About COE - True or Fake?
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Wind_Talker
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Re: About COE - True or Fake?
True or not, I will never know. What I do know, one can never escape death and taxes. If you want to play then be prepared to pay to stay in the game. Simple as that.
True or not, I will never know. What I do know, one can never escape death and taxes. If you want to play then be prepared to pay to stay in the game. Simple as that.
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Red_Bean_Bun
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Re: About COE - True or Fake?
Give the man a beer ......
10 sayings by ex-top civil servant Ngiam Tong Dow that lays the smack down on everyone | Mothership.SG
Give the man a beer ......
10 sayings by ex-top civil servant Ngiam Tong Dow that lays the smack down on everyone | Mothership.SG
Red_Bean_Bun
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Re: About COE - True or Fake?
He headed the civil service ......
He headed the civil service ......
wt_know;1038889 said:ex-TOP civil servant
how to qualify as TOP civil servant ar
top in ranking or top in quality or top in long serving?
the rest are "low" civil servant?
Baby1M
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Re: About COE - True or Fake?
Jam in Beijing that is ~90km long and lasted 11 days... disregard if picture is real or photoshopped.
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They worry SG road will end up with traffic jam similar to the picture below;kenntona;1038890 said:
Jam in Beijing that is ~90km long and lasted 11 days... disregard if picture is real or photoshopped.
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Re: About COE - True or Fake?
Current population 5.4m.
Current vehicles, local plate, 970,000.
Assuming everyone who has a license get to buy a car and drive........ we should have 2-3m cars on the roads not counting Malaysian plates......
Nightmare.
Current population 5.4m.
Current vehicles, local plate, 970,000.
Assuming everyone who has a license get to buy a car and drive........ we should have 2-3m cars on the roads not counting Malaysian plates......
Nightmare.
jasonmaxima
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Re: About COE - True or Fake?
whats the FC of cars stuck in jam??
Baby1M;1038899 said:
whats the FC of cars stuck in jam??
seanskye
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Re: About COE - True or Fake?
What they could have done better was NOT to do what some scholars always try to do - make it sexy to their bosses and over package. Call a spade a spade, keep it as a "Luxury Tax" or something to that effect. The public will understand that cars are only for those who can afford it, period. Call it anything else, such as 'Certificate of ENTITLEMENT' and every father mother's son will bang so hard on the freaking table demanding to be ENTITLED to own a car because they are this and that and whatever f, and miss the whole freaking point of the luxury tax system in the first place.
Case in point - if a person had to pay a Lux Tax of $80k to buy a car, he would first think twice about affordability within his means (or the combined means of his household). Now instead of that, we have COEs, and we feel ENTITLED to have that because we serve NS or pay GST or live/lived/rented HDBs etc etc. And the rest, is history.
What they could have done better was NOT to do what some scholars always try to do - make it sexy to their bosses and over package. Call a spade a spade, keep it as a "Luxury Tax" or something to that effect. The public will understand that cars are only for those who can afford it, period. Call it anything else, such as 'Certificate of ENTITLEMENT' and every father mother's son will bang so hard on the freaking table demanding to be ENTITLED to own a car because they are this and that and whatever f, and miss the whole freaking point of the luxury tax system in the first place.
Case in point - if a person had to pay a Lux Tax of $80k to buy a car, he would first think twice about affordability within his means (or the combined means of his household). Now instead of that, we have COEs, and we feel ENTITLED to have that because we serve NS or pay GST or live/lived/rented HDBs etc etc. And the rest, is history.
The Guardian
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Re: About COE - True or Fake?
Sometimes, is it true that when one gets and start to huan xiong, they will be more outspoken cos they have nothing much to lose?
Sometimes, is it true that when one gets and start to huan xiong, they will be more outspoken cos they have nothing much to lose?
Re: About COE - True or Fake?
good question actually..... when COE was abt quota numbers, it failed, so it became a price allocation..obviously this failed..so now they try engine power allocation...which will also fail sooner or later..
Next they may try number of cylinders allocation
kenntona;1038912 said:
good question actually..... when COE was abt quota numbers, it failed, so it became a price allocation..obviously this failed..so now they try engine power allocation...which will also fail sooner or later..
Next they may try number of cylinders allocation
Re: About COE - True or Fake?
What about engine oil use?
MW;1038915 said:
What about engine oil use?
