Three dates decide your whole tax year — and one of them is different for every company. Most directors can't say them. Tap to check yours.
That's a two-minute WhatsApp, not a research project. Send us your year-end and we'll tell you exactly where you stand.
ASK US ON WHATSAPP →Tax isn't a number IRAS invents. It's worked out from your accounts, line by line — so if the accounts are wrong, the tax is wrong, and nobody writes to tell you. Tap to see a sample computation, and the six places we look first.
Send us last year's accounts or tax computation. We'll tell you which of these six lines applies to you — before IRAS does.
CHECK MY TAX ON WHATSAPP →Estimated Chargeable Income is your company's estimate of its own taxable profit, filed within three months of year-end. Most directors treat it as a chore. It's actually the filing that decides how the tax hits your cash flow.
Say your tax works out to S$12,000. File ECI on time and pay by GIRO, and IRAS lets you settle it in interest-free monthly instalments — roughly S$1,200 a month instead of S$12,000 at once. The earlier in the window you file, the more months you get.
Same company, same year. Skip ECI and IRAS raises its own estimate from your past income — often higher than your real profit, say S$20,000. That full amount is due within a month, no instalments. You can object and get it corrected later, but the cash has already left. More tax, sooner, all at once.
Sample figures for illustration only. Instalment terms are set by IRAS and depend on when you file.
The dates are ours to remember. Your job is to run the business.
TALK TO US ABOUT YOUR TAX →Directors, owners and employees all file by 18 April. The form lets you claim a lot. Claiming what doesn't apply to you causes problems later — and your personal filing should tell the same story as the company's.
Tell us how you're paid — salary, fees, or both — and we'll file the personal return to match the company's. One story, two returns.
ASK ABOUT PERSONAL TAX →ECI within three months of year-end, then Form C-S / C-S (Lite) / C by 30 November — prepared from accounts we've actually read.
Filing for directors, owners and employees by 18 April — with the reliefs that apply to you, and none that don't.
Before year-end, not after. A sit-down on this year's profit, this year's exemptions and what's worth timing — in plain language.
Payments to non-residents — Section 45 compliance, treaty considerations, filed before the money leaves.
Company and shareholding structure reviewed with tax in mind — set up well once, rather than paying for a careless setup for years.
Queries, objections, letters — forward them to us. We answer IRAS on your behalf, on time.
By the time you file, your tax is mostly already set — by how the accounts were kept, what was claimed, and what was planned. That's where we work: at the root, not at the deadline.
We don't just file your return. We read the numbers underneath it, and we talk to you before the year closes.
ECI (Estimated Chargeable Income) is your company's own estimate of its taxable profit for the year. It's due within three months of your financial year-end. File it on time while on GIRO and IRAS lets you pay in interest-free monthly instalments — the earlier you file, the more months you get.
IRAS can raise an estimated assessment based on your past income — often higher than your actual profit. You'd then need to pay that full amount within a month, with no instalment option, and file an objection separately if you disagree. Filing on time avoids all of that.
Your corporate income tax return — Form C-S, Form C-S (Lite) or Form C, depending on your company — is due by 30 November each year. ECI comes earlier, within three months of your year-end. We track both for every client.
Singapore's headline corporate tax rate is 17%. New companies can enjoy a partial exemption on early profits if they qualify, and there are rebates and incentives that change with each Budget. We check which ones apply to your company this year rather than quote figures that may be out of date.
Nine times out of ten, it's the accounts underneath, not the tax form. Costs paid personally and never recorded, capital allowances never claimed, exemptions assumed rather than checked — all of these push the bill up quietly. Sometimes it's the opposite: private expenses or unapproved director's fees left in, which make the tax look lower until IRAS asks. We start from the accounts, then compute.
It depends on your circumstances — not every relief applies to everyone, and claiming the wrong ones causes problems later. We work out which are genuinely relevant to you, and we make sure your personal filing tells the same story as your company's.
If your company pays certain amounts to non-residents — for services, royalties, interest, or fees to non-resident directors, for example — withholding tax may apply and it must be filed and paid to IRAS by the deadline. Tell us before the payment goes out, not after.
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