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Bite the bullet and reintroduce GST, say tax experts

In view of declining revenue collection for the first half of 2021 and it is expected that subsequent collection will continue to shrink due to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic and the implementation of the various iterations of the MCO, tax experts and economists have called on the government to look into alternative avenues to increase the revenue. 

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Guan Eng trial: Chinese company had advantage over other bidders as its input was included in undersea tunnel RFP, says Penang state official

The prosecution's fourth witness, Muhamad Azrai Mohamad Zaini, who was assistant director of infrastructure in the Penang State Economic Planning Unit at the time, testified today that representatives from the Chinese company attended several meetings with the Penang state government to discuss the feasibility study and preliminary detail design work for the project following their memorandum of understanding (MoU) signed in 2011

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