PARLIAMENT | Second Finance Minister Johari Abdul Ghani has brushed off allegation that tax officers who chased after tax defaulters were motivated by lucrative incentives and bonus up to seven months.
He was rebutting several opposition lawmakers who highlighted the alleged aggressiveness of Inland Revenue Board (IRB) officers.
One parliamentarian, Chong Chieng Jen (DAP-Bandar Kuching), described them as "gangsters".
"You can take my word that there is no six months or seven months (of bonus), no such thing," Johari said in his winding-up speech of the Budget 2018 debate at Dewan Rakyat today.
"If they can get six to seven months, everyone will be happy to work at IRB," he added.
The 1,200 tax officers who received their wages and bonus from the 1.5 percent of total tax collection, hardly got beyond a two-month bonus, according to Johari.
"They even have to sweat all the way to get two months (bonus), sometimes (they) can't."
Even if the 1.5 percent of the total collection would entitle them to a three-month bonus, Johari stressed that government would not give it.
He said although IRB is a corporatised agency, its officers are still considered as government servants who should receive a similar amount of bonus like all other civil servants. - Mkini
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