Finance Minister Lim Guan Eng said there must be “incontrovertible” evidence that the people wanted to restore goods and services tax (GST) before the government would consider bringing the taxation system back.

He said the Pakatan Harapan government fulfilled its manifesto promise to the people by eliminating the six percent tax implemented by the previous BN administration.

“If people want it, then we have to get the mandate from the people that they want six percent GST. There must be incontrovertible evidence.

“Unless you have incontrovertible evidence, you will not be able to define and determine what is the mandate of the people,” Lim said during a press conference at his ministry headquarters in Putrajaya today.

The new government had replaced the GST with the sales and service tax (SST) in September of last year.