THE new government has demonstrated its commitment on their main election promise and replaced the goods and services tax (GST) with the sales and services tax (SST).
The re-implementation of SST would less likely raise domestic price pressures as feared by certain quarters. The Ministry of Finance also promised prices would drop, as SST covers 38% of the Consumer Price Index (CPI) basket of goods versus around 60% under GST.
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