DR M RUBS GST IN NAJIB'S FACE: It should be abolished!

Former prime minister Mahathir Mohamad has called for the goods and services tax (GST) to be abolished.

"I think it should just be abolished," he said, receiving a thunderous applause from the 500-strong crowd at a forum in Kuala Lumpur today.

Mahathir said this when asked if the GST should stay as it is, or have its 6 percent rate revised or scrapped.

"Before, there was the sales tax. If you want to hike the sales tax a little, that's ok.

"But you are introducing a system that even the officers don't understand," he said.

He was speaking at the 'Bicara Negarawan: You Are Not Alone' talk organised by NGO coalition Prihatin. - Mkini