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SINGAPORE (Jan 5):  With Minister for Finance Heng Swee Keat to deliver this year’s Budget Statement in Parliament on Feb 19, Deloitte has released its wishlist for Budget 2018.

HONG KONG (May 18): The value of pay and benefits packages for expatriates moving to Hong Kong and Singapore continued to decline last year, according to consultancy firm ECA International.

WASHINGTON (May 5): House Republicans mustered just enough votes to pass their health-care bill Thursday, salvaging what at times appeared to be a doomed mission to repeal and partially replace Obamacare under intense pressure from President Donald Trump

SINGAPORE (Feb 22): Maybank Kim Eng maintains its 2017 gross domestic product (GDP) estimates at 2.5% following the release of the Singapore Budget 2017 on Monday , noting that this year’s Budget is “more conservative than expected”.

SHANGHAI/BEIJING (Dec 1): China will impose an extra 10 percent tax on super cars and other luxury models costing 1.3 million yuan ($0.27 million) and above, in a bid to rein in lavish spending and to reduce emissions, the ministry of finance has said.

MUMBAI (Nov 30): In late September, a woman in National City, California, received a voice message on her phone saying she was in trouble with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) over "tax evasion or tax fraud".

NEW YORK (Nov 7): The dollar will plunge toward the weakest since 2013 against the yen in the wake of an election victory for Donald Trump, the most-accurate currency forecasters say.