Industrial land in Singapore is scarce, and the government has long used the tax system to nudge manufacturers, logistics operators and other land intensive businesses towards building upward rather than sprawling outward. The Land Intensification Allowance (LIA) is the main tool for this: a capital allowance that rewards companies for constructing or renovating industrial buildings [...]
When a Singapore private limited company is incorporated, the Accounting and Corporate Regulatory Authority (ACRA) issues a notice confirming that the company is now a body corporate in its own right, separate from the people who own and run it. This is not a mere formality. It is the single most important legal consequence of [...]
Singapore has no direct equivalent of the United Kingdom's public interest disclosure regime or the United States' Sarbanes Oxley and Dodd Frank whistleblower provisions. There is no single statute that gives a Singapore employee immunity from retaliation simply because they reported wrongdoing at work. That gap surprises many directors, especially after the Corporate and Accounting [...]
Drag-along, tag-along and shareholder agreements: Common mistakes and rejection reasons. For directors and company secretaries managing ACRA compliance...
Striking off and members' voluntary winding up: Common mistakes and rejection reasons. For directors and company secretaries managing ACRA compliance....
Capital reduction (court vs solvency): Common mistakes and rejection reasons. For directors and company secretaries managing ACRA compliance. Practical...
A statutory demand is one of the most misunderstood documents in Singapore company law. To a creditor, it looks like a simple debt-collection letter. To a director on the receiving end, it can feel like the first step towards losing the company entirely, and in a very real sense it is. Under the Insolvency, Restructuring [...]
Singapore has become the default answer when a wealthy family asks where to base its wealth management operation in Asia. That success has created a choice that trips up many principals: should the family build its own Single Family Office (SFO), or should it join, or later spin up, a Multi-Family Office (MFO) serving several [...]
From 1 September 2026, the Ministry of Manpower (MOM) has raised the S Pass minimum qualifying salary from S$3,150 to S$3,300 a month for most sectors, and from S$3,650 to S$3,800 a month for financial services. The new thresholds rise progressively with age, reaching roughly S$4,800 (general) and S$5,650 (financial services) for candidates in their [...]
If you are the company secretary of a Singapore subsidiary that sits inside a large multinational group, a new compliance item has almost certainly landed on your desk this year, even if nobody labelled it as a "corporate secretarial" task. Singapore's Domestic Top-up Tax (DTT) and Multinational Enterprise Top-up Tax (MTT), introduced under the Multinational [...]