When a company disagrees with an IRAS Notice of Assessment, section 76 of the Income Tax Act sets out a formal objection process that can end up before the Income Tax Board of Review.
Section 239 of the IRDA can make a Singapore director personally liable for company debts if the business kept trading while insolvent. Here is how the test works and how to defend it.
Singapore has no non-charitable purpose trust regime, so families cannot use the BVI or Cayman style orphan structure to hold PTC shares. Here is what they use instead.
When a dispute over share ownership or membership goes beyond a simple ACRA correction, section 194 of the Companies Act lets the Court rectify the register. Here is how the process works.
Singapore Financial Reporting Standards (SFRS) basics: what SMEs must apply, common mistakes, and how errors lead to rejected filings.
Bookkeeping for Singapore SMEs: the common mistakes that trigger IRAS and ACRA problems, and how to keep clean, audit-ready books year-round.
EGM mechanics in Singapore: how to convene an EGM, resolutions, quorum and minutes. Common mistakes company secretaries make, and how to avoid them.
From January 2025, Singapore became one of the first countries to create a distinct legal category for platform workers, sitting between employees and the self-employed. The Platform Workers Act 2024 gives ride-hail and delivery platform workers CPF contributions, work injury compensation on par with employees, and a formal right to representation, while placing new, enforceable [...]
Since 30 June 2025, a Singapore incorporated company, or an individual or partnership operating from a Singapore address, that provides certain digital token services exclusively to customers outside Singapore can no longer sit outside the Monetary Authority of Singapore's licensing net simply because it has no local customers. Part 9 of the Financial Services and [...]
Hiring a Professional, Manager, Executive or Technician (PMET) is often the moment a small company starts behaving like a bigger one. It is also the moment many Singapore SMEs discover they do not have the onboarding structure, performance management process, or HR systems to make that hire stick. A new PMET who is left to [...]