KUALA LUMPUR: BN boleh memberikan RM1,200 untuk BR1M setahun kerana mendapat balik daripada cukai barangan dan perkhidmatan (GST), yang akan membebankan setiap keluarga RM5,000 setahun.
Demikian dinyatakan Setiausaha Agung DAP, Lim Guan Eng dalam kenyataan yang dikeluarkan di sini.
Katanya, pengumuman Menteri di Jabatan Perdana Menteri, Senator Datuk Seri Idris Jala baru-baru ini bahawa kerajaan pusat akan menjana pendapatan RM27 bilion setahun dengan kadar GST sebqanyak 7% membongkarkan satu penipuan besar BN kepada rakyat.
“Cukai GST 7% ini akan menaikkan kadar inflasi tetapi impak paling buruk adalah kepada golongan berpendapatan rendah kerana cukai GST merangkumi semua barangan yang dibeli dan dijual,” ujarnya yang juga Ahli Parlimen Bagan.
Menurutnya, dengan kos tambahan ke atas rakyat Malaysia sebanyak RM27 bilion setahun, maka setiap rakyat Malaysia tanpa mengira dewasa atau kanak-kanak akan dibebankan sebanyak RM1,000 seorang setiap tahun.
Dengan kata lain, jelasnya sebuah keluarga 5 orang terpaksa membayar RM5,000 setahun.
Itulah, kata beliau sebabnya Perdana Menteri, Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak begitu yakin dapat membayar BR1M sebanyak RM1,200 setahun kepada setiap keluarga kerana telah mendapat balik RM5,000 setahun daripada mereka menerusi cukai GST.
Ketua Menteri Pulau Pinang itu menambah, sememangnya BN akan untung banyak sedangkan rakyat Malaysia, khususnya yang berpendapatan rendah, akan rugi besar.
Justeru, beliau menegaskan, Pakatan Rakyat secara prinsip menolak sistem cukai penggunaan ini atau consumption tax kerana rakyat teramai belum lagi mempunyai pendapatan yang munasabah bagi mampu menjalani kehidupan yang bermaruah dan mapan.
“Macam mana boleh hidup lebih bermaruah bila hanya 60 peratus dari isirumah mempunyai pendapatan kurang dari RM3,000 sebulan?” katanya.
Katanya, menurut Laporan Tahunan Bank Negara 2012, Malaysia merupakan negara yang banyak berhutang dengan hutang peribadi setiap keluarga adalah RM 755 billion or 81% GDP (gross domestic product).
Menurut Lim lagi, pertumbuhan hutang keluarga adalah 11%, yang lebih tinggi daripada pertumbuhan GDP sebanyak 7.8%.
“Kita tidak boleh persalahkan rakyat berhutang bila kerajaan Malaysia berhutang sampai RM502 bilion pada akhir 2012, hamper 55% GDP,” katanya.
Lagipun, ujarnya keluarga Malaysia membayar 50% daripada pendapatan untuk membayar balik hutang.
“Dengan kata lain selepas membayar hutang, mana cukup untuk perbelanjaan makanan, pengangkutan, pendidikan dan keperluan asas lain?” kata beliau.
Sehubungan itu, tetgasnya PR akan melawan cadangan cukai GST 7% di Parlimen dengan mengingatkan BN bahawa sebagai sebuah kerajaan minoriti dengan undi popular 47% sahaja, ia tidak berhak mengenakan cukai GST ke atas majoriti rakyat.
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GST And Inflation
My rant for the day.
Here are the facts:
Malaysia is one of the last countries in the world to implement a full fledged value-added tax. The only countries of note that have yet to implement a VAT are the United States, Hong Kong, Brunei, and the countries under the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC). Everybody else either has it, or are implementing it.
Malaysia currently levies two forms of consumption tax – sales tax and service tax (henceforth SST).
Sales tax is levied on all goods sold or produced in Malaysia, with the exception of petroleum and exports. The current standard rate is 10%, but a lower rate of 5% is applicable to fruits, certain foodstuffs, timber, building materials, cigarettes and tobacco, and liquor and alcohol.
Service tax is applicable to restaurants, hotels, parking lots, golf courses, clubs, discoes, insurance agents, phone companies, professional services like accountants, lawyers and consultants, and many more at a rate of 6%. Some of these services require a minimum corporate income threshold before the tax is levied. Credit cards are also subject to a service tax, but in this case it’s a flat fee levied on principal and supplementary cards.
GST is going to replace both these two taxes (with the possible exception of credit cards), and from which certain essential goods will be continue to be excluded i.e. zero-rated (exports, petrol and basic foods for instance).
So, let’s assume that a 7% rate will be implemented:
For food, the tax on basic staples will go from 5% to 0%.
For other foods, the tax rate will go from 10% to 7%.
For the “sin” goods, the tax rate will increase marginally from 5% to 7%.
For everything else, the tax rate falls from 10% to 7%.
Certain other goods, like books and petrol, will continue to attract no tax.
For services, the rate will increase from 6% to 7%.
When the basic tax rates on most goods at point of sale are set to fall, how on earth can this be inflationary?
Both in theory and in practice, the implementation of a VAT or an increase in the VAT rate is almost always accompanied by a one time increase in the price level (cost of living), but not the rate of price increases (inflation). There are umpteenth examples of this over the last couple of decades.
In Malaysia’s case however, GST will be replacing a pre-existing tax and at a rate that is lower than the prevailing rate. Under those circumstances, the impact should be a one-time decrease in the price level, not an increase.
The regressive nature of GST is completely irrelevant in this discussion, because we’re replacing one regressive tax with another, and moreover one that is proven to be more efficient in raising tax revenues.
Almost all the gains in revenue collection from the switch to GST from SST will come from enforcing tax collection across the chain of production and distribution of goods and services, and not an increase in the overall tax burden to consumers.
Again, how can replacing SST with GST be inflationary?
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