{"id":34747,"date":"2025-10-10T06:01:31","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T06:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/automotive\/budget-2026-to-be-tabled-by-pm-anwar-today-at-4pm\/"},"modified":"2025-10-10T06:01:31","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T06:01:31","slug":"budget-2026-to-be-tabled-by-pm-anwar-today-at-4pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/automotive\/budget-2026-to-be-tabled-by-pm-anwar-today-at-4pm\/","title":{"rendered":"Budget 2026 to be tabled by PM Anwar today at 4pm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/paultan.org\/?attachment_id=1981443\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/paultan.org\/image\/2025\/10\/Budget-2026-finance-ministry-MoF-FB-Oct-2025-630x630.jpg\" alt=\"Budget 2026 to be tabled by PM Anwar today at 4pm\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Malaysia\u2019s Budget 2026 is set to be tabled by finance minister and prime minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim in the <em>Dewan Rakyat<\/em> at 4pm today. As always, <em>paultan.org<\/em> will monitor his speech for anything automotive- and transport-related, and report on them live here.<\/p>\n<p>With the big thing done (Budi Madani RON 95) and generally running well, we expect the government to focus on other matters. Will it categorically confirm that fully-imported (CBU) EVs will no longer be tax-free come 2026? We\u2019re now not even at half of the country\u2019s target to have 10,000 EV chargers by end-2025; will this target be revised?<\/p>\n<p>Updates on the status of OMV\/402, which may affect locally-assembled (CKD) car prices? Upgrades to highways such as the East-West Highway (particularly the Gerik-Jeli stretch) are also expected. Tune in later to find out.<\/p>\n<p>Officially, the Madani government\u2019s fourth budget and the first under the 13th Malaysia Plan (RMK13) aims to continue supporting the people without increasing national debt, strengthen the economy, safeguard the people\u2019s welfare, raise the floor of living standards, raise the ceiling of national growth, and reinforce Malaysia\u2019s sustainable and inclusive foundations.<\/p>\n<p>The post Budget 2026 to be tabled by PM Anwar today at 4pm appeared first on Paul Tan&#039;s Automotive News.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Malaysia\u2019s Budget 2026 is set to be tabled by finance minister and prime minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim in the Dewan Rakyat at 4pm today. As always, paultan.org will monitor his speech for anything automotive- and transport-related, and report on them live here. With the big thing done (Budi Madani RON 95) and generally running [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34748,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-34747","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-automotive"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34747\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}