A 60% Additional Buyer's Stamp Duty has redrawn the maths of buying property in Singapore as a foreigner. Twelve years ago, ABSD for foreigners was 15%. In 2018 it stepped to 20%. In 2023 it doubled to 60%. Stack that onto the Buyer's Stamp Duty of up to 6% and you are looking at duties [...]
If your spouse is Singaporean, your child is Singaporean, or your parent is a Singaporean — and you currently sit on a Long-Term Visit Pass, an Employment Pass, or simply nothing at all — you have a different and meaningfully easier route to Permanent Residence than most foreign professionals. The Family Ties Scheme PR Singapore [...]
If your business hires anyone in construction, marine shipyard, process, manufacturing or services, the Singapore Work Permit is the pass that decides whether you can staff the line, complete the build, or open the next outlet. It is also the pass that has changed the most in the past 18 months. Maximum employment age has [...]
Why Singapore firms are moving from hybrid to 100% office returns — legal, productivity and compliance factors explained for employers and HR leaders.
The Singapore citizenship oath ceremony is the final, ceremonial moment of a journey that for most applicants has taken five to ten years from arrival on an Employment Pass. The ceremony itself takes about an hour. The decisions and obligations that crystallise on the day — National Service for sons, original passport surrender, statutory declarations, [...]
Singapore family office hiring is a discipline of its own. The roles are senior, the candidates are sensitive, the salary thresholds are real, and the hiring decisions interact with the family office's MAS licensing position, its 13O or 13U tax-incentive status and its local-business-spending obligations. Get the EP wrong and the tax incentive can be [...]
The London-to-Singapore relocation has gone from a niche career arc to a near-default option for senior finance professionals since the UK abolished the non-domicile tax regime on 6 April 2025. Two years on, the inquiry pattern at our front desk is unmistakable: equity partners, hedge fund managing directors, family-office CIOs and senior bankers are running [...]
The Singapore COMPASS framework is the single most-misunderstood part of the Employment Pass application. Most candidates are told the magic number is 40 — score 40 points, get the EP — but few are walked through how the 40 are actually built, where the points come from, and which of the six criteria offer leverage [...]
If you hold a Dependant's Pass or a Long-Term Visit Pass and want to work — or keep running a business — in Singapore, the rules around the Letter of Consent Singapore framework changed materially in May 2021 and are tightening again in 2026. Many family members of Employment Pass and S Pass holders still [...]
Hiring foreign tech talent in Singapore 2026 — choosing between EP, Tech.Pass, ONE Pass and EntrePass, COMPASS levers, and salary benchmarks by role.