Insights

The Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore (“IRAS”) released its 5th edition Transfer Pricing Guidelines (“TPG”) on 23 February 2018. The revised TPG provides guidance on the implementation of the transfer pricing (“TP”) related amendments made to the Income Tax Act (“ITA”) on 26 October 2017.

The last year has seen global business take one step forward but one step back when it comes to gender diversity in leadership.

Singapore Budget 2018

The latest global survey findings from our International Business Report (IBR) shows that despite the rise of automation and record global business optimism (net 58%) businesses will turn to people in 2018 to meet swelling order books. Plans to hire more workers are at their highest level in a decade.

Cross-border merger and acquisition opportunities are increasing as healthy company financials in many economies drive an appetite for deals.

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.

Asia Pacific is a vast and diverse region, and one of the strongest performing parts of the global economy. GDP growth across Asia Pacific is forecast to hit 5.6% in 2017, well above the 3.6% projected worldwide, and 5.5% in 2018.

Distributed ledgers have grown beyond their cryptocurrency roots and the once-emerging technology is at last ready for your business to put it to work right now.

‘Culture eats strategy’ has become accepted business wisdom. But is it possible for dynamic companies to maintain their unique culture and appeal as they expand and avoid the growing pains that affect so many firms?

Automating and optimising your supply chain can help save money and facilitate growth. So could it work for your business?

While we may not have sight of what our future relationship with the EU will look like, Grant Thornton has developed Brexit Indirect Tax Impact Analysis, to help you to understand the possible Customs Duty and VAT costs posed to your business by various Brexit scenarios.

Tax affairs used to be a largely private matter between company and tax authority, with very little public disclosure beyond what was available in the report and accounts. Today, the veil of confidentiality is being stripped away.

A recent case involving a Singapore investment bank serves as a reminder of the complexity of tax planning on cross-border transactions and interpretation of tax treaties by local tax authorities.

New technology can free up tax professionals to take on a strategically influential role and generate the analytical insights and real-time information to support this. So how can a tax function take advantage of the changes ahead?

The structure of the VAT rates in China have been simplified into three brackets.

Singapore is amongst the earliest non OECD countries to adopt and consistently implement the OECD BEPS Actions. This signing of the Multilateral Convention is a further commitment towards ensuring that profits should be attributable to the jurisdiction in which the activities occur that give rise to the profits.