Tax

Finance 6 min IFRS 16 puts leased equipment on a lessee's balance sheet Under IFRS 16 and its Singapore and Malaysian equivalents, a lessee records most equipment leases as an asset... SA Sarah Chew 7 Oct Finance 6 min Taiwan's bigger child exemption for 2026 income, and the families it leaves unchanged From 2026 income, Taiwan's exemption for each minor child rises to NT$151,500. For a salaried couple with two... SA Sarah Chew 3 Oct Finance 5 min Hong Kong salaries tax for 2026/27, with the allowances that changed this year Hong Kong's 2026/27 salaries tax, as legislated so far, takes HK$790 more from many single taxpayers than 2025... SA Sarah Chew 3 Oct Finance 8 min Hong Kong has charged every flat buyer the same stamp duty rates since 2024 Since 28 February 2024 every buyer of a Hong Kong flat pays the same ad valorem stamp duty rates. The 2026 tab... SA Sarah Chew 3 Oct Finance 7 min Malaysian road tax in 2026 depends on where the car lives The same 1,998cc saloon pays RM379 in road tax in the Peninsula and RM273.50 in Sabah or Sarawak, and the gap... DA Daniel Koh 3 Oct Finance 8 min Why China withholds more tax from the same salary by December A ¥20,000 salary in China is withheld ¥318 in January and ¥1,060 from May. The tax is annual and the payslip i... SA Sarah Chew 27 Sep Finance 6 min Thailand's VAT rate is legally 10%, and the 7% expires every year The Revenue Code sets Thai VAT at 10% and always has. The 7% everyone pays lives in a royal decree with an exp... SA Sarah Chew 18 Sep Business 5 min Thai severance pay now reaches 400 days, and so does the tax exemption Thailand's severance table stopped at 300 days' wages until 2019. The Labour Protection Act now has a sixth ti... EV Eva Chin 17 Sep Business 5 min Singapore's S$400 import limit is measured three different ways A S$390 pair of trainers with S$35 shipping sits under Singapore's S$400 import threshold on one test and over... EV Eva Chin 13 Sep Finance 7 min Bill Gates Wants a Robot Tax Again, Nine Years After the First Time The reserved-jobs proposal has no mechanism attached. The argument underneath it is sharper: a business writes... SA Sarah Chew 30 Aug Finance 11 min Cap Rate, BRRRR and Which Property Metrics Travel Cap rate, cash-on-cash and net operating income are arithmetic — they work on any building in any currency. BR... DA Daniel Koh 8 Aug Finance 11 min Keeping Crypto Records You Can Actually File IRAS publishes a list of eight things your crypto records should contain. An exchange CSV gives you four of th... DA Daniel Koh 1 Aug Finance 9 min What a Car Actually Costs to Own in Malaysia and Singapore A Singapore Category A COE closed at S$126,000 in July — roughly eight times the price of an entire new Perodu... DA Daniel Koh 1 Aug Finance 9 min Living in One Country, Earning in Another Singapore counts 183 days, Malaysia 182, Indonesia more than 183 — and all three count them over different win... DA Daniel Koh 1 Aug Finance 11 min How to Read Your Payslip in Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia Every line on your payslip, what it actually is, who pays it, and which ones you can change. Including the Sin... DA Daniel Koh 31 Jul Finance 8 min What Changed in the Statutory Rates This Year If you earn S$60,000 in Singapore, your tax bill this year is S$200 higher on identical income — and no rate c... DA Daniel Koh 29 Jul Finance 9 min SST in 2026: What's Taxed, What's Not, and How to Compute It Malaysia's SST in 2026, receipt by receipt: which goods carry 5% or 10%, which services pay 6% or 8%, the Jan... DA Daniel Koh 15 Jul Finance 7 min How BPJS Kesehatan & Ketenagakerjaan Deductions Work (2026) What BPJS Kesehatan and Ketenagakerjaan take from an Indonesian salary in 2026: rates, the two different wage... DA Daniel Koh 15 Jul Finance 9 min Singapore vs Malaysia Income Tax: Where Does Your Salary Go Further? (2026) Three salaries computed under SG YA2026 and MY YA2025 rules: tax bands, CPF vs EPF deductions, and the honest... DA Daniel Koh 15 Jul Finance 9 min How to Read Your Malaysia PCB (MTD) Deduction — the Formula Explained (2026) Your PCB deduction is an estimate of your annual tax, spread across the months. Here's the LHDN formula behind... DA Daniel Koh 15 Jul Finance 9 min How to Calculate EPF, SOCSO & EIS Deductions in Malaysia (2026) Most Malaysian employees pay 11% EPF plus small SOCSO (0.5%) and EIS (0.2%) deductions — here's how the 2026 b... DA Daniel Koh 15 Jul