by The Raffles Corporate Services Editorial Team | Jul 30, 2026 | Corp Sec Library, Running Your Company
Becoming a Singapore Permanent Resident is a milestone — but many new PRs are surprised to learn that PR status is not automatically permanent in the everyday sense of the word. To travel in and out of Singapore, and indeed to remain a PR at all while overseas,...
by The Raffles Corporate Services Editorial Team | Jul 30, 2026 | Grant, Growing Your Company
For a start-up building genuinely new technology, the hardest money to raise is the earliest money — the funding needed to prove that an idea works before there is a product to sell or a customer to point to. Startup SG Tech is Enterprise Singapore’s...
by The Raffles Corporate Services Editorial Team | Jul 30, 2026 | Running Your Company, Tax
If your Singapore company spends money on research, developing new products, registering intellectual property, or training staff in new capabilities, there is a tax incentive you should not overlook. The Enterprise Innovation Scheme (EIS), introduced in Budget 2023,...
by The Raffles Corporate Services Editorial Team | Jul 30, 2026 | Corp Sec Library, Starting a Company
One of the first surprises for a foreign entrepreneur setting up a Singapore company is this: you cannot run the company entirely from overseas on paper. The Companies Act 1967 requires every locally incorporated company to have at least one director who is ordinarily...
by The Raffles Corporate Services Editorial Team | Jul 30, 2026 | Corp Sec Library, Running Your Company
Every person who accepts appointment as a director of a Singapore company takes on a set of legal duties that sit at the heart of the Companies Act 1967. The best known of these is Section 157, which sets out the statutory duty to act honestly and to use reasonable...
