A Balance Sheet, taken along with the Profit & Loss Statement and Cashflow Statement gives you a clear indication of your business's financial health. You can think of the Balance Sheet as a scorecard that tells you about the financial health of your business at any given point in time. On it, it will have [...]
As an entrepreneur, it is very important for you to keep track of your money inflow and outflow. You need to be able to analyze your business's financial health from different aspects. Your analysis is only as good as the quality of your data input. It is critical to get started with the right accounting [...]
To answer this question, we will need to know the tax rates and we will also need to set a few assumptions. Here is the Singapore Resident Tax Rate: Singapore has a flat rate of 17% for Corporate Taxes. Here are some Common Tax Reliefs for companies. You should be familiar [...]
XBRL stands for eXtensible Business Reporting Language and is a global framework for exchanging business information. Having a common framework to analyse data makes it easier to exchange and analyse business information of companies. XBRL allows for the generation of data which may be used by a large group of stakeholders for decision-making and analysis, [...]
The Singapore government has tax reliefs that are designed to reduce the tax burden for companies. The Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore (IRAS) has come up with a Partial Tax Exemption for Companies (PTE). All companies, including companies limited by guarantee, can enjoy PTE unless they have already claimed the Tax Exemption Scheme for New [...]
The Singapore government has always been supportive of start-up companies and has many schemes to support entrepreneurship. One of the ways which they have been assisting new start-up companies is by providing tax reliefs. Let us focus on Year of Assessment 2019 and 2020. Year of Assessment 2019 (YA 2019) This is for financial years [...]
Tax filing season is here and for some companies, that means looking for a third party with the relevant expertise to file the company's corporate taxes with the Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore. Here is a step by step guide on how to authorise a third party entity to file your corporate tax. Note: You [...]
Singapore is a very attractive place to do business. It is safe, corruption-free, has a highly-skilled workforce and a very attractive corporate tax system. Singapore has a single-tier corporate tax system. There is no double taxation on the monies received by shareholders. Tax paid by a company for its chargeable income is final and all dividends [...]
Estimated Chargeable Filing (ECI) is a compulsory filing requirement for companies unless the company qualifies for a waiver. There are advantages for companies that file their ECI earlier and within the qualifying period as they may opt to pay corporate taxes by instalments. The benefits for filing ECI early are: 1) Instant acknowledgement upon successful [...]
Estimated Chargeable Income (ECI) is an estimate of a company's taxable income (after deducting tax-allowable expenses) for a Year of Assessment (YA). The Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore (IRAS) requires that the ECI be filed so that they can raise an early assessment. The data collected by IRAS will also be useful in helping the [...]