by The Raffles Corporate Services Editorial Team | Aug 5, 2026 | Corp Sec Library, Running Your Company
When a company operates across borders and becomes insolvent, its affairs rarely stay neatly within one country. A liquidation may be running in the company’s home jurisdiction while, at the same time, a separate proceeding is opened in Singapore where the...
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 | 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...
by Willie Tan | Aug 5, 2026 | Running Your Company
Introduction Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Singapore frequently face uncertainty over corporate tax compliance. Common Corporate Tax Mistakes SMEs Make and How to Avoid IRAS Penalties explains frequent pitfalls and practical controls to reduce the risk...
by The Raffles Corporate Services Editorial Team | Aug 4, 2026 | Corp Sec Library, Running Your Company
Over the past decade, Singapore has deliberately positioned itself as the leading restructuring hub in Asia, a place where financially distressed companies, including foreign ones, can reorganise their debts under a modern, creditor-and-debtor-balanced legal...
