Confident that people will thank the government later for the goods and services tax (GST), BN MP Nur Jazlan Mohammad said today that they can simply vote the government out later if they are not for it.
The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) chairperson said this to a packed room as PKR strategy director Rafizi Ramli tore away at the tax, which the opposition said were the government's way to make up for a shortfall in income after over 16 years of overspending.
"I can't win," Nur Jazlan, who is tasked to watch government spending closely, said with a smile.
"Let GST help make Rafizi the new finance minister. There is no need to demo (have street protests), let GST through and let the government fall after that. You can change the government every five years," he added.
Nur Jazlan was the only government rep among four speakers at the Sinar Harian forum entitled: "GST: Who wins and who loses?"
Rafizi argued that everybody would lose as after the GST, some nine million businesses would be transformed into tax collectors, making up for a job which the Internal Revenue Board (IRB) was now unable or unwilling to do.
He questioned why the government does not explore other ways to levy more tax on the rich first before springing the consumption tax on 90 percent of Malaysians who now don't earn enough to even pay income tax.
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The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) chairperson said this to a packed room as PKR strategy director Rafizi Ramli tore away at the tax, which the opposition said were the government's way to make up for a shortfall in income after over 16 years of overspending.
"I can't win," Nur Jazlan, who is tasked to watch government spending closely, said with a smile.
"Let GST help make Rafizi the new finance minister. There is no need to demo (have street protests), let GST through and let the government fall after that. You can change the government every five years," he added.
Nur Jazlan was the only government rep among four speakers at the Sinar Harian forum entitled: "GST: Who wins and who loses?"
Rafizi argued that everybody would lose as after the GST, some nine million businesses would be transformed into tax collectors, making up for a job which the Internal Revenue Board (IRB) was now unable or unwilling to do.
He questioned why the government does not explore other ways to levy more tax on the rich first before springing the consumption tax on 90 percent of Malaysians who now don't earn enough to even pay income tax.
[More to follow]
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