Rabu, 22 November 2017

KAH KAH KAH, 19 NEGARA MENANTI ORANG MALAYSIA YANG ANTI GST.



Sudah 2 tahun perlaksanaan cukai GST telah dilaksanakan di negara kita bermula 1 April 2015. Bagaimana pun kerajaan telah pun mengadakan web site mengenai prosedur dan proses perjalanan GST dua tahun lebih awal bermula pada tahun 2013.

Berjuta cetakan pam plet dikeluarkan untuk rakyat Malaysia memahaminya. Kastam, KPDNKK telah membuat road tour untuk memberi penerangan kepada semua peringkat 222 kawasan parlimen.

Adalah bohong jika pihak ahli parlimen DAP dan lain-lain tak faham tentang GST. Mungkin ramai dari kalangan Ahli Parlimen pembangkang berlatar belakang profesyen guaman tidak bererti mereka bodoh. Rafizi Ramli yang banyak menentang GST adalah akauntan. Sebagai akauntan dia juga pakar dan arif tentang percukaian.

Akan tetapi mereka adalah pembangkang, macam mana baik pun GST mereka tetap membangkang.
Oleh itu jika mereka tak mahu GST boleh lah berhijrah ke 19 negara dunia yang tidak melaksanakan GST atau VAT.


UNTUK MEMILIH NEGARA YANG BEBAS GST SILA BACA SETERUSNYA






In the year 2013 when the govt announced that it will be implementing GST in the year 2015, our Customs department created a website with information on GST and which countries have implemented this modern tax system.

At that time, Customs Malaysia listed out 41 countries out of 193 United Nations countries as not having a GST system at all.

Since then, many countries in that list have implemented GST/VAT or have a committed time-frame to introduce within the next 12 months.

Those 41 countries without GST have now become 19 countries. Some of these countries have sales tax payable at retail (like our GST and very unlike our previous system of sales tax payable at import or manufacture) which is actually worse than our GST as the seller cannot claim back the tax credits.

In practise, this retail sales tax is similar to our GST but because the seller cannot claim back their input tax then it is not considered GST or VAT.
(Photo is a receipt from a famous USA store showing the retail sales tax although it is not considered as a GST.)

So, if you are planning to go to a country without GST or VAT, your current choices are as follows:

1 Brunei
2 Bhutan (but their sales tax is 50%)
3 Cuba
4 Eritrea
5 Hong Kong (but property tax is very high)
6 Iraq (at war)
7 Libya (at war)
8 Micronesia (agreed with IMF to implement but no time-frame yet)
9 Myanmar (sales turnover tax instead)
10 Nauru (sales turnover tax instead)
11 North Korea
12 Palau
13 Solomon Islands (sales tax payable at retail)
14 Somalia (agreed with IMF to implement but no time-frame yet)
15 South Sudan (has a consumption tax payable at retail – worse than GST)
16 Suriname (agreed with IMF to implement but no time-frame yet)
17 Syria (at war)
18 USA (but have state sales tax payable at retail)
19 Yemen (at war) ( Satu juta penjawat awam tidak terima gaji sejak setahun yang lalu)

The list will continue to shrink as time goes by as countries move from the out-dated and inefficient sales and service tax system to the GST/VAT system in order to remain competitive with other countries in the world.

Only in Malaysia that our opposition wants to move the other direction by moving from an advanced tax system that is being adopted by almost the whole world to a backward system in order to make Malaysia less competitive with the world.

Eric See-To.

The previous list of 41 countries by Customs Malaysia is here:
http://gst.customs.gov.my/en/gst/Pages/gst_ci.aspx