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Ian Kuperus, an accountant and former IRD employee, is credited with coming up with the idea of tax pooling. He identified the opportunity for taxpayers to trade their under- and overpayments of tax and take advantage of the interest rate differential while leading the tax division at the National Bank, after the government introduced use of money interest in 1988.
Following self-government in 1959, the Inland Revenue Department was formed in 1960 when various revenues administered and collected by a number of separate agencies were brought together. When Singapore attained independence on 9 August 1965, substantial changes were made to the Income Tax Act, which came into effect on 1 January 1966.
The Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore under Ministry of Finance (Singapore) is in charge of tax collection. The latest amendment bill is still being made as of March 2016. [1] Under Section 95 of the ITA, convicted taxpayers are subjected to a penalty of up to 200% of the amount of tax undercharged in cases of incorrect tax returns.
The Accounting and Corporate Regulatory Authority (ACRA) is a statutory board under the Ministry of Finance of the Government of Singapore.ACRA is the regulator of business registration, financial reporting, public accountants and corporate service providers.
Some key components of Harris’s plan include up to $25,000 in down payment assistance for first-time homebuyers and a $10,000 tax credit for first-time buyers; tax incentives for builders who ...
Law in Singapore, by the C.J. Koh Law Library, National University of Singapore; LawNet; Singaporelaw.sg, by the Singapore Academy of Law; Singapore Law Watch, by the Singapore Academy of Law; Singapore Laws on the Internet from WWLegal.com – contains a list of Singapore legal resources on the Internet (published 15 January 2005)
The Council for Estate Agencies (CEA) was established on 22 October 2010 as a statutory board of the Ministry of National Development to regulate and develop the real estate agency industry in Singapore.
Foreign-sourced dividends, foreign branch profits and foreign-sourced service income remitted into Singapore on or after 1 June 2003 by a Singapore resident company will be tax exempt if: [5] the headline tax rate of the foreign country from which income is received is at least 15 percent in the year the income is received, and