The upcoming Budget 2019 proposes imported online service tax, and should drive up the cost of subscriptions to foreign services.

Cooler Master has yet to adjust their pricelist to reflect the changes brought about by SST. Yay for us consumers though!

HMD Global has announced that prices of their devices will remain unchanged for majority of their Nokia smartphones post to SST.

If you were curious as to what Xiaomi devices would be affected by SST, we have here the updated pricelist from Mi Malaysia!

Nearly a week since the reimplementation of the Sales and Service Tax (SST), Shopee revealed that there were no notable changes in the prices of their 19 million products.

Good news Samsung fans, Samsung Malaysia has announced that they will not be marking up prices for their smartphones even after the implementation of SST recently.

Celcom is not going to charge SST to its prepaid subscribers! Yay!

You may have seen news that telcos are charging Sales and Service Tax (SST) for reloads, thus giving users less credit than they paid for. In an SST briefing at Kota Kinabalu yesterday, Lim Guan Eng, our Finance Minister, stressed that reload vouchers were exempted from SST.

He further mentioned that there should be no deductions and telcos are not to charge SST to consumers. Consumers who purchased RM10 reload coupons should receive RM10 credit, as expected.

Lim Guan Eng is expected to meet telcos next week to discuss the issue, which means that we most probably won’t see full reload values until later this month.

Source: The Star

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The glorious tax holiday in Malaysia is about to come to an end. If you're wondering how SST will affect prices for electronics and games, here it is.