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GEORGE TOWN -- Beberapa jenama kereta termasuk dari keluaran luar negara mencatatkan penurunan harga sehingga RM3,000 selepas pelaksanaan Cukai Jualan dan Perkhidmatan (SST). Menteri Kewangan Lim Guan Eng ketika mengumumkan perkara itu berkata lima jenama kenderaan tersebut terdiri daripada model Perodua, Honda, Toyota, BMW, dan Volkswagen. "Saya telah memperoleh maklumat bahawa ada beberapa jenis kereta yang harganya jika dibandingkan dengan (ketika dilaksanakan) Cukai Barang dan Perkhidmatan (GST) adalah lebih rendah. “Ini kerana kita tidak kutip begitu banyak berbanding GST, harga barangan boleh lebih kurang dan ia juga dilaksanakan oleh kerajaan bagi menjamin kesejahteraan rakyat," katanya pada sidang media, lapor Bernama. Lim berkata bagi harga sebuah kereta Proton Axia harga yang dikenakan selepas pelaksanaan SST adalah RM40,390 berbanding RM41, 497 ...

GEORGE TOWN -- Nibong Tebal, Permatang Pauh, Pandan dan terbaru Port Dickson adalah antara kerusi Parlimen yang disebut-sebut menjadi pilihan Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim untuk bertanding dalam langkah untuk menjadi perdana menteri kelapan. Dua daripada kerusi itu ialah di Pulau Pinang, satu di Selangor yang kini disandang oleh  isteri Anwar yang juga Timbalan Perdana Menteri Datuk Seri Dr  Wan Azizah Wan Ismail dan yang terbaru itu ialah di Port Dickson, Negeri Sembilan. Cakap-cakap tentang kerusi yang bakal ditandingi Anwar yang baru-baru ini menang tanpa bertanding sebagai presiden PKR semakin hangat menjelang pengumuman rasmi yang dijangka dibuat oleh Setiausaha Agung PKR Datuk Saifuddin Nasution Ismail pada Isnin. Sebelum ini angin kuat mengatakan Anwar akan ke Nibong Tebal di Pulau Pinang, negeri yang  merupakan ‘tapak’ permulaan karier politiknya. Nibong Tebal kini diwakili Pengerusi PKR Pulau Pinang Datuk Mansor Othman yang menang pilihan raya umum lepas ...

KOTA BHARU -- Tindakan Kerajaan Kelantan membeli beberapa kereta mewah bagi kegunaan pegawai kanannya dipersoal ketika negeri berkenaan merupakan penerima terbesar bantuan kewangan defisit dan bantuan kewangan pendahuluan daripada Kerajaan Persekutuan. Pengerusi Pakatan Harapan (PH) Kelantan Senator Husam Musa dalam tegurannya berkata jika tindakan tersebut benar maka adalah wajar bagi Kerajaan Persekutuan untuk menyemak kembali peruntukan yang diberikan kepada kerajaan negeri berkenaan ketika ini. "Bantuan kewangan defisit dan bantuan kewangan pendahuluan harus digunakan untuk membayar emolumen bagi pegawai tadbir awam dan bukan untuk membayar gaji (penjawat awam) lantikan politik yang terlalu banyak. “Jadi perbelanjaan (Kerajaan Kelantan) boleh disemak untuk diaudit. Kalau penggunaan untuk tujuan asal (bayaran emolumen penjawat awam) Kerajaan Persekutuan boleh bagi, tapi kalau peruntukan disalahguna kita kena kaji balik," katanya. B...

ALOR SETAR -- Two men were killed when they were buried under piles of rubble in a  bridge-collapse incident near  Taman Serdang in Serdang last night. Bandar Baharu district police chief DSP Barudin Wariso, in a brief statement, said the incident occurred about 10.15 pm and the victims were a motorcyclist and his pillion rider. “However, their identities have yet to be ascertained,” he said, Bernama reported. It is learnt that the victims were buried under the rubble, following which firemen from the Serdang Fire and Rescue Station had been mobilised to the scene. The first victim was found at 12.15 am today and the second victim about five minutes later. The bodies were then sent to Kulim Hospital for post mortem. Meanwhile, Kedah Fire and Rescue Department, in a statement, said it received a distress call on the incident at 10.27 pm and 11 firemen from the Serdang Fire Station were mobilised to the scene. "On a...

GEORGE TOWN -- Finance Minister Lim Guan Eng lambasted former Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak who disputed the implementation of the Sales and Services Tax (SST). Lim questioned when the Barisan Nasional (BN) government implemented the Goods and Services Tax (GST), Najib did not hear the grumblings from the people who had to pay tax for every product, however, after the implementation of the SST, the Pekan Member of Parliament had started to complain. "I’m astonished, when he (Najib) charged GST last time, he didn’t complain. At that time (GST) six per cent, now also six per cent, why at that time he didn’t complain but is complaining now. "We hope the former premier don’t become a hero now. When he imposed GST at six per cent was far worse. Now (SST) we are being quite flexible compared to before. Apparently, only now he realised, go to the shop must pay six per cent, before this, he was unaware all shops charge six per cent,...

ALOR SETAR -- Members of the public can now lodge complaints related to the Sales and Service Tax (SST) by sending a Whatsapp message via 019-2794317. said Domestic Trade and Consumer Affairs Minister Datuk Saifuddin Nasution Ismail. He said the use of the social media application as an alternative channel was to facilitate consumers to include their full name, image of the receipt and the name of the related premises. "Action will be taken within 24 hours," he said after attending a SST Implementation briefing session by the Customs Department. He said the ministry has so far received 642 complaints via WhatsApp since the medium was introduced on Sept 1, adding that most of the complaints were on prices of food and beverages at restaurants. Meanwhile, Saifuddin Nasution said since the SST implementation, there had been a drop in the prices of goods by between 0.2 and12.9 per cent, Bernama reported. ...