Robbed of hard-earned sen

I HAVE always wanted to highlight the “rounding” mechanism (to the nearest multiple of five sen) for over-the-counter payments that was implemented by the government on April 1, 2008.

To recap, this mechanism applies to the total amount of a bill and not on individual items. Through the rounding mechanism, the total amount of a bill ending in one, two, six and seven sen will be rounded down while the total bill ending in three, four, eight and nine sen will be rounded up to the nearest multiple of five sen.