KOTA KINABALU, May 10 – Youth and Sports Minister Khairy Jamaluddin believes that Malaysians will accept the application of the goods and services tax (GST), once they see the benefits, and are confident that the government will use the tax properly.
Speaking at the Kupi Table Dialog here today, Khairy said the people’s anger will mellow down if the government shows additional provisions, as a result of the implementation of the GST. “People want to know is if the government revenue resulting from the GST, are you (government) expenditure is correct? This is the people want to know.
“Therefore, the government must prove that for the construction of schools, hospitals and rural roads in Sabah income. We have to prove it. “The only way that people can understand,” he said when he answered a question from the audience about the relevance of the implementation of the GST, because people have made things a lot of problems with social media.
“We cannot expect others to beat implementation of a GST, because when you introduce new taxes, no one applauded, but when used properly, people will accept in the future,” he added. At the same time, speaking to the reporter later, Khairy said that the Sedition Act must be fair in all aspects of the implementation, so that people, especially the younger generation will be able to accept the act.
“If we want people to accept the law or the Sedition Act of acceptance will be better, we must ensure that no selective implementation of act,” he added. Khairy said, Malaysia also needs to Sedition Act as prevention and curbing of religious and ethnic conflicts, including any attempt to promote the division of federal states of Sabah and Sarawak.
The Kupi Table Dialogue, entitled ‘Selfie, Like and Tweet: The Rise of Social Media and the Birth of Neopolitics”was organised by the Faculty of Administrative Science and Policy Studies, Univeristi Teknologi Mara (UiTM) Sabah, sin collaboration with Society Empowerment and Democratic Studies (Seeds) and Persatuan Alumni Majlis Perwakilan Pelajar UiTM (Pimpin).
