2007
Jan: All diesel-driven vehicles to undergo smoke test. (link)
Jan: NUHs A&E fee raised from $70 to $80. (link)
Jan: Skilled Foreign workers levy raised by $50, from $100 to $150,
for all sectors. (link) (link)
Jan 26: SMU Law Course to cost more, NUS says it may increase fees
too. (link)
Feb: KK Womens and Childrens Hospital hikes ward treatment fees.
(link)
Feb 14: Tax penalties from GST audits could increase. With the hike
in Goods and Services Tax (GST) by two percentage points, tax
analysts said tax penalties arising from businesses making mistakes
in GST audits may also increase. (link)
Feb 25: Sunny Cove: Fees to Pulau Hantu Raised - As of 24th
February 2007 (Saturday), the operator had increased the price for
the chartering of boat to local water. With the price hike, all
courses conducted at local water will be subjected to the increase
from 25th February 2007 (Sunday) onwards. (link)
Feb 25: Eldershield premiums to go up by years end. (link)
April 1: Singapore Medical Association withdraws guidelines on
fees. Doctors now have more flexibility to adjust their fees,
following a decision by the Singapore Medical Association (SMA) to
withdraw its guidelines on fees, as of 1 April. (link)
April 1: URA increase fees for Housing Developerss Licence from
between $500 to $8,000. (link)
April 2: NUS revise car park charges. (link)
April 8: Means testing for hospital admission to start within a
year. Subsidised patients that stay more than five days in a public
hospital can expect some questions about their income. (link)
(link)
April 11: Ikea to start charging customers for plastic bags. (ST,
11 April, 2007)
April 25: The Singapore American School increased tuition fees by
between $425 and $1,000. (link)
April: Within hours of each other, the four petrol companies in
Singapore - First Shell, then Singapore Petroleum Company (SPC),
ExxonMobil and lastly Chevron - each revised its prices. The retail
price of petrol and diesel rose by 10 cents. (Electric New Paper)
(link) (link)
May 14: NUH increase ward charges for B2 and C-class wards by $2,
increases of 4 and 8 per cent. (link)
May 23: DBS raises its e-transaction fee for initial public
offering (IPO) applications. Retail investors who applied for IPO
shares launched on or after that date, through the local banks
ATMs and Internet banking, were surprised that they now have to pay
$2. (link)
May 29: New fee hikes at public hospitals and polyclinics. A NEW
round of fee hikes is underway at most public hospitals and some
polyclinics. Subsidised patients at four public hospitals will now
pay $24 or $25 for every visit to a specialist clinic, up from
about $21. All 18 polyclinics, which used to charge a standard
consultation fee of $8 for adults, now charge anything from
$8-$8.80. (link) (link) (link)
May: From milk to Milo, cooking oil to coffee, canned foods,
processed foods, wheat products and more, prices have been rising
recently at supermarkets and hypermarts here. (link) (link)
(link)
June 1: Prices of milk go up. The price increase for condensed milk
ranged from $0.10 to $0.50, which means the prices for some brands
of condensed milk have gone up by nearly 45 per cent. The price
increase for evaporated milk ranged from $0.15 to $0.47, marking a
percentage increase of between 18 per cent to 48 per cent. (link)
(link)
July 3: Resale price index for HDB flats rise 2.9% from 3 months
before. (link)
June 4: Online hosiery shop increases price. There will be a
overall price increase on 4th June 2007 for all brands due to
increased cost of yarns and cost of shipping. (link)
June 6: Even before the Nets fee hike kicks in, a shoe shop in
Parkway Parade has already started charging customers extra to
cover the increase. (link)
June 7: Wholesale price of ducks goes up. The wholesale price of
ducks has increased by 20 cents a kilogram. (link)
June 7: Eggs price increase. Eggs now cost between 17 cents and 18
cents each. (link)
June 29: Rental space rents rise. Islandwide, rents at Grade A
malls have moved up by between 5-7 per cent in the first half of
this year and could increase by another 5-6 per cent by end-2007,
analysts said. (Business Times, June 29, 2007) (link)
June 29: Fees up by 14% on average at NUS. Two days before the
higher 7-per-cent GST kicked in on July 1, prospective students of
the continuing education arm of the National University of
Singapore (NUS) received news that fees for many courses had gone
up by an average 14 per cent. (link)
July 1st: GST increased from 5% to 7%. (link) (link)
July 1st: THE Singapore Petroleum Company (SPC) and market leader
ExxonMobil became the first companies to raise pump prices at their
petrol stations following the GST hike. The two companies increased
prices across the board for their three grades of petrol and diesel
by 0.23 cents to 0.33 cents per litre from 7am. Caltex will be
increasing its pump prices on Monday. (ST, July 1, 2007) (link)
(link)
July 1st: NETS announced a price hike for its Electronic Funds
Transfer Point-of-Sale (EFTPOS) and CashCard Services to between
1.5% and 1.8%. (link) (link)
July 1st: Pasir Ris Punggol Town Council revise penalties for
late payment of S&C charges to 2% and absorb 7% GST. (2004
rates) (2007 rates)
July 4: The Committee Against GST Profiteering (CAP) has found
price changes to be generally moderate since the announcement of
the GST increase in November 2006. (link)
July 10: Changi General Hospital increases A&E charges.
Following in the wake of earlier hikes by the National University
Hospital and Alexandra Hospital, CGH this month increased its
A&E attendance fee by $10 or 15 per cent to $75. For the B2
and C-class wards, the daily treatment fee went up by $1,
representing a 6-to-10-per-cent increment. The daily ward charge
for B2 wards also rose by $1, or 2 per cent. (link)
July 11: Starhub raise prices for cable tv packages. SCV
subscribers pay $4 more across the board. (link) (link)
(link)
July 11: The Committee Against GST Profiteering has received 33
complaints in the past six months about price increases, all
dealing with food items. About 10 cases involve chain businesses.
(ST, July 11, 2007) (link)
July 15: Electricity tariffs to be raised by almost 9% for July to
September. (link)
July 18: Govt raises development charge from 50% to 70% for new
building projects from 50 per cent to 70 per cent of the increase
in value of the land. (link) (link)
July 21: HDB rents at 10-year high. For the first time in recent
memory, monthly rents for some HDB flats have pushed northwards of
$2,000 in leases signed in the last couple of months. (ST, 21 July
2007) (link)
July 25: Hospital bills up 10% to 30% across all ward classes.
(link)
July: July inflation hits 2.6%, highest in over 12 years.
(link)
July (CPI): Housing costs increased 4.9 per cent because of higher
housing maintenance charges, electricity tariffs and rented
accommodation costs. (ST, Aug 23, 2007) (link)
July (CPI): Food prices went up by 1.4 per cent, mainly due to
dearer cooked food, fresh fish, fruits, vegetables and milk powder.
(link)
July (CPI): Transport and communication prices moved up by 1 per
cent, reflecting mainly dearer petrol and higher car prices.
(link)
July (CPI): The index for education and stationery rose by 2.1 per
cent as a result of higher fees at commercial institutions and
universities. (link)
July (CPI): Prices of clothing and footwear increased by 3.9 per
cent. (link)
July (CPI): Health care cost rose by 2.2 per cent on account of
dearer chinese herbs and higher charges for general medical
consultation and dental treatment. (link)
