Second Finance Minister Johari Abdul Ghani has insisted that the imposition of the Goods and Services Tax (GST) on 60 additional food items was never approved by the cabinet in explaining the abrupt about-turn by the government to include them under the GST regime.

"Even the Customs (Department) director-general told me that he was not aware of the gazetted order being put on the website," Johari told Malaysiakini...