Patients may not need to pay GST for private healthcare services, which are categorised as GST-exempt, but healthcare costs are predicted to rise anyway because of the increased expenses for private healthcare facilities. – Filepic
While healthcare is generally supposed to be exempt from the upcoming GST, the reality is more complicated.
Most Malaysians probably breathed a sigh of relief when it was initially announced that healthcare would, in general, be exempted from the upcoming Goods and Services Tax (GST).
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