Singapore’s Debt Restructure – Micro and Small Businesses The Simplified Insolvency Programme aims to streamline Singapore’s debt restructuring for micro and small businesses. The Insolvency, Restructuring and Dissolution (Amendment) Bill was recently introduced in Parliament to streamline Singapore’s debt restructuring for micro and small businesses. The amendment proposed a Simplified Insolvency Programme to enable such…
Streamlining Singapore’s International Arbitration Structure – The Amendments Amendments to the International Arbitration Act seeks to firmly entrench Singapore as the preferred location for international arbitration. The latest amendments to the International Arbitration Act have made essential changes that will further facilitate and streamline the arbitration process. According to Mr Edwin Tong, second Minister for…
General Meetings – Singapore’s Updated Checklist General meetings can now be held virtually or physically – ACRA, MAS and SGD RegCo provide clarification and guidance on the essential points of the checklist. Listed and non-listed entities now have recourse to an updated checklist on the conduct of general meetings. Of importance is that the guideline…
Adopting Digital Earlier Than the Rest Makes Singapore an Asian Digital Leader In today’s world, it is mostly occupied with digitalisation. From merely ordering food, to retaining sensitive information, we seem to rely on computer power and digitalisation to make our lives easier. Admit it, only a few of us can recall the phone numbers…
Point-to-point (P2P) Support Package (PSPP) Extended to Help Taxi, Private-hire Car Drivers and Operators Tide Covid-19 Crisis In what appears to be a balancing act between public health and economy, Singapore’s Ministry of Transport hinted on a package of measures seen to alleviate economic difficulties taxi and private hire car drivers are facing amid a…
No Penalties Imposed for Filing Extensions BizFile has been having issues with the system, and the Accounting and Corporate Regulatory Authority (ACRA) is well aware of it. BizFile users have had to be patient for the past week as ACRA works to resolve the system slowness with urgency. ACRA has acknowledged the issue and thanks…
New Changes to Take Place From 1 January 2022 The Accounting Standards Council (ASC) Singapore has issued new changes that will begin 1 January 2022. The changes are set to affect the annual reporting periods. The ASC issued Annual Improvements to SFRS(I)s 2018-2020 and Annual Improvements to FRSs 2018-2020. The FRS refers to the Financial…
No Distance Charging Will Be Imposed on Road Users Singapore will be changing to the new Electronic Road Pricing (ERP) system. The change is set to take place halfway through 2023. The ERP system alone will not be changing. The change is only that no more big gantries will be required. The other change is…
New Guideline Pricing to Help Curb Errant Business Practices Businesses in Singapore must abide by a new guideline pricing. This will start from 1 November in a bid to curb errant business practices like misleading advertising. Misleading advertising includes omitting mandatory fees and touting misleading prices. Businesses will have two months to get things in…
Firms in Singapore Are Being Incentivised to Hire Locally in the Next Few Months The Singapore government is offering a job growth incentive in a bid to urge companies to hire more locals within the next few months. Any company that hires more locals will receive help. The Government will pay for up to half…