Feature Posts

Budget 2024 gives businesses help and boosts Singapore’s attractiveness

MAS updates tax schemes for family office Singapore

GST Rate to increase to 9% on 1 January 2024

Singapore ranks tops in government effectiveness

Compliance timeline for Singapore companies

Guide to starting a Singapore business

Categories

• Accounting & Financial Reporting
  • InvoiceNow to become a requirement for voluntarily GST-registered businesses
  • Cloud accounting: the way into the future
  • Why do businesses need accounting services?
  • The benefits of cloud accounting
  • The basics of financial statements for companies
  • Cloud accounting services can help impact climate change
• Business Guides
  • Budget 2024 gives businesses help and boosts Singapore’s attractiveness
  • Compliance guide for companies under PDPA
  • Registering Trade Marks to Protect Business Identity
  • ACRA highlights areas for focus for FY2022
  • Digital banks – the new frontier in corporate banking
  • Guide to starting a Singapore business
  • Maintaining proper accounting records and documents
  • Registering addresses for businesses in Singapore
  • Important checklist after setting up company in Singapore
  • Government agencies businesses should know
• Business Updates
  • EP qualifying salary to increase from 1 January 2025
  • ACRA issues area of focus for FY2023 Financial Statements
  • GST Rate to increase to 9% on 1 January 2024
  • MAS to eliminate corporate cheques end of 2025
  • MAS mulls revised framework for SFOs to combat money laundering
  • ACRA launches trustBar verification service
  • ACRA introduces download page to combat phishing scams
  • Increase to CPF Ordinary Wage Ceiling
  • Singapore’s accountancy-related functions and regulations consolidated under ACRA
  • Government reduces support level for PSG and EDG
  • Budget 2023 measures to support businesses
  • Increase in Central Provident Fund (CPF) rates for those 55 to 70 years old
  • Singapore budget 2022 and how it affects local businesses
  • New penalties for late filing of annual returns from 14 January 2022
  • GST chargeable on imported goods below S$400 from 1 January 2023
  • Changes to Central Provident Fund (CPF) contribution rates and Auto-Inclusion Scheme (AIS)
• Corporate Compliance
  • Employers’ responsibility to make CPF contributions timely and correctly
  • A fine line between tax planning and tax avoidance
  • ACRA to send notification emails for Annual Returns / Annual Declarations deadlines
  • New CSP bill seeks to tighten rules on business services
  • Increase in threshold for GST error correction
  • Compliance guide for companies under PDPA
  • Singapore still committed to counter money laundering and terrorism financing
  • Companies must issue itemised payslips to employees
  • ACRA launches RONS requirements
  • Filing XBRL with ACRA
  • Filing obligations of dormant companies
  • Responsibilities of GST-Registered Businesses
  • Singapore phasing out use of Common Seal
  • Register of Nominee Directors (ROND)
  • Factors to consider when choosing Financial Year End (FYE)
  • Payment of dividends for Singapore companies
  • Who to inform when a company changes its name
  • Register of Registrable Controllers (RORC)
  • Singapore private limited company registration & compliance
  • Compliance timeline for Singapore companies
• Family Office Singapore
  • MAS updates tax schemes for family office Singapore
  • Number of Family Offices in Singapore set to grow
• Taxation Guides
  • A fine line between tax planning and tax avoidance
  • Companies disposing of foreign assets can apply for advanced ESR ruling
  • IRAS updates guidelines on foreign income and tax residency in Singapore
  • Taxable and non-taxable income in Singapore
  • Tax planning helps reduce your personal tax bill
  • IRAS announces additional benefits for seamless filing by software
  • Transitional Rules for 8% Goods and Services Tax (GST) from 1 January 2023
  • Companies should be prepared for GST hike on 1 January 2023
  • Directors’ income in Singapore
  • The basics of personal income tax in Singapore
  • Employers required to provide employee income information by 1 March
  • Goods and Services Tax (GST) basics for businesses in Singapore
• Working & Living in Singapore
  • Singapore tops ranking in governance; continues to be business and family-friendly
  • EP qualifying salary to increase from 1 January 2025
  • Living and working in Singapore
  • Determining Tax Residency in Singapore
  • Singapore ranks tops in government effectiveness
  • Singapore to launch COMPASS for EP applications
  • Career Conversion Programmes benefit employers
  • Launch of ONE Pass and EP updates
  • Latest changes to Employment Pass and S Pass requirements