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Singapore's 2025 Budget introduces two fund management tax incentives — FSI-FM Listing and FSI-FM SG Equities — to boost SGX listings and liquidity. But are these policies meaningful catalysts or cosmetic measures? David Sandison explores the ambition, limitations, and broader implications of these schemes.

The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) announced that single family offices will have to meet stricter criteria in order to qualify for the tax exemptions under sections 13O and 13U of the Income Tax Act (ITA). These new criteria will take effect for applications received from 18 April 2022 onwards.

In this article, we summarise Pillar Two model rules that were released by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) on 20 December 2021. This is a continuation of the detailed implementation plan under the two-pillar solution to address the tax challenges arising from the digitalisation of the global economy in October 2021. We discuss how the rules may impact Singapore.

The OECD/G20 Inclusive Framework announced more details in the implementation of the two-pillar solution to address the tax challenges arising from the digitalisation of the economy. In this article, we explain what's been agreed to as part of the implementation plan and how each pillar may impact Singapore.

In the OECD’s latest announcement, the OECD/G20 Inclusive Framework on Base Erosion and Profit Shifting has released more details on the implementation of the two-pillar solution to address tax challenges arising from the digitalisation of the economy. The Two-Pillar Solution is aimed at ensuring multinational enterprises (MNEs) will be subject to a minimum tax rate of 15%, and will re-allocate profit of the largest and most profitable MNEs to countries worldwide.

David Sandison, Grant Thornton Singapore's Head of Tax, examines the influence of real estate on the economy and explores ways to bring in additional tax revenues and provide price stability.

As a result of the many budgets in 2020, many stabilising measures deemed necessary to keep the country on its feet and help it find its way through the pandemic have already been announced and implemented.

The Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore (IRAS) has recently issued two guides on the topic, one for GST, the other for Income Tax. We now have the full set, hence the purpose of this article. The aim is not to explain the detail. Rather it is to set the context in which the detail is applied.

Think of COVID-19 what you will, there is no doubt that the reactions to it by various governments around the world are going to have massive, possibly unprecedented, economic implications in due course.

Capital gains in Singapore are not taxed. This means that the distinction between whether a profit is on capital account or on revenue or trading account becomes critical.

In the light of the long (long) awaited birth of the Singapore Variable Capital Company (VCC) in January 2020, it seems like an appropriate time to do a round-up of where we are with the various options now available for structuring a fund that is managed from Singapore.