PETALING JAYA: Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak has sarcastically asked Finance Minister Lim Guan Eng if he will be doing a song about the Sales and Service Tax (SST).
The former prime minister said Lim had in the past blamed the Goods and Services Tax (GST) for the rising cost of living and even sang a song about it at an event attended by children.
"Now he is saying that the prices of goods are not rising because of SST, but because of other factors.
"Maybe there will be a song about the SST after this?" Najib said on Facebook on Saturday (Sep 22).
His post was in response to reports quoting Lim as saying that the SST was not the main reason why prices of things were going up. Instead, he said it was due to such factors as imported components, the depreciation of the ringgit, festive seasons, smuggling, drought and businesses that were profiteering.
In March, before GE14 and Pakatan Harapan's rise to power, Lim had performed the ABCD-GST song, a parody sing-along critical of the GST, at a free tuition class organised by the Penang state government.
In September, the Pakatan government reintroduced the SST to replace the GST implemented during Najib's administration in 2015.
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