Hong Kong plans to lower taxes and further cut levies on property transactions, as part of efforts to get economic activity humming again amid an increasingly fraught trade environment, the Wall Street Journal reported. In the annual presentation of the budget for the next fiscal year, the Asian financial hub will reduce salaries tax and businesses’ profit tax by 100%, subject to a ceiling of 1,500 Hong Kong dollars, equivalent to around US$193, said Hong Kong Financial Secretary Paul Chan on Wednesday.
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Hong Kong will file a complaint against the U.S.’s additional 10% tariff with the World Trade Organization, claiming the levies violate WTO rules, the Wall Street Journal reported. In a statement released Friday, a spokesman for the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) Government described the tariffs as “unreasonable measures” and “grossly inconsistent with the relevant WTO rules.” The U.S. measures “ignore our status as a separate customs territory as stipulated in Article 116 of the Basic Law,” and recognized by the WTO, the spokesman said.
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Hong Kong’s Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) has identified 33 additional suspicious websites impersonating HashKey, a licensed crypto trading platform. This brings the total number of flagged impersonators to 45, CoinMarketCap.com reported. HashKey, which in November 2022 became the second exchange to receive a crypto license from the SFC, reported these fraudulent links, stating that they slightly altered official website addresses to mislead users. In a notice to clients, HashKey emphasized that it has no connection to the fraudulent websites.
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A Hong Kong court delayed a hearing on Sino-Ocean Group Holding’s restructuring agreement with lenders, as the state-linked builder awaits a decision later this month on a UK case involving a debt plan for all creditors, Bloomberg News reported. Sino-Ocean earlier said that a group of loan lenders holding 86.2 percent of its debt had voted in favour of the Hong Kong scheme, passing a threshold of 75 per cent required for the restructuring arrangement in the city. The next Hong Kong hearing is set for Feb 19, “given the pending decision of the English Court”, according to a company filing.
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