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Why and Why Not Telco pass through the 6% service tax?

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Since the very first second the announcement was made, every quarters are fuming on the extra burden they should bare if it goes through. Here, it involves everyone in Malaysia, even foreign workers who are mostly prepaid subscribers. On this topic, Finance Malaysia has some words to say. Picture taken from bigmacky.wordpress.com In this modern world, mobile phones has become a necessity to us. Some may say: "I can sleep without pillow, or lost my wallet, but I cannot separate from my mobile phone". As such, does it mean that telcos can held you " ransom " on using their services? Since this is called "service tax", did telcos do their part in providing the good services (if not the best)? 3 Reasons why Telcos should not pass through the 6% service tax ? Coverage is suck in certain areas, still. There are rounds of complaints on line-dropping issues. Yup. They fixed it after that. But, the same old problems come back to haunt consumers after awhile. Cust...