Bold tax strategies needed to lift revenue


LAST week, this column highlighted Malaysia’s debt dependency and how the government should formulate a strategy to raise its tax revenue to reach 15% of gross domestic product (GDP) by 2025.

As it is, Malaysia has been lax in taxing its population and businesses to the extent that we have a very low tax to GDP ratio of less than 11% currently.

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