Hello Mooers!
A quick summary of recent hikes announced in Singapore 2023, as follows:
Bus and MRT (Adult Fare)
Up $0.1 to $0.11 from 23 Dec 2023
Petrol Price
Up $0.04 to $0.07 per litre (Aug 2023)
Diesel Price
Up $0.08 to $0.16 per litre (Aug 2023)
HDB town council service and conservancy charges (HDB flat)
Up $0.7 to $7.9 from 1 Jul 2023
Up $1 to $9.1 from 1 Jul 2024
HDB town council service and conservancy charges (Market & Food Stall)
Up $2.2 to $31.5 from 1 Jul 2023
Up $2.2 to $36.4 from 1 Jul 2024
Electricity Tariff (Household)
Up $0.98 per kWh from 1 Oct 2023
Gas Tariff (Household)
Up $0.51 per kWh from 1 Oct 2023
Water Charges
Up $0.2 per cubic metre from 1 Apr 2024
Up $0.3 per cubic metre from 1 Apr 2025
Plastic Bag Charge
Up min. $0.05 each from 3 Jul 2023
Goods and Sales Tax (GST)
Up 1% from 1 Jan 2023
Up 1% from 1 Jan 2024
So, here are the questions.
Do you anticipate more hikes in Singapore in 2023 to 2025?
Do you believe that the growth of your salary and investment is able to outpace these rising hikes?
Are you comfortable with all these hikes?
Do you have other plans such as migrating to other low living expenses countries?
Come and share your thoughts with other Mooers by commenting below.
Mars Mooo OP : If there are any recent hikes that are not mentioned in this post, please feel free to comment here. Thank you.
soyabean89 :
mr_cashcow : Everything but my stocks keep rising
賺小小的日內 mr_cashcow : What did you buy
Ixy The Cat : Worryingly food prices have jumped up since the 1% gst hike to 8%. My regular box of cereal was $6 now $7.8. Govt should made food items 0 rated ie GST exempt. But they are greedy...
hello-chives : Hawker food price should raise, they are one of the most underpaid community given the relatively long hours and hard labour
bubbleberrygum : I feel that sg inflation may not creep up more in 2024. in terms of food, daily living prices(excluding all those above price rise yea). my logic is based on how I feel that the prices for these items have already come down a little or rather, stopped increasing due to the demand and supply being better controlled. the supply jams from COVID I feel has eased, hence , I feel that exponential price increase we saw among commodities may drop. but I agree that interest rates among the banks will still edge higher. but if you are talking about inflation with regards to daily items like food increasing, -- which is diff from bank interest hike which I don't think is classified as 'inflation'? -- I feel, the prices might not increase or increase alot anyways
snoopy123 : Government monitoring businesses to stop them from using increased costs as excuse to profiteer: DPM Wong
https://www.todayonline.com/singapore/government-monitoring-businesses-stop-them-using-increased-costs-excuse-profiteer-dpm-wong-2269931
"Whether it's hawkers or other businesses, (they) may use these price increases as an excuse to profiteer, increase prices more than necessary," he said. "We have a committee set up against profiteering, we will continue to monitor against such behaviour."
The Committee Against Profiteering, chaired by Minister of State for Trade and Industry Low Yen Ling, was reconvened in 2022. It will ensure businesses will not use the Goods and Services Tax (GST) hikes as an __excuse__ to raise prices, and will focus on daily items commonly used or consumed by households in Singapore.
next year GST confirmed going up another 1%.. so prices (for everything) will have another "opportunity" to go up again.. and the fact that they have such a committee says it all...
soyabean89 Ixy The Cat : wait till u compare bread ..look at the bloody price of plain white bread from Gardiner and sunshine...my gawd even tech stock also didn't jump this wild yoy
soyabean89 Mars Mooo OP : we should have bread index comparing yoy...
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