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ACRA考虑豁免小型企业进行财务报表审计

发布/2026年2月26日 19:38

我国会计与企业管制局正考虑豁免小型企业进行财务报表审计，以协助它们减轻成本负担，并改善它们的现金流状况。

会计与企业管制局（ACRA）将于今年稍后咨询企业界及审计界人士。

另外，新加坡关税局（Singapore Customs）正考虑把部分执照的有效期从三年延长至五年，让企业无需频繁办理续期手续。

财政部高级政务部长萧振祥星期四（2月26日）在国会拨款委员会辩论财政部的开支预算时，透露政府在提高监管效率方面所考虑的举措。

萧振祥也是交通部代部长，以及经济策略检讨委员会成员。他指出，经济策略检讨委员会广泛征询众多商界领袖对新加坡长期经济策略的意见时，多名企业家强调，必须维持新加坡作为治理良好、商业环境稳定的国家声誉。

此外，他还是亲商条例检讨跨部门委员会（Inter-Ministerial Committee for Pro-Enterprise Rules Review）成员之一，负责监督提高监管效率的工作。财政部也支持跨部门委员会的举措。

他举例说，关税局正审查它发放执照程序，包括与贸易便利化、关税和税款暂停相关等程序。该局考虑把部分执照的有效期从三年延长至五年，以减少企业频繁续签的频率。

萧振祥说：“这有助于企业取得执照的时间缩短至30个工作日内，为企业规划和运营提供更多确定性。”

他也说，会计与企业管制局正考虑是否豁免更多小型企业进行财务报表审计的要求。他表示，此举可减轻小型企业的成本负担，改善它们现金流状况。

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洪马内：网诈令柬声名狼藉 必须彻底铲除

2026年2月26日 19:43 / 联合早报

柬埔寨首相洪马内驳斥有关政府与诈骗中心勾结的指控，强调诈骗活动正在摧毁柬埔寨的经济，损害国家声誉。 （法新社）

（布鲁塞尔法新电）柬埔寨首相洪马内说，诈骗团伙正在摧毁柬埔寨经济，使柬埔寨声誉受损，严重破坏当地旅游业及投资活动。

他驳斥外界指控政府纵容诈骗团伙的说法，强调自今年初以来，柬埔寨的严厉打击行动已使网络诈骗减少了一半。

洪马内星期三（2月25日）在比利时首都布鲁塞尔罕见地接受国际媒体采访。他告诉法新社，诈骗属于黑色经济，不仅摧毁正当经济，也严重冲击旅游业、投资环境及柬埔寨的国际声誉。“这就是为什么我们必须彻底铲除这些活动。”

他承认，这类犯罪活动确实间接促进了一些商业活动及创造就业机会，但他否认国家经济仰赖诈骗，强调柬埔寨从未在诈骗活动中获利。

“有人说，柬埔寨的国内生产总值（GDP）仰赖这些诈骗中心。不是的，我们靠的是旅游业和制造业等正当的经济活动。”

柬埔寨近年来沦为诈骗团伙的大本营，不法分子经营着价值数十亿美元的诈骗产业，透过网络向全球用户行骗，手法包括网络爱情诈骗、投资诈骗等，受害者包括美国在内的多国公民。

美国和平研究所2024年发布的一份报告估计，柬埔寨的网诈收入每年超过125亿美元（约158亿新元），相当于柬埔寨GDP的一半。

柬埔寨因此受到国际社会批评及施压，促使政府决心打击网诈。去年7月，洪马内签发全国统一清剿指令，下令启动全国清剿行动，由各级执法与武装力量协同部署，扫荡辖区内所有涉诈窝点，彻底摧毁诈骗网络，重建柬埔寨的国际形象。

今年1月初，柬埔寨当局逮捕了涉及电诈和洗钱活动的太子集团创始人兼董事长陈志，并将他遣返中国。这被视为柬埔寨打击网诈行动的一大胜利。

此外，洪马内在访问中也谈到柬泰边境冲突。他说，柬埔寨希望缓和与泰国的边境冲突，并坚持通过和平方式解决争议。

他强调，柬方无意升级冲突。“我们没有升级局势，我们希望降级，我们希望和平共处。”

泰国军方指责柬军星期二（24日）向一支泰国巡逻队发射榴弹，引发泰方还击，但金边否认这一指控。

柬方称，泰军占领了边境省份多个地区，要求泰方撤军。曼谷则坚称，他们只是收复多年来一直被柬占领的土地。

当被问及柬军会否为收复失地而战，洪马内重申：“我们始终坚持寻求和平解决方案。”

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已注册消费税企业 2031年4月起须通过InvoiceNow呈交电子发票

发布/2026年2月26日 19:44

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财政部高级政务部长萧振祥星期四（2月26日）在国会拨款委员会辩论财政部的开支预算时宣布这个消息。他也宣布，政府将为转用这网络的公司提供免费软件和现金补助。 （gov.sg视频截图）

为了推动电子发票的更广泛应用，从2031年4月起，所有已注册消费税（GST）的企业必须通过InvoiceNow网络，以电子方式向新加坡税务局（IRAS）呈交发票。

财政部高级政务部长萧振祥星期四（2月26日）在国会拨款委员会辩论财政部的开支预算时宣布这个消息。他也宣布，政府将为转用这网络的公司提供免费软件和现金补助。

萧振祥指出，政府鼓励企业更多地使用技术来提高生产力，这包括将后台流程数码化，以减少文书工作。

他说，政府与新加坡工商联合总会（SBF）和商团协商后，已着手推动电子发票的更广泛应用。

“我们要求所有已注册消费税的企业，在2031年4月之前，通过InvoiceNow网络向税务局呈交电子发票。”

萧振祥指出，这将使约9万家企业加入InvoiceNow网络。当局将逐步推进这项工作，并优先考虑小型企业的加入。

政府也为转用这网络的企业提供援助，包括免费提供一套兼容InvoiceNow的软件，以及新的现金补助，用于抵扣转用InvoiceNow软件的运营成本。

其中，小型企业最高可获得1000元，大型企业最高可获得5000元。

自2025年11月起，自愿注册消费税的新成立公司，已经必须通过InvoiceNow网络向税务局呈交发票。萧振祥透露，目前超过6万3000家企业已在使用这个网络。

House Republicans descend on Clintons’ hometown for high-stakes Epstein probe grilling

By Elizabeth Elkind | Fox News | Published February 26, 2026 6:00am EST

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is set to be deposed by the House Oversight Committee late Thursday morning, as lawmakers continue to investigate the federal government’s handling of Jeffrey Epstein’s case.

The deposition is expected to begin at 11 a.m. ET in Chappaqua, N.Y., Fox News Digital was told. The Clintons have owned a home in the affluent New York City suburb since 1999 and have primarily lived there since former President Bill Clinton left office.

And while closed-door depositions normally just require a committee staff presence in most cases, a source familiar with planning told Fox News Digital that House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., will be there in person.

At least 10 House Republicans on the committee will also attend, the source said.

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton speaks on the first day of the Democratic National Convention (DNC) at the United Center in Chicago, Aug. 19, 2024.(Mandel Ngan/Getty Images)

Hillary Clinton will be deposed on Thursday, while Bill Clinton’s deposition is scheduled for Friday. Both interviews will be closed to the press, but they will be transcribed and videotaped.

Comer told Fox News Digital on Wednesday that the former first couple’s testimony “is critical to understanding Epstein and [Ghislaine Maxwell’s] sex trafficking network and the ways they sought to curry favor and influence to shield themselves from scrutiny.”

“Their testimony may also inform how Congress can strengthen laws to better combat human trafficking. Our goal for this investigation is straightforward: We seek to deliver transparency and accountability for the American people and survivors,” Comer said.

The Clintons’ testimony comes after months of back-and-forth with the committee on the circumstances and conditions of the interviews.

House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., speaks to reporters after a closed-door deposition with Ghislaine Maxwell, the former girlfriend and confidante of accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, at the Capitol in Washington, D.C., Feb. 9, 2026.(J. Scott Applewhite/AP Photo)

They are two of several people and entities whom Comer subpoenaed for information on Epstein back in August.

Their attorneys initially pushed back on the subpoenas, calling them legally invalid and a violation of the separation of powers, but House Republicans responded by pressing forward with resolutions to hold both Clintons in contempt of Congress.

The lawyers finally agreed to Comer’s terms just days before a full House vote was expected to move forward.

But not all members of the committee are satisfied with how the situation is playing out.

“I don’t know why the heck we didn’t bring them here. If you or I got in trouble, guess what? We’d be here, or we’d be in chains, and they’d be dragging us in. Having them up in Chappaqua to me is an insult to the public,” Rep. Tim Burchett, R-Tenn., told reporters on Wednesday. “I realize they got to cut a deal, but it’s not a deal I would have cut.”

Rep. Robert Garcia, D-Calif., the top Democrat on the committee, told reporters, “We have a good group going up to New York.”

Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell were both indicted on federal sex trafficking charges stemming from Epstein’s years of abuse of underage girls.(Joe Schildhorn/Patrick McMullan via Getty Images)

“I think that anyone that has information about Jeffrey Epstein or spent any time with him, I think it’s important to ask questions. I mean, personally, I think one of the things that we’ve been hearing a lot about lately is whether Jeffrey Epstein had any sort of foreign ties, whether there were any sort of…wealth of foreign governments,” Garcia said.

But both sides have largely accused the other of politicizing the probe. Democrats have accused Republicans of trying to create a narrative that persecutes figures on the left while attempting to clear President Donald Trump, and Republicans are arguing that Democrats are using the investigation to purposefully target the sitting commander-in-chief.

Neither Clinton has been accused of any wrongdoing in relation to Epstein, nor has Trump.

But both Trump and Clinton have appeared numerous times in the Epstein files released so far and are known to have had relationships with the late pedophile before his federal investigations.

Elizabeth Elkind is a politics reporter for Fox News Digital leading coverage of the House of Representatives. Previous digital bylines seen at Daily Mail and CBS News.

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Former “elite” Air Force pilot who allegedly trained Chinese military pilots arrested, DOJ says

Updated on: February 26, 2026 / 6:08 AM EST / CBS/AFP

The Justice Department announced the arrest Wednesday of a former Air Force fighter pilot who allegedly trained Chinese military personnel without authorization.

Gerald Brown, 65, was arrested in Indiana after recently returning to the United States from China, where he’d been since December 2023, a Justice Department statement said.

He is accused of having “conspired with foreign nationals to provide combat aircraft training to pilots in the Chinese Air Force” without a required license from the U.S. State Department, the statement said.

FBI director Kash Patel posted on social media: “Major story… the FBI and our partners have arrested a former US Air Force Pilot who was allegedly training pilots in the Chinese military.”

Assistant Attorney General for National Security John A. Eisenberg said, “The United States Air Force trained Major Brown to be an elite fighter pilot and entrusted him with the defense of our nation. He now stands charged with training Chinese military pilots.”

Brown had a 24-year career in the U.S. Air Force during which he “commanded sensitive units with responsibility for nuclear weapons delivery systems, led combat missions, and served as a fighter pilot instructor and simulator instructor on a variety of fighter and attack aircraft,” the DOJ said.

He retired from the military in 1996 and worked as a cargo pilot, the statement said, but he later began a role with two U.S. defense contractors training pilots to fly the A-10 and state-of-the-art F-35 fighter jets, according to the statement.

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Brown allegedly began negotiating a contract in August 2023 with Stephen Su Bin — a Chinese national who was imprisoned in the U.S. for four years beginning in 2016 over another espionage scheme — and traveled in December 2023 to China to begin his training job.

“The Chinese government continues to exploit the expertise of current and former members of the U.S. armed forces to modernize China’s military capabilities,” said Roman Rozhavsky, an official with the FBI’s Counterintelligence and Espionage Division.

“This arrest serves as a warning that the FBI and our partners will stop at nothing to hold accountable anyone who collaborates with our adversaries to harm our service members and jeopardize our national security,” he added.

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IMF：关税不确定性或将拖累美国经济

发布时间 / 来源：2026-02-26T08:26:34.000Z / 联合早报

（华盛顿综合电）国际货币基金组织（IMF）周三（2月25日）发表年度评估报告指出，贸易政策的不确定性，可能对美国经济活动造成超出预期的拖累，而关税的不确定性，或将削弱美国原本强劲的经济势头。

这份称为美国2026年第四条款磋商声明的报告，针对美国的经济和金融发展进行评估。国际货币基金组织在报告中呼吁美国与贸易伙伴进行建设性合作，消除对不公平贸易行为的担忧，并且携手减少因为贸易限制与产业政策扭曲所带来的负面跨境影响。

报告提醒，如果是出于国家安全理由，实施贸易与投资措施，包括关税和出口管制，就应该把这些政策控制在相对狭窄的层面，从而使这些措施对国内外的负面影响最小化。

报告也说，上调关税是扭曲生产资源的举措，这会扰乱全球供应链和损害全球贸易的益处，而且会增加成本。

国际货币基金组织总干事格奥尔基耶娃周三在记者会上说，这份报告是在美国最高法院上周五驳回总统特朗普多项关税措施之前完成的，并表示他们会评估这最新事态发展的影响。在报告发布之前，格奥尔基耶娃分别会见了美国财政部长贝森特和美联储主席鲍威尔。

IMF预计美国债务负担将持续增加

国际货币基金组织在报告中指出，尽管美国主权债务风险较低，但“公共债务占国内生产总值（GDP）比重的上升趋势，和短期债务占GDP比重的不断攀升，对美国乃至全球经济构成日益严重的风险。”

它估计未来几年美国债务负担将继续增加。预测数据显示，美政府预算赤字占美国GDP的比重在2025年降至5.9％后，将在2026年回升至6.1％，并预计2027和2028年分别是6％和6.3％。

格奥尔基耶娃呼吁美国削减不断增长的财政赤字，并强调削减赤字是降低经常账户和扭转贸易逆差的最佳途径。她认为，目前美国的经常账户和贸易逆差过大。

国际货币基金组织说，考虑到多方面政策变动的影响，估计2026年美国经济将增长2.6％，2027年为2.1％。除这，考虑到劳动力增长放缓预计将抵消劳动生产率的提高，IMF把美国经济中期潜在增速预测，下调了0.25个百分点。

Vance heads to competitive Wisconsin district to highlight Trump’s economy

February 26, 2026 10:01 AM UTC / Reuters

By Nandita Bose

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U.S. President Donald Trump shakes hands with U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance as U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) applauds during Trump’s State of the Union Address in the House Chamber at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., U.S., February 24, 2026. REUTERS/KEVIN LAMARQUE/File Photo

Feb 26 (Reuters) – U.S. Vice President JD Vance will travel on Thursday to a competitive district in Wisconsin, as the White House steps up efforts to protect the narrow Republican majority in the House of Representatives ahead of November’s midterm elections.

Vance will visit Plover, part of Wisconsin’s third congressional district, represented by Republican Derrick Van Orden and one of two Republican-held seats in the state that Democrats are targeting this cycle.

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The vice president is set to tour a manufacturing facility to underscore President Donald Trump’s economic message following his State of the Union address on Tuesday.

During that speech, Trump offered a broad-based sweep of kitchen-table economic issues – housing, healthcare and utility bills – but he stopped short of acknowledging that many Americans are still struggling with the high cost of living, including food and housing prices.

Some Republican party strategists have warned that without a more emphatic message on inflation, Republicans are at risk of losing control of Congress in the November election.

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Vance’s trip is part of a White House push to showcase the president and top administration officials in key battleground areas to highlight Trump’s economic agenda. Later this week, the president is scheduled to visit Texas for an event focused on energy and the economy.

National Democrats said this week they are ramping up spending in the Wisconsin district, where Van Orden won re-election in 2024 by fewer than three percentage points.

Trump carried the district by seven points in 2024, part of a sweep of battleground states that propelled him to victory. The president endorsed Van Orden in the 2026 race 10 months ago.

The trip will mark Vance’s second visit to the district. He traveled to La Crosse, Wisconsin in August to promote President Trump’s tax and spending law.

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Toucan seen flying around Las Vegas is rescued after surviving in desert for months

Updated on: February 26, 2026 / 6:37 AM EST / CBS/AP

A toucan that has been seen flying around Las Vegas for months has been saved, a bird rescue group said Wednesday.

“We’ve all just been so worried about him,” said Skye Marsh, the president and co-founder of the SouthWest Exotic Avian Rescue (SWEAR). “It’s a relief.”

“Sam is found!” the group wrote on social media on Wednesday.

Sam the toucan has been living in Las Vegas since November, much to the concern of bird experts and enthusiasts who were worried about the exotic bird’s health and his ability to survive long-term in a city with drastic weather changes.

“(The) little stinker decided it was time for help, and he flew into someone’s garage,” Marsh told The Associated Press. The homeowners knew who the toucan was and shut the garage so he couldn’t escape. Sam has captivated the Las Vegas community after surviving in the desert for months.

This photo provided by Skye Marsh shows a toucan named Sam perched in a cage Wednesday, Feb. 25, 2026, in Las Vegas. Skye Marsh / AP

After the rescue group caught him, staff took him to a local veterinarian. There are some signs of “wear and tear,” such as dehydrated skin and a chip off his beak, but he seems to be OK, Marsh said. The veterinarian gave him fluids and took bloodwork.

Sam had been eating better food since the rescue group put out healthier toucan food around a cage to try to rescue him. Marsh said the better food improved his health, as his poop was looking healthier leading up to his rescue.

Sam’s owners, who had posted on social media about the bird’s escape from its cage in November, has not been in contact with the rescue group.

The toucan will be in quarantine at a staff member’s house for 30 to 45 days to make sure he does not have bird flu, which spreads to other birds at the rescue, Marsh said.

According to the San Diego Zoo, toucans typically spend their lives high in the rainforest canopies of Central and South America. They are primarily frugivores but are also known to eat insects, tree frogs and lizards.

Marsh told the Las Vegas Review-Journal that Sam likely lived off figs and pomegranates from trees after he first escaped, and later ate citrus, which can be harmful to the birds.

A toucan named Sam is spotted in Las Vegas, Feb. 13, 2026. Katherine Eddington / AP

Marsh believes the bird was as happy as the rescue group that he was saved.

“I think he was a little bit relieved,” Marsh told the Las Vegas Review-Journal. “I think he was done doing the free bird thing.”