Total of 5,445 consumer goods to be exempted from SST

The Statistics Department said on Wednesday the abolishment of GST led to the increase in some of the index of the main groups in June.

PUTRAJAYA: The number of consumer goods to be exempted from the sales tax is 10 times the number of goods that were exempted from the now-repealed Goods and Services Tax (GST).

A total of 5,443 consumer items have been exempted from the sales tax that is set at 5% or 10%.