Government will continue to give MOP 10,000 to permanent residents and MOP 6,000 to temporary residents in 2023; city’s ‘birth subsidy’ will give each parent MOP 5,418 for every baby born next year.
Macao government subsidies
New guidelines issued by Health Bureau by no means straightforward, with differing criteria for public and private events.
Wide-ranging measures include subsidies for employees and self-employed; casinos stay open, vote on gaming amendment bill to go ahead tomorrow.
Households stand to get MOP 300 a month, while businesses are in line for MOP 3,000; scheme set to run for six months.
Applicants should have been unemployed since January 2020 and not in receipt of other IAS subsidies; scheme lasts for 10 weeks.
Tax rebates due to start at end of May, with an upper limit of MOP 14,000 for professional tax paid in 2020.
Roughly half opt for locally registered mobile payment platforms, while remainder prefer to use electronic consumption cards.
Government also plans to spend MOP 1.326 billion on subsidising business and residential water and electricity bills for a period of six months.
