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SINGAPORE: The Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore (IRAS) urges all companies to submit their Corporate Income Tax (CIT) Returns by the statutory deadline of November 30, 2024. Year after year, IRAS has noted that approximately 10% of companies fail to meet their CIT filing obligations despite multiple reminders. In 2023 alone, over 4,700 companies faced…

SINGAPORE: Vijay Kumar Muvva (“Vijay”), a 48-year-old former Group Executive Director of Ensoft Consulting Pte Ltd (“Ensoft”), has become the first individual to be convicted and jailed for unauthorized collection of GST under section 64A of the Goods and Services Tax Act (Cap 117A, 2005 Rev Ed) (“GST Act”). He was also convicted for failing…

SINGAPORE: The Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore (IRAS) will begin a phased implementation of the InvoiceNow system for GST-registered businesses, starting in November 2025. This new GST InvoiceNow Requirement will initially target newly incorporated businesses that voluntarily register for GST, mandating them to use InvoiceNow solutions to transmit invoice data to IRAS for tax purposes.…

SINGAPORE: Chew Yen, Ian (“Chew”), a 52-year-old insurance introducer, has been sentenced by the Court to fines totalling $4,000 and $186,816 in penalties after being convicted of four charges of providing incorrect information in the Income Tax returns of three insurance agents. As an insurance introducer, Chew was responsible for introducing potential customers to insurance…

SINGAPORE: Thomas Lee Zhixiong (“Lee”), 41, former director of six companies, has been convicted and sentenced by the Court to a jail term of 102 months and ordered to pay $9,271,912 in fines and penalties for Goods and Services Tax (“GST”) evasion, fraudulently claiming a Productivity and Innovation Credit (“PIC”) cash payout, money laundering and…

SINGAPORE: Over 2 million taxpayers (8 in 10 taxpayers) are set to enjoy having their tax returns pre-filled this year. This is made possible as the Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore (IRAS) extends the Auto-Inclusion Scheme (AIS) for Employment Income to more than 100,000 qualifying employers, who are to electronically submit the employment income information of…

SINGAPORE: To support more companies and tax agents to adopt seamless filing from software for greater productivity, the Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore (IRAS) is pleased to announce two new benefits for those filing Corporate Income Tax (CIT) Returns (Form C-S) seamlessly from software for the Year of Assessment (YA) 2023 to YA 2025. The…

SINGAPORE: Lim Meng Fatt and Gan Bee Bee, both aged 53, have been convicted by the Court today for tax evasions of Income Tax and Goods & Services Tax (GST), as well as fraudulently de-registering their company Wan Lin Healthcare Centre Pte Ltd (“Wan Lin”) from GST when in fact the company was still liable…

SINGAPORE: Soon Kok Khoon (“Soon”), the operator of Club Posh Entertainment LLP (“CPE”) and West Palace Entertainment (“WPE”) (collectively, the “Clubs”), has been sentenced by the Court to six months and 34 weeks imprisonment and ordered to pay penalties totalling $630,861, after being convicted of offences involving Goods and Services Tax (GST) evasion and money-laundering.…

SINGAPORE: Loh Chia Wei (“Loh”), 48, a director of Print Orient Pte Ltd (“Print Orient”), has been sentenced by the Court to 9 months of imprisonment and ordered to pay penalties totalling $253,195, after being convicted of offences involving Goods and Services Tax (“GST”) evasion, Corporate Income Tax evasion, money laundering and cheating. Despite Print…