Under the scheme, eligible households are able to claim a monthly payment of up to 200 patacas, deducted from their power bills.
Financial Services Bureau
The annual cash handouts have been made to the territory’s permanent and non-permanent residents since 2008.
The month of June is traditionally a flat one for the territory, with Macao’s gaming concessionaires affected by a seasonal slowdown.
Gaming tax represents almost 80 percent of the current revenue generated for the government between January and May 2023.
Analysts say Macao is capable of generating comfortably more gaming revenue than the government has targeted this year.
New figures show that gaming taxes accounted for more than 75 percent of the Macao government’s total revenue for the first four months of 2023.
Payments should be made online as banks and Post and Telecommunications Bureau will no longer collect taxes for Transport Bureau.
Last month’s figure up by more than five times month-on-month as city begins to recover from its worst Covid-19 outbreak and visitor arrivals start to pick up again.
Government’s total income – including both current and capital receipts – fell 4% year-on-year to MOP 58.07 billion in first seven months of 2022.