S'wak maintains right to impose state sales tax on petroleum products, contrary to opinion

KUCHING: Sarawak maintains that it has the right to impose state sales tax on petroleum products, contrary to the opinion of constitutional law expert Professor Emeritus Datuk Shad Saleem Faruqi.

In a lecture on the spirit of the Malaysia Agreement 1963 (MA63) here on Tuesday (Oct 8), Shad Saleem said the state could only impose sales tax on items under the Federal Constitution's state list.