Of books, tax relief and boosting reading culture 


WHILE going through my documents for the tax filing exercise recently, I noticed a stack of receipts from bookshops and book fairs collected over the past year.

As someone who buys books regularly, sometimes spending between RM3,000 and RM5,000 annually, the exercise prompted a small realisation.

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