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A big-hearted Budget on Valentine’s Day

Other than for buyers of expensive properties and cars as well as smokers, it had something for just about everybody and then some for those who have less.

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In an era of cost increases, DPM Lawrence Wong enhanced the Assurance Package by $3 billion to $9.6 billion.

In an era of cost increases, DPM Lawrence Wong enhanced the Assurance Package by $3 billion to $9.6 billion.

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On Valentine’s Day, Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Lawrence Wong

delivered a Budget package

packed with heart.

In an era of cost increases stemming from the two-step hike in the goods and services tax (GST) as well as higher inflation, DPM Wong

enhanced the Assurance Package

(AP) – which provides transitional support to all Singaporeans to defray the impact of the GST increase – by $3 billion to $9.6 billion.

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