Opinion: Make Amazon and the Internet giants pay costs of Covid

John Caudwell, the billionaire founder of Phones4u, has come up with an even more provocative ploy to get Britain back on track: a huge windfall tax on online businesses that have “profiteered” from the lockdown Internet shopping boom.

Facebook News in UK to help ‘sustain’ local journalism

Facebook News launched in Britain, delivering paid news content, bought from traditional publishers.

Planters have plenty to shout about

Sector improves with CPO rallying to a decade-high price

Govt looking at alternatives to wealth tax, may bring back GST, says Deputy Finance Minister II

KUALA LUMPUR: The government is looking at alternatives to a wealth tax, including a Goods and Services Tax (GST), to raise funds for its coffers, says Deputy Finance Minister II Mohd Shahar Abdullah.

Windfall tax for oil palm

Additional CPO cess being studied

Growers to be consulted on proposed RM5 per tonne

Confidence in PN government lifts palm oil prices

BANGI: The high crude oil prices (CPO) over the last few months were partly contributed by the confidence of other trading countries on the Perikatan Nasional government, according to Malaysian Palm Oil Board chairman Datuk Ahmad Jazlan Yaakub.

Tengku Zafrul: Windfall tax may send wrong signal

KUALA LUMPUR: The implementation of a windfall tax on glove companies that have benefited from the pandemic is a non-consistent policy which will a send a wrong signal to investors, according to Finance Minister Tengku Datuk Seri Zafrul Aziz.

Windfall tax on glove makers will send wrong signal to investors: Zafrul

KUALA LUMPUR: The implementation of a windfall tax on glove companies that have benefited from the pandemic is a non-consistent policy which will a send a wrong signal to investors and shoo them away from investing in the country, said Finance Minister Tengku Datuk Seri Zafrul Abdul Aziz.

Glove makers to pay higher taxes

Govt expects figure to hit RM4.7b in 2021 from RM2.8b in 2020