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 | 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 29, 2026 | Grant, Growing Your Company
Digitalisation is no longer a “nice to have” for Singapore SMEs – it is the difference between winning and losing customers, controlling costs, and keeping up with larger competitors. The problem for most small businesses is not motivation; it is...
by The Raffles Corporate Services Editorial Team | Jul 24, 2026 | Growing Your Company
MAS Licensed Fund Management Company (LFMC) — Eligibility and requirements checklist Raffles Corporate Services works with a panel of corporate and employment law firms; this article is general information, not legal advice. A MAS Licensed Fund Management Company is a...
by The Raffles Corporate Services Editorial Team | Jul 24, 2026 | Growing Your Company
MAS Capital Markets Services (CMS) licence — Eligibility and requirements checklist Raffles Corporate Services works with a panel of corporate and employment law firms; this article is general information, not legal advice. The MAS Capital Markets Services licence is...
