Karim bidas pembangkang bantah GST

April 10, 2014

KUCHING: Menteri Muda Pembangunan Belia Datuk Abdul Karim Rahman Hamzah membidas sikap ahli parti-parti pembangkang yang membantah pelaksanaan Cukai Barangan dan Perkhidmatan (GST) baru-baru ini.

Bantahan itu diadakan pada 7 April ketika Dewan Rakyat meluluskan Rang Undang-undang GST yang menyaksikan ahli-ahli Parlimen pembangkang membawa sepanduk membantah.

“Penerimaan dan penggunaan GST di 160 negara di dunia adalah manifestasi bahawa sistem ini adalah yang terbaik.

“Saya hairan mengapa Pakatan Rakyat membantah tanpa melakukan penyelidikan terperinci kebaikan dan keburukan sesuatu sistem baharu,” katanya ketika diminta mengulas mengenai reaksi ahli-ahli parti pembangkang.

Perdana Menteri Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak semasa membentangkan Belanjawan 2014 menyatakan bahawa GST akan dilaksanakan pada April 2015 dengan pengenalan caj sebanyak enam peratus menggantikan Cukai Jualan dan Perkhidmatan.

Abdul Karim berkata lagi, kerajaan mengakui pada peringkat awal pelaksanaan kelak mungkin akan ada banyak kekeliruan dan mungkin ada pekedai yang akan mencuba mengambil kesempatan untuk menaikkan harga atas alasan membayar cukai GST.

“Tapi kalau kita selidik secara mendalam pada masa sekarang pun pekedai perlu bayar cukai yang melebihi jumlah enam peratus dan kalau mengikut kiraan normal, harga barangan sepatutnya menurun dengan kaedah cukai GST ini,” ujarnya.

Karim: PAS should observe the election rules

April 10, 2013

“The dissolution of parliament is not a ticket for any party to act without referring to the law.” Tuan Haji Abdul Karim Rahman Hamzah

TOO EARLY: Several PAS flags seen in the vicinity of a roundabout in Kota Samarahan.

KUCHING: Parti Islam Semalaysia (PAS) has flouted the law by hoisting their party’s flags in public places before the campaigning period, particularly along Jalan Kuching-Samarahan.

Former Dewan Rakyat Deputy Speaker Datuk Wan Junaidi Tuanku Jaafar said when contacted by The Borneo Post yesterday: “We should adhere to the law where banners and flags should only be raised during the campaigning period.

“The Santubong parliamentary election workforce has always been reminded to follow the rules and regulations during the election period.”

PBB Supreme Council member Karim Rahman Hamzah said all parties should observe the laws on campaigning activities including raising their party’s flags in public places.

“The dissolution of parliament is not a ticket for any party to act without referring to the law,” he said.

Meanwhile, state Election Commission director Datu Takun Sunggah urged political parties that had raised or hung their flag in public places to remove them immediately.

“Such act is against the local council law and action must be taken to remove them immediately,” said Takun.