Most Singapore business owners know, in broad terms, that CPF is compulsory for employees. What trips many sole owner-directors up is that a director is not automatically an "employee" for CPF purposes at all. Whether CPF is compulsory, optional, or simply not applicable depends on how the director is paid and in what capacity, and [...]
Winding down a Singapore company is rarely just a corporate secretarial exercise. If the business employs foreign staff on an Employment Pass, S Pass or Work Permit, the director (or, in a formal liquidation, the liquidator) also inherits a set of Ministry of Manpower (MOM) obligations that run in parallel to the corporate exit process. [...]
If your company already has an approved Enterprise Development Grant (EDG), Productivity Solutions Grant (PSG) or Market Readiness Assistance (MRA) project running, the headlines about the 29 September 2026 sunset and the new EDGE Grant probably raised an immediate, practical question: does my approval still count? Singapore business owners have understandably focused on how to [...]
Minority shareholder oppression claims under section 216 of the Companies Act 1967 are one of the most powerful remedies available to a shareholder who feels sidelined, shut out of information, or squeezed out of value by the people running "their" company. But there is a threshold question that trips up more claimants than most business [...]
Every director assumes that once share certificates are printed and the register of members is updated, the job is done. In practice, share issuances go wrong more often than most business owners realise: a board resolution is signed by the wrong number of directors, a pre-emption right is quietly ignored, or a company issues shares [...]
Grant claims, audit and clawback risk explained: how Enterprise Singapore reviews disbursed grants and the mistakes that trigger repayment.
Startup SG Founder, Tech and Equity tracks explained: how each works and the mistakes that most often cause Enterprise Singapore rejections.
Understand the EDGE consolidated grant framework replacing EDG, PSG and MRA, and avoid common Enterprise Singapore rejection reasons.
When a Singapore company that has issued a debenture runs into financial difficulty, most commentary focuses on what a receiver does, or on how the winding up itself unfolds. Far less is written about the debenture holder itself: the bank, fund, or private lender that holds the security, and the specific rights it can exercise [...]
If your company sells packaged goods in Singapore and your annual turnover crosses S$10 million, you may already be on the National Environment Agency's radar, whether you know it or not. Since 2020, the Resource Sustainability Act 2019 has quietly obliged a large slice of Singapore's retail, food and beverage, e-commerce, manufacturing and import sectors [...]