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Malaysians demand television fee refund worth millions of dollars
KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 31 (AFP) - Malaysia's opposition leader Sunday
urged the government to refund millions of
ringgit collected as annual television fees after it revealed the fee had
been abolished since April.
"DAP calls on the government to ensure a hassle free system to
immediately refund the some 50 million ringgit (13
milion dollars) to the people from tomorrow," said Lim Kit Siang,
secretary-general of the Chinese dominated
Democratic Action Party (DAP), in a statement.
Lim said thousands of people had paid the licence fee not just for a
year but in advance for up to three to five years.
Finance Minister Daim Zainuddin announced Friday that the fee had
been abolished since April 1 this year when he
unveiled the "people-friendly" 2000 budget.
Daim said the abolition of the television licences fees would result in a
revenue loss of 43 million ringgit annually to the
government.
Deputy information minister Suleiman Mohamed said the government
was expected to refund some 67 million ringgit to
television owners who renewed their licences after April this year.
They would have to present their licences for the refund, he was
cited by the official Bernama news agency as saying.
"If the people want to donate the money to the government, that
would be better still," he said
Lim said the abolishment of the fee was a last-minute incorporation
since an opposition front shadow budget made
public two days earlier had proposed to do away with the licence.
"Instead, Daim claimed that television licences had been abolished
since April 1, which neither the government nor the
public were aware of, just to avoid being seen as copying from the
alternative front budget," he said.
The opposition front consists of sacked deputy premier Anwar
Ibrahim's National Justice Party, Parti Islam
Semalaysia, Democratic Action Party and Malaysia's People Party.
They have no hope of toppling the ruling coalition but say they want to
end its two-thirds parliamentary majority.
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