Singapore News

Costa Rica Clarifies Amendments To Non-Cooperative Tax List

by Mike Godfrey, Tax-News.com, Washington

Friday, October 18, 2019

Costa Rica's Ministry of Finance has released a statement clarifying its decision to exclude a number of territories with low effective income tax rates from its list of non-cooperative territories. Read Full Story

Singapore Reports On Tax, Compliance Work

by Mary Swire, Tax-News.com, Hong Kong

Thursday, September 5, 2019

The Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore (IRAS) has reported that revenues increased by 4.4 percent in the 2018-2019 fiscal year, in its annual report for the year. Read Full Story

Singapore Updates Guidance On 2020 GST Reverse Charge Change

by Mary Swire, Tax-News.com, Hong Kong

Friday, August 30, 2019

The Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore has updated its guidance on the introduction from January 1, 2020, of an obligation on Singaporean taxpayers to collect GST on imported services under a reverse charge. Read Full Story

Switzerland To Share Taxpayer Data With Hong Kong, Singapore

by Ulrika Lomas, Tax-News.com, Brussels

Thursday, August 22, 2019

Switzerland's agreements for the automatic exchange of financial account information with Hong Kong and Singapore have entered into force. Read Full Story

Singapore Issues GST Form Instructions For Reverse Charge Supplies

by Mary Swire, Tax-News.com, Hong Kong

Thursday, August 8, 2019

The Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore (IRAS) has released new guidance for GST-registered persons on the completion of new boxes in the GST F5 return from next year. Read Full Story

Singapore To Exempt Virtual Currency Transactions From GST

by Mary Swire, Tax-News.com, Hong Kong

Tuesday, July 16, 2019

On July 5, 2019, Singapore's tax agency released a draft guide that includes proposals for more favorable GST rules for virtual currencies. Read Full Story

Singapore Issues TP Guidance For Commodities Traders

by Mary Swire, Tax-News.com, Hong Kong

Wednesday, June 5, 2019

The Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore has released new transfer pricing guidance on determining the economic value of taxpayers' commodity marketing and trading activities in Singapore. Read Full Story

Singapore Now Accepting FATCA Returns

by Mary Swire, Tax-News.com, Hong Kong

Monday, April 29, 2019

The Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore is now accepting FATCA returns for the 2018 reporting year and has newly released the FATCA paper nil return for 2018. Read Full Story

Singaporean BEPS Treaty Amendments Become Effective

by Mary Swire, Tax-News.com, Hong Kong

Friday, April 5, 2019

The Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore has announced that the BEPS multilateral instrument entered into force for several of its double tax treaties on April 1, 2019. Read Full Story

No Tax Surprises In Singapore's 2019 Budget

by Mary Swire, Tax-News.com, Hong Kong

Thursday, March 14, 2019

Singapore's recently released 2019 Budget included few significant tax announcements except confirmation that Singapore's carbon tax will be levied this year and the goods and services tax will be hiked in the medium term. Read Full Story

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