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When we do receive the GST vouchers, it does make sense to make sense of why we need the GST vouchers in the first place. It is because the GST is about to be raised again, that's why Singaporeans need help with GST. While we will be happy with any chicken wings the government gives our way, we should remind ourselves how much more the GST hike is going to be soon.

Water price hike is normal but to increase 30% is abnormal. Normal will be 1%-5% for necessities like water. Water must never be a luxury. Ask any business manager or accountant, 30% increase can be only due to incompetency, greed, power, bad accounting and bad management.

The HDB and URA announced on Tuesday (30 June 2016) that parking rates at public carparks will rise starting from December. For public car parks outside the restricted zones, charges will be raised by 10 cents from 50 cents to 60 cents per 30 minutes of parking. Season parking rates will be increased by $15 for open car parks and $20 for sheltered parking.

My kids childcare The Learning Campus also price hike from 700+ to 900+ after subsidy. Current full day fee (published rate before subsidy) is $980. The revised few wef January 2016 is $1230. It is a hike of 25%!!!!

A group of local teenagers - 3 boys aged 14, 18 and 20, and a girl aged 16 - were rescued from MacRitchie Reservoir on Sunday evening after they got lost in the sprawling nature reserve. The group had planned on a leisurely hike in the nature reserve on Sunday but somehow got lost while trekking through the thick vegetation.

Commuters using public buses and tour coaches to travel to Malaysia can breathe easy despite the recent announcements on the Causeway toll hikes, at least for now. The three public bus services that go to Johor Baru are classified as basic services, for which fares can be revised only at the Public Transport Council’s (PTC) annual round of fare reviews. Similarly, private bus operators say they have no plans to raise ticket prices at the moment. Grassland Express and Tours’ general manager Tan Boon Huat and his counterpart at CitiExchange Express said their companies would absorb the hike.

Singapore will ensure that its toll charges match Malaysia’s, as part of a “long-standing” matching policy which “reflects the shared nature of the two crossings, and ensures a fair distribution of total revenues from the crossings,” said Senior Minister of State (Finance and Transport) Josephine Teo in Parliament today (Sept 9). Since August, the Malaysian government had increased toll charges for all vehicles, except motorcycles, travelling from Singapore to Johor through the Causeway, and introduced a new Causeway toll for all vehicles travelling from Johor to Singapore. Those travelling from Johor to Singapore previously paid no tolls.

For Singaporean Fahmi Rais, 46, who lives in Johor and commutes across the border daily, the toll increases will dent his disposable income. Mr Fahmi, who owns a cafe in Johor, said that as travelling between Singapore and Malaysia - whether for work or eduction - has become a "bread and butter" necessity, people will just have to swallow the increase.