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Property tax raised twice in a year
Chong Chee Kin & Carolyn Quek
Wed, Jun 18, 2008
The Straits Times

IN SEPTEMBER last year, the Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore (Iras) revised the annual value of our property and barely half a year later, it has once again revalued it upwards.

Is it fair for the Government to increase property tax twice within a year, especially when many people are struggling to make ends meet in the face of rising cost of living?

The pain is all the more unbearable for people who are retired and living on their savings.

This latest upward revision of the annual value of our property is all the more incomprehensible when recent press reports revealed that some newly launched developments are seeing a slide in prices.

 

Tan Wenfa


 

 
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