If WP do not take this opportunity to kow-pei in the parliament, then they truly deserve to be buried.
You are 100% right. WP is so fucking timid. If you read the article, it says that "The Housing Board makes a Loss on home sales because its accounts include a provision for "foreseable losses" This is the difference between the selling price of the flats and the estimated cost of their development.
Hahahaha, what the fuck is this kind of accounting practice. Like that, any business in the singapore can include a provision for "foreseable losses" and not pay income tax at all. What if SIA includes $1 billion in its accounts as "foreseable losses". Like that WP can also include "foreseable losses" in its TC books. HDB conveniently forgot to mention as the prices of their flats have increased through the decades by several factors, the underlying value of these 1 million flats they own has also bumped up their asset value on their Balance sheet.
This is just bullshit accounting practice. If HDB lost $2 billion, just ask who reported $2 billion profit? SLA? URA? SLA just markup the price of the land they sell to HDB. HDB reports loss. Then next round of flat construction, they just raise prices lah.
Absolutely agree. HDB CAN NEVER LOSE MONEY. That is why I wrote in this forum that WP must engage the real experts to scrutinise government policies et cetera. Who in WP has expertise in this area? When I say expertise, I am not referring to someone who has a degree in accounting. I refer to people who can lecture on this subject in universities.
I am not surprised that HDB is losing so much money every year. HDB is selling 5-room flats at less than $450k while sinkies have shown that in the resale market, they are willing to pay at least $650k for the same apartment. Wasn't there an apartment in Toa Payoh that recently changed hands at close to $1M? And all the residents at Duxton Pinnacle are living in homes that cost $1M on the resale but they bought it cheap from HDB for only half the price.
PAP has clearly swung too far to the left. They need to shift their fiscal polices more to the right, instead of always raising taxes to give cheapskate sinkies too much subsidies.