Increases in labor costs, the imposition of tax on tobacco, alcohol, electricity, fuel, gas, and other external pressures (growing prices of oil and food on the global market) were expected to inflate price levels by 10% in the first months of 2009.
勞工成本增加，煙草、酒類、電力、燃料和天然氣的稅收增加，加上外圍壓力（全球市場石油和食品價格上升），預計將在2009年頭幾個月內把通脹推高超過10%的大關。