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- Recent tax amendment or harrassment?
- Penjawat awam terlalu ramai?
- Azmin and Tian Chua : Axis of Evil within PKR?
| Recent tax amendment or harrassment? Posted: 13 Nov 2011 10:27 PM PST In my pre-uni studies, my economics teacher taught me that tax is a way for government to take money from the rich to aid the poor, and help to make our lives better by providing things like street lights, education and health care at affordable cost since these are good for public and not for private profits. Budget 2012 has introduced some eyebrow raising proposals. Although we have the customary high praise to heavens from the usual BN suspects, even some MCA fellows expressed their reservation over some proposals, most probably they have received protests from business community they are closed to or belong to. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MCA objects to proposed changes in Income Tax Act 2011-10-26 13:43 KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 26 (Bernama) -- MCA objected to the proposed changes in the Income Tax Act which would give the director-general of Inland Revenue Board sole discretion over late or incorrect submissions, said its president Datuk Seri Dr Chua Soi Lek. "If the amendments are passed, the new Section 107D will enable the director-general to direct taxpayers to make advance payments if he has reasons to believe that taxpayers have not submitted their returns correctly, even if no assessments were issued. "Meanwhile, the proposed changes to Section 81 would eventually lead to the absolute power of the director-general to disregard any information, beyond the expiry of the specified time," he said when contacted. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Let's examine the above 2 proposals in greater details, and some others as well. Advance payment of tax by installments (Section 107D) Before: No law to empower IRB to direct a tax payer to start paying tax installments before an assessment or composite assessment is made. (Assessment = calculation of the amount of tax you owe)  Now: It is proposed that IRB be empowered to direct a tax payer to pay by installments and in advance (isn't this a hidden national debt?) before any assessment or composite assessments are made. What this mean is that IRB staff will not be encouraged to be efficient. If a cat wants to eat a mouse, it has to chase the mouse down, catch it before she can eat it. This piece of law will remove incentive or reason for IRB staff to be efficient. IRB can just direct tax payer to pay whatever amount IRB fancy. Collection target issue resolved. The amount directed maybe more than necessary but IRB staff can take their own sweet time to calculate and find out while businesses bearing risk and general economic environment will struggle with their cashflow. Rakyat diutamakan, civil servants deserve bonus across the board and cannot be removed easily. |
| Posted: 13 Nov 2011 10:16 PM PST Kecoh seketika apabila isu jumlah kakitangan kerajaan sama ada di persekutuan dan pentadbiran negeri dikatakan terlalu ramai sehinggakan terdapat usul untuk mengurangkannya oleh seorang Ahli Parlimen baru-baru ini. Permis pertama, bilangan penduduk negara kini mencecah hampir 28 juta orang dan daripada maklumat sumber JPA, kakitangan awam kini mencecah 1.4 juta orang; Itu adalah fakta. Bukan menjadi pertikaian lagi. Premis kedua. Saban tahun kakitangan awam ditambah, dan saban tahun akan berlaku kenaikan gaji dan imbuhan bonus kepada mereka; kos yang amat tinggi yang perlu ditanggung oleh kerajaan. Terbaru dalam Bajet 2012, pihak kerajaan mengumumkan akan wujud lebih banyak mata gaji. Ini bermakna, penjawat awam akan mendapat gaji maksimum lebih tinggi, sehingga kepada 37.7 peratus. Malah usia wajib bersara juga bakal dinaikkan daripada 58 kepada 60 tahun. Kewajipan Pihak Kerajaan Tapi itu bukan isunya. Memang menjadi kewajipan sesebuah kerajaan perlu malah wajib menjaga dan membela kebajikan kakitangan mereka. Isunya di sini nisbah antara jumlah kakitangan awam dan jumlah keseluruhan rakyat Malaysia membawa kepada 1:20, satu angka yang agak besar bagi sebuah negara yang kecil seperti Malaysia. Isunya juga di sini, bagaimana pihak kerajaan mahu memastikan rakyat Malaysia yang di luar penjawat awam turut terbela?  Guru 400 ribu, polis-tentera 200 ribu Di negara kita, bilangan guru-guru sahaja sudah menjangkau 400 ribu orang, ditambah pula dengan bilangan polis seramai 100 ribu orang, ditambah lagi dengan pasukan tentera seramai 100 ribu orang, bilangan ini telah menduduki separuh daripada bilangan kakitangan awam yang lain. Harus difahami isu di sini, 1.4 juta orang kakitangan awam adalah meliputi kakitangan awam yang berada di peringkat kerajaan negeri serta kerajaan tempatan. Faktanya, adalah memang benar kakitangan awam kita ramai, sebuah organisasi yang menggelembung besar (big fat in small bottle). Antara salah satu faktor berlaku limpahan 'gelembung besar' itu kerana banyak jawatan dan fungsi yang bertindan berlaku antara kerajaan pusat dengan kerajaan negeri mahupun kerajaan tempatan. Berlaku masalah bertindan dari segi struktur dan fungsinya ataupun tugas yang berulang. Contohnya jabatan-jabatan di bawah Kementerian Pertanian & Asas Tani, banyak bertindan dengan fungsi jabatan-jabatan pertanian di bawah pentadbiran negeri yang menjadikan asas tani sebagai komoditi seperti negeri Kedah, Kelantan dan Perlis. (MADA, KEDA, KESEDAR) Apa yang dikemukakan Pakatan Rakyat mahu kurangkan jumlah kakitangan awam itu, mungkin dialu-alukan oleh rakyat marhaen, sebaliknya kakitangan awam pula yang merasa tidak senang dengan cadangan tersebut. Justeru atas sebab itu Timbalan Perdana Menteri, Muhyiddin Yassin dengan mudah membidas kembali cadangan tersebut sehari selepas cadangan tersebut dikemukakan.
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| Azmin and Tian Chua : Axis of Evil within PKR? Posted: 13 Nov 2011 04:56 PM PST So I am not the only one thinking these thoughts! There is DA and who else amongst you hold the same thoughts? Twice I have sat down to write on this but stopped myself unsure of where to go with my thoughts. Our common goals and shared dreams is of a vibrant PKR unshackled from the corruption of its leaders while they were with UMNO. We wanted a PKR able to build on its massive victory at the 2008 General Election and a PKR honest in its avowed commitment to social justice and anti corruption. What we have instead is a PKR mired with overt wheeling and dealings as the time for DSAI's sentencing nears. And as with Zaid Ibrahim this time again Azmin and Tian Chua are in the thick of it all. This time there is no Zaid Ibrahim to stand with courage and conviction against their insistence on having their way with PKR. This time there is only a first term MP –married and with child. Obedient to her parents wishes and still unsure of her place within PKR first tier leadership level despite being elected one of its Vice President in 2010. But what pedigree for a first term MP! Her father is Anwar Ibrahim and her mother Wan Azizah. In the 2008 general election, the first that she had ever contested, and at age 28, she defeated a three-term incumbent Sharizat who was also a Minister! So what will Azmin and Tian Chua do with her now? Or to be more exact, what will Nurul do when her father is again incarcerated for sodomy two? What I want Azmin and Tian Chua to know is this. Before you move to do to Nurrul what you did to Zaid Ibrahim do not forget that she is her father's daughter! When push comes to shove I think Anwar will blink! Do not forget that unlike you and Tian Chua, Nurrul has a deep reserve of goodwill and affection from within PKR, from within the young and from females. Doubt this at your own peril. What she lacks in experience and political expedience she more than makes up through her commitment to do good and what is right for our country and its people – even, I suspect, if that means defying Anwar and Azizah to do what she thinks is right for PKR and for the people she serves.
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