10% Touch 'n Go parking surcharge: It's more complicated than you think

. If your parking costs RM10, that means you’ll have to pay RM11. It just doesn’t make sense to pay more than those that pay by cash.

At today’s parliament session, Deputy Domestic Trade, Cooperatives and Consumerism Minister, Chong Chieng Jen, has announced that the extra 10% surcharge for parking facilities will be abolished in phases. He was responding to a question by Ayer Hitam representative, Wee Ka Siong, on the various charges by Touch ‘n Go., the Deputy Minister said that the 10% surcharge was “inherited” from the previous government.

It is worth pointing out that Touch ‘n Go has been taking steps to gradually remove parking surcharge before the change of government. New parking sites that accept Touch ‘n Go payments from October 2017 do not impose the 10% surcharge. The number of zero surcharge parking sites have also grown from less than 40 in 2017 to over 200 sites today.

When it comes to parking surcharge, the entire amount doesn’t go directly to Touch ‘n Go alone. It is

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