by The Raffles Corporate Services Editorial Team | Jul 7, 2026 | Corp Sec Library, Growing Your Company, Starting a Company
An Employee Share Option Plan (ESOP) turns your staff into part-owners. Structured well, it aligns incentives, retains talent, and defers cash compensation. Structured badly, it hands employees a tax bill they can’t afford and gives founders a messy cap table...
by The Raffles Corporate Services Editorial Team | Jul 7, 2026 | Corp Sec Library, Starting a Company, Tax
Newly incorporated Singapore companies enjoy one of Asia’s most generous startup tax breaks: the Start-Up Tax Exemption (SUTE) scheme. Correctly deployed, it can wipe out corporate tax on the first S$100,000 of chargeable income and materially reduce tax on the...
by The Raffles Corporate Services Editorial Team | Jul 5, 2026 | Corp Sec Library, Starting a Company
The S Pass is the mid-tier work pass in Singapore’s foreign-workforce framework. It sits between the Employment Pass (for professionals) and the Work Permit (for lower-skilled labour), and is the go-to instrument for skilled technicians, specialised operators...
by The Raffles Corporate Services Editorial Team | Jul 4, 2026 | Corp Sec Library, Starting a Company
Singapore attracts high net worth individuals (HNWIs) with a coherent proposition: political stability, rule of law, a competitive personal tax regime, world-class private banking, and access to Asia. But the actual pathway to residence — and eventually Permanent...
by The Raffles Corporate Services Editorial Team | Jul 4, 2026 | Corp Sec Library, Starting a Company
Singapore’s EntrePass is a work pass designed for foreign entrepreneurs who want to start and run a Singapore-registered private limited company that fits the country’s innovation and growth agenda. It sits between the Employment Pass — for salaried...
by The Raffles Corporate Services Editorial Team | Jul 3, 2026 | Starting a Company
Re-domiciliation of foreign companies into Singapore — Costs and fees breakdown Re-domiciliation of foreign companies into Singapore lets an overseas company transfer its registration to Singapore while keeping its legal identity, history and contracts intact. Budget...
