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The Six Measures That Started on 1 September 2026: BUDI95 Is Back to 300 Litres and the e-Invoice Line Moves to RM3 Million
Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim announced six immediate cost-of-living measures in the National Day address at PICC on 30 August 2026, all of them effective from 1 September. Two of them change a number a lot of Malaysians already had memorised. The BUDI95 quota goes back to 300 litres a month after five months at 200, restoring the level cut on 1 April, and BUDI Diesel rises from 300 to 400 litres. The e-Invoice exemption threshold triples from RM1 million to RM3 million in annual turnover, which LHDN says takes more than 1.1 million businesses out of mandatory implementation. Re-checked a week on: the AI programme has opened with published rules, the extra diesel litres turn out to need an application, and LHDN's own criteria are narrower than the RM3 million headline.
BUDI95 Is Still 200 Litres: What the Cap Is Worth This Week, and Exactly What Happens at Litre 201
The BUDI95 quota was cut from 300 litres a month to 200 on 1 April 2026 and, as of this week, it is still 200. That number is easy to argue about and hard to feel, so here is what it is actually worth: with unsubsidised RON95 at RM3.77 a litre for 20 to 26 August 2026 and BUDI95 fixed at RM1.99, the government is paying RM1.78 for every litre you buy on your MyKad — RM356 a month if you use the whole quota. The Finance Ministry's own FAQ, updated 30 June 2026, says nearly 90 per cent of users never get close: average consumption is about 100 litres a month. It also answers the questions nobody covers — that the quota is shared between RON95 and diesel, that unused litres expire on the 1st, that there is a RM250 ceiling per transaction, that e-hailing drivers can reach 800 litres, and that at litre 201 nothing dramatic happens at all: the pump simply charges you the unsubsidised price. Here is how the whole thing works, and where the argument over restoring 300 litres currently stands.