August 9, 2005 @ 9:56 pm

would suggest government should RETURN back the MONEY TO RAKYAT. I WANTS MY MONEY BACK.

—> you wait and c larrr…petrol go up they go up…petrol go down they every go down anot arrr?? they ensure you the money you paid as tax will be returned to you and did you received arrr?? sorry wor your money just went to the AP kings and those ppl who benefited under NEP!! you ever think there is a return of $$ to u? maybe in our night's dream larrr we got the $ back

I would suggest government should RETURN back the MONEY TO RAKYAT. I WANTS MY MONEY BACK. These millionaires or billionaires should return back the money to US. They money really from the SKY "Million Air". They are not qualified to own that Title. DATO??? TAN SRI..???? KaaaaPuiiiii……nah!

Well tats Malaysia !

LHDN buru peniaga teh tarik

KUALA LUMPUR: Jika selama ini hanya tokoh korporat, ahli perniagaan dan pekerja bergaji tetap menjadi sasaran Lembaga Hasil Dalam Negeri (LHDN), tidak lama lagi kumpulan lain yang berpendapatan lumayan tetapi tiada rekod pendapatan pun, tidak terlepas daripada buruan.

Sistem pangkalan data yang sedang dibangunkan oleh Lembaga Hasil Dalam Negeri (LHDN) bukan saja dapat mengesan laba penjual nasi lemak atau mamak teh tarik, malah ejen insurans, ahli jualan langsung, broker hartanah dan pelbagai profesion berpendapatan besar tetapi selama ini mudah mengelak cukai.

does it mean that once you got APs, you can get more and more?

i need a few APs myself not for trade but personal use..one for a mitsubishi..one for………

hey, newspaper guys please publish my storylah!

secondly, i agree 100% with you paul!

August 9, 2005 @ 1:02 pm

Reportedly, the revenue from car exports for year 2004 came to about RM380 million while that from car imports drained the country of RM4.2 billion. ( I beleive these figures are were just estimates ). Any economist would be able to detect the ill-balanced equation —–> Even my 4 years old nephew would know the huge difference between this…need not an economist to spot the difference. What about our cabinet? hmm…maybe they are applying some policies besides the swept under carpet —> Ostrich rules. (plundge your head into the ground and you cant see or hear ~~~)

Pathetic? No No No…its the NEP wat…accept it mate. Any other better words than hopeless? share with us

The reasons given for such abuse were more of excuses that certainly and clearly underestimated the intelligence of the average citizens of Malaysia including those delegates at the recent UMNO Assembly.

The APS had wrought in my view great economic injustice to the country; in that, it seriously bled the country of its resources. Reportedly, the revenue from car exports for year 2004 came to about RM380 million while that from car imports drained the country of RM4.2 billion. ( I beleive these figures are were just estimates ). Any economist would be able to detect the ill-balanced equation and I am most surprised that the Minister of International Trade, Dati' Rafidah Aziz avoided this issue completely. Our former Prime Minister, Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamed, in my view, was polite enough to spare her the agony.

I have friends and associates who have been running their transport companies for years. They have fleets of lorries that need replacement from time to time. Attempts had been made to apply for APs but they were rejected. As a result, they had to resort to the black market to buy the APs whose price ranged from RM20,000 to RM30,000 each. The discrimatory practice of issuing APs had caused untold misery and agony among the tranport operators for many years and I just hope that justice be done and seen to be done for this category of businessmen whose activities postively and directly contibuted to to the national economy by providing jobs and services and revenue to the Government.

We have the national cars assembled in the country and they definitely need the protection of the Government. Importation of cars and other vehicles shall need to be strictly controlled in order to encourage the locals to buy local products. This will prevent the efflux of funds from our country. But, the local producers must not rest on their laurels. They must pay more attention to research and development. The quality must improve to meet the international standards.

We cannot afford to produce national cars with double standards in terms of price and quality. Let us stop buying into ailing foreign automotive manacturing companies in the hope of obtaining technology to produce the car engines. We must in the long term rely on our own indigenous efforts.

Let us erase for once the myth from our rational mind that foreigners are so kind as to transfer their technological know-how to us. They have not and never will hitherto.

Let me just illustrate what I am trying to say. The TV industry has been in the country for almost 30 years. How many Malaysians have the foreign firms actually and really trained to be capable of producing a TV? I let those concerned to speak for themselves. The number if at all exists is shamefully countable.

Let us hope the Cabinet will keep an open mind to deliberate on what the Minister of International Trade has to report this Wednesday and come up with a workable and sustenable national automotive policy for the common good of all concerned and benefit of the country without regards to race, religion and colour.