PARLIAMENT | Finance Minister Lim Guan Eng has admitted the previous government's Goods and Services Tax (GST) was indeed a more transparent and efficient system of taxation compared with the sales and services tax (SST).

"We are not denying that GST is more transparent because it can collect more taxes over a wider scope, so it has (a greater) impact on the people," he said during the minister's question time in the Dewan Rakyat sitting today...