The Malaysian Insider

More tax revenue for govt. Rakyat gets poorer. Govt can continue with it's inefficiencies and lop sided policies.

"important for the country's future"?? Should be more important for 'their' own future. For Rakyat's sake, go solve those corruption before implementing GST. It just make things worst. Our monies will just go into someone lelse pocket again. There's still so much cases that are unsolved.

So can I claim it back from my inocme tax. Where is the transparency that the current service taxes charged by (e.g. Mcdonalds, KFC, Pizza, Hotels etc) is paid to the goverment??

is this subject to yearly review or as and when the governments needs cash?

So fast already know around 4 percent and why need to spend budget RM22 million for GST study!!! Study what if already know all the details!!!

What will be the REBATE or REDUCING in the Income Tax % ?

Woh another tax 'for the nations future'
If you can manage the taxpayers money cleanly and efiiciently
without corruption and mismanagement we would be very much better of now
The billions already squanderd is mind boggling As it is our future is bleak
under corrupted umno

4%!!!

In other countries which have GST, thier personal income tax & company profit tax are much lower compare to Malaysia. Only with lower income/profit tax, the public/companies can absorb the extra GS Tax. If not, this extra tax will caused inflation and many negative impact to the economy.

Another BIG issue is, if the chronic bleeding, mismanagement .... of our public funds are not solved. The rakyat will be victomise with more taxes and higher price goods....

change goverment , After they imposed tax GST 4% by coming GE13 change more transparent to Rakyat

Better to fight corruption or close some govt corporate which are not performing to reduce losses and increase revenue. Not by implementing GST.
Some people dare not take major drastic action on the on-going, just wanted to look nice dan create new implementations which carry less weight.

good only if the people's disposable income has increase. As far as mine is concern, it hasn't.
Can you provide free medical benefits to the people? Don't tax us further if you can't give back to the people in kind.

The GST introduction aims to close down the tax revenue gap. It is a vital step to cut down the level of deficit that the country is facing right now. However, further spending should come at extra scrutiny. If new future spending are allocated to investment which will yield high future income, the tax payers will be more than happy to accept a reasonable tax increase. However, if future financial resources are not well spent, the tax payers will definitely have the right to demand for accountability.

Can Najib tell the Rakyat how much money the Govt expects to "make" from Credit card charges and GST???
If the country is in such dire straits (ONLY Najib and UMNO denies that) why the hell are you going ahead with MECC, Formula 1 etc?? No sir, I do not buy the shit that all that is corporate thingy. To me you are entering into PKFZ Version 2, Version 3 etc.

GST is not a bad tax if it is done properly.
For one, it ensures that many of those who escape paying income tax also contribute to government revenues.
I suggest the following to ensure a fairer distribution of government revenues and better accountability.
Income tax should be lowered to offset the GST which will definitely increase the CPI.
GST should be collected by state governments and used by them; ie it does not increase the federal budget.

What's with all the negativity here? There shouldnt be. I would have thought this news would thrill all the people here. How many times do you see comments like, can't we be more like our neighbouring country Singapore , look at how rich our neighbours without resources cant we be like them, yadda yadda you know what I mean.

Now with the GST, we are emulating the oh so great neighbouring country down south and people are still complaining?

this is just another phrase where bn morons SUCK our hard-earned money to pay for their extravagants trips and bank accounts. they never REALLY CARE for us !!! wake up PLEASE MALAYSIAN especially bn voters !!!

in other countries,GST was implemented but the income of the ordinary people can absorb these because their income is high...UNLIKE HERE !!!

Looks like stealing from the poor to support the inefficient BN govt. The RM1 billion can't even fix any leaks in any of the mega scandalous projects.
Mr Husni, to dig into the root cause of huge govt expenditure, you just have to cut the excessive under productive civil servants by 20% and you can save billions annually.

Expect another round of inflation when GST is implemented. Everything is going to go up becuz everything will be taxed. You have to pay 4% more on all goods and services. So be prepared!

Right, tax millions of us extra, yet only bring in revenue a little more than what just a few people fritted away is one fiasco (PKFZ). As one of my wise friends says, "Life is unfair"...

Truth is, if the excesses of federal government spending are checked and balanced, we the Rakyat will not have to pay this GST. During his tenure, Mahathir squandered RM 100 billion, which is 100 years of GST!
The Malay community, being the largest population group, must have the will to put a stop to these excesses by inept politicians bent on their own interests at the expense of the entire nation! Responsible civil servants must stop acting in their communal interests. Right thinking judges and police personnel must uphold the law of the land and not that of their superiors. The newspaper editors-in-chief must live up to true journalsitic integrity rather than their political masters. If not, when the oil runs out, we will be exporting our people as maids and blue collar workers. This is the result of years of brain drain that the UMNO led govt has brought the nation to! There is nothing left in terms of sufficient numbers of engineers, doctors, educationists, and professionals to move the nation forward. And they are allowed to continue to trumpet their destructive agenda by the corruptible.
So sad. And those that will suffer most when the time comes, are my fellow Malay rakyat.