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On 15 February 2007 (Budget Day), then Second Minister for Finance Tharman Shanmugaratnam announced that the GST rate would be increased to 7% with effect from 1 July 2007. The rate increase was accompanied by an offset package to help Singaporeans with the increase in GST. The package would cost the government $4 billion over five years. [6]
UOB economist Barnabas Gan expects Singapore GST will rise to 9% from as early as 1 July, adding revenue of S$1.8 billion for 2022.
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t. e. A value-added tax (VAT or goods and services tax (GST), general consumption tax (GCT)) is a consumption tax that is levied on the value added at each stage of a product's production and distribution. VAT is similar to, and is often compared with, a sales tax. VAT is an indirect tax, because the consumer who ultimately bears the burden of ...
Ministry of Finance. Website. www.iras.gov.sg. Agency ID. T08GB0020K. Revenue House, the headquarters of the Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore, at Novena, photographed in May 2006. The Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore (IRAS) is a statutory board under the Ministry of Finance of the Government of Singapore in charge of tax collection.
Singapore Finance Minister Lawrence Wong on Friday (18 February) unveiled a Budget aimed at raising revenue to support the economy as the country makes plans for a post-pandemic future.
As of 8 June 2013, Singapore's unemployment rate is around 1.9% and the country's economy has a lowered growth rate, with a rate of 1.8% on a quarter-by-quarter basis—compared to 14.8% in 2010. 2015 and 2016 saw a downturn for the nation as GDP growth shrunk to just 2 percent.
The GST Subvention is disbursed to the town council every quarter [1] and has been used to offset the increase in GST on the S&CC costs for residents at least since December 2002, when then-Minister for Finance Lee Hsien Loong announced an increase in GST from 3% to 4%. [20]