Foon Yew High School’s Kulai campus receives major tax waiver

Formal gesture: Lee (left) presenting the official letter from the state government to Tong during the school’s 112th anniversary celebration dinner.

JOHOR BARU: Johor has app­ro­ved the exemption of annual quit rent (cukai tanah) for two plots of land belonging to Foon Yew High School’s Kulai campus and a ­wai­ver of property tax arrears amounting to about RM510,000 owed by the school since 2022.

State investment, trade, consumer affairs and human resour­ces committee chairman Lee Ting Han said the decision made by the state executive council meant that the school would be exempted from paying quit rent of RM85,050 and RM28,300 respectively for each of the plots.