NST Leader: 2025 Budget

For the first time ever, our national expenditure speeds past RM400 billion to RM421 billion. And for the longest time, government revenue has been playing catch-up, with the 2025 Budget registering RM339.7 billion in earnings. Will this “low” do for Malaysia, racing as it does to be a high-income nation by 2030? A good question.

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