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The Singapore Income Tax Department was created in 1947 to administer the Income Tax Ordinance enacted during that year. [1] Actual assessing of tax only began in November 1948. In the first Year of Assessment, about 40,000 individual tax returns and 1,000 corporate returns were received. The total tax collected for the period 1 January 1948 to ...
Patents (Amendment) Act 2008; Property Tax (Amendment) Act 2008; Public Transport Council (Amendment) Act 2008; Securities and Futures (Amendment) Act 2008; Singapore Totalisator Board (Amendment) Act 2008; Singapore Tourism (Cess Collection) (Amendment) Act 2008; Skills Development Levy (Amendment) Act 2008; Stamp Duties (Amendment) Act 2008
The owner liable for property tax can be an individual, company or legal entity (commercial company or real estate company). The tax is due each year from taxpayers who own property on 1 January of the tax year. If the property is sold during the year, the seller can ask for the tax to be shared with the buyer. Specific situations:
The Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore under Ministry of Finance (Singapore) is in charge of tax collection. The latest amendment bill is still being made as of March 2016. [1] Under Section 95 of the ITA, convicted taxpayers are subjected to a penalty of up to 200% of the amount of tax undercharged in cases of incorrect tax returns.
Foreign-sourced dividends, foreign branch profits and foreign-sourced service income remitted into Singapore on or after 1 June 2003 by a Singapore resident company will be tax exempt if: [5] the headline tax rate of the foreign country from which income is received is at least 15 percent in the year the income is received, and
The end of the war saw the British implement the welfare state based on the Beveridge Report, which had repercussions in Singapore. As part of this focus on welfare, a Social Welfare Department (SWD) was set up in 1946. [1] SWD was meant to provide permanent assistance only for those with a permanent disability or because of old age. [1]
As of 2023, the total size of the reserves has been conservatively estimated to be at least S$2.5 trillion (2024) (US$ 1.87 trillion), based on publicly available data from GIC, [a] Temasek, [b] MAS, [c] and CPF, [d] among others. It is generally assumed that Singapore's reserves are bigger, far-reaching and significant than publicly acknowledged.
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