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Singapore Budget 2025
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The Singapore Budget 2025 was announced by Prime Minister and Minister for Finance Lawrence Wong on 18 February 2025. This hub will be where you can get key takeaways and potential impacts from our tax experts, empowering businesses and individuals to make informed decisions.
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IFRS Alerts
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IFRS Alerts covering the latest International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS), Interpretations of Standards (IFRIC) or amendments to existing IFRS Standards published by the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB).
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Every year the requirements of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) change. New Standards, Interpretations and Amendments are published that will affect companies’ future financial reporting. Our publication, Navigating the Changes to International Reporting Standards, is designed to give Chief Financial Officers a high-level awareness of these recent changes to IFRS.
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Women in Business 2020: Putting the Blueprint into practice
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Over the last 12 months, our women in business research has drilled down into the gender diversity stats of mid-market organisations around the world, looking at how the numbers are changing, and most importantly, what businesses are doing to make them change.
03 Mar 2020
Leadership qualities for going global
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Insight from around the world on the essential qualities required of leaders to manage growth in new markets.
02 Mar 2020
Singapore Budget 2020: Our observations & analysis
Budget Singapore Budget 2020: Our observations & analysis
Finance Minister, Mr Heng Swee Keat, delivered the 2020 Singapore Budget earlier today. We’ve produced a handy summary of this year’s budget to help you understand the key initiatives that have been announced affecting both businesses and individuals.
18 Feb 2020
IASB Issues Classification of Liabilities as Current or Non-Current
IFRS Alert IASB Issues Classification of Liabilities as Current or Non-Current
On 23 January 2020 the IASB published ‘Classification of Liabilities as Current or Non-Current (Amendments to IAS 1)’ which clarify the Standard’s guidance on whether a liability should be classified as either current or non-current.
04 Feb 2020
IASB proposes major changes to the primary statements and notes
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28 Jan 2020
Checklist for international growth
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Nine considerations for growing businesses when selecting and entering new markets.
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Singapore: the hub where east meets west
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A stable and business-friendly political climate in the perfect location to explore the fantastic opportunities offered by numerous south-east Asian markets, Singapore is perhaps the ultimate gateway
10 Dec 2019
How to select and apply accounting policies?
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IAS 8 Accounting Policies, Changing in Accounting Estimates and Errors specifies the requirements for selecting and applying accounting policies.
25 Nov 2019
Uncertainty – an elixir for professional services
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In times of uncertainty businesses often turn to a trusted confidant, who can diagnose their problems and recommend a course of action to thrive. It is perhaps therefore no surprise that when many
11 Nov 2019
Non-resident tax election
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For Singapore citizens based overseas, the lapse of non-resident tax election means a potential exposure to Singapore income tax if they travel to Singapore for any business purposes.
04 Nov 2019
Growing your business through global trade
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Despite weaker global optimism and increasing trade barriers, technology and growth potential are driving businesses internationally. Growth companies expanding into new markets have always needed to
30 Oct 2019
Cloudy with a chance of complacency
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The OECD’s latest proposals on taxing digital business pull back from the radical roadmap put forward in May to something much closer to the January policy note by proposing a modified residual profit split with benchmarking of routine profits. What then do the latest OECD proposals say, what do they leave open and what are the risks that need to be addressed?
30 Oct 2019
Bank found to be negligent in a case of director’s misappropriation of $204 million
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The UK Supreme Court handed down its judgment today in favour of Singularis Holdings Ltd (Singularis) in a claim for negligence against the English subsidiary of a Japanese investment bank, Daiwa
30 Oct 2019
Changing of the guard? The potential tax implications of political change
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With the possibility of a no-deal Brexit and a general election looming large in 2019, now is a good time to take stock of what that might mean for tax policy and more importantly, what impact any proposed changes could have for you.
21 Oct 2019
The end of Singapore’s Not Ordinarily Resident Scheme
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The Not Ordinarily Resident (NOR) scheme was unexpectedly withdrawn from Singapore’s 2019 budget this year, effectively ending the most attractive incentive for foreign nationals with cross-border responsibilities to relocate to Singapore.
14 Oct 2019
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