FACTORIES and companies have been urged not to delay in sending their foreign workers for Covid-19 screening as required by the Federal Government to contain the spread of the pandemic.
Family business: A hardware shop owner arranging merchandise in Chulia Street, Penang. LIM BENG TATT/The Star
GEORGE TOWN: Three days into the movement control order, many businesses still unsure whether they are allowed to operate have decided to shut down temporarily while others are forging ahead and hoping for the best.
The decades-old hardware shops in a lane along Chulia Street here are all open for business although none of them has applied to the International Trade and Industry Ministry (Miti) for approval.
“My family has been operating here for the last three generations and I decided to keep the shop open although I did not apply to Miti, ” said a store owner who wanted to be known only as Ah Choon.
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Jagdeep Singh Deo today said that taxpayers residing in low-cost (LC), low-medium cost (LMC) and village houses in Penang were granted a 100 per cent rebate on the increase of tax assessment rate for 2021. Picture by Sayuti Zainudin
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GEORGE TOWN, Jan 2 The Penang government has decided to give tax assessment rebates amounting to RM24.5 million to 649,950 taxpayers this year.
State Housing, Local Government and Town and Country Planning Committee chairman Jagdeep Singh Deo today said that taxpayers residing in low-cost (LC), low-medium cost (LMC) and village houses in Penang were granted a 100 per cent rebate on the increase of tax assessment rate for 2021 which was approved earlier.
GEORGE TOWN: Employers should be given more time to carry out the mandatory Covid-19 screening of foreign workers, which was enforced on New Year’s Day.
State local government committee chairman Jagdeep Singh Deo urged the Federal Government to give employers more time because of the limited capacity of clinics and healthcare facilities in the state.
On Thursday, the Social Security Organisation (Socso) revealed that only 8.5% of those in targeted areas had been screened.
Socso also said it had purchased nearly a million test kits, which were sufficient to cover the foreign workers registered with the organisation in the six areas targeted.
GEORGE TOWN: The Penang government has decided to give tax assessment rebates amounting to RM24.5 million to 649,950 taxpayers this year. State Housin.