Lawrence Wong
speaker
281 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Oct 2025
last heard 19 Nov
Lawrence Wong’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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We have just to remind them, you know, Singapore is a different society.
We are egalitarian, our norms are different, please understand.
And for the most part, they do.
So, tackling wealth inequality where it comes to our people and our population, that's something we continue to work on, whether it's income or wealth.
We have a range of policies.
It's not just about tax alone, because in Singapore, we have the ability to also provide wealth injections.
And a major reason why we can do that is housing.
Almost everyone owns their own home.
Majority live in public housing.
And when you buy a flat from the Housing Development Board in Singapore, you get housing equity.
And that's the reason why even at the lower end of bottom 20% of households, actually they have significant net wealth, net asset value because of home ownership.
so that's one way we can continue to fine-tune our policies to provide more support and uplift for lower income groups we also have a central provident fund which is social security which is the individual's own retirement nest egg which we do top-ups from time to time so our tool sets
are not limited.
I know there's a lot of interest.
Again, Bloomberg's favorite question for me.
Capital gains.
Capital gains tax, wealth tax.
A lot of questions about tax, but our toolkits are not limited to tax alone.
We also have wealth transfers.
We do have quite a big fly swatter.
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