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Taklimat Pelaksanaan GST

Pelaksanaan Cukai Barangan dan Perkhidmatan (GST) adalah salah satu elemen penting dalam memperkukuhkan hasil pendapatan negara menjelang 2020, sekaligus bakal memberi manfaat yang besar kepada semua.

Walaubagaimanapun masih terdapat segelintir penjawat awam yang masih tidak memahami dengan jelas tentang GST yang bakal dilaksanakan pada 1 April 2015 nanti.

Sehubungan dengan itu INTURA telah mengambil inisiatif untuk menganjurkan Taklimat mengenai pelaksanaan GST pada 23 Julai 2014 kepada semua warga INTURA sebelum diperluaskan kepada penjawat awam yang lain. Program ini telah dilaksanakan di Dewan Tun Sri Lanang dan disampaikan oleh Penolong Pengarah Kastam II, dari Jabatan Kastam Diraja Malaysia, Kedah.

Antara pengisian kursus ini adalah pendedahan tentang jenis cukai di Malaysia, perbezaan di antara GST (Goods Service Tax) dan SST (Sales and Services Tax), Keperluan melaksanakan GST dan Impak GST.

Secara keseluruhannya, program ini telah dilaksanakan dengan jayanya. 

Program Komuniti Sosial (Ziarah dan Sumbangan Kepada Fakir & Miskin di sekitar Sungai Petani)

Program Ziarah Dan Sumbangan Kepada Fakir Miskin di sekitar Sungai Petani telah diadakan pada 22 Julai 2014. Untuk kali ini fokus ziarah dan bantuan tertumpu di kawasan Kuala Ketil.

Program komuniti sosial ini bertujuan melahirkan sifat prihatin di kalangan warga untuk saling membantu bagi meringankan beban mereka yang benar-benar memerlukan. Usaha ini bukan sahaja memberi erti yang besar dalam membantu golongan yang memerlukan bantuan malahan dapat memupuk serta merapatkan hubungan antara penjawat awam dan penduduk setempat, serta peka terhadap keperluan dan masalah rakyat di daerah tersebut.

Seramai 9 keluarga yang terdiri dari fakir miskin, warga emas dan kelainan upaya telah dipilih untuk program ziarah  pada kali ini.

Pengarah Wilayah Utara, YBrs. Dr. Zurina bt. Abdul Hamid turut meluangkan masa melawat setiap kediaman keluarga dan memberi bantuan kepada mereka.

Di harapkan program ini dapat diteruskan lagi dari masa ke semasa dalam merapatkan hubungan agensi kerajaan dan komuniti.

Program Ukhwah Warga (Majlis Tadarus & Khatam Al-Quran)

Jawatankuasa Surau INTURA telah menganjurkan Majlis Tadarus & Khatam Al-Quran yang telah diadakan pada 22 Julai 2014 bertempat di Surau Al-Falah, INTAN Wilayah Utara.

Program keagamaan ini antara lain bertujuan untuk memberi kesedaran kepada warga tentang amalan yang disunatkan pada bulan Ramadhan.

Tadarus Al-Qur’an, pada asasnya bermaksud membaca Al-Qur’an di hadapan seseorang yang dapat mengawasi bacaan itu daripada sebarang kesilapan. Amalan tadarus merupakan salah satu ibadat penting yang diberi tumpuan oleh Rasulullah s.a.w. dalam bulan Ramadhan.

Mengikut riwayat Ibnu Abbas R. A :

“Nabi Muhammad S.A.W. merupakan orang yang sangat pemurah dengan kebajikan, dan kemuncak kemurahannya ialah sepanjang bulan Ramadhan. Jibril a.s. menemuinya pada setiap malam bulan Ramadhan sehingga habis bulan itu dan Rasulullah membacakan Al-Qur’an kepadanya. Sesungguhnya Rasulullah adalah amat pemurah umpama angin yang bertiup kencang”.
(Riwayat: Al-Bukhari dan Muslim)

YBrs. Dr. Zurina bt. Abdul Hamid, Pengarah Wilayah Utara turut sama bertadarus bersama warga INTURA dan menyampaikan cenderahati kepada semua yang terlibat.

Program Ukhwah Warga (Majlis Berbuka Puasa)

Majlis Berbuka Puasa (Iftar INTURA) untuk warga dan keluarga INTURA telah diadakan pada 16 Julai 2014 bertempat di Dewan Jubli Perak, INTAN Wilayah Utara.

Program ini telah dianjurkan oleh Kelab Sukan dan Kebajikan (KESKI) INTAN Wilayah Utara dimana penglibatan untuk tahun ini turut dipanjangkan kepada semua pekerja kontrak/swasta INTURA dan keluarga untuk sama-sama memeriahkan majlis. Warga INTURA merasa bertuah dengan kehadiran yang amat memberangsangkan dari kalangan pekerja kontrak/swasta INTURA pada kali ini.

Antara pengisian program ini adalah Tayangan Video Kanak-Kanak pada pukul 6.00 petang, diikuti dengan perkongsian maklumat oleh Presiden KESKI INTURA En. Ramzi bin Akmal Hassan dan Amanat Pengarah Wilayah Utara, YBrs. Dr. Zurina bt. Abdul Hamid. Pihak KESKI INTURA juga turut menyediakan sumbangan duit raya kepada kanak-kanak yang hadir.

Program ini secara tidak langsung dapat mengujudkan pasukan keluarga besar yang terdiri dari warga dan semua pekerja kontrak. Program ini juga merupakan medium untuk bertukar pandangan sesama warga INTURA dan pekerja kontrak memandangkan waktu yang terbatas untuk berkongsi pandangan pada waktu kerja biasa.

Diharapkan program yang melibatkan keluarga besar sebegini dapat diteruskan lagi pada masa hadapan.

PENJAWAT AWAM, PENGUAT KUASA DINASIHAT ELAK TERIMA HADIAH SEMPENA AIDILFITRI

KUALA LUMPUR, 16 Julai (Bernama) -- Kongres Kesatuan Pekerja-Pekerja Dalam Perkhidmatan Awam (Cuepacs) mengingatkan penjawat awam dan anggota pasukan penguat kuasa mengelak daripada menerima hadiah dalam apa jua bentuk, terutama menjelang Aidilfitri. 

Presidennya Azih Muda berkata, seperti kebiasaan setiap kali musim perayaan, amalan memberi hadiah banyak dilakukan sebagai "mengeratkan" silaturrahim, namun bagi mengelak sebarang prasangka buruk, sebaik mungkin ia wajar ditolak. 

"Walaupun ia amalan baik, namun diharap semua dapat akur dan patuh kepada Pekeliling Perkhidmatan Bilangan 3 tahun 1998 mengenai garis panduan pemberian dan penerimaan hadiah dalam perkhidmatan awam. 

"Kita bimbang hadiah berupa hamper atau sebagainya ini terutamanya dari pihak yang mempunyai kepentingan, akan diinterpretasi sebagai pemberian bertujuan tertentu, kita nak elak pandangan serong pihak luar," katanya kepada Bernama. 

Suruhanjaya Pencegahan Rasuah Malaysia (SPRM) sebelum ini juga kerap memberi amaran yang sama, dan menasihatkan sekiranya ada yang menerima, melapor dan mengisytiharkannya kepada ketua jabatan masing-masing. 

Dalam perkembangan lain, Azih berterima kasih kepada kerajaan yang memberi bayaran bantuan khas kewangan RM500 kepada penjawat awam dan RM250 kepada pesara kerajaan sempena Aidilfitri dalam langkah mengurangkan beban kewangan mereka dalam membuat persiapan hari raya. 

"Cumanya, kalau boleh Cuepacs memohon kerajaan memanjangkan insentif berkenaan kepada pekerja kontrak, memandangkan mereka juga berkhidmat kepada kerajaan, dan ia wajar memandangkan gaji mereka yang kecil dan jumlah mereka yang tidak ramai," katanya. 

Bernama Online

5 Presentation Secrets That Will Change Your Life

You’ve been asked to give an important presentation. A lot is riding on how well you can deliver. The problem is, you’re not sure where to begin. The last class you took on presentation skills told you to tie your hands behind your back and blend in with everyone else. Is that really a good approach?

The answer is a LOUD and RESONATING "NO WAY!"

If you want to WOW your audience, you have to STAND UP and STAND OUT!

Here are 5 Presentation Secrets designed to help you see an immediate and dramatic improvement in your presentation performance.

Secret #1 - Manage Your Anxiety So That It Doesn’t Manage YOU!

Most of the nervous symptoms you experience before a presentation are exactly the same as those you feel when excited. To the body adrenaline is very simply—ENERGY. If we call it energy or excitement it is good, if we call it anxiety, it is bad. The first step toward successfully managing your anxiety is to remove the negative label and rename that feeling you have right before you step up to the podium, EXCITEMENT. Tell yourself that you are excited about the opportunity to speak in front of this group. “Excitement” is a much more manageable and positive emotion than “anxiety.” Then use your excitement to energize you and help you communicate your enthusiasm to your audience.

Secret #2 - When It Comes To Your Delivery Style, Be More Of Who You Really Are!

Everyone has their own innate “style” of presenting. Your style is made up of many different aspects of your delivery, including your body, voice, face, the way you use language, level of formality, etc. The trick, within your style, is to be more of who you really are, which means knowing and then capitalizing on your greatest delivery strengths.

Many presenters focus too much attention on their words. With words only accounting for 7% of your power as a presenter, spending too much energy on the words alone is a big mistake. Your nonverbal delivery style—also called your presentation personality--accounts for 97% of your power as a presenter. To improve your chances for success, focus on the real source of your power—your nonverbal communication such as eye contact, facial expressions, gestures, posture, movement, proximity, clothing, vocal variety, rate, loudness, and silent pauses.

Secret #3 - Give the Audience All the Enthusiasm You Want Back!

You can’t expect an audience to be enthusiastic about a product or program you aren’t excited about. Presentation author Doug Staneart concluded, “Your audience will have just about as much excitement about your presentation as you do, and no more.” Enthusiasm is very catchy. Most audiences will match your level of enthusiasm pound for pound.

According to the Lamalle Report on Top Executives of the 1990s, one of the most important factors in determining financial success by those earning over $250,000 is being enthusiastic and having a positive attitude (46%). Apparently, along with being incredibly enthusiastic, successful people never underestimate the power of positive thinking.

Why does having a positive attitude matter so much? Research solidly indicates that expectations influence behavior meaning if you expect to succeed, it is likely that you will and if you expect to fail, you are more likely to be unsuccessful. Expectations create outcomes because we work toward the outcome we expect, even if it is failure. Henry Ford said, “Whether you think you can or think you can't--you are right.”

Enthusiasm has amazing transformational powers. As you release your energy using positive nonverbal behaviors (gestures, movement, loud voice, etc.), you will begin to relax. And, your audience will quickly become excited. It works like magic! Watch how easily you can transfer your enthusiasm to your audience.

Secret #4 - NEVER Apologize, Confess, Or Make Excuses!

Presenters say the darndest things…“I’m sorry but I have a cold today so my voice may sound a little funny” (apology) OR “I just found out about this presentation yesterday, so I didn’t have as much time to prepare as I would have liked” (excuse) OR EVEN “I’m so nervous…” (confession). It is always surprising how often and how easily presenters use these NEGATIVE phrases.

Up until now, that is.

If you want to WOW your audience, you have to adopt and live by the motto: NO APOLOGIES, NO EXCUSES, NO CONFESSIONS.

When you APOLOGIZE, MAKE AN EXCUSE, or CONFESS at any time during your presentation, you are in essence saying to the audience, “Don’t expect a lot from me today because I’ll disappoint you.” Instead of APOLOGIZING--“I’m sorry I didn’t bring in a sample, but I couldn’t arrange it on such short notice,” try framing it in the positive, “I am working on getting you a sample and I can deliver it next week.” Instead of making EXCUSES, put your energy into delivering the best possible presentation and then stand behind your performance--“I did the best job I could given the circumstances.” And limit your CONFESSIONS--especially those the audience has no business knowing such as “I’m so nervous”--to church!

Secret #5 - Get Your Audience Involved In Your Presentation!

People are notoriously BAD listeners. In fact, the attention span of the average American is just nine seconds. That means every nine seconds each member of your audience takes a little mental vacation from the taxing work of listening to your presentation.

With so much fading in and out, it makes sense that the audience remembers only about 20% of what they hear. Stated conversely, the audience will FORGET nearly everything you say (80% of it anyway). Retention improves when you add a visual element to your presentation, but it still is rather dismal at 50% (don’t celebrate yet, they are still forgetting half of your presentation!). And that’s just immediate recall. I’m sorry to say that it gets worse as time elapses.

So how do you get the audience to remember MORE of your presentation for longer periods of time? To raise your audience’s remembering quotient, you have to engage them in your presentation, getting them to actively participate in it. Your goal is to transform the audience from passive listeners to active participants.

The six best ways I’ve found to engage the audience in your presentation is to:

1. Ask the audience a question

2. Take a poll

3. Involve the audience in a demonstration

4. Give the audience a test

5. Give the audience a listening assignment

6. Employ a gimmick

When an audience participates in a presentation, they are fully engaged in the presentation. This means that every part of them is involved in the presentation—their hearts, minds, and bodies. The voice inside their head that thinks of all kinds of extraneous, random thoughts, is for once, silent while they focus solely on your presentation. This concentrated focus enables them to remember so much more!

By : Debbie Bailey

Extract from : http://www.leehopkins.com/

Program Ukhwah Warga & Peserta DPA (Bubur Lambuk)

Kelab Sukan dan Kebajikan (KESKI) INTAN Wilayah Utara telah menganjurkan Program Memasak Bubur Lambuk antara warga INTURA dan Peserta DPA pada 9 dan 15 Julai 2014 sempena Ramadhan Al-Mubarak.

Tujuan utama program ini dijalankan adalah untuk mengeratkan hubungan sesama warga INTURA dan juga peserta DPA. Antara pengisian program ini adalah gotong royong penyediaan bubur lambuk dan edaran di beberapa lokasi terpilih di Sungai Petani. Majlis pelepasan Skuad Edaran Bubur Lambuk telah disempurnakan oleh YBrs. Dr. Zurina bt. Abdul Hamid, Pengarah Kampus Wilayah Utara.

Pihak pengurusan dan KESKI INTURA merakamkan setinggi penghargaan kepada warga INTURA dan peserta DPA yang banyak mnembantu dalam memastikan aktiviti ini dapat berjalan dengan lancar.

‘Change needed in local govts’

KUALA LUMPUR: THERE is an urgent need for transformation in the operation and management of local governments to better serve the needs of the people, said 1Malaysia Foundation trustee Tan Sri Lee Lam Thye.

Lee said this was part of the Government Transformation Programme, where local authorities were closest to the people.

“They are the managers of urban environments, while communities are the stakeholders. With each passing day, local governments become more significant in terms of acquiring the capacity to deal with the many issues, and finding quick and effective answers to the community’s needs.”

Lee said local governments, instead of being the lowest level of government, should become the highest in terms of the people’s need for services.

“All local authorities should strive to give their best and be held accountable to the people they serve.

“Employees of local authorities must serve with integrity to secure the people’s confidence. The absence of local government elections mean that local councillors are not the choice of the people but are appointees of the state government.

“Poorly managed local authorities inevitably lead to bad governance. Governance refers not only to the relationship between governments and state agencies, but also between government, communities and social groups.”

He said good governance required wide participation and discussion involving not only governmental agencies, but also diverse representation from non-governmental organisations and civil groups.

“Involving citizens at the grassroots level is a key ingredient of good governance. This is more so when we do not have elected local councils.”

Lee said transforming the operations of local authorities was in line with the recent call by Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak to all local authorities to feel the pulse of the people and to attend to their needs.

NST Online

Berita@INTURA Jun 2014

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