SINGAPORE - Compared with citizens elsewhere, Singaporeans pay much less in taxes and yet are able to enjoy high-quality public services, said Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Lawrence Wong on Friday, as he debunked claims that middle-income Singaporeans are overtaxed. The impact of the Budget on the middle-income had come up during the Budget debate, with MPs from both.
SINGAPORE – Drastically lowering prices of Build-to-Order (BTO) flats, to the extent of disregarding land costs, would only end up hurting all Singaporeans instead of helping them, said Senior Minister of State for National Development Sim Ann. As state land forms part of the nation's reserves, not paying back the fair market value of the land would, in effect, run.
The People Action Party's (PAP) decision to impose the whip on its Members of Parliament (MP) was the "only reason" why repealing the colonial-era Section 377A could be decided in Parliament, Law and Home Affairs Minister K Shanmugam said on Tuesday (Nov 29). In his speech to Parliament to round up the 10-hour debate over two days, Shanmugam said that.
SINGAPORE (The Straits Times/Asia News Network): Parliament on Tuesday (Nov 29) voted to repeal a decades-old law criminalising gay sex, while endorsing changes to the Constitution to protect the current definition of marriage from legal challenge
A petition for the Selective En bloc Redevelopment Scheme (Sers) to be put on hold and thoroughly reviewed has been turned down by the Government, as it does not expect many more sites to be eligible for the "highly selective" scheme. Most of the projects with high redevelopment potential have already been selected, and thus, an extensive review of Sers.