by The Raffles Corporate Services Editorial Team | Aug 11, 2026 | Tax
Estimated Chargeable Income (ECI) is the first tax obligation most Singapore companies meet after their financial year closes, and it arrives well before the full corporate tax return is due. Many directors either miss the deadline or wrongly assume they are exempt....
by The Raffles Corporate Services Editorial Team | Aug 11, 2026 | Tax
When shares in a Singapore private company change hands, the transaction rarely stops at signing a share transfer form. There is a tax to settle first: stamp duty. It is small in percentage terms, but the deadline is tight, the valuation rules trip people up, and the...
by The Raffles Corporate Services Editorial Team | Aug 10, 2026 | Accounting, Tax
Almost every Singapore business owns assets it uses year after year: computers, machinery, office fit-outs, vehicles, or equipment. These are your fixed assets, and how you record, track, and depreciate them affects your balance sheet, your profit, and the tax you...
by The Raffles Corporate Services Editorial Team | Aug 9, 2026 | GST, Tax
When one company buys another company’s business — the trade, the equipment, the stock, the customer contracts — the natural assumption is that GST applies to the sale, just as it would on any other supply of goods. For a GST-registered seller, that would mean...
by The Raffles Corporate Services Editorial Team | Aug 8, 2026 | Tax
Multi-jurisdiction family office structures — Documents required and templates Multi-jurisdiction family office structures coordinate a family’s holding entities, fund vehicles and governance across two or more countries, usually anchored by a Singapore family...
by The Raffles Corporate Services Editorial Team | Aug 7, 2026 | Tax
Family office MAS approval, annual review and audit — Documents required and templates Raffles Corporate Services works with a panel of corporate and employment law firms; this article is general information, not legal advice. Family office MAS approval, annual review...
