NGO: Enact equal funding laws for reps in Penang, Selangor; group welcomes PM's idea on SST changes

 

Governance

• Projek Sama has urged Pakatan Harapan to demonstrate its commitment to deliver its promise of equitable constituency development funds (CDF) by legislating it at the state level in Penang and Selangor.

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  It said doing so would show Harapan is prepared to implement reforms not just at the federal level but also in the states it controls, and strengthen its moral authority to demand the same standard in Putrajaya and other state governments.

  

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  Projek Sama pointed out that Harapan holds comfortable majorities in the two states and does not face the same coalition-bargaining constraints that complicate reform at the federal level.

  Hence, there should be no reason equitable CDF cannot be passed into law in Selangor and Penang.
  

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Economy

• The Federation of Malaysian Manufacturing (FMM) has welcomed a government proposal to incorporate elements of the scrapped goods and services tax (GST) into the current sales and services tax (SST) framework.

  Its president Jacob Lee said a properly designed credit mechanism would help businesses address tax cascading and cost pressures by allowing eligible taxes paid on business inputs to be recovered.

• This is in contrast to the current practice of relying on repeated exemptions and corrective measures after implementation, Bernama quoted him as saying. - Mkini