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Hello, I'm currently sole DIRECTOR + SHAREHOLDER of a Pte Ltd Company with no employees and transactions (meaning no business income). However I may have an opportunity to undertake a small consulting contract overseas. With no employees in the company, as sole DIRECTOR: (a) Can I sign the new contr...

Hello, I'm from the ICT/IT industry with two small companies (Company-A & Company-B). Company-A is wholly into SERVICES and Company-B is wholly into NEW PLATFORM DEVELOPMENT. Each have their own website, email, registered address and are mostly distinct from each other. I'm currently SHAREHOLDER + D...

Dear Expert,

My family company plans to hire me as Managing Director and declare me as employee with CPF contribution. Is it common in singapore for companies to pay sign-on bonus which I will declare as "other income" in my personal tax declaration.

Thanks in advance
Vijsrinp

Dear Expert,

As director of a company, can we make a payment to personal account first and then retrospectively record this as Directors Fee voted during AGM at a later time. Both events happen during the same Basis Year for tax purposes?

Thanks in advance
Vijsrinp

Dear Expert, We have secured a 6-year contract with a company in malaysia for software portal implementation (software-as-a-service model), consulting services and maintenance. The portal will be hosted in singapore and once fully implemented it will be transferred to Malaysia. We are finalizing the...

Dear Expert, We incorporated a company during Mar 2011 and plan to close it Feb 2012. We will be realizing a profit. Since the number of transactions are very small given that we are a high net solution implementation company with 2 employees, please suggest if it is a good idea to perform the follo...

Dear Expert, We plan to engage an independant contractor for telecom domain consulting work on a monthly basis for five (5) months and make one-time final payment at the end after all deliverables have been completed to the independant contractors personal bank account. He does not have a business e...