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The corporate tax contribution in sustaining Singapore’s social compact

Singaporeans’ interactions with foreign multinational companies are integral to defining and showing our social compact

    • A closer look at Budget 2024 shows the plans announced impact more than just Singaporeans.
    • Since FY2022, the largest source of revenue to Singapore’s yearly Budget has been corporate income taxes.
    • A closer look at Budget 2024 shows the plans announced impact more than just Singaporeans. PHOTO: YEN MENG JIIN, BT
    • Since FY2022, the largest source of revenue to Singapore’s yearly Budget has been corporate income taxes. PHOTO: BLOOMBERG
    Published Sat, Mar 9, 2024 · 05:00 AM — Updated Sat, Mar 9, 2024 · 07:51 AM

    WHEN Budget 2024 was announced as the first instalment of plans for the Forward SG initiative, the instinct was that the new policies or policy shifts would aim at benefiting Singaporeans – workers, students, families, businesses and more.

    A closer look at the announcements shows that a lot more parties are impacted.

    The Overseas Humanitarian Assistance Tax Deduction Scheme, for example, will be piloted for four years from 2025. This scheme provides individual and corporate donors with a 100 per cent tax deduction for qualifying cash donations to charities located around the world.

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