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This article explores common GST errors, the impact of InvoiceNow on tax transparency, and why proactive tax risk management is now a strategic imperative. Learn how businesses can strengthen GST compliance frameworks, future-proof systems, and foster enterprise-wide accountability.

A handy guide of Singapore Tax facts to keep you up to date of the tax rates and conditions in Singapore.

Goods and Services Tax (GST) is the principal indirect tax in Singapore (akin to value-added tax in other countries).

The last decade has witnessed a growing trend for tax administrations leveraging technology and introducing e-invoicing as a means to streamline tax administration and tackle tax fraud and evasion. In Singapore, the Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore (IRAS) has just announced the the mandatory adoption of e-invoicing under their InvoiceNow initiative for newly GST-registered companies with the possibility of it being rolled out to all other GST-registered businesses.

Digital tokens, such as cryptocurrencies and NFTs, have established themselves as a new asset class in less than a decade. In this webinar, a panel of Grant Thornton tax Partners from Singapore, Australia, Hong Kong and India will discuss the impact digital tokens are having on tax (and vice versa) in their jurisdictions, and try to help decode some of the fundamental tax and accounting issues for players operating in this new universe.

Following the announcement of Budget 2022, our experts discuss the outcomes and tax changes announced in this year’s Budget and look beyond Budget 2022.

In this piece, we list and detail a few key matters that businesses should consider now, and over the next few months, and what should be done to remain GST compliant. Review your internal controls to mitigate any historic GST risks and give your senior management confidence in your tax reporting.

This update focuses on GST on services provided remotely and the resulting compliance obligations and GST treatment. This is part of the extension of the Singapore regime for Goods and Services Tax and will take effect from 1 January 2023.

This update focuses on GST on low value goods and the resulting compliance obligations and GST treatment. This is part of the extension of the Singapore regime for Goods and Services Tax and will take effect from 1 January 2023.

The Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore (IRAS) has underlined how the GST treatment of media sales will change with effect from 1 January 2022. The changes are outlined in the e-Tax guide published on 11 June 2021, 'GST: Guide for Advertising Industry (Third Edition)'.

A handy guide of Singapore Tax facts, to keep you up to date of the tax rates and conditions.

This webinar breaks down what you need to know about Missing Trader Fraud - from the Knowledge Principle, what IRAS expects of you with regards to your input tax claims, and how to protect yourself.

This webinar will help you understand transfer pricing concepts introduced by the IRAS whilst also explaining its impact from corporate tax, personal income tax and GST perspectives.

Our head of Tax, David Sandison and Financial Reporting Advisory leader Chetah Hans, will be trying to help businesses decode the fundamental issues around accounting for, and the taxation of, transactions in digital tokens, more commonly referred to as “cryptos".

The webinar will cover remote/distance selling rules across the UK, EU, Australia, Singapore and the US, including: • selling into the UK post-Brexit and new registration requirements for non-UK suppliers of low value goods • the upcoming “One-Stop-Shop” to streamline VAT compliance in the European Union – including the removal of import and distance selling thresholds • the US state tax registration requirements post the “Wayfair” decision and the general economic thresholds • specific indirect tax regimes in APAC including the latest GST requirements for selling into Australia and Singapore

Our tax manager Jeremy O'Neill led a session on GST issues related to cross border services