Besides the news of the removal of the 50% excise duty of hybrid vehicles in Paul’s earlier story, there were some other items related to motoring and transport in Budget 2011.
Effective January 1 next year, the service tax on all taxable services will go up from 5% to 6%, which of course means that it’ll add to the cost of servicing and repairing your vehicle, among everything else that you can be expected to pay a service tax for.
Better news for frequent users of the four highways run by PLUS Expressways Berhad – as a means of alleviating your burden, the toll won’t be raised for the next five years.
As part of its plan to reduce the intensity of carbon emissions, the Government will also begin the implementation of its B5 programme – the blending of biofuel in diesel – on a mandatory basis in Putrajaya, Kuala Lumpur, Selangor, Negeri Sembilian and Melaka starting from June 2011.
Elsewhere, some good news for the physically disabled who are able to drive – the current exemption of excise duty by 50% on the purchase of a national vehicle is now 100%, with all existing conditions for such a purchase remaining unchanged. The revised exemption, effective from October 18, is also extended to those with hearing and speaking disabilities.
In terms of public transport, work on the Mass Rapid Transit rail system in the Klang Valley is slated to begin in 2011. The project, which is estimated to cost RM40 billion, is aimed at providing an efficient transport system that will reduce travelling time and offer better connectivity in the Klang Valley.
The project will be integrated to other modes of transportation, including buses and taxis (it’ll be interesting to see how this one works – a definite overhaul is needed, for sure), and is expected to be completed by 2020. Upon its completion, the Government expects that the utilisation rate of public transport to increase by at least 40%.
Meanwhile, rural roads get that much needed improvement – Sabah and Sarawak is to get an allocation of RM2.1 billion for the building and upgrading of rural roads, while RM696 million will be set aside for those in the Peninsular.
we screwed again! haha were you expecting anything different!
time to change, this time will be at a bigger scale.!
Haha…Sabah and Sarawak will hv a huge amount of money…So to those who “involved”..Get ready “suruh tukang jahit seluar@tailor” make ur “seluar” with pocket “yg besar2”..supaya muat tu $….hahaha….
hmm… not much good news except for hybrid car…
Service tax on all taxable services will go up from 5% to 6% effective Jan 1, 2011, which of course means that it’ll add to the cost of servicing and repairing your vehicle.
bull sh*t@@!!
With better roads in Sabah and Sarawak is good. Maybe pickup/ute may not be in much demand then, maybe down a little :)
unaffected, they are workhorses over there not for-show ponies like in kl, better roads make for easier life like west malaysians.
Each year budjet we heard they are upgrading the roads around the country and now especially Sabah & Sarawak.. But why until now their roads still need a lot of pick-up to run around?
mate! you are wrong, sabah road never in good condition! hole here, bump there, that why sabahan use pickup as a family sometimes, mostly pickup in sabah never being in mud pool! hahahahahahaha!
yeah.. msia have almost good and excellent car that people ever drive but the problem is with our road.. always tampal here tampal there.. bump in some hole then u got puncture.. thats why we will never have F1 street race if we don have sepang la..
haha..
the gov want the road users use the tolled highways for making their profit!
the gov don’t have any intention by improving federal road in Malaysia because task for a better road is given to the private.. As you can see, many new road is tolled and not free ma also even in 2010 ahead of Wawasan 2020 our federal is still on 70-80s era because it still one lane only go and back to the kampung! haha.. Festival session can be a crucial because many federal road user stuck in the massive jam because the gov dont have any intention for widening or construct the new federal road to rakyat! Its useless our taxpayer give the money to gov for renewing road tax! Where the road tax revenue is going? I want to know right now. Can someone answer my question?
Bro….Agree…Klu ada 10000%..Sy la yg Agree tu…just want to share..Kita tgk stiap hujung tahun,mesti byk jalan2 yg di korek and di tampal balik terutama di Sabah…haha..new tradisi for contractor2..
What? Full exemption of excise duty on national cars for the disables only?
do you think life is easy for the disabled?
Why disabled has to buy local made?
you think life is easy for the non disabled? you think we dont deserve help too?
“RM40 billion, is aimed at providing an efficient transport system that will reduce travelling time and offer better connectivity in the Klang Valley”
RM20Bil or more will goes into the pocket of those cronies!
the last round saved 4billion by abdullah goes where?
“”the last round saved 4billion by abdullah goes where?””
Ha ha ha…1 million will be awarded to correct answer. korek jangan tak korekkk…mana dia sudah pergi hah?
You saved 4billions on a 100 billions bill, means you still need to pay 96 billions.
Please dont talk cock here..where’s ur proof/source?
u don’t read newspaper and online blogs like Malaysia-Today.net? U want source, visit RPK’s website, he has hard copies of documents scanned and posted…
p.s. you can borrow my microscope, if ur blind, i’ll be glad to read out his articles.
Come on, don’t tell me you’re naive enough to trust websites like those? People decry Utusan as not factual and yet they’re too blind to see that the alternative website they hold as proof aren’t exactly on the up and up. Heck, RPK was pawned by a blogger who sent him a video of some guard beating up someone and claimed it was the PDRM! No fact check, went straight into his website, and then when all hell broke loose, he quietly removed the article!
There’s no such thing as free independent media, especially in Malaysia. They may say they’re free, but they’re nothing more than a stooge for someone. Hey, they gotta get paid what…
So? Automatically everything they post is bullshit? They asked PDRM to investigate. So did PDRM?
Another stooge calling other stooges.
Good news!
No toll hike for the next 5 years.
Hooray.
Should abolish tolls forever!!!
yess.. right.. no toll..
no toll = no money
no money = bad maintenance.
bad maintenance = damage road
damage road = no speeding.
no speeding = less excident.
somemore now we have speeding train.. please abolish toll…
(i wish a member of cabinet will read this, hehehe..)
yea you’re right…..
look at jalan lama yang takde toll…. are they in good condition?
if you wanna live in total free-of-charge country.. go to disneyland… even they will charge around USD50 per entry
lol
Then please go live in Disneyland if you believe in such logic. Stay out of Bolehland.
i have to agree about what u say up there.. hak3.. no speeding then no summon..
NO summon…No Rasuah…hahahah…
the G create the PLUS with stupid agreement, now they want to be look as the savior of people. For me, a good G must provide super road, super education and super medical treatment for it citizen. the current G fail in giving it citizen super road.
Better to have than nothing.
Learn to be grateful.
Oh yeah you too have the right to change the government, but in the end better to choose the devil you know than the deep blue sea.
Couldn’t agree with you more, its like comparing royalty and MP’s. One has no time limit one is limited to 3 or 5 year term. Which one would be more greedy and desperate?
Learn to be grateful? Where have I heard that one before…hmm. Ah yes from people behaving like slaves under their master.
Learn to think and exercise your right as a responsible citizen to vote out irresponsible people. Don’t pretend like it is better to live under oppression rather than give alternatives a chance.
im not a G worker and surely not involve in any politics party. but can u just put up some point which ever the G do wrong in the agreement??? for me, if it is not about the agreement then we will never have PLUS in the first place. JB to KL will take what 6 to 7 hours in the old days instead if you use PLUS it only take 3 hours or maybe some rich guy can take 2 hours only with their ferrari or BMW. nowadays, there is many mega project they do like that. give land to investor to come and develop (port, highway etc). after 20 to 30 years, the G will take back land which have been develop (after im sure the investors got a lot of profit)
i still agree there is still cronies that will take the benefit of the project and polItics will always be dirty not in msia but all over the world.. if u compare to other nation, we are not that bad but still i hate politics! nway, demanding some super education and super road and bla.. bla.. bla.. still need money. do u think G have that lot of money? they still depending on FDI and DDI and thats y they have budget every year.. so that spending will not more than what they earn.. if more than it call DEBT. hatoyai!!!
Halo, they are spending more than what they earn. Even with petrol money also we need to pay tax left and right. What have they been doing? Now EPF also not enough to sustain their greed. Want to wait till we regress into Indonesia?
General Election is coming soon…Now they give us surprise & happy….we wait & see how is the result of next GE in bolehland…Save the Earth now…use Green technology friendly environment machine like Hybrid car
may be after 2011/2012 he is no longer our PM…Possible we will hv 1st women PM in our m’sia history & 2nd women PM in ASEAN after Philippine…then world is happy that M’sia is encourage sex equality & opportunities….human rights in M’sia also up…every1 clapping…
I was thinking maybe M’sia can bring down the duty fr 300 to 0.
So the peoples can buy big car & support the tolls highway daily.
the highest import duty is 30%, excise duty 105%, sales tax 10% = 145%
http://www.maa.org.my/info_duty.htm
that’s it.. i’ve made my mind for next GE…
So, does this means that Protong is “untouchable”? Well, I’m sure the rakyat has a better plan, it is called; “vote for another government in the next election”. Time to change!
EPF is buying over PLUS. No toll rise means no dividend rise. :-(
makan diri sendiri – devil
dont think like that la.. no rising toll thats mean people will use PLUS offently. more people use, then also give more profit.. more profit then.. haiya, lu fikir la sendri!
I was thinkin, if EPF buying PLUS, kinda benefiting west Malaysian members which will never use those highway.
The cost of loan will be lower since its not private funding, so EPF makes money from toll collection, and that is a cash cow. If you have such perception, maybe we should build tolled roads in Sabah and Sarawak but it will never cover the cost of building them since the population is spread so thin. This comparison between east and west should stop, I’ve been working on both sides for a while.
no toll rise but still profit la. why no dividend pulak? dont be stupid please.
Profit from + will be invested in cronies’ company………… at the end the profit from + will not be the dividend also……..
Lets press the reset button together, our system needs a reboot badly! Use your rights wisely! Register and Vote!
Att: Najib Razak
From: Me
Reg: Bajet 2011
Dear Sir,
Please do better or else. I’m not blackmailing you. Thank & best regards.
you want some c4 with that fries?
Sure speaks a whole lot, are u do you pay taxes enough to buy a car a year? If you don’t keep quiet and sit in one corner. Its not easy to please every one, even when you work in companies u know that. Everything has its limits and it must have merit. Do grow up.
So you can buy a car a year? What rubbish are you talking exactly?
tis fella is sure sucking us dry 99. time to change. do somthin now of u will be left wit nothin in ur pocket.
btw whos that gurl behind najib? quite cute :P
i saw that too.. hak3..
whatever hapened to the abolishment of APs ????
You simply say only. Got proof or not? Government build also you complaint, government don’t build also you complaint. Actually, what do you want?
Who want to get into construction industry to build MRT if they don’t make profit? Who wants to run MRT business if they don’t make profit too? The much awed Singapore also charge the passenger for their MRT ride.
Come on lah, I know there is a lot to complaint about government, but be sensible at times, not everything done or planned by the government is bad.
Thought Malaysians now being more mature in giving comments, looks like they are still the same. Always one-sided.
ya. they bash like tipical Pakatan lah. only know how to complain. lol
singapore built their mrt after years of planning. where is our govt planning? do you know the routes our mrt is supposed to take? do you how much we have to pay for land acquisition?
yes? no?
do you understand why people are skeptical and upset now?
yezaaaa! the ministers are only responsible for the master mind and decision makers for any kind of development or project.. but the person behind this is all profesional workers.. financial, economy planning unit, architecture and etc.. these guys and girls is responsible to give advice related to their profession to the ministers whether it is possible or not to do this and that.. they have done feasible study and all kind of study before doing the project. we should tabik spring!
no profit then, cmne dorang mau cari makan ma? study oversea gaji ciput.. hutang PTPTN pun x bayar lg.. so how???
Ye ke? So that MRR 2 bridge apa bikin? Can rationalize that one or not?
Cakap kosong bukan main steady!
Since when is governments responsibility is about making money? If those clowns are concerned about making money, then they should belah and go start a company doing business and stay out of government.
The government is here to meet the needs of the people. Are they doing a good job at that? Do you need to be in government to appreciate this simple fact? Please spare me the “if you think you pandai go run gomen” bullshit. Do you need to be a tukang masak at a restaurant to understand that you are being served uncooked food? Please use your brain and think wisely.
We do really need LRT stations in our huge populated town (Subang Jaya).
even our P1 and P2 are heavily tax also.
haiya… gov want think about revenue only but implementing to a better malaysia is such a embarrassing.
In terms of public transport, work on the Mass Rapid Transit rail system in the Klang Valley is slated to begin in 2011. The project, which is estimated to cost RM40 billion, is aimed at providing an efficient transport system that will reduce travelling time and offer better connectivity in the Klang Valley.
(Good ! Hope the money wont go to the corrupt man)
you can hope but najib will decide.
Sit down before you hurt yourself. This maybe a revelation to some. There is nowhere on Earth that there is no corruption.
Yes, agree with u.
But other country, do u thk that it will be like us? corrupt here and there? all people to get contract with “cables”?
IM NOT SURE !
There’s a lot of countries like that. US, UK all have the same thing
Heck, I bet even Singapore do same thing, only difference is you don’t hear it from their super tightly controlled media. In fact, it’s even worse in the US, because many companies have the clout to actually coerce the Government to do their bidding. For example, in 1973, the American govt supported the coup in Chile to cover American corporate interests from being nationalized by the socialist govt. Or the Iraq War, where Bush’s cronies got the contract to supply American troops during the invasion?
The world is not black & white. It’s a whole lot of grey….
have you seen the special interest groups and lobby groups in UK and US. They fund the president, and prime minster and all their senators and MP’s. You can see from their list of campaign contributors. There is little difference except they have more offshore accounts in the Caymans and hide their wealth by giing super expensive public speaking engagements.
Dude……Tu la sebabnya Ramai yg Akan masuk Neraka….
To all the people taking about US and UK. Can you tell me have any of our top politicians guilty of a crime been prosecuted and sent to jail on genuine charges? Even our current PM is untouchable despite being a murder suspect. How about the guy who fell from the SPRM building? Can quote similar cases in the US and UK or not?
No country is clean. That however, does not make them as bad as us, ok!
guys 1 thing u all forget starting next year will be huge jam haha
for construct the MRT expect it to last till 2020 that will be a headache…hope they implement all the necessary.
Proton also hate G because giving to many AP. Its ruin the true local business a lot.
tell you guys something…my relative is a honking citizen n he worked in the health department of hk…he said a minister from Malaysia keep buying hospital in hk using his own name….what minister can’t tell coz Paul might not approve my comment….
but it’s easy to guess if you visit more to china n hongkong….it’s a Chinese minister….
sad huh?where he got all those money?
Same also goes for a chief minister in east Malaysia. Sadly, Malaysians have no problem putting up with thieves and continue to squeeze their belts.
Sad, no mentioning of tax exempt for cyclist who commute to work. You can’t get cleaner than that can you.
I hope the MRT will be integrated with the other forms of public transport.
Also, if palm oil prices shoot up together with crude oil prices, will B5 diesel take a double hit?
Does anyone have an answer re movement of oil prices upwards?
Quote ‘Better news for frequent users of the four highways run by PLUS Expressways Berhad – as a means of alleviating your burden, the toll won’t be raised for the next five years.’
Does this mean PLUS pay less attention to road maintenance?
It just means govt will be paying them ‘pampasan’ for not raising the tolls.
I hope they will really do a good job with the public transport system, and I hope once the project here in K.L bears fruit and is successful, I hope they will extend it to J.B, Penang and finally throughout MY.
cakap saja pandai ….. buat kosong
Can somebody tell me why are we paying for toll when we pay tax AND road tax every year?
how much ur pay tax RM160billion???? actually what should u ask why there are so many people in Malaysia still living in poverty.???…is’t better….bro…
ur just pay 2.0cc car RM378 or a year…n tax just less than RM15000 a year how ur tax able to cover the bullshit prisoners…mat pit … or bangla ….and feeding 27 millions Malaysian…
but I got answers 4 that question why…u have think rational first before read on the answers…
1.there are so many tax avoiding activity in Malaysia today…. to cover that lost .toll is consider as tool to collect tax…from citizen.
2.to ensure our tax not higher like european country….reach 30-45%….4 personal tax
dont compare to singapore because their are very efficent on tax collection than Malaysia regime…. so singpore impose very low on tax about 20% n made GST and their are willing to punish the tax avoider by sending the culprit to the jail….Malaysia???
steps to abolish toll in Malaysia is easy if…our citizen…..can identifeid the person who avoiding tax either direct tax or indirect tax…..like what singapore did on it ….
that why we have to pay on toll….even every year we pay so many tax ….
either in state level or federal…
our tax n g revenue collection actually not meet the standard……………4 population more than 27million……..can u divide the RM160billion /27million citizens=????? how average per person????just??? less than RM7000!!!!! a year!!!! thanks…
Thanks for doing the math – I may just be a ‘work smart’ person from now on and stop paying income tax. Semuanya ok, bolehland boleh!!
of course bro u now on income tax radar……better close of internet account….
i will make report to IRBM or custom because i got info on tax avoiding activities n getting some rewards from tax department….more job to me now….
be informer is better it means more money than ….salary earner…..
WANTED INFORMER to tax department:
Salary more than RM100K a year…hak hak hak
Sudah lah, the big tax avoiders are the government cronies themselves. They can even get cars with no import permit for personal use.
Railway to Kalabakan…
kindness :
1) avoid accidents because relief in area kalabakan soft ground, if there is railway, mybe this can help in terms of :
a) adding village community’s economy in area kalabakan
b) job opportunities
c) Celebration.
Do anyone realise that KTMB online ticket purchase/E-ticket is non existence?
For cycling commuters, keep cycling….
Whatever it is – WE R ALL SCREWED – Rokok aku pun dah rm10 a pack.thanks!!!!!!
Dear All,
Do u noe the girl at the back, in the photo? shes kinda cute, hehe… :)
stop smoking then…. you know that it is not a mandatory right?
Its so funny to see west Malaysians talk about Sabah like they know anything. Haha.. Just to set the record straight for you west Malaysians. Yes the roads on the outskirts of the Towns and Cities need work but the roads in the city, especially KK are fine. We just prefer big cars. Its got nothing to do with the fact that we have to go off road all the time.
“Better news for frequent users of the four highways run by PLUS Expressways Berhad – as a means of alleviating your burden, the toll won’t be raised for the next five years.”
** It’s better if “the toll fee will be brought down every year for the next five years” – I’ll Click LIKE 1000x.