SINGAPORE GUIDES

Singapore Guides

These are the questions we answer every day: what it actually costs, where applications stall, and which widely repeated claims are simply wrong. Every figure carries its source and the month it was checked — when it goes stale we rewrite it rather than leave it up.

Company registration & compliance

What to decide before incorporating, what falls due every year after, and where it makes sense to register at all.

Employment Pass

From the first application through renewal and appeal — the thresholds across the whole EP lifecycle.

Residency & family

Moving from a work pass to long-term residence, and how the family fits in.

Tax & compliance

What corporate tax actually costs, when GST registration bites, and the annual filing calendar.

Banking

The account opening process and timelines, and the most common reasons for refusal.

Landing & living

Rental rules, what it really costs, and what you can do before the pass is approved.

Unsure what ACRA, COMPASS, ECI or SUTE actually mean? Glossary

The guides follow the order things actually happen: decide where and how to incorporate, then the work pass, then longer-term residency and the family, then the tax and compliance that recur every year, and finally banking and settling in.

We only write about problems we handle in practice. Every policy figure names its source — ACRA, IRAS, MOM or ICA — and the month it was verified, because these thresholds move almost every year and an undated guide carries no information at all. You will also find us stating plainly where no official figure exists, rather than filling the gap with numbers of unknown origin.

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Guides cover the general rule. Your shareholding, pass plan and timeline change the answer.

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