KUALA LUMPUR (Jan 24): The Inland Revenue Board s (IRB) Wangsa Maju branch here, Johor Bahru (Employment) branch Taxation Service Counter and Johor Bahru (Business) branch will be temporarily closed for sanitisation.
IRB, in a statement today, said the Taxation Service Counter at the Johor Bahru (Employment) branch and the Johor Bahru (Business) branch will be closed from today until a date to be announced later.
As an alternative, IRB clients can go to the Urban Transformation Centre (UTC) in Johor Bahru, Pasir Gudang UTC and the Revenue Service Centre in Pontian.
It said the Wangsa Maju branch will be closed from tomorrow until a date to be announced later, and during this period clients can visit the IRB branches in Duta, Cheras, Kuala Lumpur Bandar and the Pudu UTC.
IN his memoir, From Third World to First, The Singapore Story 1965-2000, Lee Kuan Yew said that before he retired in 1990, he wanted to clear the decks for his successor Goh Chok Tong. One sticky matter was the KTM railway line and land in Singapore.
Singapore wanted to move the joint Customs, Immigration and Quarantine (CIQ) checkpoint from where the KTM railway line ended in Tanjong Pagar at the southern tip of the island to Woodlands in the north and close to the Johor-Singapore Causeway.
Singapore’s rationale for wanting to move the CIQ to Woodlands was for security reasons, it said, claiming that drugs and smuggled goods were being thrown out of KTM coaches along the route to Tanjong Pagar. But observers have long said that the reason was much bigger than that it was a question of sovereignty.
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An artist s impression of a KL-Singapore High-Speed Rail (HSR) station. (Photo: MyHSR)
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SINGAPORE: It is the end of the line for the Kuala Lumpur-Singapore High-Speed Rail (HSR) project after the Prime Ministers of both countries announced on Friday (Jan 1) that the agreement for the venture had lapsed.
The Singapore Government has since called for Malaysia to compensate it for costs already incurred by Singapore in fulfilling its obligations under the HSR Bilateral Agreement.
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The announcement comes as a blow to many who were eagerly anticipating the proposed 350km-long HSR line, which aimed to reduce travel time between Singapore and Kuala Lumpur to around 90 minutes by train.