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Singapore: Budget 2018 - Overview of Tax Changes

Announcement

19 Feb 2018

On 19 February 2018, Singapore announced a number of corporate tax changes and schemes as part of the Budget Statement for the Financial Year 2018.

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Number of interventions

3

3 certainly harmful

0 likely harmful

0 liberalising

List of interventions

Implementation date

01 Jan 2020

Revocation date:

No revocation date

Updated: 19 Feb 2018
Internal taxation of imports In force

Goods and services tax ("GST") on imported services was introduced during Budget 2018, to be implemented on or after 1 January 2020.

Business-to-business imported servic...

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Implementation date

01 Jan 2019

Revocation date:

31 Mar 2025

Updated: 19 Feb 2018
Local content incentive

While Singapore's budget law of 2018 raises the tax deduction for locally conducted R&D activities, the budget reduces the deductibility of imported R&D services. If the R&D is conducte...

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Implementation date

01 Jan 2019

Revocation date:

31 Dec 2025

Updated: 19 Feb 2018
Tax or social insurance relief

According to Singapore's Budget Statement for the Financial Year 2018, research and development (R&D) projects performed in Singapore will have the tax deduction for eligible expenses, such as ...

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