Sabah to plug loopholes in tax collection from palm oil mills


Sabah Finance Minister II Datuk Seri Masidi Manjun.

KOTA KINABALU: Sabah moved to tighten loopholes in the collection of state sales tax (SST) after graft investigators found that palm oil mills were evading millions of ringgit in taxes.

Sabah Finance Minister II Datuk Seri Masidi Manjun said that they would be setting up an online system to ensure palm oil mills do not falsify or under-declare their SST.

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