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What's in it for YOU?
A budget with everything for everyone - but what's in it for you? Read on to find out.

» In short: Budget 2009
» Let's share brollies, folks
» Press Statement: Keeping jobs, building for the future

     
 
 
S'porean to receive double GST credits in 2009
• 20% income tax rebate to be given
• $100m each added to Eldercare, Medicare funds
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  • Cash grant for employers
• $150m for Workfare Income Supplement Scheme
• 18,000 public sector jobs in next two years
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• $1.6b on marriage and parenthood
• $4b in healthcare infrastructures
• Public sector construction spending up
• $1 billion on sustainable development initiatives
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  Special Risk-Sharing Initiative
• Corporate income tax will be cut
• 30% road tax rebate for goods vehicles, buses & taxis
• 40% property tax rebate for industrial and commercial properties ...more

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Taxi operators to get at least $13m in tax reliefs
Every cab entitled to 30 per cent rebate on road tax.
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Brolly to save jobs
The help package is targeted at helping the man in the street maintain his rice bowl. Here's how you can preserve your job.
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Turn brolly upside down to get...
Recession clouds will be seeded with money to help businesses here. Look and you'll find money falling all over the town.
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Tharman's counter-cyclical slam dunks
Singapore distinguishes itself by not needing to borrow a single dollar from the future in order to fund today's stimulus.
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Govt keeping its powder dry
Demand boosters that developers had put on their wish-list aren't in Budget.
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Resilience Package offers a port in the storm
The government has demonstrated its ability to listen to industry feedback.
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Businesses hopeful that Budget will help cut operational costs
They are looking forward to a range of tax cuts.
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What I'll be looking for in this year's Budget
A government-funded lender for SMEs and restructuring home loans will help.
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Exceptional Budget for exceptional times
With the downturn, I have heard of how some who were retrenched were not given proper severance payouts.
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ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE AND OUTLOOK » read more
• Global crisis and recession
• Economic situation and prognosis for Singapore
RESILIENCE PACKAGE
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• Keeping jobs, building for the future
• Resilience Package: Fivecomponents
• Emerging stronger
JOBS FOR SINGAPOREANS
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• Jobs Credit
• Re-skilling: SPUR for workers and professionals
STIMULATING BANK LENDING
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• Special Risk-Sharing Initiative (SRI)
ENHANCING BUSINESS CASH-FLOW AND COMPETITIVENESS
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• Preparing for opportunities
(i) Easing business cash-flow
(ii) Sharpening competitiveness and capabilities for innovation
SUPPORTING FAMILIES
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• Direct assistance to households
• Support for charitable giving and the community
BUILDING A HOME FOR THE FUTURE » read more
• Expanding and accelerating infrastructure spending
• Developing suburban nodes
• Sustainable development
• Best place for families
SINGAPORE’S FISCAL ADVANTAGE » read more
• Prudent fiscal policies have given us critical resources
• Budget position
Conclusion » read more
 

» "this time round more needs to be done on the 'middle' income earners. This group of people are neither here nor there."

» Bunch of ungrateful people.
Nothing that the govt does seem to satisfy all of you.
Only know how to complain.

 


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