KUALA LUMPUR, March 6 — Approximately RM6.2 billion has been disbursed in 95,285 tax refund cases as of February 18, 2026, said the Finance Ministry (MOF).
It said that Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim announced the government’s commitment to settle excess tax refunds for the 2023 assessment year in the first quarter of this year, and to complete refunds for the 2024 assessment year by 2026.
“The government paid RM22.45 billion in tax refunds in 2025, the highest amount in five years.
“For the recent three-year period from 2023 to 2025, the MADANI government has disbursed RM56 billion in refunds, 50 per cent more than the RM37 billion paid from 2020 to 2022,” the MOF said in a written reply in the Dewan Negara yesterday.
It was in response to Senator Tan Sri Low Kian Chuan regarding corrective measures to speed up the corporate tax refund process.
The MOF added that refunds for all eligible cases for the 2022 assessment year and prior years were completed in 2025.
“This totals 3.7 million cases (in 2025) compared with 2.7 million cases in 2024,” it said.
