Trusting Nation

Dear all,

I have distributed your EA and the PCB statement. This will be your copy. I have made copies for your P files.Your Borang B has to be submitted by 30th April 2007. You do not have to attach your EA and the PCB while submitting your Borang B. However, if the LHDN requests, you will have to send it to them later.

That note was passed around together with my EA and PCB statement. I liked reading it. I liked it that our nation has moved a level higher. We have moved from a ‘suspicious nation’ to a ‘trusting nation’, which is good because the more you trust the people, the more people will become civilized.

When I was at the State, everything was about trusting people and surprisingly, people never abuse them. They put in coins into the box and pull out the door, yet they still take only one copy instead of the whole box. Typical Malaysian will take one copy for themselves and four other copies for the roommates.

They order a large Fizzy Drink at Fizoli’s for each of the family members, who has free refill. Typical Malaysian will order a small Fizzy Drink and share it with the rest of the group of 10.

They never cheat filling up the IRB (tax) form and yet the IRB never comes around to audit each one of them. They picked the audit randomly. You see, the more you put your trust in people, the blooming their attitude will be. At least, I believe so. Oh yeah.