GEORGE TOWN, June 23 -- Penang chief minister Chow Kon Yeow has reiterated his call to Putrajaya to consider the state's request for the federal government to share the taxes collected from the state.

He said it is time that the federal government seriously consider the state government's request instead of pushing it aside.

"I took the lead last year by asking for a 20 per cent share of the taxes collected from our state but it was not approved and not taken up," he said in a press conference at his office today.

He said he is glad that the state-federal relations select committee chairman Gooi Hsiao Leung highlighted this issue and proposed that the federal government implement SST revenue sharing with states with the revision and ex...