Finance Minister Heng Swee Keat will deliver Singapore’s Budget Statement on Monday, February 19. TODAY file photo
SINGAPORE — This year’s Budget statement will be delivered on Feb 19 by Finance Minister Heng Swee Keat, the Ministry of Finance (MOF) announced on Monday (Jan 1).
There will be live television and radio broadcast, as well as webcast on the Budget website (www.singaporebudget.gov.sg). The Budget statement will be uploaded on the website after the speech has been delivered, MOF said.
Real-time updates of key announcements will also be posted on MOF’s Facebook page and Twitter account.
A pre-Budget Facebook question and answer session will be held on government feedback unit Reach’s Facebook page on Thursday from 8pm to 9pm.
The Q&A will be chaired by Holland-Bukit Timah GRC Member of Parliament Liang Eng Hwa, who heads the Government Parliamentary Committee (GPC) for Finance and Trade and Industry, and Fengshan MP Cheryl Chan, who is a member of the GPC.
Singaporeans can also share their views and suggestions in person at booths set up at these areas from 11.30am to 2pm:
- Tanjong Pagar Plaza concourse area (Jan 9)
- Singapore Management University, near Kou Fu Foodcourt (Jan 12)
The feedback exercise will close on Jan 12. The public can also submit their feedback through channels such as the Budget website, as well as Reach’s toll-free hotline 1800-353-5555, its Facebook page and Budget microsite (www.reach.gov.sg/budget2018).
Source: Today Online
Hope he becomes the next PM, if Major Paper General Kee Chiu is allowed to assume pole position its time to empty your bank accounts and flee far away from Singapore.
Along with GST, perhaps our greedy incompetent government might also raise ERP gantry rates? :P
Not election year, so not expecting much goodies. Hope Ah Heng won't collapse half way while delivering the budget live on national TV.
That time of the year has arrived for MIW to hand out tiny drumsticks, then later confiscating whole chickens from behind.