residential properties which included consent with Sepang, Petaling, KL Land Offices. He also handles cases for probate and letter of administration, drafting of Wills, Trust Deed as well as Power of Attorney.
Dylan was a recipient of the UGRAD Scholarship established by President Barack Obama to study overseas at Grand Valley State University in the State of Michigan, USA in year 2013.
EDUCATION & QUALIFICATION
• Advocate and Solicitor of the High Court of Malaya (2018)
• LL.B (Hons), University of Malaya (2017)
• Member of the Legal Profession Committee (Bar Council)
• Licensed Company Secretary [SSM]
• HRDCorp Trainer
LANGUAGES
• English
• Bahasa Malaysia (Malay)
• Mandarin
• Chinese Dialects: Cantonese, Hakka
PUBLICATION
• Co-Author, "Practical Guide on CLP Civil Procedure", published by PY Solutions
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
• Member of Malaysia Bar Council
TALKS & WEBINARS
Getting Started - winning ways through civil litigation (2022)
Kewangan Peribadi 101 (with Founder of Financial Faiz) [2023]
Managing Tax Compliance with Compassion Conference (2023) - e-invoicing, Voluntary disclosure programme [2023], e-CKHT & eWHT, LHDN as tax partner
How Inland Revenue Board ("IRB") can re-assess your Income Tax to Real Property Gains Tax (2023) [with Reapfield Properties (Puchong) Sdn Bhd]
How does Probate & Letters of Administration affect the sale of Property (2024) [with Reapfiled (Damansara Perdana)]
How does Condition Precedent affects Subsale (with taxation perspective) (2024)
REPORTED TAX CASES/CASES HANDLDED
NCS v KPHDN (2023) - Criminal Tax investigation - Seek representation for under-reported tax of RM1.8million - paid Compound
HPSB (2023) - advisory on development agreement - to advise on the probability to be assess income tax when dispose land
MMSB v KPHDN (2023) - won setting aside of Judgment in Default of Appearance
MMSB v KHPDN (2023) - won summary judgment filed by revenue counsel
KEKWSB v KPHDN (2022) - reduced taxable amount from RM2mil to RM580K ++
WHS v KPHDN (2023) - reduced tax penalty from RM40K to RM4K++
BSB v Stamp Officer (2023) - reduced the stamp duty ad valorem on letter offer to fixed stamp duty
SKC v KPHDN (2021) - prepared capital statement for director to clarify on tax position
BSB v KPHDN (2021) - advised on the tax treatment of inter company transaction. The tax audit was closed thereafter.
LITIGATION REPORTED/HANDLED CASES
Hair Care Trading v Trendz Empire Sdn Bhd (2024) - contractual dispute & bad debt (s.22(4) Income Tax Act)
Leong Yuk Heng (2024) - stamp duty appeal & letters of administration
Mak & Mak & Mak (2024) - RPGT & Sale of property. Tenant had issues with disputed TNB unpaid sum.
Signature Wedding Sdn Bhd (2024) - issues with employee's negligence, suing for sudden leaving employment and for negligently misplaced company's softcopy data
BL (2024) - represented an individual being private harassment for a misunderstanding in business dispute
LCL & CPY v AWC (2024)- representing influencer to sue another online influencer creating youtube videos for defamation. Managed to secure court's injunction to injunct the defendant from continue to publish defamatory videos.
YR (2024) - represented client to deal with MNC on sexual harassment issue
LWY (2024) - represented client to negotiate with news portal on the unpaid debt for supplied of newspaper
CSW v JSB (2024)- represented a Preference Share Investor suing the Issuer for unpaid/redemption sum of RM2,800,000.00
TLH v KPHDN (2024) - represented an individual subsale seller to defendan the assessment of RPGT by LHDN on the sale of property worth RM3,100,000.00 in Setia Alam.
APPLYING INJUNCTION/OPPOSE INJUNCTION
Prohibitory Injunction - represented social media influencers to obtain prohibitory injunction to injunction publication of videos and/or statement in Youtube/Facebook/Instagram and/or other social media account - LCL & CPY v AWC (2024)
Anton Piller Injunction - represented a Top Tier Accounting Firm to oppose an Anton Piller Injunction for allegation of soliciting clienteles from another Public Listed Company
Anton Piller Injunction - presented a POS Software company to apply for an Anton Piller Injunction to search and seize the rival company who was alleged to have stolen the company database.
CORPORATE MATTERS HANDLED
raising preference shares - Tora Sushi (2023), raised RM300,000.00, to run an existing Sushi Outlet in Johor
raising preference shares - Thai n Seek Sdn Bhd (2024) - raised RM600,000.00 to run a Thai Grill business based in Johor