A SENIOR Sabah lawyer has suggested that the state government collect all federal taxes in the state and then give Putrajaya its 60% share to resolve the dispute over the state’s demand for 40% of federal taxes collected – a revenue right as stipulated in the Malaysia Agreement 1963 (MA63).

Roger Chin, the immediate past president of the Sabah Law Society (SLS), in his presentation at the Borneo States Symposium in Kuching, said that the Federal Constitution and other relevant federal and state laws might need to be amended to give the state the authority to collect the taxes and determine how the monies are received and which fund they are deposited into.