Sabah DCM: Increased budget still not enough to bridge gap

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She says the Finance Minister needs to address the return of 40pct of Sabah's revenue to the state.

While lauding the doubling of the annual federal special grant for Sabah to RM53.4mil, Sabah Deputy Chief Minister Christina Liew said that Budget 2020 failed to address the call for the return of 40 percent of the federal revenue taken from the state.Ththat it is still not enough and that Finance Minister Lim Guan Eng had not addressed the return of 40 percent of the revenue derived from Sabah to the state.

The East Malaysian states also had the highest development budget with an allocation of RM5.2bil for Sabah and RM4.4bil for Sarawak. Liew, who is also the state Environment, Culture and Tourism Minister said the Federal Government's planned return of 50 percent of the tourism tax collection to each state in conjunction with Visit Malaysia Year 2020, was not enough for the maintenance or repair of existing tourism infrastructure, let alone new projects in the area.

 

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