Most articles on just and equitable winding up in Singapore are written from the perspective of the minority shareholder: the person frozen out of management, denied dividends, or outvoted at every turn. But what happens when it is the majority shareholder who wants the company wound up, and the co-shareholder who is resisting? A recent [...]
If your company has hired, or is thinking of hiring, a person with disabilities in Singapore, there is a good chance the government is already quietly subsidising part of that employee's wage bill, without you having to lift a finger. The Enabling Employment Credit (EEC) is one of the more generous, and least understood, wage [...]
If you have searched for "Professional Visit Pass" because a consultant, auditor or trainer is flying into Singapore for a few days and you are not sure whether they need a work pass, you are not alone, and you are also working from an outdated premise. The Professional Visit Pass (PVP) has not existed since [...]
Most conversations about Singapore government grants revolve around SMEs: digitalisation vouchers, productivity solutions, market entry support. A different scheme has just had its funding refreshed, and it is not aimed at SMEs at all. The Singapore Economic Development Board (EDB), not Enterprise Singapore, is putting S$32 million over the next two years into the third [...]
A share transfer sounds like paperwork. A founder buys out a co-founder. A family patriarch hands shares to his children. A start-up closes a funding round and issues new shares to an investor. The company secretary updates the register of members, ACRA is notified, stamp duty is paid, and everyone moves on. What most directors [...]
Most directors only think about their corporate service provider when they need something signed, filed, or chased before a deadline. Few ever ask what happens if that provider itself falls foul of the regulator. Under the Corporate Service Providers Act 2024 (the CSP Act), which took effect on 9 June 2025, that question is no [...]
Productivity and Innovation Credit (PIC) legacy treatment: Common mistakes and rejection reasons. For Singapore SMEs managing tax and accounting compliance.
Corporate tax exemptions and partial-exemption scheme: Common mistakes and rejection reasons. For Singapore SMEs managing tax and accounting compliance.
Reverse-charge and Overseas Vendor Registration (OVR): Common mistakes and rejection reasons. For Singapore SMEs managing tax and accounting compliance.
Mutual Credit and Set-Off in a Singapore Winding Up: How Section 219 of the Insolvency, Restructuring and Dissolution Act Works and Its Limits When a company enters liquidation, creditors are ordinarily forced into a queue: they prove their debt, wait for the liquidator to realise assets, and receive a dividend, often cents on the dollar, [...]