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| 17.09.2024 | Danger for public service when it becomes 'harder to disregard short-term considerations in decision-making': SM Lee | Listen to this article
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| 06.09.2024 | Singapore's Tax Landscape: Growth and Accountability | Singapore's tax revenue is on the rise. The Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore (IRAS) recently reported a 17% increase in tax collections for the 2023/2024 financial year. The total reached S$80.3 billion (US$61.4 billion). This surge re... |
| 05.09.2024 | Undertaker Roland Tay given S$12,000 fine and penalty of about S$529,000 for tax offences | Listen to this article
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| 04.09.2024 | Singapore's tax revenue up 17%, with over S$80 billion collected | Listen to this article
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| 28.08.2024 | The Ride-Hailing Dilemma: Drivers Struggle Amidst Seasonal Fluctuations and Competition | In the bustling streets of Singapore, ride-hailing drivers are feeling the pinch. Their earnings have taken a hit, and the reasons are as complex as the city’s maze of roads. Grab and Gojek, the giants of the ride-hailing industry, are at t... |
| 26.08.2024 | Food delivery rider wins damages over car accident, but hearing reveals he did not declare income or pay tax | New: You can now listen to articles.
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SINGAPORE: A food delivery rider who was injured in a car accident sued the driver for damages, but it was revealed in the court hearing that he had failed to decla... |
| 07.08.2024 | Singapore's New Anti-Money Laundering Bill: A Fortress Against Financial Crime | On August 6, 2024, Singapore took a bold step in its fight against money laundering. The parliament passed the Anti-Money Laundering and Other Matters Bill, a sweeping piece of legislation designed to tighten the noose around financial crim... |
| 06.08.2024 | Law passed to allow courts to sell seized properties linked to criminal activities such as money laundering | Listen to this article
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| 08.05.2024 | IRAS to claw back S$60 million from private property buyers who used '99-to-1' scheme to reduce ABSD | Listen to this article
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| 07.04.2024 | Love hoaxes to money mules: She fights scams in Singapore as SPF’s Anti-Scam Command lead investigator | Listen to this article
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| 02.04.2024 | Parliament passes Bill to prescribe list of non-taxable government fees after wrong GST charges | Listen to this article
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| 05.05.2023 | Девять стран, куда сегодня переезжают IT-компании из России | Бизнес — занятие зачастую парадоксальное: кризис — это время возможностей, санкции — повод выходить на международный уровень. Самое обидное во время кризиса — это упустить возможность им воспользоваться. После того как Россия была отгорожен... |
| 26.04.2023 | Singapore announces new property cooling measures, additional buyer's stamp duty doubled to 60% for foreigners | SINGAPORE: Foreigners buying any residential property in Singapore from Thursday (Apr 27) will have to pay an additional buyer’s stamp duty (ABSD) of 60 per cent after it was doubled from 30 per cent.
This was the steepest increase among th... |
| 14.02.2023 | Budget 2023: New ‘jobs-skills integrators’ to help employers enhance training, placement of workers | Employers will soon have a new resource to tap on to ensure better training and placement of workers in their industries. This new entity, known as jobs-skills integrators, will be appointed and equipped as “labour market intermediaries”… w... |
| 28.12.2022 | CNA Explains: What happens when GST goes up in 2023? Here's what you need to know | SINGAPORE: Expect to see your bills rise slightly next year as Singapore’s Goods and Services Tax (GST) goes up by 1 percentage point.
This is the first of a two-step increase, which will see the rate rise to 9 per cent in 2024.
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| 22.08.2022 | SG exchange gets nod from MAS to offer crypto services | CryptoFintechNews
Thao Lam La · 22 Aug 2022 · 2 min readSG exchange gets nod from MAS to offer crypto services
Bhex, a Singapore-based crypto exchange, has secured a standard payment institution license from the Monetary Authority of Singap... |
| 22.06.2021 | Employers to receive S$2.2 billion from Jun 30 under Jobs Support Scheme | SINGAPORE: More than 140,000 employers in Singapore will receive S$2.2 billion under the Jobs Support Scheme (JSS) from Jun 30.
The payouts will be given to support the wages of more than 2 million local employees, said the Ministry of Fina... |
| 02.10.2020 | Nearly S$10 million in Jobs Support Scheme payouts denied to firms with 'unacceptable practices' | SINGAPORE: Close to S$10 million worth of Jobs Support Scheme (JSS) payouts were denied to 444 employers, either partially or in full, after "unacceptable practices" were observed, said the Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore (I... |
| 09.06.2020 | How Singapore is Helping its Fintech Stay Afloat During the COVID-19 Crisis | In Southeast Asia, Singapore has been leading the way when it comes to fintech innovation. As of late 2019, the city state was home to more than 600 fintech firms, which had attracted over half of total funding for the region for that year.... |
| 04.05.2020 | A Look at Singapore’s Updated Income Tax Guide for Digital Tokens | The Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore (IRAS) released on April 17 an e-Tax Guide on the income tax treatment of transactions involving digital tokens, as well as initial coin offerings (ICOs).
The guide focuses on three types of digital... |
| 20.04.2020 | Singapore Won't Tax Airdrops or Hard Forks Under New Crypto Guidance | Singapore’s tax authority will not take a cut of airdropped cryptocurrency so long as the recipient gets it for free, according to an income tax treatment guide published Friday.
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| 20.04.2020 | Singapore’s Inland Revenue Authority Says it Won’t Collect Taxes on Cryptocurrency Airdrops or Hard Forks | Singapore’s tax authority, the Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore (IRAS), confirmed that it will not be collecting taxes on airdropped cryptocurrency, provided that the recipients get them for free.
As noted in an income tax treatment gu... |
| 04.04.2020 | Tax filing deadlines extended, counter services by appointment only: IRAS | SINGAPORE: The Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore (IRAS) is providing an automatic extension of tax filing deadlines for individuals and businesses as part of its support for taxpayers in light of the COVID-19 situation.
The filing deadl... |
| 01.10.2019 | DBS Teams up With Singapore’s Tax Authority to Eliminate Cheques | In line with Singapore’s Smart Nation agenda, DBS Bank is collaborating with the Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore (IRAS) to digitalise tax payouts and collections via PayNow to encourage more businesses to go cheque-free.
IRAS first in... |
| 10.07.2019 | Singapore’s New GST Proposal for Crypto “One of the Friendliest Tax Regulations in the World” | The proposal of the Singapore government’s taxation agency to remove goods and services tax (GST) from cryptocurrency transactions could give a boost to the burgeoning sector, experts and industry participants claim.
Earlier this month, the... |
| 08.07.2019 | Singapore’s New Tax Plan Wants You to Transact With Crypto | The Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore (IRAS) has set plans in motion to end goods and services tax (GST) on cryptocurrencies, thus promoting their usage for transactional proposes.
On Friday, July 5, the IRAS published draft guidelines ... |
| 21.11.2018 | 10 tax breaks around the world that you can't get in the US | Kate Hiscock/Flickr
Some countries offer different tax breaks than others.
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US citizens receive a variety of tax breaks and tax incentives. But, there are still many tax cuts, breaks, and incentives that citizens in other count... |
| 19.03.2018 | 90,000 employers to get S$800m in Wage Credit payouts | SINGAPORE: More than 90,000 employers in Singapore will receive more than S$800 million in Wage Credit Scheme (WCS) payouts by Mar 31, according to a joint press release by the Ministry of Finance and the Inland Revenue Authority of Singapo... |
| 26.08.2017 | «Зарплата меньше $3,5 тысяч в месяц — это уровень гастарбайтера» Статьи редакции | Впечатления московского специалиста по рекламе после переезда в Сингапур.
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| 04.04.2017 | Опыт ИТ-реформ для Беларуси: Сингапур, где «государство и бизнес — единое целое»
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| 09.01.2014 | Singapore Government: This is How We Intend to Tax Bitcoin | Singapore has given guidance on how it intends to tax bitcoin transactions for businesses and merchants, becoming one of the first governments in the world to do so.
Singapore-based bitcoin brokerage Coin Republic received an official respo... |
| - | Singapore property prices are set to keep climbing in 2022, but at a slower pace | After a 10.6% increase in private home prices in 2021, residential property prices are expected to rise between 1% to 4%, according to real estate agencies Knight Frank and JLL.
Singapore introduced new measures in mid-December aimed at coo... |
| - | IRAS introduces new frameworks to help companies manage corporate tax and GST matters | SINGAPORE: The Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore (IRAS) has introduced two new tax frameworks to help companies manage corporate tax and Goods and Services Tax (GST) matters, it announced on Friday (Mar 18).
The Tax Governance Framework... |
| - | Cryptocurrency This Week: Another Major Crypto Exchange Hacked, Trump Slams Bitcoin And More | Amid uprising concerns against Facebook’s Libra, David Marcus, who heads the Libra project, has now written a letter of assurance that the company is “taking the time to do this right.” The letter is written in response to the US Rep Maxine... |
| - | Singapore is set to hike its goods and services tax in January. Here’s how it will work | On Jan. 1 2023, Singapore will raise its goods and services tax, otherwise known as the GST, from 7% to 8%. Singapore’s next GST hike will take place on Jan. 1, 2024, when the GST will be raised from 8% to 9%.
Middle-income Singaporeans cou... |
| - | S$132 million handed out to more than 40,000 small businesses most affected by COVID-19 restrictions | SINGAPORE: More than 40,000 small businesses hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic each received up to S$10,000 last week as part of a government grant to help them get back on their feet.
A total of S$132 million was disbursed to small busines... |
| - | New ABSD rule on trusts plugs a gap, but won't affect broader property market: Experts | SINGAPORE: New rules imposing an Additional Buyer’s Stamp Duty (ABSD) on residential properties transferred into a living trust will close a loophole in the existing system, said experts.
But they will have a limited impact on the broader p... |
| - | Employers to receive more than S$400 million in Jobs Support Scheme payouts from Dec 31 | SINGAPORE: More than S$400 million in Jobs Support Scheme (JSS) payouts will be disbursed to employers from Dec 31.
The payouts will be given to about 24,400 employers, in sectors facing significant safe management restrictions, to support ... |
| - | Employers to receive more than S$145 million in final Jobs Support Scheme payouts from Mar 31 | SINGAPORE: More than S$145 million in the final tranche of Jobs Support Scheme (JSS) payouts will be disbursed to employers from Mar 31.
The payouts will be given to more than 19,500 employers - in sectors affected by the safe management me... |
