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In 1985 six values from 10c to $5 were issued in a horizontal format inscribed REVENUE SINGAPORE. These were replaced around 1990 with a set of four values inscribed STAMP DUTY INLAND REVENUE SINGAPORE. [1] The last set of low values as well as the high values were withdrawn by the IRAS in 1999, as from that year e-stamps were used. As an ...
On 1 September 1992, the Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore (IRAS) was established by legislation as a statutory board [3] under the Ministry of Finance. With this conversion, IRAS was incorporated by the Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore Act to take over the functions previously performed by the Inland Revenue Department.
Purchases of Singapore property or shares traded on the Singapore Exchange, are subject to stamp duty. The Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore (IRAS) mandates stamp duty payment within 14 days from signing of the document if done in Singapore and 30 days if the document is signed overseas.
Singapore charges a 0.2% stamp duty on all instruments that give effect to transactions in stocks and shares. [59] However, this duty only applies to actual physical documents, and is not levied on computerized transactions performed through securities accounts. Stamp duty is not levied on derivative instruments.
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The ITA grants any person including Singaporeans in Singapore the right to pay income tax upon the income accruing in or derived from Singapore, or received in Singapore from outside Singapore. The Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore under Ministry of Finance (Singapore) is in charge of tax collection .
IRAS warns recipients against providing their personal details in response to a scam email about income 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