Hey, do you have any credit card with you? How many cards do you own? With announcement of RM50 annual service tax on principal card and RM25 for supplementary card during Malaysia Budget 2010, some people already started to reduce the quantity of their credit card.

Cancel your credit card?

By the way, this is a special service tax. Even though you have a free for life credit card that you don’t need to pay annual fee, you still need to pay RM50 annual service tax to Malaysia government. (Refer here) Malaysia Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak said that RM50 for credit card not a big deal to Malaysians. And they are getting the extra RM1,000 tax relief. (refer here)

Does this RM1000 tax relief really help Malaysians? Lets do some calculations… For example, I have 2 banks’ credit cards (both MasterCard and VISA). (This is very common to all Malaysians, some have even more than 10 principal credit cards). So I need to pay 4 x RM50 credit card service tax, total == RM200. And I am in tax range of 13% which mean that I can only get RM130 back from RM1000 tax relief. In the end, I need to pay RM70 (RM200 – RM130) more back to Malaysia government. So who is benefit from this? Malaysia government or Malaysians?

For me, I am sure that I will cancel extra principal cards and supplementary cards to avoid paying more tax. Maybe reduce to 1 MasterCard and 1 VISA credit card. How about you?

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Tanjong Plc is one of the 30 FBM KLCI stocks. It is independent power producer and Malaysian number forecasting operator (lottery). It is a good defensive stock because of its attractive 6.28% dividend yield (based on RM14.30 market price). With current fixed deposit rate of 2.5% per annual, Tanjong Plc is good to invest due to its good track of historical dividend payout.

Tanjong Plc performance since June 2009

I started to study the research done by OSK Research, Standard & Poor’s (S&P) Equity Research by Public Bank and Maybank Investment Bank. The 12-month target prices given by these research firms are about the same RM18.60, RM17.00 and RM17.60. I checked back the previous recommended target price. OSK Research gave a very aggressive price that cannot be reached. S&P is still okay to follow but failed to reach too. Why? It is all because of other factors like economy, politics. Therefore, we should only use it as guidance. Study and make your own decision.

What price should we sell? Nope. I don’t sell attractive dividend yield stock. We should keep it unless the company is not performing anymore. The question we should ask… What price should I buy? Buy at the discounted price during economy downturn. Normally, people stay away from stock market. But that’s the best time to buy these high dividend yield stocks actually.

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Yup. Jayce Ooi’s Paradise manages to get itself to top 50 of top 100 Malaysian blogs. It is a list of blogs comes out by Adi Wong. You can check out the lists at here.

49th of top 100 Malaysian blogs

The ranking is based on Alexa and Technorati. Personally, I don’t like Alexa because it does not reflex the actual visit or page view. Some websites which have very low traffic but have very high rank in Alexa. Technorati is about the same. If the blogs does not clawed by Technorati spider, there are not counted. So you will have low ranking if most of your incoming links are from non-technorati clawed blogs.

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