New taxes or broadened GST will be announced if BN wins the next general election, predicted Pakatan Harapan de facto leader Anwar Ibrahim today.

Anwar said in the Budget 2018 unveiled last Friday, Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak had claimed with a bombast that he had unveiled the "mother of all budgets".

"Many promises were made in a transparent attempt to hoodwink the people into supporting the BN in the coming general election.

"But there is a gaping hole in the middle of this pre-election budget; it fails to show how the government plans to balance expenditure and revenue.

"How will this government deliver upon its many budget promises, when it has not shown how it will increase revenue? This is not revealed anywhere in the budget," the former deputy premier and finance minister said in a statement...