# Expanded sales and service tax takes effect after a June revision Date: 2025 ## The fact On 1 July 2025 Malaysia expanded SST to more non-essential goods and to new services (leasing, construction, some financial, private healthcare and education), after June MOF revisions that exempted some fruits and beauty services and raised some thresholds. Anwar later told Parliament delay would jeopardise about RM5 billion of 2025 H2 revenue. ## Context March 2024 8 percent rate sat as parent. Customs gazettes. He did not sit as every clinic. Essential staples stayed exempt. SST 1 March 2024 is the parent rate. Electricity RP4 the same day is a neighbour household file. The Prime Minister of Malaysia advises the Yang di-Pertuan Agong, chairs Cabinet, and is appointed under Articles 40 and 43 of the Federal Constitution. He does not write Bank Negara Malaysia policy rates, does not sit as every state menteri besar, and does not author a United States or China statute. A 1999–2018 prosecution or pardon cluster is not a 2023 subsidy. Allegation is not a completed personal conviction unless a court so held. A 2027 general election is not this page’s completed Fact. As of 27 August 2026 he remains prime minister. ## Evidence and sources Ministry of Finance Malaysia carries the official instrument or communique. InvestMalaysia records the same dated act independently. ## Significance The path is [household purchasing power](/drivers/household-purchasing-power) versus public-debt and fiscal repair: a completed SST-scope expansion. ## What is established and what is not Established: 1 July 2025 SST expansion after June revisions, independently placed on official MOF pages. Not established: a unique later RM10 billion 2026 coefficient from that Tuesday, or that every MSME uniquely registered that morning. What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, a later repeal, a court that vacated the instrument, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions. The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit. Customs gazettes. Firms collect. Parliament had authorised the Budget 2025 path.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies Expanded sales and service tax takes effect after a June revision, not a later speech about Expanded sales and service tax takes effect after a June revision. Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. Expanded sales and service tax takes effect after a June revision on 2025-07-01 is not a licence to treat every later Ministry of Finance Malaysia communique as this same act. If a later repeal, stay, or successor instrument exists, it needs its own date and its own row. This dossier refuses to average Expanded sales and service tax takes effect after a June revision into a personality. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to He decided as finance minister after feedback. Customs gazettes. Firms collect. Parliament had authorised the Budget 2025 path. That limit is the alternative to treating office-holding as authorship of every later series. ## People - Anwar Ibrahim: https://factrail.ai/people/anwar-ibrahim ## Drivers - Household Purchasing Power: https://factrail.ai/drivers/household-purchasing-power - Public-Debt Sustainability: https://factrail.ai/drivers/public-debt-sustainability ## Sources - https://www.investmalaysia.gov.my/resources/latest-announcements/targeted-revision-of-sales-tax-rate-and-expansion-of-service-tax-scope-effective-1-july-2025 - https://www.mof.gov.my/portal/images/2025/06/27/Media-Release-Revisions-to-the-SST-take-into-account-public-and-industry-feedback.pdf ## Methodology https://factrail.ai/methodology Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/my-anwar-sst-2025