[p1acebo]

The curry puff used to sell from $1 to $1.20 just last year.

Now today GST increase 1%, they increase 30cts to $1.50

Which is a whopping 25% increase instead.  Not patronizing this stall anymore.

[p1acebo]

Gahment increase 1%, hawker increase 25%

[cheekopekman]

The curry puff used to sell from $1 to $1.20 just last year.

Now today GST increase 1%, they increase 30cts to $1.50

Which is a whopping 25% increase instead.  Not patronizing this stall anymore.

GST 9% starts today lah!  Happy 2024 lah!

[p1acebo]

Jin buay song. Knnbccb

And it is just a scrawny curry puff

[pinkpanther]

I ordered nasi sambal goreng @ $4 from my usual malay stall...today the macik asked me if I want big or small...$5 for big small $4

[p1acebo]

I ordered nasi sambal goreng @ $4 from my usual malay stall...today the macik asked me if I want big or small...$5 for big small $4

Blatant profiteering

[forum456]

The curry puff used to sell from $1 to $1.20 just last year.

Now today GST increase 1%, they increase 30cts to $1.50

Which is a whopping 25% increase instead.  Not patronizing this stall anymore.

60% support PAP and 70% support Tharman to have price increase.

[toothpick]

The curry puff used to sell from $1 to $1.20 just last year.

Now today GST increase 1%, they increase 30cts to $1.50

Which is a whopping 25% increase instead.  Not patronizing this stall anymore.

blatant profiteering? everyone is in business to profit?

[forum456]

Gahment increase 1%, hawker increase 25%

wake up your idea!

when opposition parties and TKL offered to reduce inflation and taxes, 60% voted for PAP and 70% voted for Tharman.

it shows Singaporeans deserve price increase !

just pay up since they have the mandate.

[Niubee]

The curry puff used to sell from $1 to $1.20 just last year.

Now today GST increase 1%, they increase 30cts to $1.50

Which is a whopping 25% increase instead.  Not patronizing this stall anymore.

Old Chang Kee or those Muslim type ??

[Clyde]

Should learn from Old Chang Kee, increase price to $2 just before 1 Jan. Nobody will scold them.

[Oyk]

GST 9% starts today lah!  Happy 2024 lah!

We had been paying 8% all along.  Nao, it's only 1% more.  Should not even feel it, both sellers and buyers.

There are 2 groups of peepur who are sexploiting this:-

1.  The 39% who keep ranting 9% 9%! as though prices of raw materials and finished goods all went up by 9% when it's only 1%.  They do this for the obvious reason to get PAP voted out.

2.  Hawkers and also other business peepur/companies who try to pull a fast one, to profiteer.

We don't need a CPA to tell us that there is such a thing as Input Tax and Output Tax. For GST registered companies, they can offset these two, and pay the difference to IRAS.  Effectively, they are acting as a tax agent...or tax collector...for IRAS.  GST-registered Companies do not pay GST.  It's their customers who pay.  Repeat:  GST-registered COMPANIES DO NOT PAY GST!

There is no reason for them to raise prices because of GST.

Smaller businesses that are NOT GST-registered would be paying 1% more for their raw materials.  It's so negligible that most would just absorb it rather than charge $4.001 for the bak chor mee. But if they charge $4.50, that's 50 cents more, and tell you GST is 9%, that's a lie.  It is not 9% increase.

[p1acebo]

Old Chang Kee or those Muslim type ??

Chinese stall

[Napoleon Porlumpar]

The curry puff used to sell from $1 to $1.20 just last year.

Now today GST increase 1%, they increase 30cts to $1.50

Which is a whopping 25% increase instead.  Not patronizing this stall anymore.

if 30% of the people are like me............prices would be the same as over 10 years ago...............once prata kosong went to 70cents.............i stopped eating.........

[p1acebo]

blatant profiteering? everyone is in business to profit?

Yes, blatant profiteering by a blatant 25%  KNNBCCB!  **#%()@#%%

[Oyk]

wake up your idea!

when opposition parties and TKL offered to reduce inflation and taxes, 60% voted for PAP and 70% voted for Tharman.

it shows Singaporeans deserve price increase !

just pay up since they have the mandate.

To get ah jib kor voted out, Mahathir promised the rakyat ten things.  Yes, ten things. Other than abolishing GST, which is one of the ten things he promised, what else did he deliver to the rakyat?

The old fox knew that GST was needed to run the economy.  So what did he do after cutting off this important source of government revenue?  He brought back SST.  The jhks got pwned big time by the fox!

Do you want to believe the oppies?  You think Singapore can run by printing SingDollars?  If we remove GST, or even lower it, there is no other way but to raise Income Tax to make up for the loss in inland revenue.  And I'd bet that's what the oppies would do because that is what they have to do.  No other way.

Everyone, both local and foreign, pays GST for his spending.  Singaporeans are given GST rebates, but foreigners are not.  Why are you all asking for GST to be removed, or reduced, or not increased? I am happy to see foreigners paying more taxes, while we, on the surface, appear to be paying but are getting it refunded in the form of GST Rebates!

In edmw, a lot of jhks are pretending to be Singaporeans, trying to make the government think that these "netizens" are Singaporeans, and getting hurt by the COL because of GST.  They have an ulterior motive, an agenda.  Of course, you are doing the same because you are a jhk...

[hansamu]

The pork bun seller at Chinatown used to sell the big Pau for $1.50, suddenly increased to $1.80.

Really too much, won't be patronising this freaking profiteering stall. PCB

[Oyk]

We had been paying 8% all along.  Nao, it's only 1% more.  Should not even feel it, both sellers and buyers.

There are 2 groups of peepur who are sexploiting this:-

1.  The 39% who keep ranting 9% 9%! as though prices of raw materials and finished goods all went up by 9% when it's only 1%.  They do this for the obvious reason to get PAP voted out.

2.  Hawkers and also other business peepur/companies who try to pull a fast one, to profiteer.

We don't need a CPA to tell us that there is such a thing as Input Tax and Output Tax. For GST registered companies, they can offset these two, and pay the difference to IRAS.  Effectively, they are acting as a tax agent...or tax collector...for IRAS.  GST-registered Companies do not pay GST.  It's their customers who pay.  Repeat:  GST-registered COMPANIES DO NOT PAY GST!

There is no reason for them to raise prices because of GST.

Smaller businesses that are NOT GTS-registered would be paying 1% more for their raw materials.  It's so negligible that most would just absorb it rather than charge $4.001 for the bak chor mee. But if they charge $4.50, that's 50 cents more,  and tell you GST is 9%, that's a lie.  It is not 9% increase.

CASE should come out to explain this to the general public.

They should not sit in their aircon rooms waiting for peepur to complain.

Any increase in prices that is more than 1% is sheer profiteering.

[Clyde]

Some jhk also pretending to be Singaporean when they do not know that not all Singaporean received GST rebates.

[cheekopekman]

CASE should come out to explain this to the general public.

They should not sit in their aircon rooms waiting for peepur to complain.

Any increase in prices that is more than 1% is sheer profiteering.

Don't touch CASE hor! Later you will become very busy with them lah!

[Oyk]

Don't touch CASE hor! Later you will become very busy with them lah!

31.12.23
Kali pok $1.80
Mee pok $4.00

1.1.24
Kali pok $2.20
Mee pok $4.50

Ask them why, they answer:  GST increase!  GST 9% you don't know meh?

Prices are displayed, nothing is hidden from sight.

You still pay.  Willing buyer willing seller.  There is nothing CASE can do about it. 

But they can educate the general public that increases of more than 1% is not justifiable.  Suppliers can only increase their prices by more than that if the cost of their raw materials which they get from the importer or wholesaler went up by more than 1%.

[Niubee]

Govt cause high inflation through taxes and property prices and rental.

To take back money given out..during Covid

[[[ForeverAlone]]]

The curry puff used to sell from $1 to $1.20 just last year.

Now today GST increase 1%, they increase 30cts to $1.50

Which is a whopping 25% increase instead.  Not patronizing this stall anymore.

Obviously today some " greedy hawker will ride on another GST hike to increase price "

[hansamu]

The Profiteering Committee just sits pretty with crossed legs while prices surge aggressively throughout SG.

A useless white elephant just for show ???

[pinkpanther]

To solve the high cost of living,  I urge the gov to give every citizen a one-time payout of $200k   so we will not complain anymore!

[winbig]

The Profiteering Committee just sits pretty with crossed legs while prices surge aggressively throughout SG.

A useless white elephant just for show ???

Confirm. The committee does nothing at all.

[Huliwang]

You all kpkb for F...k. This only stirs up the emotion of everyone and causing frustration. If you are serious you shud put you displeasure into action and dun quietly and hypocritically let yourself strike by lightning in the next GE.        

[mikotan]

Nothing will change. People still like to eat out. Forumers here go setup stalls and sell cheap cheap?

[RiseofAsia]

To solve the high cost of living,  I urge the gov to give every citizen a one-time payout of $200k   so we will not complain anymore!

If the reserve $$$ is to distribute.
Every Singaporean shd be able to get 200k or more.

[RiseofAsia]

Nothing will change. People still like to eat out. Forumers here go setup stalls and sell cheap cheap?

Change will only happen when there is no food to eat.