MR CHAN KIN-POR (in Cantonese): Fair and impartial elections are very important to Hong Kong. With the destruction of many core values of Hong Kong over these few months, we must firmly uphold our core value of fairness and impartiality which is one of the most important ones. What is fairness and impartiality? Actually, numerous …
MR CHAN KIN-POR (in Cantonese): President, the main purpose of the Judicial Officers (Extension of Retirement Age) (Amendment) Bill 2019 (“the Bill”), which is under consideration today, is to extend the statutory retirement ages for Judges and Judicial Officers and provide for the relevant arrangements. The Judiciary points out that the Court of First Instance …
MR CHAN KIN-POR (in Cantonese): President, in recent years, the Government has been committed to developing Hong Kong into an international innovation and technology (“I&T”) hub, as well as continuously enhancing policies on and measures for attracting talents outside Hong Kong to come here for work, with a view to maintaining Hong Kong’s edges amid …
MR CHAN KIN-POR (in Cantonese): Chairman, the amendment proposed by the Government this time around is to raise the one-off reductions of salaries tax, tax under personal assessment and profits tax for the year of assessment 2018-2019 from the original 75% to 100%, while the ceiling of $20,000 per case is unchanged. This is also …
Motion on “Inland Revenue (Amendment) (Tax Concessions) Bill 2019” (2019.10.30) Read More »
MR CHAN KIN-POR (in Cantonese): President, the Budget has proposed one-off reductions of salaries tax, tax under personal assessment and profits tax for year of assessment 2018-2019 by 75%, subject to a ceiling of $20,000 per case. The reductions, to be reflected in the tax payable for 2018-2019, will benefit 1.91 million people and 145 …
Motion on “Inland Revenue (Amendment) (Tax Concessions) Bill 2019” (2019.10.24) Read More »
MR CHAN KIN-POR (in Cantonese): President, first of all, I thank Mr Christopher CHEUNG for proposing this motion. I wish also to extend my support to him as he has found himself the target of much criticisms today. To establish the truth, we must conduct a thorough discussion over the issue. By working in concert …
MR CHAN KIN-POR (in Cantonese): The Secretary said in the main reply that in 2011, the Government required new petrol filling stations to provide LPG filling nozzles at a number of not less than 25% of the total number of filling nozzles at the station, but the measure has already been in place for eight …
MR CHAN KIN-POR (in Cantonese): President, the motion on “Vote of no confidence in the Chief Executive” proposed by Mr Andrew WAN and the amendment thereto by Ms Claudia MO to cripple the effort of amending the Fugitive Offenders Ordinance (“FOO”) are a “political show” of malicious intentions, a “critique session” that elevates the matter …
Motion on “Vote of No Confidence in the Chief Executive” (2019.05.29) Read More »
MR CHAN KIN-POR (in Chinese): President, the Government has allocated $2.5 billion to implement the “Lift Modernization Subsidy Scheme” (“LIMSS”), which is administered by the Urban Renewal Authority. Under LIMSS, those residential or composite buildings whose average rateable values of the domestic units therein do not exceed the prescribed amount are eligible for subsidies on …
Council Meetings (Question): The Lift Modernization Subsidy Scheme (2019.05.22) Read More »
MR CHAN KIN-POR (in Cantonese): I believe that, despite having heard a lot of negative criticism of the Budget in these two days, Members can look at the matter from multiple angles and listen to my speech. In fact, the Budget has many bright spots. However, I wish to first respond to a Member’s earlier …
Motion on “Appropriation Bill 2019” (2019.05.16) Read More »
