Articles exploring tax issues to help you gain trust and stay ahead, enabling you to manage your tax transparently and ethically.
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In this article, we explore how stablecoin and digital currency businesses can assess GST treatment, revenue streams and input tax recovery amid Singapore’s evolving regulatory framework.
Employees in Singapore need to be aware of the key legal and employment tax considerations when navigating termination of employment, including notice periods, final payments, wrongful dismissal rights, tax clearance and termination benefits. Understanding these considerations can help employees protect their rights and manage their departure effectively and responsibly.
In this article, we explore how cross-border payment businesses can assess customer location, operating substance and supporting evidence to strengthen GST positions and regulatory readiness.
In this article, Alejandro Ces and Alex Yam draw on the expertise of colleagues across the Asia-Pacific region to describe the role of environmental, social, and governance issues in the region’s tax administrations.
A defensible transfer pricing adjustment requires more than a year-end clean up exercise. Explore how Singapore taxpayers can strengthen TP governance through clear policies, monitoring, implementation and documentation.
In this article, we explore why employers may receive a Skills Development Levy (SDL) assessment from SkillsFuture Singapore even after making CPF payments, and how to address potential compliance gaps.
In this article, we explore why payment businesses need transaction mapping to identify GST risks and compliance gaps.
As InvoiceNow moves toward mandatory adoption, businesses face growing pressure to get systems and data right. In this article, we explore compliance timelines and a practical roadmap for preparation.
As indirect tax compliance shifts from periodic reporting to transaction‑level transparency, many businesses are unsure what this change means in practice. In this article, we explore how InvoiceNow signals the future of GST compliance and its impact on companies and tax administrations.
The Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore (IRAS) recently released the 9th edition of the Singapore Transfer Pricing Guidelines (TPG). While the update is relatively targeted in scope, it addresses an area that has long generated practical challenges for multinational enterprise (MNE) groups: the transfer pricing treatment of employee share-based compensation (SBC) costs.
AI is changing how tax and finance teams research issues, document positions, manage data and deliver work at speed. The opportunity is real, but so are the risks. In tax, where advice must be defensible and outcomes can have regulatory, financial and reputational consequences, organisations need more than powerful tools: they need governance, controls and the right operating model to use AI safely.
As investment in AI accelerates, expectations rise alongside it, boards and management teams want faster cycle times, better consistency and clearer insight, without creating new categories of risk. For tax functions, that makes it important to be disciplined about where AI is used, how outputs are controlled, and how value is measured beyond early pilots.
18 Feb 2025
Off the back of the Singapore Budget announcement by Finance Minister and Prime Minister Mr Lawrence Wong on 18 February 2025, experts from Grant Thornton Singapore share their thoughts.
