The Sales Tax Bill was passed after about three hours of debate. Lim also said that he could not give a guarantee that prices of items will go down following the implementation of SST. "I never said that the SST will lower the prices of goods but that the effect would be less than GST. He added that prices of goods would be monitored when the SST is implemented although the increase will not be as high as the GST. The Dewan Rakyat passed the Sales Tax Bill 2018 on Aug 14 and the Service Tax Bill 2018 on Aug 15.

Source: The Star August 20, 2018 09:19 UTC