Irene Yong

Practice Areas

Tax

TMT

Career

Irene practices in all aspects of Tax and Revenue law. She has appeared as counsel for taxpayers before the GST Appeal Tribunal, the Special Commissioners of Income Tax and the Superior Courts of Malaysia. Irene also practises in the area of Personal Data Protection & Privacy Laws. She has advised, conducted reviews and audits for various business enterprises. She presented many papers on personal data protection law, regularly conducts training and workshops for clients and event organisers.

•“Highly Regarded Practitioner” in Indirect Tax, Tax Controversy and Women in Tax by International Tax Review (2019-2022)

•“Recognised Practitioner” in Tax by Chambers Asia-Pacific (2020 & 2021)

•“Recommended Lawyer” in Tax by The Legal 500 Asia-Pacific (2012, 2014, 2019 & 2020)

•Chambers Asia-Pacific (2021 - 2023) “Band 3” Lawyer in Tax

Professional Memberships

•Malaysian Bar Council’s Tax Sub-Committee

•IBA

•International Fiscal Association and its Malaysian Branch

•Malaysian representative of the Women of IFA Network

Publications

•One of the authors of Bloomberg BNA’s Business Operations in Malaysia

Contributed to:

•Tax Planning International Asia-Pacific Focus and Tax Planning International Indirect Taxes published by Bloomberg Tax

•The International Tax Review published by Euromoney Institutional Investor plc.

•The Asia Pacific Tax Bulletin published by the International Bureau of Fiscal Documentation in Amsterdam

•Tax Nasional published by the Malaysian Institute of Taxation