Continue GST briefings for another year, urges Perdasama

KUALA LUMPUR: Perdasama Muda, a unit under the Malay Businessmen and Industrialists Association (Perdasama), has called for briefings on the Goods and Services Tax (GST) to be continued for another year after its scheduled implementation on April 1, saying some young entrepreneurs are still not fully conversant with the new tax regime.

"We are proposing that the briefings be continued for at least another year to benefit young entrepreneurs, and we in Perdasama are prepared to facilitate the briefings," Perdasama Muda chairman Feruddin Emir Moehamad Izat Emir told Bernama after a GST briefing here recently.

The two-day event organised by Perdasama was attended by some 200 young entrepreneurs as well as several representatives of Bursa Malaysia-listed companies.

Feruddin Emir said Perdasama Muda wants to see more Perdasama and Perdasama Muda branches nationwide to help produce more Malay entrepreneurs amid the uncertain global economic conditions and the impending implementation of the Asean Economic Community (AEC). – Bernama