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Please consider the proper disposal of EV's battery after the indicative end of life. Also communicate Singapore take up of EV powered up by Li-Ion Batteries over Hydrogen-powered type.

And setting up proper framework/standards for implementing the EV charging points, so that all charging points adopted same standards such as charging plugs type (same idea like UK plug for electrical outlets) - for safety purpose due to human error and not wasting of estate space in Singapore.

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Q1.
-limited education on recycling
- charge for plastic bag burden by customers, no incentive for business to evolve
- effective(touch lives) budget vs efficient(well planned) budget
- corporate social responsibility
- incentives for business to innovate, find alternatives

Q2:
- when carbon tax are raised, cost maybe passed on to consumers.
- Not too aware of the transitional support for businesses and household, more education and information in detailed to be shared to public
- should look at other source and alternative derive from corporate responsible program

Q3:
- Yes, we support SG Green Plan moving, but alot of education and society cooperation is required to make it effective. Communication on timeline/deployment of charging points important for local transition to EV of owners.

- Reflect our journey from fossil to clean gas n now to renewable , how are we faring with develop a gas index we can learn as we embarked to develop a carbon index which is crucial to transform our economy

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$700 - $1,600
To focus on people on lower and middle income instead of all Singaporeans.
To also to provide a QR code for people who wants to donate back rather than people trying to find ways themselves how to donate back.

More publicity on the printing of physical copy of the vouchers for the senior folks.

More publicity on kidstart to reach out to nation wide and to include complusory meaningful programs for after student care such as robotic programs or interesting programs for pri and lower sec students. Main purpose is nuture them in IT, Art and Music.

More publicity on allowing lower income people who are now renting a flat to apply and buy new house if they are deemed eligible.

Moe Kindergarten program can help to extend to pre schooler and if possible to have nursery besides to the kindergarten. To constantly look at increasing the no of school for this MK program.

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Table 4 - Job retention/ keeping employees engaged/ happy

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Table 4 - Job retention/ keeping employees engaged/ happy

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Turnovers are seemingly more apparent in the younger generations. Many employees are switching companies/ industries when they find places with better pay. this causes problems in knowledge retention, experiences, more work in corporate HR and need to constant review succession planning.

Is this a general concern in businesses and while individual businesses must do better to wngsge, and retain their talents, is there possibilities that govt can assist in anyway?

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- older worker issue (those who are above 50 because they are in a disadvantage as they have to consider many factors such as skills)

- subsidies drop per month

- it’s a positive thing that sgunited trainings does help the older workers and it is a good initiative that has been done

- wsg can continue to upskill the older age workers to improve their skills

- in terms of what we would like to see more to better support our workers, institutions charges should be lower

- in terms of foreign workers (can improve in terms of tech industry and financial banking services)

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Are we doing enough to mitigate social inequalities in Singapore, and what else can we do?

Giving more supplementary vouchers to lower-income families. However, digital vouchers though easy but not necessarily user friendly to the community, especially for the older residents

More can be increased on income tax in the wealth.

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Question 1
- Workers who lost job need to be train to transform, however, it all depend on the compa y to invest in training & worker to be willing to get trained
- Companies may just throw note to employee to read & dicipher information on their own.
- For blue collar jobs, local may not be able to sustaintiate with the same apy.

Question 2
- PWM objective is to increase productive of low cost worker & raise profile of the type of job
- PWM should perhaps also look into productive improvement before PwM is issued to the company
- PWM should also ensure the employability of candidates after training
- training have to match company need &  collaborate to provide meaningful training for transition
- For WIS, the give out will benefit those who marginally qualifies for the scheme bit for those who are marginally outside of the scheme will not benefit & maybe worst

Question 3 /4
-  minimum pay is good to ensure only qualified foreigners
- Scoring system will ensure only qualify individuals be employed
- need to ensure job be pivot to encourage family friendly work balance

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Q1: generally fair, burden lessened for low to middle income but fair share undertaken by higher income (ARF, property tax)

Q2: Fine line to balance locally and globally. But wealthy cannot become free-riders

Q3: Improving but we need to be aligned with current situation. Education is key to ensure that even with different starting points mobility is ensured.

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Feedback No. 1:
1. Foreign manpower restrictive
2. Budget measures are towards SME how about NPO, Associations, Societies who hire Singaporeans.
3. Support for R&D for ITE not helping the companies. Expand to more service providers
4. The financing scheme i
s very helpful.
5. Grant is limited only to SME
6. Overall is generous but may not help to offset challenges of Covid.

Feedback No. 2:
1.  We should help non SME also.
2. Need labour in service industry with opening up. More support is required. Allow more foreign workers in industry that Singaooreans do not wish to join because the pay is low.
3. Incentivise more Singaporeans to join services sector.
4. TADM current policy is not helping SME.

Feedback No. 3:
1. Cost of labor has gone up. Difficult to fill positions / attract talent for SME as labour market is tight.
2. With opening up with Malaysia it should ease the pressure.
3. Increase inflation and Covid is a double whammy.
4. The support is welcome but more needs to be done and define the details.

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In 2015, the Paris Climate Agreement sets out a global framework to avoid dangerous climate change by limiting global warming to well below 2°C and pursuing efforts to limit it to 1.5°C.

1. For households, the higher carbon tax will be felt mainly through an increase in utility bills. At $25 per tonne, this would translate to an increase of about $4 per month in the utility bills for an average 4-room HDB household. From 2024, businesses will be allowed to use high-quality, international carbon credits to offset up to 5% of their taxable emissions, in lieu of paying carbon tax.

2. Carbon tax will be raised to $25 per tonne in 2024 and 2025, and $45 per tonne in 2026 and 2027, with a view to reaching $50 to $80 per tonne by 2030. This will help change the behaviours pf tax payers. Only impacts a small number of large carbon emitters. However, carbon taxes are often passed onto consumers through increasing commodity prices such as electricity, fuel and transport.

3. The SG green plan will create millions of Green jobs for the future and demand for talent with green skills will increase.
One aspect to focus is also the transport. Singapore aim to be a car-lite city, supported by a comprehensive public transport network, which is the cleanest and most energy-efficient mode of transport. The government also wants to maintain our policy of zero growth rate for private vehicles – we are perhaps the only city in the world which has taken this bold step. And with this momentum, this will further accelerate EV adoption by building more charging points closer to where we live. Hence though future car driving aspirators will be disappointed with this but somw sacrifices will have to be made to make SG a greener state. We agree!

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With the recent adjustment to the foreign worker policies the local contraction companies may find a huge increase in their operation cost with this policies. This policies may not eventually achieve the outcome of these companies hiring Singaporeans. Moreover, the fresh grads who study civil engineering may not even get into the industry .

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- Overall positive sentiments towards greener approach
- Rebates to offset higher utility bills not much help; rise in rates seem to be higher than rebates
- Suggestion to build greener buildings (etc sheltered walkways so that it incentivises citizens to walk instead for talking public transport)
- Continuous public education and awareness
- EV charging points: Very limited. Given it’s so inconvenient, discouraging to change. Should not be limited to private transport, but also public transport (e.g. buses).
- Suggest to drive more awareness on why adoption is beneficial for us as end users (monetary and non-monetary wise)
- Suggest to target more education and awareness at a younger age. Laying foundation of green habits in schools, easier to make it as a habit in early age rather than at the later age.
- Leverage media, targeting different age groups, to educate the general public

- Increase in carbon taxes may trickle down to end users so this needs to be considered
- Job security for citizens will help to soften the impact of all these changes (if I have job security, business continuity, I will be less concerned with these changes)
- Further incentives for adoption of greener measures, both in the space of business owners and households in addition to general incentives. Double benefits for committed “green users”
- On disbursement/ support of funds, suggest to
implement that these are only paid out / payable only when green measures are taken up / adopted
- Lower income group will definitely need help. But also suggest to explore more government help for the middle income families as they are usually in the spot of “neither here nor there”. These groups are always stuck in between.

-  Specific to EV charging, social impact has to be considered in depth. Example, with the increase of EVs and insufficient charging points, EVs may be parked there for long periods hindering other users to charge
- Policies may need to be put in place to minimise social issues that may arise due to utilisation of charging points

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Table 4 - Supporting bankrupts/ negative income earners

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Table 4 - Supporting bankrupts/ negative income earners

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Business owners may have failed previously, but in singapore, bankrupts/ failed business owners are frowned upon more than in other countries. while serving their bankruptcy period, can more be done from ES or relevant agencies to support them, in helping them to upgrade skills, secure jobs based on their experience and the industries they are in?

Can also look at Sole Prop’s and SME’s P/L for early intenventions for failing businesses?

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1. - Clearer communications to respective households esp lower income on the impact.
- middle income( sandwich class) lack support in terms of children, transportations, elderly staying together.
- support based on the unit that you stay may not be fair

2. - CDC nt really for sandwich class. Great for lower income.
- gST, utlities, conservancy while there are assistance but does not create significant impact. Lower income will benefit the most which is good otherwise most residents will not feel the benefits that are rolled out.

3. - our table felt the assistance currently are good enough. There are plenty of support but its a matter of knowing where and who to reach out to.

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What are your views on having those who are better off contribute more?

Higher-income tax on wealth is supported.

Government should consider looking at tiered GST. Lesser GST % or No Tax on essential goods and more % on luxury goods. Use of data from supermarkets to identify common essential goods and brands.

Given the impending inflation and global situation, the rise in petrol and utilities are causing strain in cost of goods, would government then consider delaying GST?

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1. Views on measures to build a fairer and more inclusive home.
A. Tiered approach to support family( from lower income to higher)-> according to means testing result. (Currently support based on household type)
B. More support for resident whom not staying HDB(single elders/retiree residing in private property) -> give some support like U save rebate
C. increasing utility bills for resident working from home.
D. Lum sum payout VS regular payout ( to prevent over spending)

2. Aspects of the budget announcement do you resonate most or benefit from
A. CDC voucher- helpful to both resident and heartland stalls.
B. Staggered increase in GST and advance payout to support upcoming GST increase

3. Any existing scheme you think needs to review
A. Top up to child education accounts should be more for subsiding purchase of laptops/CCA programs/internet access
B.

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Incentives are good but rising cost is affecting businesses as well.  Cost of materials rising, but yet can't rise too high selling price.

When price fell for goods, how can we get those reductions seen in the selling price. Mechanism to enforce the normalisation of price in relation to reduce cost of purchase.
Eg fuel cost

Use more technology to increase productivity,  government to help increase larger environment for unskilled personnel.  Provide infra structure, new roles

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Table 4 - Challenges in Hiring Singaporean (Mindset?)

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Table 4 - Challenges in Hiring Singaporean (Mindset?)

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Difficult to find singaporeans who are willing to work nights, weekends, or travel to tuas/ other places which are not very accessible. which is a challenge amongst certain industries, such as f&b, shipping, etc.

Many engineers end up joining other industries, such as finance, IT etc, and very few maintain as an engineer as their career progresses.

over the generations, singaporeans mindset has seemed to be less resilient, more demanding

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Q1: This year’s budget is fair, but the sandwich class (middle class with parents and children to take care) will feel the impact

Q2: Good that those who are better off contribute more.
However, we should not appear to penalising those who do well.

Q3: Social inequality has widen due to pandemic.
Tax system is only one means to improve the situation.
Other system (healthcare system)  is required.

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Table 4 - challenges for employers (cpf contributions)

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Table 4 - challenges for employers (cpf contributions)

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Employees does not want CPF contribution, especially aged who may already have sufficient cpf, no housing loans etc. Is it possible to look into possibility of looking at other possibilities whereby the cpf employee contribution can be reduced for certain type of workers, if they are financially able? or how to convince them to be more acceptable of receiving cpf?

Other industries (grab) are attracting many employees and not contributing cpf, which attracts many pple who prefers receiving their benefits all in take home cash

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Do you think this year's budget is fair to all Singaporeans and why?

Fair in general, but lack oversight on the retirees in Singapore.

Criteria for how grants are disbursed are based on housing type is no longer relevant, means-testing based on household income might be better moving forward.

e.g Many PG/MG today are residing in 5-room flats however are no longer employed, but eventually are getting lesser grants due to criteria by housing type.

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ESG/PSG have been very helpful in providing help, grants, support to businesses.

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Poster - Building a Fairer and More Resilient Tax System