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  2. Stamp duty - Wikipedia

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    Stamp Duty Land Tax" (SDLT), a new transfer tax derived from stamp duty, was introduced for land and property transactions from 1 December 2003. SDLT is not a stamp duty, but a form of self-assessed transfer tax charged on "land transactions". On 24 March 2010, Chancellor Alistair Darling introduced two significant changes to UK Stamp Duty Land ...

  3. Public housing in Singapore - Wikipedia

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    HDB residences in Bishan town. Public housing in Singapore is subsidised, built, and managed by the government of Singapore.Starting in the 1930s, the country's first public housing was built by the Singapore Improvement Trust (SIT) in a similar fashion to contemporaneous British public housing projects, and housing for the resettlement of squatters was built from the late 1950s.

  4. Revenue stamps of Singapore - Wikipedia

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    From the nineteenth century Singapore used revenues of the Straits Settlements. In 1948, the first revenue stamps exclusively for use in Singapore were issued. Three values were issued - $25, $50 and $100 - and the stamps portrayed King George VI. The $25 and $100 were reprinted in 1951 and 1953 respectively using a different perforation.

  5. Housing and Development Board - Wikipedia

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    The HDB Hub at Toa Payoh, headquarters of the Housing & Development Board of Singapore. HDB flats in Jurong West. The Housing & Development Board (HDB; often referred to as the Housing Board), is a statutory board under the Ministry of National Development responsible for the public housing in Singapore.

  6. Land value tax - Wikipedia

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    By revenue, property taxes represent 4.5% of total taxation in Australia. [84] A government report [85] in 1986 for Brisbane, Queensland advocated an LVT. The Henry Tax Review of 2010 commissioned by the federal government recommended that state governments replace stamp duty with LVT. The review proposed multiple marginal rates and that most ...

  7. Planning areas of Singapore - Wikipedia

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    Since implementing these boundaries, other government ministries and departments have increasingly adopted them for administrative purposes. For example, the Statistics Department of Singapore published its 2000 census data based on planning area boundaries for the first time, compared to using census divisions based on electoral boundaries for ...

  8. Council for Estate Agencies - Wikipedia

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    Since 1 January 2011, all property agencies and agents must hold a valid licence or registration respectively, if they wish to conduct any work relating to the sale and leasing of residential, commercial and industrial properties in Singapore.

  9. Ministry of National Development (Singapore) - Wikipedia

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    MND's key responsibilities include the planning, management and redevelopment of land resources and the development of public housing.The promotion of the construction, real estate and agrotechnology industries, as well as the management and improvement of industry standards in the real estate agent industry also come under the purview of the ministry.