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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; the foreign ...
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.
Foreigners constituted 28.1% of Singapore's total labour force in 2000, to 34.7% in 2010, [17] which is the highest proportion of foreign workers in Asia. Singapore's non-resident workforce increased 170% from 248,000 in 1990 to 670,000 in 2006 (Yeoh 2007). By 2010, the non-resident workforce had reached nearly 1.09 million, of these 870,000 ...
Goods and Services Tax (GST) in Singapore is a value added tax (VAT) of 9% levied on import of goods, as well as most supplies of goods and services. Exemptions are given for the sales and leases of residential properties, importation and local supply of investment precious metals and most financial services. [1]
As the Singapore Government's principal revenue collection body, IRAS collects Income Tax, Goods and Services Tax (GST), [4] Property Tax, Estate Duty, Betting and Sweepstakes Duties, Stamp Duties and Casino Tax. Blogging is taxable in Singapore if it constitute gains or profits from a trade or a business under section 10(1)(a) of the Income ...
The Philippines used to tax the foreign income of nonresident citizens at reduced rates of 1 to 3% (income tax rates for residents were 1 to 35% at the time). [170] It abolished this practice in a new revenue code in 1997, effective 1998. [171] Vietnam used to tax its citizens in the same manner as residents, on worldwide income. The country ...
In December 2014, a new 'Exit Tax' was announced which is governed by Article 95 of the Income Tax Act. This applies to departing Spanish resident taxpayers with shares worth more than four million euros or one million if they hold a stake of 25% of a single business and then transfer their habitual residence outside Spain if they have ...
Every province except Alberta has implemented either a provincial sales tax or the Harmonized Sales Tax. The federal GST rate is 5 percent, effective January 1, 2008. The territories of Yukon, Northwest Territories, and Nunavut have no territorial sales taxes, so only the GST is collected.