SINGAPORE will raise its consumption tax next year to fund programmes for its lower income households, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said in remarks published yesterday.
Raising the goods and services tax (GST) from the existing 5% to 7% will mean more money for new measures in education and health care to help poorer Singaporeans, The Straits Times newspaper quoted him as saying.
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