- I got this from The Coverage Media.
- I have adapted it very slightly.
- My comments in blue. Read MY CONCLUSION.
- Rule No 1 - No Names.
The Coverage Media
Malaysia’s SMEs Are Being Crushed – While the “Walaun” Get Endless Handouts
This is the most walaun-friendly, most anti-business gomen we have ever had.
The policies are punishing the very people who keep this country running.
entrepreneurs, taxpayers, job creators are the real backbone of our GDP.
7 out of 10 SMEs now have less than 6 months of cash reserves.
Many are on the verge of closing down.
IRB is holding onto overpaid tax refunds for 3–5 YEARS.
This isn’t “tak bayar cukai” or “kurang bayar”.
This is TERLEBIH BAYAR – money that already belongs to the businesses.
Money taken in excess from us.
(OSTB: Under Bossku they kept my overpaid taxes 'untuk cukai tahun depan')
SMEs are surviving on razor-thin margins and have less than 6 months’ cash.
Many have less than 3 months.
By the time IRB finally decides to return what is rightfully ours, the business is already bankrupt, shuttered, workers laid off.
The extra tax paid never comes back to save the company – it just becomes free money for the gomen to spend.
If IRB is so terribly slow and inefficient that it needs half a decade to process a refund, how come the same gomen can suddenly find RM10 billion a year (excluding bonuses) to give civil servants massive salary hikes effective immediately?
(OSTB: That is called securing their support - with your tax money)
Money that belongs to businesses is locked away while the same gomen can disburse international “humanitarian” aid in minutes.
Even Lim Guan Eng raised this in Parliament SEVEN times – publicly and privately begged the gomen to listen.
Depan Cakap Lain, Belakang Buat Lain.
(OSTB: Main bel@k@ng pun boleh. Better be careful.)
Compliance burdens keep piling up
E-invoicing
ESG reporting
Higher minimum wage
Mandatory EPF for foreign workers (extra RM17.4 billion cost to businesses every year)
Gomen agencies naik fee 15%–250%
Enforcement officers terer sangat cari makan on legal businesses
Minor offences pun kena compound teruk.
But the same “hardworking” officers tak nampak:
RM120 billion civil service wastage every year (Auditor-General Report)
Melayu, Cina, India – buat bisnes halal, bayar cukai, sediakan peluang kerja – setiap hari kena serbu, kena kacau, kena compound atas kesalahan kecil macam letak barang 2 inci di luar garis.
Tapi Rohingya, Bangla, Pakistan – buka kedai haram, jual barang tiruan, tak ada lesen, tak bayar cukai langsung – tiba-tiba mata enforcement semua RABUN. Tak nampak langsung.
(OSTB: I say brader, Pakistan, Rohingya, Bangla sudah kautim lah. The more Pakistan the more kautim).
Then you add the cascading blows:
Diesel subsidy removed
SST increased
Port Klang container handling +30%, storage +197% to +243%
Electricity tariff hike (possibly another 15% cost increase for SMEs)
SMEs are screaming: “We may not survive another year.”
This is not just “Chinese businesses” suffering – stop the old stereotype.
45% of registered SMEs are Bumiputera-owned.
Today’s Malays are bangsa usahawan, not “walaun duduk rumah tunggu subsidi jatuh dari langit”.
Urban Malays, M40 Malays, Malay entrepreneurs – we have NO voice.
Politicians champion the lazy segment that refuses to help themselves.
Successful ones? Punished just for being successful.
Our corporate tax is 24% – one of the highest in the region (Singapore only 17%).
You make raw materials, electricity, transport, compliance – everything skyrockets.
Then you ask: “How to lonjak ekonomi? How to create more Bumiputera entrepreneurs? How to fight inflation?”
Where will the money come from to fund all the endless walaun programs then?
When businesses struggle → they have no choice but to raise prices.
When prices go up → consumers suffer.
You suffer. I suffer. Our parents suffer. The rakyat suffers.
In the end, EVERYBODY suffers.
Yet this gomen keeps squeezing us dry:
Remove subsidies
Electricity hikes
Slap more fines and penalties
Tax hikes
More regulations
Hold our overpaid taxes for years (money that is rightfully ours)
Pile on new taxes, new compliance costs, new fees
OUR sweat and blood?
They use it:
To play international hero and donate millions overseas “for humanity”
To out-Hadi Hadi, looking holier-than-thou on the global stage
To keep pumping billions into endless handouts for the walaun class
To build their shiny projects and pet programs
That money didn’t fall from the sky.
It came from the blood, sweat, and sleepless nights of entrepreneurs – Malay, Chinese, Indian, Bumiputera, everyone who wakes up at 5 a.m. to open their shop, pay staff, pay taxes, and keep this country running.
You punish the people who create jobs.
You reward the people who refuse to work.
You take from the productive and give to the entitled.
And when the businesses finally collapse under the weight?
When the tax revenue dries up because there are no more businesses left to tax?
Who’s going to fund your handouts then?
Who’s going to pay for your international hero photo-ops then?
Stop killing the goose that lays the golden eggs.
Because when the goose dies, the whole country starves
Including the very people you claim to protect.
MY CONCLUSION:
But in this country this has been the case for the past few decades. Regardless of which party or which coalition is in power this same shit happens again and again.
The media has already reported on 'cartels' bringing in the Rohingyas. There was (and possibly still is) massive corruption in the Rohingya import business. There are millions of Banglas in the country. Once a year every Bangla must renew his work permit. The 'middlemen' provide this 'permit renewal' service. The middlemen must be paid thousands of Ringgit. That money is shared with "others". This has been going on in Malaysia for the past decades - ever since the Banglas started coming here.
Today it costs almost RM20,000 to bring an Indonesian maid. A sizeable chunk of this money is for the 'kautim'. This has been going on for decades.
Then what about all the young girls being brought in from Vietnam, Indonesia, Cambodia to work in the various "joints" including the 'pedicure parlors' and 'urut kaki' parlours? Malaysia has been consistently scoring high marks on the human trafficking indexes.
"Malaysia has been flagged in international reports for its human trafficking situation for many years, most notably in the U.S. State Department's annual Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report. Current Status: Tier 2. In the most recent 2025 TIP report, Malaysia was assessed as a Tier 2 country. This ranking indicates that the government does not fully meet the minimum standards for the elimination of human trafficking"
This is Malaysia. Its all kautim. The kautim runs into the billions. This has been going on for decades. Dont forget the mass graves found at Wang Kelian. That case will never be solved.
This comment by The Coverage above also does not mention the other billions that are being stolen EVERY YEAR not only from businesses but from each and every ordinary citizen. The billions that are stolen from us each year by the gomen licensed monopolies and oligopolies. The banking oligopoly which is actually a cartel. The monopolies in rice import, food imports, meat import cartels, monopolies in public utilities, the sky high motor vehicle prices because of sky high taxes and APs. The never ending toll concessions which get extensions that seem to go on forever.
The Malaysian people have been ripped off for decades now - regardless of which party or coalition is in power.
- The solution?
- Kick them out.
- Just vote them out.
- Keep changing your vote.
- Just change your votes.
- If at the last poll you voted for A, the next vote vote for B.
- Like changing baby's diapers.
- The more frequently you change the baby's diapers the less is the stinky.
- JUST KICK THEM OUT.
- KEEP CHANGING YOUR VOTE.
- Until they do what is right and good.
- JUST KICK THEM OUT.
