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In order to encourage more people to buy their own flats, the new Budget introduced a special
per cent stamp duty rate of 2.75% for property worth
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$500,000 to be lifted to $1.5 million, and
property stamp there will be an exemption of duty for prop- erties worth $250,000 $1.5 million. this will benefit the sandwich class and help the property market to prosper.
On expenditure, I find that the Financial Secretary has had a more positive approach in
He the support to our industry in Hong Kong. pointed out that industry is the mainstay of our economy, and suggested a reduction of
for cent, corporate tax to 17% in addition a vast inc- rease in industrial expenditure has been made to attract more investment. Since Hong Kong entie- has already become the main export and e 420-0
E expert market for Hong Kong, and because the Hong Kong currency has depreciated, together with the US currency,we have had very good
entre-port performance in both export and expert last year. But since there will be more protect- ionist measures coming from the states and since the world economic situation is still
there will likely be an commemis recession uncertain, I think that we must change the nature of our industry from labour-intensive to capital and technology-intensive. We should use more advanced and modernised machines
the quality of and develop new products. to improve our products, I am glad to see that there will be an, extra allocation of $15.3
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billion to the Productivity Council so that it will provide more supporting services to the electronic and metal industries, and I am also glad to see that there will be a vast allocation to the Industry Department so that
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