In 2018, two articles in The Straits Times described how some professionals were incorporating one or more companies in an attempt to gain tax advantages. The issue was the difference between the highest personal income tax rate of 22 per cent and the corporate tax rate of 17 per cent, which...

With the rapid development of the digital economy and the increasing importance of GST as a source of tax revenue, the Singapore Government has proposed several reforms to tighten the collection of tax revenue and tap its tax base more efficiently. The reforms focus on activating the currently...

Singapore imposes a single tax on income. Capital gains are not taxable. Income tax was first sought to be introduced in Singapore more as a war tax in 1917 and has had a chequered history of introduction, application and repeal from 1917 till 1941, including a period from 1923 till 1940 without...

GST is a value added tax whereby tax is collected at each stage of the chain of production. The chain begins, for example, from the import of raw materials to manufacture and then when the finished product moves from distributor to retailer until it reaches the final consumer. In order that the...

OVER the past few weeks, there has been much interest in the issue of tax avoidance and whether high-earning professionals such as doctors and dentists have been engaging in tax avoidance schemes. Tax avoidance is a technical legal term which has a precise meaning in law. This can be compared to...

The key points we made in the article are as follows:1) One might think that because income from transactions involving cryptocurrencies is taxable, the losses from such transactions would also be deductible. Unfortunately, the situation is not quite so straightforward.2) The key question is...

The range of potential investment opportunities in Singapore involving cryptocurrency continues to grow over time as these asset classes gradually gain mainstream acceptance. While there are risks involved in such investments and investors should certainly do their homework before blindly...