Latest news for: budget 2022

Playing a long-term game

In the past 18 months since the Covid-19 outbreak in Malaysia, Datuk Tee Eng Ho has acquired land assets worth over RM150 million via his co-founded Kerjaya Prospek Property Bhd.

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. 

OPR should be trimmed by another 25 bps to facilitate economic recovery — OCBC Bank

Its economist Wellian Wiranto said next Thursday's (Sept 9) Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) meeting will take place at a time when global market sentiment appears well-anchored, with the US Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell striking a right balance between paving the way for tapering and divorcing that from rate hike expectation