KOTA KINABALU, April 27 -- Sabah has formally asked Putrajaya to immediately pay its 40 per cent revenue entitlement amounting to just over RM3 billion, with state Finance Minister Datuk Seri Masidi Manjun insisting the claim is based on undisputed and publicly available tax data.

Masidi said the state government wrote to the federal government on April 10 seeking payment of 40 per cent from two forms of taxes - customs and income tax - collected in Sabah which alone totalled RM7.547 billion in 2025.

"Forty per cent of that comes to RM3.019 billion. These are not figures in dispute - they are published statistics. There should be no room for doubt, and on that basis alone, the payment should be made," he said in the State Legislative As...