Heng Swee Keat berates WP for indicating they might debate GST hike at next election

Jewel Stolarchuk
Thu, 01 Mar 2018 12:24:34 +0000
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Finance Minister Heng Swee Keat had a lot to say about the Workers’ Party’s remarks on the impending Goods and Services Tax (GST) hike at the Budget debate. First, the Minister took WP assistant secretary-general Pritam Singh to task for “adopting a wait-and-see posture” instead of “taking a principled stand”. Singh had proclaimed at the …