'Pendatang can't intrude, but must pay taxes'

As far as taxing non-Malays is concerned, ISMA says there must be fair treatment.

 

The Malay pressure group Ikatan Muslimin Malaysia (ISMA) stresses that non-Malays that it calls "pendatang" (migrants) should pay taxes as usual, despite insisting their involvement in politics should not extend to interfering in Malay-Muslim affairs.

ISMA president Abdullah Zaik Abdul Rahman (right) said this  iwhen asked by the media if non-Muslims taxes should be lowered, since their political involvement was asked to be limited.

"According to the principles of fairness, all those pendatang races have to accept the special position of the Malays and bumiputera in the country as the sovereign race".

"The involvement of non-Muslims in politics - to the point of interfering in the affairs of the Malay race and Islam, and that denies the sole right of the Malays in determining our future - is outrageous and should be corrected," he told reporters today.

"On the issue of taxes,  it is the remuneration they pay as citizens, so they have to pay."

"They earn their income from the country, therefore they have to pay taxes," he said at a press conference this morning.