Singapore: Budget 2025: Tax Measures for Financial Services

News on tax developments affecting the international Financial Services industry.

Budget 2025 introduced tax measures to encourage domestic listings and investments and support the growth of insurance companies, Registered Business Trusts (“RBTs”), S-REITs, and other segments of the financial ecosystem.

News on tax developments affecting the international Financial Services industry.

Explore recent updates to Singapore's tax incentive schemes for funds. Singapore continues to refine its tax incentive schemes for both offshore and onshore funds managed by Singapore-based fund managers.

The Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore (IRAS) released the 7th edition of its Transfer Pricing Guidelines on 14 June 2024. To assist taxpayers to understand the changes and assess their impacts, this article summarizes the main changes to the guidelines for Singapore taxpayers.

Indonesia's new transfer pricing guidelines are enshrined in the Minister of Finance Regulation 172/2023 ("MoFR-172").

Singapore Budget 2024: Navigating Economic Challenges with Strategic Business Support

Ship pooling arrangements have become more common as shipowners seek greater efficiencies in the deployment of their vessels.

Asia has been actively entering into Free Trade Agreements (“FTAs”) since the 1980s. This trend shows no sign of abatement.

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The new Singapore-Indonesia Double Tax Agreement (DTA) took effect as of 1 January 2022, thirty years after the previous DTA entered into force.

To ensure that Singapore’s Goods and Services Tax (‘GST’) system remains fair and resilient as the digital economy grows, Singapore’s tax authority (‘IRAS’) will extend the application of GST 

To ensure that Singapore’s Goods and Services Tax (“GST”) system remains fair and resilient as the digital economy grows, Singapore’s tax authority (“IRAS”) will from 1 January 2023 extend the application of GST to: (i) low value goods worth S$400 or less (approximately US$295 or EUR 250) imported into Singapore by air or post; and (ii) imported B2C non-digital services.

Tax executives lead the way to resilience and recovery.

Watch the acceptance speech of the co-founder and managing director of WTS Taxise here. 

Taxise Asia LLC proudly announces that principal and co-founder, Eugene Lim, has been shortlisted for the International Trade Lawyer of the Year award category at The Asia Legal Awards 2021.

Budget 2021 was delivered on 16 February 2021 and signals a shift from containing COVID-19 to restructuring and preparing Singapore’s economy and workforce for the post-pandemic world.

New regimes have been implemented in domestic and foreign service supply.

Starting January 1 2020, Singapore provides for Goods and Services Tax (GST) exemptions for digital payment tokens that satisfy certain criteria.

A Simplified Regulatory Regime for Managers of Venture Capital Funds

The Companies (Amendment) Act 2017 introduced an inward re-domiciliation regime in Singapore, allowing foreign corporate entities (FCE) to transfer their registration to Singapore.