{"id":58722,"date":"2023-09-21T17:44:18","date_gmt":"2023-09-21T09:44:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress-my-161844363.ap-southeast-1.elb.amazonaws.com\/articles\/?p=58722"},"modified":"2023-09-21T17:47:34","modified_gmt":"2023-09-21T09:47:34","slug":"key-issues-budget-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.imoney.my\/articles\/key-issues-budget-2024","title":{"rendered":"Budget 2024 To Clarify Taxation Issues, Targeted Subsidies, And Revenue Strategies – PM"},"content":{"rendered":"
The Prime Minister of Malaysia has stated that Budget 2024 will clarify and address key issues including proposed targeted subsidies for petrol, taxation issues, and revenue strategies.<\/span><\/p>\n Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim had highlighted this during his winding up speech<\/a> for the 12th Malaysia Plan mid-term review. He said that taxation matters will be addressed so that the government will be able to allocate its resources more effectively.<\/span><\/p>\n Read More: Spending For 12MP To Be Raised By RM15 Billion, GST Might Be Re-Introduced<\/a><\/p>\n This in turn will help the government reach their target of reducing the country’s fiscal deficit to 5% of gross domestic product (GDP) by 2023.<\/span><\/p>\n Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim stated this in an answer to Datuk Seri Wee Ka Siong, who sought for updates regarding the proposals made to introduce a luxury goods tax and a capital gains tax, while also reimplementing the goods and services tax in an effort to boost national revenue.<\/span><\/p>\n Since the abolishment of the goods and services tax (GST)<\/a> in 2018, experts have called for its <\/span>reintroduction<\/span><\/a> as it can help replenish Malaysia\u2019s depleted coffers. For a summary on what was the previous government’s policy when GST was implemented in 2015, check out our infographic guide.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim has stated that Budget 2024 will address these key issues around the sources of revenue for the government.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":58733,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[271,216],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economy","category-news-updates"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n