by The Raffles Corporate Services Editorial Team | Aug 3, 2026 | Grant, Growing Your Company
Sustainability has moved from a nice-to-have to a business requirement for Singapore companies. Large customers, banks and overseas buyers increasingly ask suppliers about their carbon footprint, energy use and sustainability practices. To help smaller firms respond,...
by The Raffles Corporate Services Editorial Team | Aug 3, 2026 | Growing Your Company, Tax
Singapore wants companies not just to own intellectual property, but to develop it here. The Intellectual Property Development Incentive (IDI) is the tax scheme built for that purpose. It gives an approved company a concessionary corporate tax rate of 5% or 10% on...
by The Raffles Corporate Services Editorial Team | Aug 3, 2026 | Growing Your Company, Tax
Growing by acquisition is expensive, and the Singapore tax system offers a targeted incentive to soften the cost: the Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) Scheme. It gives a qualifying acquiring company an allowance on the value of shares it buys, a double deduction on...
by The Raffles Corporate Services Editorial Team | Aug 3, 2026 | Corp Sec Library, Running Your Company
When an employee in Singapore takes maternity, paternity, shared parental or childcare leave, the employer usually keeps paying their salary during the leave, then claims the cost back from the Government. Getting the reimbursement right matters for cash flow and for...
by The Raffles Corporate Services Editorial Team | Aug 3, 2026 | Running Your Company, Tax
If your business is part of a large multinational group, there is a reporting obligation that sits above ordinary corporate tax filing and often catches Singapore finance teams by surprise: Country-by-Country Reporting (CbCR). It requires the biggest multinational...
