Month January 2015

Set the GST threshold at RM 1 million instead

The compulsory manual GST registration for business entities with annual transactions above RM 500,000 is unnecessarily draconian, troublesome and inefficient. I would like to propose that the threshold be set at RM 1 million instead and with the Registrar of Companies (Suruhanjaya Syarikat Malaysia) playing…

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A perfect storm?

Published by The Edge in its year-end double issue in December 2014. 1. What are your key concerns for Malaysia in 2015? I would answer this question with a more targeted one, which is, Is the Malaysian economy headed for a perfect storm in 2015?…

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