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Abolishing tolls would be difficult to implement as it would have significant implications on the country's financial position, says Datuk Seri Ahmad Maslan.

The Deputy Works Minister said while winding up the debate on the Highway Authority Malaysia (Incorporation) (Amendment) Bill 2023 in Dewan Rakyat on Thursday (March 21) that proposals to abolish tolls in this country would cause the government to pay more than RM450bil in compensation to concession companies.

Earlier, when tabling the second reading of the bill, Ahmad said the amendments involving 16 clauses in the Highway Authority Malaysia (Incorporation) Act 1980 aimed to improve the functions and powers of the Malaysian Highway Authority (LLM) and strengthen its role as a stable, efficient, and effective regulatory body.

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00:00 "WIB Pokok Sena, do you promise to reduce the toll?"
00:05 Of course we don't promise, there are parties who promise, but the budget for 2019 to reduce the toll, we have to pay a concession of more or less 400 billion rupiah.
00:26 Where is the money, WIB? And that is the budget for 2019, now it is 2023, so the budget is of course more.
00:36 I myself estimate that if we want to remove it, we have to pay all 33 concessions, I estimate maybe between 450 billion rupiah must be paid to the concession.
00:49 Then, the concession to remove the toll is only a concession, it is a bit difficult to do, unless suddenly we can get a concession from somewhere to do that.
01:04 We know that our budget is 388 billion rupiah per year, if we want to remove the toll, 450 billion rupiah must be paid.
01:17 Meaning that for a year, there is no salary that can be given and no money for other things, only used to remove the toll. So I don't see how the toll can be removed, as desired by several parties before this.
01:36 [BLANK_AUDIO]

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