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Mr. HO, please continue.
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HIS EXCELLENCY THE
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Mr. Edward HO
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on the subject of housing,
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must express some concern in the following areas. Firstly, the
ambitious
public
housing
programme
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current
active
construction activities in the private sector, have contributed to
labour acute
back to
again,
manpower cots causes inflation and undesirable
shortage problem
unusual construction
and
workmanship. There is a shortage of experienced contractors skilled‡labour to provide a healthy competition in the construction
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Secondly, it is questionable, at this
stage, whether land production can keep pace with demand to cater In addition to a public housing programme after the mid-1990s. to the building of new housing/estates many of the old estates will have to be redeveloped, either because they have outlived their economic lives or because their unsatisfactory general
environments and densities would not living
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acceptable today. Part of this demand for land can be met by re- zoning, but I strongly believe that the full demand can only be met on which should by major harbour reclamation schemes, the work commence in the next two years in order to generate the necessary
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Lastly, although many opinions have 29 been expresed in this Council by Members last year and this year, on various aspects of taxation, I shall briefly put forward my views on this subject. Since there are only 700,000 (seven hundred- thousand taxpayers in Hong Kong, and 7.6 per cent of them, or 0.94 per cent of the total population contribute to 56 per cent of the salaries/tax yield clearly, it would be desirable to broaden the tax base if we are to follow the philosophy of prudent management of our economy. This inevitably means that any proposed taxation.
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