{"id":31501,"date":"2017-09-29T14:45:56","date_gmt":"2017-09-29T06:45:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.imoney.my\/articles\/?p=31501"},"modified":"2017-09-29T14:45:56","modified_gmt":"2017-09-29T06:45:56","slug":"more-perks-budget-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.imoney.my\/articles\/more-perks-budget-2018","title":{"rendered":"More Perks In Budget 2018, Predicts RHB Research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Budget 2018 is expected to deliver a wide range of incentives, said RHB Research Institute, adding that the government might increase expenditure next year by 4.3% to RM269.3 billion from an estimated RM258.2 billion in 2017.<\/p>\n<p>The research house is predicting that perks for ride-sharing services as well as a higher allocation for education are on the cards.<\/p>\n<p>It also didn\u2019t discount a focus on Industry 4.0 as well as promoting high-technology industries in areas of automation, robotic development, big data and cloud computing.<\/p>\n<p>Other areas of concern include affordable housing, salary increment and benefits for civil servants, extension of BR1M, assistance for Felda settlers, and more tax reliefs.<\/p>\n<p>Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak, who is also finance minister, is expected to table the budget on October 27.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nst.com.my\/news\/nation\/2017\/09\/284645\/2018-budget-cost-living-most-popular-category\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><em>[Source]<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tax reliefs, anybody? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":19539,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[321,216],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-budget-2018","category-news-updates"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- 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