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9月11日，2009年由admin 提意见 由尤金杨和杰里米koh 发表评论 Translated by Robin Chen 除了政治上的考虑外，政府也是出于经济利益使建屋局 (HDB) 价格持续走高。否则，谁又将如此愚蠢的杀鹅取金蛋呢？ 出售新组屋增加利润 由于新政府组屋价格与邻近重售单位挂钩，重售单位上涨当然得出是促使新单位组屋售价走高的结论，因此更多盈利来自组屋出售。 据最近公布讯息，BBR控股公司已经从建屋发展局（HDB）获得一个104.2百万新元的合同，在义顺4邻里建造7座单位组屋。这项工程包括864住户，幼儿中心，屋顶花园，公用设施和地面工程，以及一些应急工程。 （亚洲新闻道，2009年8月17日） 财务顾问梁先生（Mr. Leong Sze Hian ）计算，建屋发展局每售出一已完成的单位便可获超过$170,000的利润： “由于那里将有864组屋单位，每个单位平均成本，包括社区设施，现场工程和应急工程在内，平均成本约为$120602(104.2百万除于864个单位）。 随着榜鹅最新的建屋局新4房式（榜鹅公寓BTO）单位的平均售价$293 000（$264 000-$322,000价格），这是否意味着建屋局每单位可以赚取约$172,398利润，或约143%的盈利？“ [源代码：Hardwarezone] 建设组屋单位的成本仍然是政府唯一知道的一个谜。不幸的是，建屋发展局只说组屋单位属于补贴性质，但它从来没有说清楚出售给新加坡人的成本价格。 不管成本实际数目如何，从今年所制定新组屋和重售单位的售价来看，建屋发展局盈利可能增加。 财产税和转售收费 这些都是政府间接自组屋价格上涨获得的额外税收。 新加坡各种类型的产业，包括组屋，工厂及办公室都得缴税。 每一年所需要缴交的产业税是根据资产年估值或每年物业租金的4％来估算。 如果卖方出售的是第一次获得辅助津贴或根据公积金购房津贴计划购得的单位，他出售组屋单位给买家的决定必须获得建屋局批准。 如果他购买另一资助单位或接管开发商出售的行政公寓，或使用权未满5年的行政公寓，他必须付转售征收税。只有2007年11月20日后落成的行政公寓项目，他才免交转售征收税。 这转售征收税的缴付是根据建屋局不时变更的条规，政策和程序来决定。 凡建屋发展局任命的售方和/或买方处理重售组屋，有关建屋局的物业转让交易费用得按照房屋及发展（物业转售交易费用）条规计算。 不用说，在楼市处于交易蓬勃的高峰期，建屋局将看到更多 “业务”商机，因而从转售征收税及转让交易费赚取更多盈利。 吸引外国投资者 政府组屋的价格成为提供了支持私人产业领域的基础。 新组屋楼房的价格与重售单位衔接挂钩时，这将影响大众市场住房的价格。 组屋提高售价将让开发商寻到需求上涨压力作借口，推高郊区公寓的售价，因为公共组屋价格低于私人项目的房屋是不可思议的。 这无异弹高了新加坡中央和主要市区的小型产业的价格，为建立一个蓬勃的发产业市场，吸引有钱外国人投资购买新加坡的房产。 一个充满活力和活跃的房产市场，将使政府通过提高印花税增加收入，每个产业都得征收的消费税。 结论 建屋局组屋是政府在新加坡公共房屋垄断市场上独享的摇钱树。在没有任何竞争对手的情况下，它可以随心所愿，自由制定和操纵价格。 虽然政府可以也很容易地降低政府组屋的售价，但它出于自己的经济和政治利益需要，价格继续任由市场力量去决定。 不像1996年，房地产市场在毫无预警下突然崩溃，政府此刻将先发制人更加精准的控制价格免收不规则的波动影响。 据英国皇家特许测量师学会（英国皇家特许）伦敦总部代表和规范房地产专业人士以及测量师预测，由于经济的不稳定和高失业阴影的笼罩，新加坡的住宅市场了2010年出现反弹可能归于失败。（阅读文http://temasekreview.com/?p=12848） 如果这种情况发生时，政府组屋的价格可能会停滞和稍微下降，但仍然高于2007年的水平，期待价格下降或崩溃的置业者会感到失望。 鉴于建屋局转售单位和大众市场共管公寓价格之间的差距日渐缩小，对那些有能力额外多拨出10万左右款项或购置私人产业的买家，届时可能需要更加小心谨慎。  Read More →

By Fiona Tam from South China Morning Post When it comes to freedom of the press, the mainland has a poor record overall by Western standards, but Shenzhen authorities announced yesterday a new initiative to enhance government transparency, saying that officials who violated it could face Communist Party disciplinary action or lose their jobs. The latest regulation will require officials to give notice of any potential public emergency within two hours of the government launching its crisis management mechanism. "From December 1, any department heads of the Shenzhen government must not refuse or obstruct reporters' interviews over major policy changes, government work, disasters and emergencies, or they will need to account for dereliction of duty," Xinhua said, quoting the new regulation. Authorities said they would evaluate propaganda officials' work and promise to investigate complaints filed by the media and members of the public. The last regulation implemented by Shenzhen to boost government transparency was in 2003, but few mainland or overseas reporters said they had seen substantial improvement and did not believe the new initiative would give them access to government news any more easily than before. Read rest of the article on East Asia Review: http://www.eastasiareview.com/?p=56  Read More →

From our Correspondent A Vietnamese PR Pham Thai Ha, who worked as an IT engineer, was in charged in court with attempted outrage of modesty. Pham was accused of trying to kiss a 26 year old general practitioner in the west in June this year. (the gender of the doctor was not revealed, we assume it's a female) If convicted, he faces a jail term of up to one year or fine or caning or any combined sentence. In a similar case involving another PR IT engineer, Raju Ramesh was convicted of molesting 49 year old lady last month. He was walking towards Balestier Road on Jan 5 at 6.53am when he saw the 49-year-old woman walking in his direction. As he neared the victim, he grabbed her and kissed her. Raju was let off with only $2,000 fine.  In his defence, Raju said he is getting married in five months to his fiancee in India, and the two have plans to set up an IT software company. (not mentioned if it will be in Singapore) The apparent light punishment meted out to Raju (molest cases usually warrant a jail sentence in Singapore) caused a furore in cyberspace. Said SBF forumer alibaba: "So what if he was getting married in 5mths ? why no jail term? ridiculous ! what kind of system is this a 49 year old woman gets molested on the streets and we let the bugger off with only a fine. Even our low IQ kids or mental patients gets a heavier sentance if they touch a woman." Singaporeans will be waiting in earnest for the verdict on one of the government's many prized foreign talents. EDITORS’ NOTE: If you like our work and would like to support us, please transfer your donations via paypal to our account ([email protected]). Any amount will be greatly appreciated! Alternatively, you can also help boost our advertising revenue by clicking on the ads displayed. Thank you! Join our tweet at: http://www.twitter.com/temasekreview and facebook at www.facebook.com (search for “Temasek Review”)  Read More →