With only one financial quarter left before Malaysia rolls out its 6% goods and services tax (GST), Subromaniam Tholasy, the government’s director of GST, is pushing an ambitious agenda for training internal staff, preparing the public, and publishing guidelines on exempted items. Here, he gives Meredith McBride the lie of the land.
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