by The Raffles Corporate Services Editorial Team | Aug 3, 2026 | Tax
Regional HQ (RHQ) and IHQ tax incentives — Eligibility and requirements checklist The regional HQ (RHQ) and International Headquarters (IHQ) incentives let a foreign parent that runs substantive management, treasury or business-control activities out of Singapore...
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 | Aug 3, 2026 | Running Your Company, Tax
If your business is part of a large multinational group, there is a reporting obligation that sits above ordinary corporate tax filing and often catches Singapore finance teams by surprise: Country-by-Country Reporting (CbCR). It requires the biggest multinational...
by The Raffles Corporate Services Editorial Team | Aug 2, 2026 | Running Your Company, Tax
Companies within the same corporate group often have uneven results in a given year. One entity turns a healthy profit while a sister company, perhaps a newer venture or a business hit by a downturn, runs at a loss. Singapore’s group relief system lets you move...
by The Raffles Corporate Services Editorial Team | Aug 1, 2026 | Tax
BEPS Pillar Two and 15% Multinational Top-up Tax — Eligibility and requirements checklist BEPS Pillar Two and the 15% Multinational Top-up Tax require large multinational groups operating in Singapore to top up their effective tax rate to a global minimum of 15%....
