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GST was implemented at a single rate of 3% on 1 April 1994, with an assurance that it would not be raised for at least five years. To cushion the impact of GST on Singaporean households, an offset package was also introduced. Simultaneously, corporate tax rate was cut by 3% to 27%, and the top marginal personal income tax rate was cut by 3% to 30%.
The Customs Department was founded when Singapore was the British Empire's Straits Settlements and later Crown Colony.Established in 1910 under the name Government Monopolies Department, Customs is one of the oldest tax-collecting organisations in modern Singapore to increase the country's state coffers to help fund national programmes.
†Japanese name during Korea under Japanese rule (1910–1945). The Korean name is unchanged. ‡Name change in English due to replacement McCune-Reischauer with the Revised Romanization method in 2000. The Korean name is unchanged.
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By June – The Urban Redevelopment Authority will unveil the Draft Master Plan 2025, which will detail development plans for the next 10 to 15 years. [30] 11 July–3 August – 2025 World Aquatics Championships will be held. [35] [36] 3–5 October – Singapore Grand Prix (Formula One) will be held. [37]
26 March – Chong Pang City starts construction and will be completed in 2027. [citation needed] 29 March DBS Bank suffers an outage, which affected its digital services for up to 10 hours. [23] Disney announced that it will start cruise services in Singapore from 2025 for a period of five years. [24]
The Goods and Services Tax (GST) is an abolished value-added tax in Malaysia. GST is levied on most transactions in the production process, but is refunded with exception of Blocked Input Tax, to all parties in the chain of production other than the final consumer. The existing standard rate for GST effective from 1 April 2015 is 6%.
The Immigration and Checkpoints Authority (ICA, Chinese: 移民與關卡局 ；Malay: Penguasa Imigresen dan Pusat Pemeriksaan) is a law enforcement agency within the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA), the border control agency responsible for frontline border control operations at air, sea and rail ports in Singapore.