SUPP Sentosa congrats CM

suppadmin | July 3, 2020

SUPP Kota Sentosa Branch Chairman Wilfred Yap supported and congratulated Sarawak GPS Government under the able leadership of YAB Abang Zohari on his success in getting PETRONAS to agree to pay in full the petroleum product sales tax which amounts to more than RM2 Billion to Sarawak and in securing the agreement from PETRONAS to engage the Sarawak GPS Government to facilitate a more active participation by local Sarawakians in the investment opportunities in the oil and gas industry in Sarawak.

Yap said with the increased tax revenue to the Sarawak Government coffers through the collection of Sales Tax on petroleum products from PETRONAS, Sarawak GPS Government will consider to share the additional sales tax revenue collection with the senior Sarawakians in the B40 group.

The Sarawak GPS Government should take the lead as the first in Malaysia to consider to set up a “Social Pension Fund” using a portion of the 5% Sales Tax collected on Petroleum products from PETRONAS. The “Social Pension Fund” can than be used to fund a “non contributory social pension” a modest and fixed RM500 monthly payment to senior Sarawakians above the age of 70 in the B40 group. This is because the current retirement savings fund scheme under Employees Provident Fund (EPF) appears inadequate for retiring Sarawakian workers in the low income (B40) group who have relatively low average EPF savings at the point of their retirement.

Yap added that immediate family members in Sarawak have thus so far tended to finance the needs of older persons who are no longer able to work. However Sarawak’s increasingly urbanising population may result in situations where the elderly may no longer be living together with their immediate family members and as such it is pertinent for the GPS led Sarawak Government to provide a “social safety security net” to safeguard the welfare of our senior Sarawakians in the B40 group after they retire from the workforce.

On an unrelated matter, Yap was recently approached by the committee members of the 7^th Mile Penrissen Road Sentosa Community Association to request for assistance from Majlis Perbandaran Padawan (MPP) for maintenance of the road entrance and minor repair of car park area of the public funeral parlour managed by the Association on a charitable basis. The repair works requested have since been completed. A request have also been made by SUPP Kota Sentosa Branch to MPP for the upgrading of the whole stretch of existing earth drains in from of 7^th Mile Chamber of Commerce Kindergarten and Kota Sentosa Public Library.

SUPP Public Complaints Bureau is always ready to lend a helping hand to the anyone facing problems or who come across problems of public interest but does not know how to deal with it. Anyone requiring assistance can always call SUPP Public Complaint’s mobile number at 016-7797688 or 082-246999 or go direct to SUPP Head Office to request for assistance.