by The Raffles Corporate Services Editorial Team | Aug 5, 2026 | Growing Your Company, GST
Most exporters picture a container leaving the port when they think about zero-rated exports. But plenty of high-value goods, jewellery, watches, electronics, precision parts, leave Singapore in a traveller’s hand luggage, carried out through Changi Airport by...
by The Raffles Corporate Services Editorial Team | Aug 5, 2026 | Corp Sec Library, Running Your Company
How does a company, which is an artificial legal person, actually sign a contract or a deed? For decades the answer in Singapore was the common seal, a metal press that stamped the company’s mark onto important documents. Since 2017, that requirement has gone. A...
by The Raffles Corporate Services Editorial Team | Aug 5, 2026 | Running Your Company, Tax
Corporate social responsibility and tax efficiency are not usually mentioned in the same breath, but in Singapore they meet in one specific incentive: the Business and IPC Partnership Scheme (BIPS), now delivered as the Corporate Volunteer Scheme (CVS). It gives a...
by The Raffles Corporate Services Editorial Team | Aug 5, 2026 | Growing Your Company, Tax
When a Singapore company borrows from an overseas lender to buy productive equipment, the interest it pays out is normally caught by Singapore withholding tax. At the standard rate of 15% on gross interest, that is a real cost that can make foreign financing...
by The Raffles Corporate Services Editorial Team | Aug 5, 2026 | Running Your Company, Tax
When people think about stamp duty on Singapore residential property, they picture Buyer’s Stamp Duty (BSD) and Additional Buyer’s Stamp Duty (ABSD) paid on a direct purchase. But property is often held inside a company, and shares in that company can...
