inSing.com, 20 Feb 2013
Marcelino Jr, who works as a senior manager with the Singapore Sports Council, agrees that the tax goes against current government efforts to integrate new citizens and will drive a wedge between local Singaporeans and foreigners.
He also criticises one of Hri Kumar’s points that low wage Indian workers be left out of the tax equation, as being unfair.
“If the tax is meant to offset the per-unit cost of security to each person in Singapore, then it has to be fair across the board – to all who do not contribute to NS. That means everyone foreign including foreign domestic workers. It shouldn't matter whether (they are) skilled, unskilled or professional,” the 43-year-old Filipino said. Full story
