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How your supply chain can give you a competitive edge

Tax

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

Brexit indirect tax impact analysis

Tax

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.

Total tax transparency

Tax

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.

Mumbai Tribunal clarifies the tax treaty benefit

Tax

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.

Seizing opportunities with tax automation

Tax

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?

Tax Express - China VAT

Tax

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

Multilateral Convention (MLI)

Tax

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.

BEPS: Successes and setbacks

Tax

As most of the Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (BEPS) Action Plan is made up of best practice recommendations rather than ‘red line’ requirements, it was always going to be applied electively and in different ways from country to country.

Singapore Budget seminar 2017: Moving forward together

Tax

Singapore Budget 2017 observations and analysis: Moving Forward Together seminar, hosted on Wednesday 8 March 2017.

Mandatory VAT Registration for Non-Established Businesses

Tax

As of next year, beginning 1 January 2018 a non-established of services not solely subject to the place of recipient principle in Switzerland and Liechtenstein has to register for VAT, unless the non-established business can prove that its worldwide annual revenue from supplies is less than CHF 100,000. This revenue threshold was previously limited to the territory of Switzerland and Liechtenstein and is newly extended to worldwide scope.

Singapore Budget 2017: Our observations and analysis

BUDGET

Finance Minister, Mr Heng Swee Keat delivered the 2017 Singapore Budget yesterday afternoon. We’ve attached a Budget Summary to help you understand the initiatives that have been announced and how we believe it will impact businesses and individuals.

Getting up to speed with VAT/GST in emerging markets

Tax

Emerging markets are at the forefront of the global shift from direct to indirect taxation. Reduced corporate tax rates in many countries and new or enhanced value-added-tax (VAT) or goods-and-services-tax (GST) are causing the shift.

Reactionary comments on the Singapore Budget 2025 from Grant Thornton

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.